Enchants and Gemming
Posted by
Sanford
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 5:59 PM
I must admit I hummed and tossed over going over this in my last post, But I am trying to make my posts quick concise guides to follow, this one may not be.
The logic behind the rant:
Many druids believe that stacking stamina is the way to go, its the best way to defend and all it will do is lower your healers overhealing. Other druids believe that stacking agility will increase dodge making your mitigation higher meaning your healers have less to heal, and that goes double, There is less of a health tank to heal. 29k health but 42% dodge or 35k health and 35% dodge, take your pick. And then there are others who believe in a health mixture of scaling and mixing gems.
Fuzzy Logic:
Tis my belief, and i must be honest i haven't seen this written in to many other areas anywhere, That its not what you gem, But when you gem. For just starting heroics putting on agility is great, you never know what kind of healer you need and for pretty much everything(heroics) other than TOC and maybe UP having the big health pool isnt needed. Your going to get healers with big spellpower or mana pools will love all the health because their gear can handle it, lower ones have to do more healing and you will not do as well as you can.Once you begin getting some badge and naxx 10 gear you want to move to mixing gems to stam and agility. As you move to 25 man uld or 10 man uld as a tank, Stam begins to take importance but plenty of agiltiy gems, For those of us lucky enough to have sets of tanking gear you can kinda care some mixtures and have a higher dodge set for trash and a lower but more health for bosses and its my belief that would be best.
Please gem agility not dodge, I know its pretty, but having the extra crtical strike gains more threat everytime you crit.
On a side note, When I hit 80 I had made for me the frost resistance set for me, Please dont throw that away if u have it made, it comes in very handy later, Put agility on it and its a great tank set for starters and if u go skinner can probably make it for yourself for the price of a frozen orb and tipping of a leatherworker. The only problem with this route is you threat level will be lower because those dont have attack power built in. Single target will not be too difficult but swipe will definatly be hurting for you.
Thank you all for reading, next post I will discuss addons and macros that I use and why.
Da fuzz man
The logic behind the rant:
Many druids believe that stacking stamina is the way to go, its the best way to defend and all it will do is lower your healers overhealing. Other druids believe that stacking agility will increase dodge making your mitigation higher meaning your healers have less to heal, and that goes double, There is less of a health tank to heal. 29k health but 42% dodge or 35k health and 35% dodge, take your pick. And then there are others who believe in a health mixture of scaling and mixing gems.
Fuzzy Logic:
Tis my belief, and i must be honest i haven't seen this written in to many other areas anywhere, That its not what you gem, But when you gem. For just starting heroics putting on agility is great, you never know what kind of healer you need and for pretty much everything(heroics) other than TOC and maybe UP having the big health pool isnt needed. Your going to get healers with big spellpower or mana pools will love all the health because their gear can handle it, lower ones have to do more healing and you will not do as well as you can.Once you begin getting some badge and naxx 10 gear you want to move to mixing gems to stam and agility. As you move to 25 man uld or 10 man uld as a tank, Stam begins to take importance but plenty of agiltiy gems, For those of us lucky enough to have sets of tanking gear you can kinda care some mixtures and have a higher dodge set for trash and a lower but more health for bosses and its my belief that would be best.
Please gem agility not dodge, I know its pretty, but having the extra crtical strike gains more threat everytime you crit.
On a side note, When I hit 80 I had made for me the frost resistance set for me, Please dont throw that away if u have it made, it comes in very handy later, Put agility on it and its a great tank set for starters and if u go skinner can probably make it for yourself for the price of a frozen orb and tipping of a leatherworker. The only problem with this route is you threat level will be lower because those dont have attack power built in. Single target will not be too difficult but swipe will definatly be hurting for you.
Thank you all for reading, next post I will discuss addons and macros that I use and why.
Da fuzz man
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