Eanin's Failsafe Uncrushability Guide

[Eanin]

Does your guild need a new tank in Kara and you want to become uncrushable as quickly as possible? Do you just hate leaving anything to chance? Then Eanin's Failsafe Uncrushability Guide is for you. This guide is designed to get any level 70 tank to uncrushable or near uncrushable status as soon as possible.

It's designed so that you aren't dependent on any lucky drops or any reputations above revered. Using just this method, you can get your paladin to uncrushable status within a week with no luck at all.

My goal in all of this is to provide a baseline for future raiding, not your final gear set. Hence, with the exception of the weapon enchant, all enchantment choices are based on survivability or avoidance. Stack avoidance until you are uncrushable then go for survivability.

Head:
Felsteel Helm (crafted)

Enchant:
Glyph of the Defender (KoT revered)

Neck:
Strength of the Untamed (CE revered)

Shoulders:
Nexus-Guard's Pauldrons (quest: Success!)
or
Warchief's Mantle (quest: Return to Andormu)

Enchant:
Inscription of the Knight (Scryers Honored)
or
Inscription of Warding (Aldor Honored)
or
Heavy Knothide Armor Kit

Back:
Cloak of Eternity (crafted)

Enchant:
Steelweave
or
Dodge

Chest:
Breasplate of the Warbringer (quest: Forge Camp: Annihilated)
or
Vindicator's Hauberk (Aldor Revered)

Enchants:
Exceptional Health
or
Defense
or
Exceptional Stats

Wrists:
Shatari Wrought Armguards (quest: The Soul Devices)
or
Bracers of the Green Fortress (crafted)

Enchants:
Fortitude
or
Major Defense

Hands:
Felsteel Gloves (crafted)
or
Gauntlets of the Chosen (Scryers revered)

Enchants:
Superior Agility
or
Heavy Knothide Armor Kit
or
Glove Reinforcements

Belt:
Shatari Vindicator's Waistguard (quest: How to Break Into the Arcatraz)

Leggings:
Timewarden's Legguards (KoT revered)
or
Felsteel Leggings (crafted)
or
Legguards of the Resolute Defender (quest: Destroy Naberius!)

Enchants:
Clefthide Leg Armor
or
Nethercleft Leg Armor

Feet:
Flesh Beast's Metal Greaves (quest: Someone Else's Hard Work Pays Off)

Enchants:
Fortitude
or
Boar's Speed

Rings:
Two of:
Adormu's Tear (quest: Hero of the Brood)
and
Protector's Mark of the Redemption (quest: Dissension Amond the Ranks...)
and
Delicate Eternium Ring (crafted)

Trinkets:
Dabiri's Enigma (quest: Dimensius the All-Devouring)
and
Regal Protectorate (quest: Cruel's Intentions)

Weapon:
Continuum Blade (KoT revered)
or
Seeker's Gavel (Shattered Sun revered)
or
Crystalforged Sword (world drop)

Enchant:
Major Spellpower
or
Greater Agility
(I highly recommend major spellpower as you will not be getting a new weapon for a long, long time)

Shield:
Shield of the Wayward Footman (world drop)
or
Netherwing Defender's Shield (quest: Ally of the Netherwing - don't get the Protector's shield; you'll regret it later)

(I highly recommend the Wayward shield. Start looking for it on the AH early; put an alt in Org and check every day. You can start using it at 65, so start looking then or even earlier. It is far and away the best shield for uncrushability.)

Enchant:
Major Stamina
or
Shield Block

Libram
Libram of Repentance (15 badges)

There's four more items that you may find useful. Remember, uncrushability isn't like other stats. It's just as useful to be uncrushable buffed as unbuffed (you can't, after all, become more uncrushable by being buffed). These can put you over the top:

Elixir of Major Agility
or
Elixir of Mastery
or
Flask of Fortification
and
Warp Burger

How do you know when you've hit uncrushable? Easy! Assuming you have 490 defense, the parry, dodge and block values on your character sheet need to add up to 56.47% (if you have the libram) or 61.8% (if you don't). Give yourself 0.04% bonus for each point of defense you have above 490.

You can also use this macro by Baelor in game to check your uncrushability:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Need 102.4 combined avoidance. Currently at:",0.8,0.8,1)
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(GetDodgeChance()+GetBlockChance() +GetParryChance()+5+(GetCombatRating(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL)*150/355 + 20)*0.04,1,0.5,0)

(Note: there is no space between +GetBlockChance()+GetParryChance(). I added it because it was causing the forum to stretch)

Really do your best to mix and match, and try to build in as much survival as you can without losing your uncrushability. Remember also that a Grace of Air totem gives you 3% dodge, so don't be afraid to ask for it. With the right mix of gear and consumables, it's even possible to become uncrushable without the Libram, which you can get after one Kara clear anyway.

I hope people find this helpful. I used the thinking in this guide to become uncrushable in Kara within 9 days of reaching 70 and it went extremely well. If anyone notices any ommissions, please let me know.

[Lore]

Ooh, very nice. I like.

