Pimp my Pally

[Fizzler]

Lots of good links here, I see lots of good tanking references you should definitely check out. I just recently started gearing my Paladin for tanking. I did a 3 day bender of nonstop solo heroics and many, many badges later, here is the result: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...Legion+of+Boom

That's the result of a lot of badges, a lot of cash, and 0 raid instances. My GS is sitting at 4545 and I'm comfortable that I'm ready to tank just about any raid I need to (except ICC, wtb wep / shield from HoR kkthks)

Completely off topic but related to this post. Svper any comparisons on Pally vs. Bear? I started my group with a Pally tank but my past solo days were as a bear tank. I really just did not like the Pally tank as much. I went back to my Bear a few weeks ago and just have not looked back. I wonder if there is a point where a Pally due to gear just out shines the bear. Right now I see them at even keel for tank and spank bosses.

[Svpernova09]

Completely off topic but related to this post. Svper any comparisons on Pally vs. Bear? I started my group with a Pally tank but my past solo days were as a bear tank. I really just did not like the Pally tank as much. I went back to my Bear a few weeks ago and just have not looked back. I wonder if there is a point where a Pally due to gear just out shines the bear. Right now I see them at even keel for tank and spank bosses.

I've neglected my team since last Thursday, and since I've been pugging randoms on my Paladin, so I think I've got a decent feel for at least heroic tanking with her. IMO Paladins are better overall tanks. Block and Parry are ridiculously OP. I've tanked for years as a bear, and I think I'll probably always tank with a bear, but damn. You don't know what your missing until you see how little damage you tank in comparison. I won't be replacing my bear, I'm just far too comfortable with bear tanking, but it's clear to me now why so many people rave about paladin tanks. My biggest gripe is mana. It just feels wrong to me to have mana as a tank mechanic and I hate waiting to drink, rage just seems to make so much more sense, but it's probably just because I've tanked that way for so long.

Bear4life.

[thinus]

Well, my pally tank is now almost as geared as he is going to get from heroics. I haven't managed to down HoR yet, I get past the first few waves but still need to work out a tactic for the 2nd boss. I have almost enough badges for a full PvP set if I feel like getting it.

Pimped out Pally

Thanks for all the links and tips. I am probably going to buy the Saronite Sword Breakers for wrists and currently I am wearing 5/5 T9, I may get one of the non-set pieces. Once I get enough Frost emblems might pick up one of those pieces as well.

I don't have the confidence to solo tank for PuG raids yet as I haven't done any of the raid instances. I didn't do Naxx back in the day either. I still have a 5x shaman team to gear up so my current plan is to run the pally with 4x shaman and get them heroic/triumph geared and then run the other Shaman solo and do some PuG raids with the Shaman to learn the encounters and observe tanking strats for my pally to tank raids.

I am also tempted to run my disc priest with 4x shaman in arenas and BGs just for kicks. The world is my oyster.

[falsfire3401]

Nice to see you got geared up so well in a couple weeks! Gives me confidence for my up and coming prot pally.

I've run plenty of random heroics now with low gearscore tanks that did an amazing job. The most important thing obviously is to be crit-immune (540 Def). I mean, I've run with crit-immune tanks that only had 26k buffed hp and they did an amazing job. And I've run with 5k+ gearscore tanks with 40k unbuffed that couldn't hold aggro in a bucket.

I'm planning to split my tri-box team and level my protadin solo thru random LK dungeon in the dungeon tool. Queueing as a tank is instant on my battlegroup, hopefully the same is true for non-heroics in Northrend.

I'm not *quite* crit immune at present (4.78% chance to be missed, which means 0.22% chance to be crit by a +3 mob), but I don't think I'll be tanking many +3 mobs in non-heroics. Plus if it really comes down to it I can throw a +20 def enchant on my shield pretty cheap (my main's an enchanter that's usually got lotsa mats lying around)


This is my protadin, that will very shortly start leveling to 80 exclusively via random dungeon finder tool:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...g&n=Foreground


Then at 80, I plan to gear her with enough BOE's and enchants and gems to hit 540 def then hopefully start tanking heroics w/o too much difficulty. I know it sucks when you have to enchant/gem to hit the def cap, but that'll improve as her gear improves. At least now my main can buy her the head enchant and shoulder enchant and mail them across (love the new BoAcct head/shoulder enchants)