Quote Originally Posted by succulent View Post
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.