EDIT: I'm hoping to try and consolidate things into a "useful threads" sticky of some sort soon, but in the meantime I threw this a sticky =)

[kalbear]

Cool beans - though you do realize that the shield and the crystalforged sword both require drops, right? I mean, sure, they're purchaseable (in theory) but it might be a bit hard to obtain 'em.

[Eanin]

Woo! Sticky! Thanks, Lore.

Cool beans - though you do realize that the shield and the crystalforged sword both require drops, right? I mean, sure, they're purchaseable (in theory) but it might be a bit hard to obtain 'em.

Fair enough. I kind of consider AH drops more a matter of patience than luck, but I see your point. I've made sure there's an alternative to each in the guide.

[Rainge]

Great guide!

Another shield option is the Ogri'la Aegis ( http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32652 ). Requires revered with Ogri'la, and purchasable with easily obtained items.

[Sparti]

Cool beans - though you do realize that the shield and the crystalforged sword both require drops, right? I mean, sure, they're purchaseable (in theory) but it might be a bit hard to obtain 'em.

TBQH I don't know how it is on your server, but on Ysera there's usually multiples of both on the AH pretty much all the time. Any server with an established economy (or a few level 70 rogues) should at least have multiples of the shield up, and for hitting uncrushable it really is the best in the game.

[kalbear]

TBQH I don't know how it is on your server, but on Ysera there's usually multiples of both on the AH pretty much all the time. Any server with an established economy (or a few level 70 rogues) should at least have multiples of the shield up, and for hitting uncrushable it really is the best in the game.

I see a couple now and then. Still, if the point is to make sure you don't have to rely on a random drop (no matter where it comes from) this seems like a good thing to have an alternate.

Plus, while it's the best shield in the game for providing uncrushable support it's a very good candiate for replacement. Knowing about the Ogre shield is a Good Thing. I'd also consider the Crest of the Sha'tar for that matter.

[Aevie]

Eanin, thanks for this guide :] I am not a math person at all and I have been pestering my poor husband to figure out my gear for uncrushability despite reading every sticky here myself (he likes spreadsheets anyway!), so having this for easy reference is really great.

<3
Aevie

[Sparti]

TBQH I don't know how it is on your server, but on Ysera there's usually multiples of both on the AH pretty much all the time. Any server with an established economy (or a few level 70 rogues) should at least have multiples of the shield up, and for hitting uncrushable it really is the best in the game.

I see a couple now and then. Still, if the point is to make sure you don't have to rely on a random drop (no matter where it comes from) this seems like a good thing to have an alternate.

Plus, while it's the best shield in the game for providing uncrushable support it's a very good candiate for replacement. Knowing about the Ogre shield is a Good Thing. I'd also consider the Crest of the Sha'tar for that matter.

the one reason I wouldn't is because out of all the outland factions, the sha'tar is the longest and most soulcrushing grind to exalted. If we're going to take things that require hours of work, you might as well include the Azure shield of Coldarra ( http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29266 ) as it requires (theoretically) less work and if the shield is the last thing on your list to ugprade for whatever reason, you should be geared enough to pull down the 33 badges to get it.

[Eanin]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

I've tried to avoid the higher reputation rewards, because the idea of the guide is for people to get uncrushability fast without relying on luck. I've also left out the new daily quest factions, just because even revered takes two weeks or more to grind out.

[ulushnar]

the one reason I wouldn't is because out of all the outland factions, the sha'tar is the longest and most soulcrushing grind to exalted.

Not really, but then again, i seemed to live in Mech Heroic for my first month or so as a Tankadin.

[Igrado]

Not really, but then again, i seemed to live in Mech Heroic for my first month or so as a Tankadin.

Just so everyone knows, you can get rep from regular Mechanar all the way through Exalted, so if you really need the rep fast, farming regular is the easiest thing to do, particularly if you are at about the gearing level of those who will be following this guide where tanking a heroic can still be quite daunting. I know most of you know this, but somehow that little detail slipped past my defenses and it took me notably longer to get my Crest.

[jere]

Not really, but then again, i seemed to live in Mech Heroic for my first month or so as a Tankadin.

Just so everyone knows, you can get rep from regular Mechanar all the way through Exalted, so if you really need the rep fast, farming regular is the easiest thing to do, particularly if you are at about the gearing level of those who will be following this guide where tanking a heroic can still be quite daunting. I know most of you know this, but somehow that little detail slipped past my defenses and it took me notably longer to get my Crest.

I believe all lvl 70 instances still give rep for their factions: Mechanar, Botanica, Arcatraz, Steamvaults, Shattered Halls, Shadowlabs, Black Morass.

Notable extras include Old Hillsbrad and now Setthik Halls

[Omatre]

I used Shield of Wayward with +15 BR enchant for god knows how long. Its added value to uncrushable is untouched by any other shield I've had since.

Its a blue, but in that situation its so vastly superior to anything else I've got up to this point.

[Nicos]

Eanin, this may seem silly... but (speaking as a fresh level 70) ... could you do a similar guide for failsafe uncritability? I'd like to get there quicker than hoping for drops.