Dodge/Block - Anub'Arak 25 man heroic.

[Apaz]

Hi all, I'm just wondering, what's better to stack for this fight?
I was under the impression that dodge > block, but everyone gets a block set for this.

We generally tank with a warrior, DK or Druid, and a paladin (me).

I know this is old content, but we only raid 2 days a week, we decided to get another day today, not enough logged on, so the RL decided to do TOGC25. Our first attempt on anub we got him to 30%, so it was called.
Something i've noticed is that.. I wasn't taking too much damage in phase 1, but the second phase 3 hit I dropped so fast (Within 1-3 seconds).

According to my macro, I have 74.62% avoidance with my regular gear. IF i equip [Corpse Tongue Coin [Ilvl 277] I have 77.04%, If i put up Holy Shield, I have 107.04%.

Provided I keep Holy shield up, I would be able to maintain 107.04% , which is higher than the 102.4% (101.6%) needed.

Do I NEED 99+% UNBUFFED, or would my 77.04% UNBUFFED be enough, because it is 107.04% WITH Holy Shield? Also, Would I have more of a benefit if I had more block than dodge, or vice versa?

My armory - www[.]wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Jubei'Thos&cn=Apazlol (remove [], I can't post links :S)
Thank you for your time.

Apaz.

[elira]

This will help you and answer all you questions:

http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.c...rb_v=viewtopic

Read through it and start farming block gear.
(Blockgear is owerpowerd at this fight)

This guide helped me a lot and if you still have questions put them here^^

[Elessa]

You need more avoidance without block, cause those spiders will eat though your holy shield in a second or so leaving you vulnurable. Also, you need to have enough Block Value so that your blocked attacks doesn't hit you for much (or at all preferably).

[Deleted]

Does it really matter if you dodge or block>?

[klaps_05]

you need 102.4 avoidance with around 4k(not sure, check MT.com) block value fully raid buffed. however, that is if you use only 1 tank for adds. if you go with 2 tanks you can focus a bit more on dodge since adds dont hit that hard.

[Kênny]

You won't be able to keep holy shield up. Like Elessa posted before, those spiders have such a fast swing timer that they'll just completely eat through your shield in a second or two. You'll pretty much be wearing alot of Naxx/Ulduar gear as they decided to completely (or mostly) get rid of the block gear mid expansion.

[viljar]

Does it really matter if you dodge or block>?

It is impossible to make sure you never get a undodged hit but it is possible to stack block to the point of never taking a hit.

main reason why you never afford taking a hit is you got full army of those mobs hitting you they gain 100% haste per add in range the debuff on you increases damage taken on all hits (base hit is not high and the %modifier is applied after the block is taken off the hit) so blocked hit with decent block value is 1-3k hit unblocked 9-10k and your getting hit 10-20times a second.