Insane tanks!

[Fursphere]

Bear don't tank! They only dance!

[Feardis]

Tanks can really get away with that little hit rating? I'm surprised.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...thilas&cn=Imor

that's my tank that I raid with. I used to have him hit capped but I've seen alot of the top 25 man DK tanks and none of them are hut capped, tho they are all expertice capped. Mine is a bit low. But I use food to get it up.
The warrior tank in my guild has 35exp rating. The problem with getting to the hit cap is you need to stack hit gems. I had 5 hit gems plus one jc 32 gem. Since stacking stam gems I've seen no decrease in dps/tps.

On the otherside my dps set. 4.8k gs I have 377 hit with not one hit gem. Kind of annoying

[Pallarfo]

Here is my tank.
Never let me down so far, buffed 42k, maybe defense rating is a bit to high, and i should change some gems/enchants.
Any comments?

[Seldum]

I would love an armory link to one of the really good druid tanks. So far I have taken a look at Nolife's druid tank which is a good one, but seeing these pally tanks its easy to see theres a higher level I know all the gear is mostly raiding gear but still.

[succulent]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...maul&cn=Savior

A guildy was in this guys group last night. 46,179 unbuffed HP!! That's insane.

Any other links to some insane tanks?

Full raid buffs (fort/flask/mark/shout/imp/sanc/food) will get her to around 56-57K.

Stacking stam is decidedly not the best way to gear for raiding. And it's overkill for 5-mans. There are better trinket options for pally tanks. Agi and agi/stam are probably her best gem choices.

Enchanting/JC is not a bad combo tho, and she has 25-man hard mode gear, her avoidance is fine, so her gemming choices aren't that big a deal I spose. Still, RAWR STAM is lazy imo.

Tanks can really get away with that little hit rating? I'm surprised.

For raids being hit-capped as a tank is imo required, a missed taunt during a required tank switch can be a wipe. For sustained threat it's less of a big deal, but I think still the best threat stat until you're capped. Pallies do only need 8% tho, most moves including taunts use physical hit rating.

[Svpernova09]

I would love an armory link to one of the really good druid tanks. So far I have taken a look at Nolife's druid tank which is a good one, but seeing these pally tanks its easy to see theres a higher level I know all the gear is mostly raiding gear but still.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...en&n=Svpernova

I'm far from a BiS bear (I raid full time cat these days) But this is what I tank with when I box. 25 man T8 is still more AGI/STA/AP than 10 man T9 so I still rock most of my T8.



(Depending on when you look at this I may be in cat gear, just yell at me and I'll login and swap back to bear gear)

[Multibocks]

Most tanks have two taunts, the probability of not getting both off is pretty low(.08x.08=.0064) and most encounters are forgiving enough for a 2 GCDs. The reason you see people not care about hit is that expertise has brought so much more to the threat table.

Also I would like to see some documentation on how sta gems are not best anymore, sure there are situational bosses/adds where you want more avoidance, but every tank I see in end game raid guilds stack pure stamina. I'm not saying they are all right, but declaring that stamina is "decidedly" not the best anymore seems heavy-handed when the issue hasn't had a clear resolution.

edit: case in point the player you are critiquing killed ICC10 Lich King, can you say that?

[Slats]

Stacking stam is decidedly not the best way to gear for raiding. And it's overkill for 5-mans. There are better trinket options for pally tanks. Agi and agi/stam are probably her best gem choices.

Enchanting/JC is not a bad combo tho, and she has 25-man hard mode gear, her avoidance is fine, so her gemming choices aren't that big a deal I spose. Still, RAWR STAM is lazy imo.
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You are pretty much incorrect here. Sure having an avoidance set is a good idea but Stam is King by along shot. I can see a few boss fights where I'd swap out a stamina trinket for a armour trinket but for a Paladin Tank/Druid Tank the more health you have the better talents like Ardent Defender and the Druid ability to boost his health by 30% are. Sure Agi/Stam will give you 44 armour but you lose quite a few thousand health gemming that way and yes it will give you dodge which is then lowered drastically in ICC anyway.

ATM massive stamina and peices with bonus armour are the way to go still gemming for pure stamina and meeting meta requirments.

Any tank wearing Naxx gear or higher is overkill for 5 mans. They are designed to be done in a few ilvl 200 epics and mostly blues - thats about all I really agree with you on.

Just about every boss fight that requires a taunt switch other than Thorim is forgiving if your taunt resists, and most tanks have 2 taunts anyway. I'd much rather be expertise capped than hit capped.

[Niley]

i tank 5 mans in almost full ret gear(528 def ftw).....who needs tank gear anymore for anything but raids. Its almost like having 5 dps in the group

[EaTCarbS]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...Lothar&cn=Ipse