Vexryn's Cataclysm Master Tank Gear List & Gear Progression

Njall wrote:

vexryn wrote:As requested, I've shown some love to my warrior brethren; ranged slot (gun) tank options are now listed.

My sympathies to the warriors. Your options for this slot really suck until you get/buy the Bastion of Twilight trash drop! If I missed another piece of gear in this slot, please let me know!

I think you missed the engineering bows and weapons. I can't link them here at work but the Kickback5000 is supposedly pretty good.

I took a look at some of the bows and such and didn't see many options. They're all agility, and while that isn't necessarily fatal, most of it that I saw doesn't even have masteyr. The Kickback 5000 is agility/crit/haste; perhaps it's of interest to dps warriors, but the ilvl 318 quest gear would seem to be far better for actual tanking?

Vexryn, thank you SO much for this guide - I've finally got round to levelling up my pally, and you've saved me an awful lot of research!

Your efforts are much appreciated by this mage pretending to know how to drive a tankadin

Hey, just wanted to point out something in the Enchant section of the guide, you forgot to add Cardboard Assassin onto the belt portion. IMHO it is a better engineer tinker as the PSG tends to backfire, and one of the side-effects is nasty, a increased % chance to take a crit and only absorbs about 20k damage when it works properly. Cardboard Assassin, on the other hand, pops a training dummy that has almost 80k hp, an AoE taunt, and the ability to parry. AND it works on bosses and trash alike. I've used it when I tank and it's an awesome trinket to have. I wouldn't run without one. XD

We noticed last night that Cardboard Assassin was no longer taunting Chimaeron, at least on Heroic mode. I didn't think to test it on other bosses, but I'll try it on Maloriak or Nef/Ony tonight. It's possible they've hotfixed it (though, given that every other tinker has a pretty nasty backfire, it's still probably the best option we have).

Kibaikasu wrote:Hey, just wanted to point out something in the Enchant section of the guide, you forgot to add Cardboard Assassin onto the belt portion. IMHO it is a better engineer tinker as the PSG tends to backfire, and one of the side-effects is nasty, a increased % chance to take a crit and only absorbs about 20k damage when it works properly. Cardboard Assassin, on the other hand, pops a training dummy that has almost 80k hp, an AoE taunt, and the ability to parry. AND it works on bosses and trash alike. I've used it when I tank and it's an awesome trinket to have. I wouldn't run without one. XD

Thanks for the suggestion. I've added it to the guide!

Awesome guide.

Some of the rep reward gear that isn't strictly tanking gear seems like it would be pretty decent (compared to blues) if reforged.

Belt of the Ferocious Wolf http://www.wowhead.com/item=62384 for example. Right now I have the JP belt (Girdle of the Mountains), but am tempted to replace it with that. As I don't raid, most of the good stuff is out of my reach, so I'm looking for alternatives...

What do you think?

Was playing around w/ ring combinations a few nights ago and noticed that i got more total avoidance towards the CTC cap using a Heroic Umbriss Band and Red Rock Band w/ their 168 mastery each than i did using either one of those rings and a Felsen's Ring of Resolve. This being the case wouldn't this move those 2 rings above all the 346 rings (and possibly a couple of the 359s) especially since the dmg mitigation from mastery is our primary tanking stat? Rings become even more attractive once you reforge out the expertise and hit into either dodge or parry.

The BOE trash drops are only normal, the heroic ones dosnt exist (no heroic trash).

Also the T11-Hc leg token is dropped by Maloriak-Hc.

This guide is outstanding. Thank you for taking the time to put it together!

I didn't find this on your list, I got it during Love Is In The Air off Apothecary Hummel <Crown Chemical Co.> In SFK
Shard of Pirouetting Happiness
http://www.wowhead.com/item=68172

BTW to see it on me I'm in <K A S> Stormscale

Great guide. I hadn't gone through it before, but you've validated most of my thinking that I did when going over Dirgen's and Petrus's lists. Great job!

rosefirelite2358 wrote:I didn't find this on your list, I got it during Love Is In The Air off Apothecary Hummel <Crown Chemical Co.> In SFK
Shard of Pirouetting Happiness
http://www.wowhead.com/item=68172

BTW to see it on me I'm in <K A S> Stormscale

Got it, thanks!

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FYI you have a lot of links to cata.wowhead.com which no longer returns tooltips via the javascript integration.

Sabindeus wrote:FYI you have a lot of links to cata.wowhead.com which no longer returns tooltips via the javascript integration.

Eww, didn't realize that. Thanks for the heads-up.

I'll try to go through soon and update them to the now-current www.wowhead.com versions. Thanks.

Should the Helm of Easeful Deathhttp://www.wowhead.com/item=58098 be in the Head List?

Also, should Flynn's Favorite Chestplatehttp://www.wowhead.com/item=63831 be added to Chest; Belt of the Ferocious Wolfhttp://www.wowhead.com/item=62384 be added to Waist; and Baradin Footman's Tagshttp://www.wowhead.com/item=65175 be added to Trinkets? I think the Baradin Footman's Tags is the Alliance version of the Baradin Grunt.

By the way, thank you so much for all the work you've put in on this. Your info confirmed some tanking issues I was slowly realizing and made sense of some things that had me completely flustered.

Any special reason why you don't rank Necklace of Strife on your list?
It gives a higher CTC at the expense of some threat if I'm not mistaken.

Fully updated for ZA/ZG tank gear!

Best in slot neck/cloak now come from Alakir heroic. They added neck/cloak drops in 4.1 with the same random enchants as other gear from throne of the four winds.

not sure if you would want to, but you could include the 1h mace trash drop from ZG with haste reforged to mastery and also where would the ret t11 pants fit in the list do you think?

Nice list. Thank you.

One thing that's missing is the new archeology shield http://www.wowhead.com/item=69764