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Emergency! Help me Tank ICC 10 tommorow!

Post by neiljwd

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Shadowsong&cn=Kevinus
I sit at a lil over 40k unbuffed health. -edit; In bear form with just MotW-

This is me.
I'm a kitty DPS.
Tommorrow the guilds a tank short on our 3rd 10 man grp, so I've been asked to do it. *gulp*

I've regemmed my meta, and put a blue gem in my weapon to activate it. Also enchanted my Rings and PvP bracer for Stam. How ever I can't afford to Regem/chant anymore of my PvE DPS pieces, not for a one off.

So! Is there however, any easy changes I can make to improve myself? Things I could buy with triumph/conquest valour etc?

Glyph of indominatbility better than brewfest trink etc?
I'm under hit and expertise cap... how Important is this.
Group is jsut expected to do 1st 6 bosses in ICC is all, no more no less.

Post by oberondreaming

What kind of resources do you have available? Not a lot of money, I assume, if you can't afford to re-gem any more. But plenty of Triumph emblems?

Hit and Expertise caps aren't super important for tanks. At least not as important as they are for DPS. They're good, but not necessary. That said, you are quite a bit below the hit cap. Maybe re-enchant your boots with Icewalker, neither it nor your current boot enchant require expensive mats, so it should be a big deal. Likewise you could switch your gloves to Precision and back again, without using up too many mats. Those two will net you about another 1% hit about. Overall, it'll cost you 32 Infinite Dust, 12 Greater Cosmics, a Crystallized Water and a Dreamshard.

If you haven't already, I'd try to run a few heroics in tank, just to get more comfortable with how to do it. (Plus, grinding a few heroics real quick should get you a good ways towards the mats you need.)

Other than that, I'd say you're pretty well geared (if not well enchanted/gemmed) for tanking. Or at least there aren't any pieces that you could quickly and easily replace that'd be significantly better.

Post by neiljwd

Yeah shed loads of emblems, and been pratacing in heroics, thank you :-)

And while i'm not close at all to being short of Gold, there's 12 Gem slots... To Gem just them to Stam is 1600 Gold minimum... then back to Cardinaly Ruby's Monday? 3.5k Gold for 1 days raiding ='s no :P

Thanks for the tips though, food for thought with the hit enchants.

Shame there's no quick and easy fixer out there :(

Post by oberondreaming

It looks like your jewelry is the best place to look for upgrades.

You could run H ToC to see if you can get Mark of the Relentless (which isn't ideal of course thanks to the parry), and/or buy Clutch of Fortification with emblems. Alternatively (or if Mark of the Relentless doesn't drop) and you really want a second tanking ring, you could down-trade for a Signet of the Impregnable Fortress.

Chained Military Gorget might be better, and would up your hit a bit as well. Platinum Mesh Cloak too. They're both less stamina than your PvP pieces, but they'll have more avoidance, and you're probably going to be hurting a bit for Dodge in ICC.

Those will all also have the added benefit of getting you a bit more Hit/Expertise. Maybe even enough to cap you without re-enchanting.

Edit -- If you're not already using it, you could always download Rawr, tell it to just show you Emblem/Heroics/Normal ICC 5 Man gear and see what it thinks is an upgrade.

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Post by neiljwd

Thanks oberondreaming, some really good shouts there.

Sorry Alundrei, but what do u mean by non-unique? I'm a lil confused what that implies or how it would benefit me.

Post by Tarkeel

I think what he means is that you should keep two sets of gear whenever items are not unique.
Oh, and see my sig for pre-raid gear choices.

Post by hymer

So how did it go?

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Post by neiljwd

Raid didn't go great tbh, but that was due to having in two virgin ranged (and remember this was guild grp 3, the dregs) for the raid due to 2 cancellations and basically they weren't very good or geared. But 11 emblems each and a few upgrades was a worthwhile night for over all guild gear progression.

But as far my tanking A-Ok and not a problem. I did get a rogue killed due to turning a Big skeleton trap badly, but that was due to my skill, not the characters gear cababilities, which worked out just fine :-)

Thanks for the support all :P

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Emergency! Help me Tank ICC 10 tommorow!

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