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Uncrushable...now what

Imanalt
Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:20 pm

Uncrushable...now what

i'm sure this kind of post has been lobbed in here several times over but thought i'd try for some help myself. My armory link is here http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Deathwing&n=Imanalt my question is what should be my next goal focus for stat? i.e. defense was #1 till uncrushable, then #1 was HP (still really is and always will be)

should i get more Spell Dmg? if so how much?
more dodge? how much?
and i know the cape is not exactly the piece of choice i'm figuring out what i want next Smile

you guys get the gist i'm sure. Smile i can OT in gruuls and live so it would seem SSC is next in line for location to see what happens i guess

Thanks!
Tradyk
Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:07 pm
For you're level, you'll definitely want significantly more SD. You'll have trouble with threat generation with your build and SD at that level when you hit SSC. You can get away with that amount of SD, if you go for one of the higher threat builds, but for vanilla tankadin spec, you'll definitely want a chunk more.

Also, don't be knocking the Devilshark Cape, it's still an awesome cape.
Daelas
Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:13 am
I would say that the easiest threat based upgrade is the Merciless Gavel from honor farming (yeah I know it's dull...), but 100 SD for basically no work is pretty sweet.

As well as the badge items (moreso the ones from Shatt, and not from IQD) would be a nice upgrade for your SD - or Belt of the Guardian would do nicely too.

Also 20 SD on gloves rather than 15 agility would be a nice bonus.
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Imanalt
Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:07 am

ok...

So SD seems to be a necessary upgrade for me Smile is there an unbuffed goal i want to have for amount of SD 400? 700? etc...now you mention a threat tank build...noticing that i'm a tad noobish when it comes to that can you link me to a higher threat build? i'm always open to trying new things out and if a tweaked build can generate more threat i'm all for it while farming up the SD gear i'll need

thanks for the replies so far, keep the thoughts coming in Smile
Tradyk
Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:28 am
Four hundred SD unbuffed would get you to a decent baseline TPS.

As for threat builds, they come in two flavours, slightly modified 0/49/12 builds with reckoning and the 0/40/21 build, which is really only useful t6 content. For you, I'd reccommend getting rid of spell warding for 2/5 reckoning, and if there's another paladin in your raid group who can bring BoK, get rid of that for a third point of reckoning. 3/5 reckoning will get you 10-12% threat increase when fighting a single target with 2.0 attack speed. Between that and the extra SD, you should be sitting pretty at 1-1.1k tps. You shouldn't have any threat problems, but if you do, just ask for a ret pally to be put into your tank group.
Spectrum
Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:48 am
Now that you're uncrushable you've got both EH (and to a lesser extent avoidance) and spell damage to work on.

Spell damage is a lot like uncrushable in that you want to be just there but not over. However the numbers aren't quite as absolute as you want some room for slippage and different fights require different amounts depending on how busy your DPS is and the abilities of the boss.

Really you just want to stack spell damage up to the point that you're not threat capping your DPS, then the rest is about increasing your survivability.
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Imanalt
Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:52 pm
i thought about posting this in gear but since it's mroe designed around theory craft i thought it'd fit better here...sorry if i went in the wrong branch of the forums...any moderator is more than welcome to move my post to a more appropriate forum