Getting back to Paladin Tanking

[Herbert]

Hi,

I've been Holy for the past little while and I've gathered some tank gear from LFR making me want to tank once again...

This morning I reforged the gear and was wondering if, come 5.4 what I would have to change, etc...

Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ralyzed/simple

I read that in 5.4 that avoidance is better and gemming/reforging haste will mana starve me? Is SoI and Glyph of Battle Healer still the seal and glyph of choice for tanking?


Thanks!

[rhandric]

Hi,

I've been Holy for the past little while and I've gathered some tank gear from LFR making me want to tank once again...

This morning I reforged the gear and was wondering if, come 5.4 what I would have to change, etc...

Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ralyzed/simple

I read that in 5.4 that avoidance is better and gemming/reforging haste will mana starve me? Is SoI and Glyph of Battle Healer still the seal and glyph of choice for tanking?


Thanks!

Stat priority isn't going to change in 5.4. Yes, avoidance isn't going to be completely useless anymore, but it's still not high on the "good stats" list, barring situations where you're tanking a significant number of mobs. SoI will still be used for the self-heal, GoBH will be the first thing removed upon logging in on Tuesday (for me, at least).

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Hi,

I've been Holy for the past little while and I've gathered some tank gear from LFR making me want to tank once again...

This morning I reforged the gear and was wondering if, come 5.4 what I would have to change, etc...

Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ralyzed/simple

I read that in 5.4 that avoidance is better and gemming/reforging haste will mana starve me? Is SoI and Glyph of Battle Healer still the seal and glyph of choice for tanking?


Thanks!

I don't know where you read that, but it is wrong.

Avoidance is SLIGHTLY better than it was in 5.3, but still not better than anything else. You won't run OOM because guarded by the light now provides more mana than you can spend. Glyph of Battle Healing is trash as of 5.4. You'll still want to get 15 Expertise and 7.5 Hit.

[Herbert]

Ah okay, any idea which glyphs to use instead of Battle Healer?

Oh, I also have 1300VP... I can't decide which item to get, or save for the belt.

[rhandric]

Well, there's a lot of discussion about 5.4 in various other threads here, especially http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...-Paladin-Guide
Nairobi provided a good list of glyphs for 5.4: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...1#post22297209
Save your VP for 5.4, when ToT rep gear will be reduced in price. Get the trinket first (Brutal/dps)

[Tehterokkar]

I think 5.2 VP gear will be reduced by 50% in price, so the trinket will cost like 850 in 5.4 instead of 1.7k on Live. Definitely save up VP. Other than that, keep getting gear with Hit/exp/haste/mastery on them. Dodge/parry aren't bad, but aren't that good either, you should only take them if the iLvl upgrade is significant.