WotLK Gear Enchants and Gemming Advice Discussion Thread.

You might want to add a line about how giving up defense enchants for stamina is strictly worse than giving up gems for stamina.
Gems:
16 defense vs 24 stamina
Enchants:
22 Defense for 275 HP or 10 stats (chest)
12 Defense for 12 stamina (wrists)
20 Defense for 18 stamina (shield)

As is probably obvious when seen together, only the gem comes out above 1:1 for stamina. I know you state enchants are best for the defense cap, but this is more of why.

Shouldnt Potency be listed as crafted by enchanters instead of engineers?
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I can has moar to horde side on Muradin?

Pm petrus with any corrections, he doesn't always read through the discussion.
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Yeah, I probably won't read back into the previous 5 pages, but will correct that error.
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I agree with Elsie.

Frankly, Dodge rating gives you dodge, nothing else. It does not scale with buffs (ie kings)

Agi is a viable alternative and has been ignored in this analysis.

Does Agi provide as much pure avoidance as dodge rating, on a point by point basis? No...

But it does provide improved mitigation and crit rating.

Basically, 300 dodge rating will provide about .9% more avoidance than 300 Agi will...

But the 300 agi will add about .8% more pure mitigation than the dodge rating will...and it will add about 6% to melee crit.

Tanking is about more than just pure avoidance...its also about threat.

Dodge rating as a stat, simply gets us to high DR faster than agi does.

Now, if we are purely looking at just avoidance, dodge does win...

Nothing however, excuses you from having included the new agility enchant to the back item http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44457

Technically, it provides more pure avoidance than the Titansteel Enchant once kings in factored in.
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Garath Lvl 80 Paladin, Gorefiend

We could be on the verge of a new gearing era where agility is favored over dodge rating. A lot more work needs to be done before we can call it in either's favor. I look forward to working on it and seeing other's work.
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The other issue with Agility is that it, as with Str/Stam and a few others, is one of the rare and/or missing gem cuts (Shifting) that isn't widely available in blue quality.
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Could we add meta-gems to the gem section of the guide? Thanks!
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There are metas listed later on down below in the master list of all enchants and gems, but there are none in the top section that Digren wrote.

Personally, I'd recommend one of two metas: Austere Earthsiege if you feel as though you need the EH (though the BV adds some EH too) and you're far enough over the uncrittable mark where you can make it without the 21 Defense Rating, or Eternal if you need defense or feel like BV is a more important stat to you.
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Updated with 3.0.8 information! Will change when materials are known for enchants and will add Plating for the shield soon as well.
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