Quote Originally Posted by 'GizmoxLoW',index.php?page=Thread&postID=168503#po st168503
Quote Originally Posted by 'Heenan',index.php?page=Thread&postID=168501#post1 68501
Currently at:
552 Defense
24k Health
23k Armor

This is group buffed with Kings. I have zero gear from heroics. No Naxx pieces either. My gear is mostly questing blues with crafted pieces from a fellow Blacksmith.
552 def holy crap! time to start switching some gems for stam and gettinsg some dodge/parry gear you only need 535 for heroics 540 for raids
Actually def rocks for pallies. After getting crit immune a really good stat for pallies is shild block rating (until they have 100% miss dodge parry block with hs up). Def is really good for that since it also increases shield block rating as well as parry dodge and miss. Blocking >>1k each hit really rocks for heroics.

Imo it's stacking def until you reach this block soft cap and only focus on gemming / getting dodge afterwards (never get parry via parry rating, it sucks from a cost / effect perspective for avoidance, at least until you have _loads_ of dodge rating).