Any idea if the S4 gear can be used to effectively tank kz/ZA? I’ve farmed enough honor for the set, shield, and a few off pieces. Hoping it’s good enough to run the UA/prot build and tank with. I’ve withheld gemming or enchanting it so I could see if I can get away with throwing DPS/threat gems and enchants across the board or if I’ll need some defense stuff too.
Anyone know?
I dont know the math on resiliance but its like 1= 2 defense. Just get to whatever resiliance is 490 defense and keep sheild block up. Kara will be easy with a high stamina. Plus it should be easier to tank the big packs with the new thunderclap and shockwave. Za requires more gear but your healers should be able to handle it.
Between a few of the offset tanking items from kz and the S4 I already have I’m well over the crit immunity. Thoughts on gemming?
I think I’m somewhere around 13.5k HP with commanding shout up.
I think you’re going to really struggling with only pvp gears. You need defensive gears… get more stam and avoid. Tank strong with defense. Don’t need threat gears for wrath. If u die its gg
Did ZA with an off tank DK in blue dps gear and he only died to the Cat boss. So a warr with a lot of resil and health, youll be fine in both Kara and ZA, but the ZA cat boss will still kill you.
Bro…u crazy man?? No way you can play tank in PvP gears for ZA!? Gotta need defensive gears or u got splat!! Big tanking for defensive gears…strong tank
Do you think I need to gem/enchant for stamina and avoid stats or is damaging stuff okay?
You absolutely should be able to tank as long as your resilience is enough to make you uncrittable. I just don’t know how much I have put into increasing my stam and avoid in my gems and enchants.
Bro… don’t listen to them?! You crazy mad too!! No way you can tank hit from bosses in ZA with out defensive gears… You going to wipe the raid like doing that. Don’t be crazy!!?
I dont think you know warriors. Resil now counts toward crit immunity, no crushing blows unless mob is 4 lvls above you and bosses are lvl 73 so no worries. You could tank it, warrior tank in pvp gear is doing great right now since there is so much damage going on. If you are crit immune you will be able to do it, shield block/parry/dodge are nice to haves but you dont need those on almost any peice of gear. I have main tanked BT in full Brutal PVP gear.
I have solo tanked Kara in pvp gear, MT ZA multiple times in pvp gear, and BT this week in pvp gear. Very very doable. No wipes in any of these raids.
Thanks for the replies! Very helpful info. Are you deep prot or the new arms/prot spec? Also, how did you gem/enchant your gear?
I have healed a warrior in pvp gear only once. It was horrible. I had the most deaths I’ve ever had as a healer that day. I would never suggest it is easy. Anything is doable, but you’ll have to be very skillful with your pulls.
Ive tanked kara on my pally all tbc with 12k buffed hp. Tanked it this week on this dk who is def capped in blues and greens, you don’t need that much hp for kara.
I gem stam in all slots, enchants on shoulders and enchant helm shoulder pants with def enchants or stam. The other slots are typical.
Last week i wouldnt of said pvp gear is fine, this week everything changed though with prepatch. New ball game.
Fair point.
probably, we’ve had DKs tanking kara and ZA in mostly pvp gear and it was fine
100% fine
although t4 prot 4piece is very nice for trash for spamming revenge
gems don’t even matter for this content, i’d gem parry if all you do is tank, this makes it easier to solo farm stuff (obviously parry hastes the boss more so don’t gem parry in wotlk raid tanking)
just gem for your dps/pvp spec if you also like pvping (i’m assuming you do since you have brutal gear)
The stam and armor values on PVP gear are pretty much identical to Tanking gear. The only other consideration should be crit immunity. So long as you have the gear socketed and enchanted properly and have the resilience to be crit immune you should be fine in PVP gear for tanking.