Since our Arena warlock Steptoe is currently bogged down by real life and no games will be happening for a while, I decided to go back to tankadin spec for a while, at least to look what the different parts I had picked up left and right would amount to. And it’s surprisingly better than what I thought.
When I switched to holy early last summer, I was at 430 defense and 74% combined crush avoidance (vs 102.4% needed). After respeccing and rebuilding a useable kit, I’m now at 474 defense (but without spell damage at all, not good) respectively 468 with some holy damage and 82.4% towards uncrushability - not that I’d need the latter, seeing how it’s unlikely that I’ll ever tank Kara. The guild is, oddly enough, bursting with tanks at the moment, and when you log on after they have been in there for almost 4 hours, it’s unlikely they’ll need an extra trash tank. Still, it was quite good to go to Karabor, grab 8-10 demon supplicants and AoE them down for signets, tomes, cloth and cash.
Of course, on the LFG side of things, it’s the same old story: until last night all groups were desperate for tanks. The moment I had finished buying the new spec’s skills, tanks came out of every hidden closet while the groups were desperate for a healer. Oh well. My respec costs had dropped down to 25g, so I’ll keep looking if I get some tanking action until Steptoe is back.
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Grass always seem like that when your on the opposite side whether needing a Tank or always looking for a Healer.
Best Places to get your gear. Run SV, if anything getting revered gets your ring from CE.
Run SH its heaven and glory to tank and pickup the FoC trinket.
Run Tempest Keep instances Mech, BoT, Arc as each have gear you need for tanking if anything the reps for Shat’ar which you would need for exalted rep gear.
Run Black Morass a few times for KoT reps to get TW leggings and rep spell blade. BM is fun to do. But of course if your already doing BG’s you can get the S1 or S2 gravel mace which is awesome as an alternate for the spell damage.
That’s it in a nutshell for gearing a Protect Paladin properly at 70 from 5 mans. Sadly dry people take any pride to do it properly while getting solid tanking experience. Non of that is hard for someone or anyone in a guild with enough people at 70. Afterall I did it being guildless so nobody has a worthwhile excuse if they are in a guild.