JC Gems for a tank?

[Gares]

Should I just go with 3 X +27 Dodge or parry gems? I'm not short on defense, but it seems the best choice here for a pally tank is to use 3 of either of those.

Its pretty obvious which to use on my shammies that are JC's as well

[Niley]

parry is terrible stat, go with 41 stam or 27 dodge.

[beyond-tec]

as Niley said,
I'd prefer dodge or stamina, too.

[nomenquis]

parry is terrible stat, go with 41 stam or 27 dodge.

Parry is not terrible at all, just more costly per % avoidance than dodge. However, thats before diminishing returns. In case you already have a huge lot of dodge rating, parry might give more avoidance than additional dodge, so I'd get myself something like ratingbuster and have a look (rb calculates dr).

[Hachoo]

I'd still go for dodge and stam unless your parry is severely behind your dodge.

Mix it up a bit, 1 stam and 2 dodge gems or something. I just dropped skinning on my DK last night and started leveling JC (~255 right now, will finish to 430 or so tonight probably) and I did it for the gems and to get a nice trinket until I can get a better one. Just JC alone will boost my tank's stats by a crapload

[Niley]

parry is terrible stat, go with 41 stam or 27 dodge.

Parry is not terrible at all, just more costly per % avoidance than dodge. However, thats before diminishing returns. In case you already have a huge lot of dodge rating, parry might give more avoidance than additional dodge, so I'd get myself something like ratingbuster and have a look (rb calculates dr).

maybe I worded it worng, sorry it was around 2 or 3 am in the morning and i was a bit tired.
From looking at his armory, gemming for parry is a bad idea. Dodge and Stam are much better choice.

[Gares]

Cool thats what I am going to go for then Dodge and Stam.

I have leveled 3 chars to 375 JC ATM and am going to do my last two as well.

[Hachoo]

Well I leveled my JC on my DK tonight from 1-430 (~3500-4000g) and made myself a ruby hare, monarch crab, and made one solid dragon's eye. Wow. Between those 3 things My tank's HP went from 24.6k to 27.3k, almost a 3k hp gain. Plus my dodge went up by almost 1% and my defense went up by 3 points. Totally worth it, AND I can still make 2 more JC gems, probably 1 more solid dragon's eye and 1 +27 dodge gem, can't wait! Overgearing the tank just makes instances that much easier. Now I need to get some extra hp on my shamans for aoe protection.

[Gares]

Thats a good idea think I will do that. Even though I still want to get the Essence of Gossamar from Had in Heroic AN