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woohaa
k so before i get into gear i'm gonna point out some things. First Def cap is 535 for heroics and 540 for raiding. your at 514 and your hp is only at 16k unbuffed. your going to find that once you hit 80 and start doing random heroics that many people won't allow you to tank with that low hp as a dk. most players in LFD are spoiled, also the dps you tank against now don't do much dmg. However, when you start tanking random heroics you'll be tanking against players that have a gearscore of 5k+ whereas your gearscore is more around 3k when you hit 80. So staying alive isn't gonna be your biggest problem...holding agro will be. blood is okay for main tanking a boss in a raid but it's bad at holding agro on multiple mobs when you have a mage doing 8k dps. I'd suggest using a
frost aoe tank
build if you plan on tanking heroics.
So you have 2 options.
1. The easier option will be to switch to dps temporarily and farm heroics when you hit 80. since most of the tanks are geared and won't need any drops you can need on whatever tanking pieces drop and also farm emblems of triumph. These you can use to buy tanking pieces. Also you can take a look at the link in my signature which has a list of tanking gear that you can work towards. you can also look into crafted pieces if you have alot of gold.
2. the second option would be to check out this
link
basically you can try to get some of the lvl 187 tanking gear from that list. then once you hit 535 def and possibly 20k+ health unbuffed you can try to tank some heroics. from there you can farm up emblems and again work towards the same goal...the list in my signature.
Signing up as a tank may reward you with faster queue times...however because your gear won't be as good as many of the tanks out there...players may kick you from the group or just plain leave the moment they see your gear. which will result in a longer wait time anyway. while your still 78 i'd go check out the argent tournament grounds and do some of the questing there. you can get champion seals from doing the dailies and when you become a faction champion you can buy a lvl 200 epic weapon to use.
Also if you plan on trying to tank...your gemming and enchanting should go as follows. Def (till 535-540) > stam
hit cap is 8% and expertise is 6.5%, however i'd focus on def and stam until your gear improves.
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Doring
Yeah, I got a lot of grief for only having 31K health in a random the other day. Was the middle pile of what ended up being an all around crappy day tanking in LFD.
Doring
Post by
Inaax
I have to agree with what everything woohaa has said, but also have to point out, it wasnt to long ago that 18k-20k health wasnt THAT bad for heroics, and nothing about the heroics has changed, i realize that alot of healers/dps are very spoiled now.
It is true that many players make their opinions on the GS and on nothing else while it is the talent which really counts. But the GS also counts; if a tank just come of fallen 80, it is evident that he cannot hold the aggro of a dps which have like 4,8-5k+GS (Especially the casters)
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woohaa
for your sigil i'd get the
245 triumph sigil.
probably one of the best upgrades you can get when you hit 80. however upgrading your pieces that have no defense on it, may be a priority. like your helm for instance...however that requires 75 emblems of triumph. so the above helms that were posted will be nice to obtain till you can get the emblem ones.
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woohaa
well there's a few ways to upgrade your weapon. if you have money/mats and access to a 450 blacksmither you could get
titansteel destroyer
.
you could also like i said do the argent tournament quest. once you finish the quest. you'll have access to some lvl 200 epic weapons which you can buy using champion seals that you get while doing the quests. There's a 2hander that drops off loken in H HoL. there's
two
2handers
in H ToC5 if you can get one of those.
honestly i'd go for the argent tournament weapon. it's the easiest one to obtain cause all you do is the jousting and a few kill quests once a day. as long as you do it everyday till you hit champion of whatever race you are then you can buy your weapon relatively quick without having to worry about running heroics
Also the sigil is probably one of the best upgrades you can get. aside from upgrading your trinkets since you don't really have a tanking one atm. the uptime for the sigils buff is around 80% or higher depending on how often runestrike procs for you. but 200 dodge rating is alot so i'd definitely go for that.
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