Orly Factor » level 80 http://www.orlyfactor.com A warrior tanking blog for World of Warcraft Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:04:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tanking Cap Numbers, the Real Deal http://www.orlyfactor.com/tanking-cap-numbers-the-real-deal/ http://www.orlyfactor.com/tanking-cap-numbers-the-real-deal/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:34:11 +0000 Durnic http://www.orlyfactor.com/?p=301 There has been a lot of false information spread around the bowels of the internet lately about what the actual stat caps are for a tanking warrior at level 80.  I’ve read up on TankSpot, Elitist Jerks and Something Awful (I highly recommend all of these links, by the way) to bring you the end-all-be-all of what you should be looking for as a tank in terms of your stats.

Defense for raiding: 540
Defense for heroics: 535
Hit (level 83 boss): 295 raiting
Expertise (remove dodges): 25
Expertise (remove parries): 57

If you would rather look at raiting required then these are the numbers you need:

Defense: 689 defense rating
Expertise (dodge): 205 expertise rating
Expertise (parry): ~500 expertise rating
Hit: 295 hit rating

Here’s stat conversion at level 80:

1% hit = ~32.8 hit rating
1% dodge/parry reduction = ~32.8 expertise rating
1 expertise = 8.1975 expertise rating
1 defense = 4.9 defense rating

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