Tankpoints a viable addon?

[Gerilith]

I really suck at math will someone check my total from the armory if they have time, you'll make my day!! I got 92.6. Thanks guys. My armory link is below.

You're at 97.11, which will result in crushing immunity if you would use the Libram of Repetance instead.

[Shugg]

Thanks brother, i'm gonna look into that

[papy72]

[warning: may sound noobish - please forgive me]

What do you use tankpoints for?

I mean, I downloaded it because it looked like a decent way to evaluate one piece of gear against another. As I am only lvl 47 my crushability is of no concern.

But I do want to see if some green I get from a quest is "better" than what I have now.

But the gear comparison data it adds to the tooltips seems aimed entirely at warriors. My understanding of pally tanking is that we favor Int over Str but the mod was showing a piece of Str/Sta gear as better than my Of The Eagle gear I am wearing (and the Sta on my gear was 1-2 points higher).

Is there some setting I can manipulate to change the priority of the stats?

[Gerilith]

TankPoints seems to be buggy as hell at the moment...I'm crushing immune and it shows 5% hit and my EH is lowered by RF

[Makaijin]

Seems the addon author is adding new new features. The EH tab is an obvious start. But at the same time he broke the calculator where the stats don't update in real time. I normally gear up, see the combat table, swap a few gear around, press my holy shield button, crushing goes from 15.00% to 0.00% i am set. With the last few updates seems the calculator is broke.

[Sloath]

Seems the addon author is adding new new features. The EH tab is an obvious start. But at the same time he broke the calculator where the stats don't update in real time. I normally gear up, see the combat table, swap a few gear around, press my holy shield button, crushing goes from 15.00% to 0.00% i am set. With the last few updates seems the calculator is broke.

Yep, since the 2.3 updates, I've been experiencing the same thing. Hope that gets sorted out soon.. I sorta miss it.

[Morganim]

[warning: may sound noobish - please forgive me]

What do you use tankpoints for?

I mean, I downloaded it because it looked like a decent way to evaluate one piece of gear against another. As I am only lvl 47 my crushability is of no concern.

But I do want to see if some green I get from a quest is "better" than what I have now.

But the gear comparison data it adds to the tooltips seems aimed entirely at warriors. My understanding of pally tanking is that we favor Int over Str but the mod was showing a piece of Str/Sta gear as better than my Of The Eagle gear I am wearing (and the Sta on my gear was 1-2 points higher).

Is there some setting I can manipulate to change the priority of the stats?

At this stage its definately catered more for warriors than paladins.

It doesnt factor int or +dmg at all afaik.

What its useful for imo is blockvalue showing, and when you wanna stuff around with stats in the calculator even though its borked atm

[adese]

What its useful for imo is blockvalue showing, and when you wanna stuff around with stats in the calculator even though its borked atm

Since 2.3, the default UI now shows block value as well (finally). If you hover over the Block% entry, the tooltip now also says something to the effect of, "Prevents xx damage on all blocked attacks".

[Gerilith]

Just downloaded a new version which pretends to have the calculator fixed.

[Everlight]

At this stage its definately catered more for warriors than paladins.

It doesnt factor int or +dmg at all afaik.

What its useful for imo is blockvalue showing, and when you wanna stuff around with stats in the calculator even though its borked atm

That's because int and +damage do absolutely nothing for your tanking ability, when it comes down to damage absorption. That is all TankPoints cares about.

The reason why the strength item came up with higher TP is because Strength contributes in part to Block Value, which does help with mitigation.

TankPoints is not the be-all-end-all item comparison tool. The sole purpose is to show you how an item affects your ability to absorb damage. It does not take into account such things as Intellect, +damage, spell hit and the like, because they do not affect your ability to survive whatsoever.

[Biscotti]

Has it been updated to take into account blessing of sanctuary? That should definitely factor into effective health calculation & didn't change tankpoints' rating last time I checked.

[Kellann]

Tankpoints has always been tailored to warriors (as best I remember, 20STR != 1BV for tankpoints....the str->ap is 'weighted' for warrior agro considerations as well)

Tanking paladins have been using the calculator mostly - in order to do a quick gear swap then crush-check AND in order to compare near-future upgrades to make better decisions with DKP, etc. Nobody likes picking up an "upgrade" which makes them crushable (or sometimes Critable) again...

At this stage I've given up on it (at least temporarily) and I'm using the /script method to check for crush immunity.

Has it been updated to take into account blessing of sanctuary? That should definitely factor into effective health calculation & didn't change tankpoints' rating last time I checked.

Probably not....but then again, don't be mislead about BoSanc's damage reduction: The "Up to 80" is applied pre-mitigation, which generally means that it is a flat 30 something reduction (60%+ armor reduction happens afterwards)

[Everlight]

Tankpoints has always been tailored to warriors (as best I remember, 20STR != 1BV for tankpoints....the str->ap is 'weighted' for warrior agro considerations as well)

Completely incorrect. Coming straight from the horse's mouth, as it were;

=== Block Value From Strength ===
- blockValueFromStrength = (strength * 0.05) - 1

=== Block Value ===
- blockValue = floor(blockValueFromStrength) + floor((blockValueFromItems + blockValueFromShield) * blockValueMod

Strength is not used anywhere else in the entire set of formula that TP uses.

Note, I don't have a huge amount of faith in the Effective Health stuff, since that's new code.

Other than that, the most significant "non-Paladin" stuff that TP misses is it doesn't take into account Holy Shield automatically (you have to buff it yourself), doesn't take into account Blessing of Sanctuary, and the calculator hasn't yet been coded to automatically add in Sacred Duty and Combat Expertise, which means if you're adding stamina in the calculator you need to add the multipliers yourself.

It used to take into account Ardent Defender, but the author arsed up the code so removed it until he can fix it to be more meaningful.