Pally getting wtfown'd in heroics

[Thedonsquad]

Thanks for the detailed tips guys. Things have been coming along pretty well and I've taken the first boss in Heroic SP with my crew alone and the first in Heroic Ramps with a mage buddy stepping in for one of the shammy's (though I think he did more harm than good because I was relying on the sheep which I kept breaking with consecrate). Currently at

Health: 11,167
Armor: 11833
Def: 504
Dodge: 15.66%
Parry: 16.47%
Block: 16.61%

I did get the bracers of the green fortress, changed some gems around and got a few more chants. Also I think my Dibiri's Enigma is new since those stats I posted. Ah and I got the shoulders of the bold while farming rep in Slabs (what a cake instance for me).

My KoT rep sucks because my DPS are behind now and I just can't blow through the mobs fast enough. Had to get some guildies to swap in for a couple of my guys to get my Kara keys (not required but convenient and an ego thing)

Sunday I did get to take my Resto and a couple DPS into Kara though (haven't played since then because of work) and got an extra +200 heals on my Resto and a little more dmg on DPS so I expect my next heroic attempt will be even a bit easier.

I'll definitely be making those talent changes as well, actually need to respec all of my toons because of bad decisions made leveling up.

Good tip on the Devo aura, been using Ret naturally for the aggro but with my +spell dmg weapon aggro doesn't seem to be an issue at present.

Looks like I can get that Aldor chest piece at Revered, Vindicator's Halburk, is that the one you're talking about? I've got over 200 Marks of Sargeras in the bank and I'm Honored now so I could probably just go do that as soon as I log on.

Thanks!

The Jade-Skull Breastplate is the best blue chest for avoidance, thats what i was refering to, it drops in Mechanaar. You might need help killing the boss though because it's just kinda painful to kill her (shes the one with a bunch of fire elemental minions). (searing totem and fire resist toem helps here) It's a heavily movment based fight, so unless you are really good you're gunna need help. The aldor rep BP is good, so if you are close to it, grab that in the mean time. You really should focus on your KoT rep, run some speed normal runs of it and you shouldn't have too much trouble getting to revered, grab the helm enchant, pants, and weapon. The pants are the best you will be able to find untill epic heroic drop, badges, or kara gear.

Spelldmg hardly affect retibution aura at all, and for melee mobs it's perfectly fine to go to devo aura if you need the extra mitigation. You will find that you shouldn't have too much problem with threat, but if you do make a macro for:

#showtooltip Blessing of Protection
/cancelaura Blessing of Protection
/cast [target=targettarget, help, nodead] Blessing of Protection

This will allow you to BoP the target of your enemy, and if you accidentally BoP yourself, just spam the same button and it will cancel the buff so you can take agro back. You might want to make a macro for both bubbles, the beauty of it is that if you have some killer debuff on you (such as a stacked bleed, thats causing too much trouble for the healer) you can spam the bubble and it will clear all debufs but not stay on you for full duration, most of the time the mob comes straight back to you once the immunity is canceled, but if not you just follow up with the pally taunt macro:

#showtooltip Righteous Defense
/cast [target=targettarget] Righteous Defense

My prot pallys stats: (with only kings on) http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...us&n=Combatant

13947 HP - 6738 MP
15453 Armor (59.41% melee dmg reduction)
500 Defense (6% Miss)
22.68% Dodge
16% Parry
17.98% Block
493 Spelldmg (will be 533 when i get my gavel enchanted)
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Avoidance is at a little over 109% with holy sheild active (complete (miss/dodge/parry) avoidance of melee attacks is at 44.68%)
This is all in what is really my threat set, i trade a few other items to be at 15k HP self buffed for raiding. Edit: also thats not my primary sheild, but for non-raids I tank in it. My gear is not socketed for pure stamina as when I started going for pure avoidance I traded about 700hp for 3% dodge... entirely worth it inho.