Originally Posted by
Ansekh
First of all I don't believe gearing up as top end tanks do is the right way, as their group is undergear for the content they are doing. Requiring much more health or dps than casual guild's tanks do. They know the reason why they are doing it, but for some tanks that are mindlessly coping the top guild tanks, bigger chance it's a disaster than helpfull to gear the same way. All the top prot paladins in 10 man go for the dps gem, if I'm correct.
also i believe the damage scale's with attack power. I have read in this thread that the gem is 11% dps increase.
Beside this all, the stamina gems can proc at times when you don't need it. As firefly explains a couple of post back, 80% you don't die, for the other 20% you need use StoR or cd's. "Yeah I got a 10% less damage intake, but the boss is doing any noticable damage to me" /sarcasme.