Comments on: StarCraft Cakes & Brain Dumpage

By: Narx

Narx — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:55:25 +0000

Around 75/76 there is a tanking neck from the Ebon Blade/Drakuru questline in Zul’Drak once you complete the chain.

Ultimately, once you hit 79/80 keep running Halls of Lightning for the defense trinket from Loken. It has like 76 defense or something on it – which will help you reach crit immunity sooner

By: Pugnacious Priest

Pugnacious Priest — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:00:14 +0000

Now your being picky I got that ring! – the rest of my defence gear is stuff that was crafted by a friend, and I picked up a crafted belt with more defence from the AH In my dungeon running so far from 70 – that ring has been the only loot that has been worth rolling need on ><

By: Shiva

Shiva — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:52:23 +0000

I’d like to point out, his math was slightly wrong too =p It’s 490 at 70 vs level 73 mobs. It’s 540 at 80 vs 83 mobs.

It would thus be 510 at 74 vs 77 mobs. So at level 74, to be capped vs. level 74 mobs you only need 495.

Anyways, it’s actually impossible to defense cap on a new character without doing old world / old raid content. The only tanking jewelry available is the ring from Azjol-Nerub at 72. And I believe there is a quest neck.

By: nekomancer

nekomancer — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:17:03 +0000

*sigh* Mary Sue Harrington reference… Sad Way worse than any female healer stereotype I would say.

By: Strum

Strum — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:45:17 +0000

You really don’t have to worry about defense at level 74; the mobs in regular instances and while leveling don’t hit hard enough that getting critted is a big deal. The main reason getting critted in raids is such a worry is that they’ll tend to insta-gib you; that’s just not a risk outside of raids and heroics though. You’ll need 535 defense (665-ish defense rating) to be uncritable as a level 80 tank in the WotLK heroics, and 540 defense for raids.

By: Pugnacious Priest

Pugnacious Priest — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:52:48 +0000

Kris Longknife almost does it ( by Mike Shepard) but Honor wins hands down. ( bonus points for her tree cat)

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:48:04 +0000

Whee – like the Honor Harrington reference

By: Pugnacious Priest

Pugnacious Priest — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:39:26 +0000

Bugger.. my logic fails.. and the defence rating stat thing fails too! I should do some warrior reading beyond the wiki page, and here I was thinking all I had to worry about was making sure I kept agro on the mobs/boss and didn’t move around so much so the dps can maximise their dps.

By: Narx

Narx — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:27:56 +0000

“I know she has to be defence capped – because I’m not working out the maths by level) because I put a new piece of gear on it with 20 extra defence and only got another 6 defence out of it.”

I love you, but this is so bad

The defense ‘cap’ at level 70 was 490. So at level 74 and 466 defense you are under the cap

Defense rating and actual defense are different measures. Gear you get will have rating on it. AFAIK (and I may be wrong) the only outright ‘defense’ in the game are the DK runeforges. All other defense enchants/gems/stats on items are actually rating.

It takes 689 rating (with no DK runeforges) to reach the defense ‘cap’ of 540.

But 466 at level 74 is awesome :O

Once you reach 80, you should be close to 5% crit chance immune, or around 5-510 defense. Those last bits are pesky to obtain once you are 80… and in a few months it’ll be useless anyway!