Orly Factor » wrath 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 Tank Gemming in Wrath, my experiences http://www.orlyfactor.com/tank-gemming-in-wrath-my-experiences/ http://www.orlyfactor.com/tank-gemming-in-wrath-my-experiences/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:00:27 +0000 Durnic http://www.orlyfactor.com/?p=328 Older readers might remember the post I made over two months ago about my speculation for tank gemming in the expansion entitled, “Tank Gemming in Wrath, some speculation”.  At the time almost nothing was known about tanking stats other then we needed 540 defense and there was much speculation on hit raiting, diminishing returns and the like.  In those two months, however, we’ve all learned a ton.  I found it only fitting then to bring back one of my old posts and update it.

Meta

  • Eternal Earthsiege Diamond. There really is only one choice for your Meta slot and that’s this baby.  Not only is it a nice chunk of avoidance and mitigation in the form of defense, but the 5% Shield Block Value is just incredible.  I’m going into raids with over 1000 SBV even before I had a helm with a Meta slot, and this baby gives me about 50 SBV.

Blue

  • Solid Sky Sapphire. Always and without fail I will slam a stamina gem into a blue socket because stamina is still an awesome survival stat.  Your healers will appreciate it; just ask Polgera.

Prismatic

  • Solid Sky Sapphire. This section is reserved for your belt slot from the Eternal Belt Buckle and, for the Blacksmiths out there like myself, the sockets in our bracers and gloves.  My theory?  Stamina is good, but more stamina is better!  Maybe it’s just the Burning Crusade tank in me unable to let go of the STAMINA STAMINA STAMINA mentality but it’s worked thus far.

Red

  • Guardian’s Twilight Opal. Expertise is the most important stat, in my opinion, that you can go for after you’ve reached 540 defense.  By pushing dodges off of the table, 25 Expertise is the best thing you can go for to increase your threat and your damage output.  Everything after that up until 57 Expertise is great for increasing your survivability.  This gem is fantastic for giving you more health and more expertise.
  • Precise Scarlet Ruby.

Yellow

  • Enduring Forest Emerald. Remember Veneretio’s post about How good is Defense?  Yeah, it’s that good.  Here I gem for it and stamina with a green gem.  In the early days of the expansion it was hard to find Jewelcrafters with this pattern since it’s so off-the-wall.  Every JC on my server had Solid Skyfire but only recently have their started to spend their daily tokens on this gem.

To you other tanks out there: now that the expansion has been here for a while how do you find yourself gemming?  Is it similar to my own concept or do you think I’m a nutjob?

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