Hey all, I apologize if this has been covered before. When TBC came out I leveled up my pally from lvl 30 to 70 as prot and really enjoyed it. After lvling up a DK and getting bored with it, I went back to my pally. I've done all of WotLK as Ret so far, but miss my days as Prot and plan on dual-speccing into it when 3.1 hits.
Anyway, I'm familiar with tanking changes that have occurred but I do have a couple questions as I start to acquire tanking gear. I know priority one is getting 540 def (535 for heroics), but what comes next? Should the next goal be to reach the block cap of 102.4% by prioritizing block rating over dodge/parry or should I work on avoidance knowing that the block will come over time? How highly should I value the "block value" stat? When gemming, is it still the standard practice to always gem stamina?
Thanks,
OneTrueBob