How much def is too much

[Tiarana]

hmm I seem to be finding way too much defense now in toc25+ gear espically in ICC.

i believe im around 560 atm i was fully defense enchanted before in ulduar i found myself with way too much defense. its kinda good because it increased my health pool with different enchants.

I wouldnt gem or enchant it unless i had to tbh though and yes its a nice stat to have but it isnt the best (unless ur trying something gimmicky)

and hey im new around here.

[Dasphunk]

Yeah, they are putting a lot of defense on all the ToC and ICC gear. I hope they make some boss fights in ICC that are more in favor of avoidance.

[Anorian]

im on 578 def, without any defence gem trinket or enchant...

[Njall]

The ICC crafted items have no def. That should help... kinda. Sorta.

[Thels]

I currently don't have enough defense to put on the craftable legs, not that I've come around crafting them, yet. In one way that's a good thing, I guess, but hopefully I'll get an item with more defense, less I gotta gem/enchant for it again.

[Isetnefret]

Yeah, they are putting a lot of defense on all the ToC and ICC gear. I hope they make some boss fights in ICC that are more in favor of avoidance.

What type of boss would favor avoidance more than EH?

[Meloree]

Yeah, they are putting a lot of defense on all the ToC and ICC gear. I hope they make some boss fights in ICC that are more in favor of avoidance.

What type of boss would favor avoidance more than EH?

1) A boss that hit so hard that surviving the next hit isn't ever realistic - Brutallus.

2) A boss where tank survival is not in question, but where there are ancilliary benefits to avoidance, either in reducing raid damage - the original theory on how Mark of the Champion worked, for example, or where healing is reactive and so lowering damage intake is a useful goal because the healers have some form of longevity constraint - Vezax.

[Thels]

where healing is reactive and so lowering damage intake is a useful goal because the healers have some form of longevity constraint - Vezax.

Ain't this more or less where they want to go with Cataclysm? We might have to totally reconsider our gearing priorities at that time.

[theckhd]

Ain't this more or less where they want to go with Cataclysm? We might have to totally reconsider our gearing priorities at that time.

I think that's part of the goal for cataclysm, actually. If death occurs slowly due to incoming DTPS outpacing incoming HPS, then avoidance becomes a desirable stat, because it's good at reducing DTPS.

The problem with the current environment, at least in previous tiers, is that death really only occurs during DTPS spikes that last < 5 seconds, which isn't slow enough for reactive healing. If you lengthened that to 15 seconds, then avoidance becomes an appealing optimization choice.

It's the difference between "Get Dead Quickly" and "Get Dead Slowly," basically.

[Meloree]

Ain't this more or less where they want to go with Cataclysm? We might have to totally reconsider our gearing priorities at that time.

I think that's part of the goal for cataclysm, actually. If death occurs slowly due to incoming DTPS outpacing incoming HPS, then avoidance becomes a desirable stat, because it's good at reducing DTPS.

The problem with the current environment, at least in previous tiers, is that death really only occurs during DTPS spikes that last < 5 seconds, which isn't slow enough for reactive healing. If you lengthened that to 15 seconds, then avoidance becomes an appealing optimization choice.

It's the difference between "Get Dead Quickly" and "Get Dead Slowly," basically.

Honestly, Blizzard has said a lot of stuff about goals for Cataclysm, and some of them don't hang together particularily well. If they follow through on their threat to have tank avoidance in the 10-20% range, and their threat to encourage reactive healing with monstrous tank health pools, we're liable to end up just gemming DPS.

[Fridmarr]

Ain't this more or less where they want to go with Cataclysm? We might have to totally reconsider our gearing priorities at that time.

I think that's part of the goal for cataclysm, actually. If death occurs slowly due to incoming DTPS outpacing incoming HPS, then avoidance becomes a desirable stat, because it's good at reducing DTPS.

The problem with the current environment, at least in previous tiers, is that death really only occurs during DTPS spikes that last < 5 seconds, which isn't slow enough for reactive healing. If you lengthened that to 15 seconds, then avoidance becomes an appealing optimization choice.

It's the difference between "Get Dead Quickly" and "Get Dead Slowly," basically.

Honestly, Blizzard has said a lot of stuff about goals for Cataclysm, and some of them don't hang together particularily well. If they follow through on their threat to have tank avoidance in the 10-20% range, and their threat to encourage reactive healing with monstrous tank health pools, we're liable to end up just gemming DPS.

Another issue is that overall damage taken across tanking classes becomes very important if it's not equal. Tank survivability is probably a lot easier to measure as well, so they will have to do some serious tightening on tank balance. I'm not sure they are up for that.

[Isetnefret]

At that point, what the hell is the difference in the tank classes?


I don't like the homogenous direction.

Why have 4 tank classes if they are all the same.

When creating your character, you should just select: Tank/DPS/Heal

That should be the name of your class.


ANYHOW, back to topic....

So right now, there are currently like......3 fights in the game where avoidance barely edges out EH in terms of optimum gearing?

[Meloree]

So right now, there are currently like......3 fights in the game where avoidance barely edges out EH in terms of optimum gearing?

One, that I can think of... Vezax hardmode. And that's only after reaching a fairly high EH threshold to allow the healers to heal reactively.

[Iselian]

Festergut, maybe, as well. Avoiding a full 30k hit would be handy, I think.

[Meloree]

Festergut, maybe, as well. Avoiding a full 30k hit would be handy, I think.

In 245 gear you can guarantee 2-hit survival by EH stacking. You cannot guarantee 2-hit survival without EH stacking.