-Full raid buffs
-Agility food
-Stoneblood Flask
-Mining/Blacksmithing
-Death Knight is generic 5/5/5 spec
-Only stamina gems
-No items with block other than shield
-All are uncrittable

Gear used:

Helm of the Faceless
Bronze Pendant of the Vanir
Shoulderplates of the Deconstructor
Titanskin Cloak
Dragonstorm Breastplate
Mimiron's Infernal Couplings
Handguards of Revitilization
Indestructible Plate Girdle (dragonseye and stormjewel)
Legplates of the Endless Void (12 stam/8def and dragonseye)
Spiked Deathdealers (dragonseye)
The Leviathan's Coil
Platinum Band of the Aesir
Heart of Iron
Royal Seal of King Llane

Gear differences:

Death Knight

Voldrethar, Dark Edge of Oblivion - Stoneskin Gargoyle

Warrior

Sorthalis, Hammer of the Watchers - 26 agi
Northern Barrier - 20 defense
Veranus' Bane

Paladin

Same as warrior, minus the gun

Druid gear:

Garona's Guise
Mark of the Unyielding
Conquerer's Nightsong Shoulderguards
Titanskin Cloak
Conquerers Nightsong Raiments
Mechanist's Bindings
Conquerer's Nightsong Handgrips
Soul-Devouring Cinch
Conquerer's Nightsong Legguards
Runed Ironhide Boots
The Leviathan's Coil
Signet of Winter
Heart of Iron
Defender's Code
Origin of Nightmares
Idol of the Corruptor

Results:

DK
Health: 50740 (52973 - Blood)
Armor: 41282
Armor post nerf: 37136
Defense: 544
Miss: 12.20 (15.20 - Frost)
Dodge: 28.14
Parry: 19.81 (20.06 - Blood)
Total Avoidance: 60.15 (63.15 - Frost) (60.40 - Blood)

Warrior
Health: 48218
Armor: 36530
Defense: 547
Dodge: 28.86%
Parry: 20.29%
Block: 15.28%
Miss: 11.84%
Block Value: 1379
Avoidance: 60.99%

Paladin
Health: 48981
Armor: 36310
Defense: 542
Dodge: 29.41%
Parry: 20.16%
Block: 38.69%
Miss: 11.73%
Block Value: 1432
Avoidance: 61.31%

Druid
Health: 51294
Armor: 42867
Dodge: 49.498%
Miss: 10.756%
Avoidance: 60.254%
Savage Defense: 88.628% ~ 1736



Updated!
Boss now has insect swarm, 3% miss for everyone!
Professions are JC/Mining
Regemmed legs + shield
Paladins and Warriors are both using Mongoose now.
Solid sSormjewel used in belt socket.

Thanks for posting this.

looks like a very nice consensus

If I'm not mistaken though, you can get the DK using Swordshattering if you change the cloak and/or chest enchant ( I dont remember off the top of my head).

Also, technically blood and unholy would have *slightly* higher parry chances than frost due to strength talents.

Hmm, 16 def to cloak and 22 defense to chest and switching to Swordshattering puts him 49 defense rating short of the cap. That'd be covered by the sigil if they're blood spec.

Ah that's right, I assumed anyone who was short of def would just use the sigil to make it up.

Commu, you may need to put a Topic Paragraph at the top, to explain the reason why did this and the method / reason for gear choices. if you need to go to a second post i will delete this one.


well nm, i took too long to post./ silly work.

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Ah that's right, I assumed anyone who was short of def would just use the sigil to make it up.

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unless they are suffering for threat. Then they will use a threat sigil.

SSG is problematic, but i do see your point if you're focused on EH. I juse assumed (based on title) the focus was avoidance.

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Hmm, 16 def to cloak and 22 defense to chest and switching to Swordshattering puts him 49 defense rating short of the cap. That'd be covered by the sigil if they're blood spec.

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Blood tanks largely use the glyph of disease. So that icy touch is out of the rotation after the pull. I don't think this is a good assumption.

Nice comparison.

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Those numbers look good, but I think using SSG as presumed runeforge is problematic since the t8 gear is more than capable of defense cap with proper enchants.

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Probably. But SSG has 2% stam, as well as health/armor enchants. These tanks setups look clearly concerned with their EH.

I suppose we could also try "OMG who can stack the most possible avoidance?!", but I wanted a more neutral approach.

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Blood tanks largely use the glyph of disease. So that icy touch is out of the rotation after the pull. I don't think this is a good assumption.

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Looks like that sigil is out of uses. >.>

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Blood tanks largely use the glyph of disease. So that icy touch is out of the rotation after the pull. I don't think this is a good assumption.

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i still dont understand that, because even ej says that is bad, due to the way the duration extension works with BP and FF. You wind up clipping 3-6 seconds off your first or second disease due to the way the mechanics work. I have found i just would rather use IBF/VAMPblood/ dark death. as glyphs.

And a personal pref of mine would be to use SS over SSG so i would be using the sigil or geming/ enchanting some amount of defense, if i needed the threat sigil.

1. Highly doubt guilds would loot the blade to a tanking DK before a DPS class so thats stretching.

2. WTB 5K armor upgrade.

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i still dont understand that, because even ej says that is bad, due to the way the duration extension works with BP and FF. You wind up clipping 3-6 seconds off your first or second disease due to the way the mechanics work. I have found i just would rather use IBF/VAMPblood/ dark death. as glyphs.

And a personal pref of mine would be to use SS over SSG so i would be using the sigil or geming/ enchanting some amount of defense, if i needed the threat sigil.

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First, I'll say that I'm personally not sold on the glyph myself. I'm still just playing to see how it works out in practice (note also that I don't take EJ posts for gospel either). Thus far, however, i'd say it's useful despite the clips because: your loss is 1 blood rune/death rune over the uh/fr runes you'd have to use and situationally you HAVE to clip diseasea anyhow due to boss mechanics/movement.

As the runeforge goes, i've completely abandoned picking a favorite there. Thus far i've swapped 3-4 times just to best fit the near gear i've picked up.

I find it interesting that the DK has the 2nd lowest avoidance of the bunch.

This is an interesting post I'm actually going to have to look into deeper sometime.

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I find it interesting that the DK has the 2nd lowest avoidance of the bunch.

This is an interesting post I'm actually going to have to look into deeper sometime.

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The lowest two also have a lot more flexibility and could sacrifice health to get their avoidance higher.

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Druid
HP 50804
Armor 42867 - This can't be right
Miss 7.76
Dodge 49.50
Avoidance 57.26%

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That armor figure = wtf?

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That armor figure = wtf?

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Something with Rawr. It looks like it has the correct talents and such, but that armor number definitely is pre-3.1

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The lowest two also have a lot more flexibility and could sacrifice health to get their avoidance higher.

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I'm aware one could sac health for avoidance. This is one of the reasons I wanted to look into this further. There are many more mechanics than health, avoidance, and armor. Threat and other mitigation (passive and active CD) also play in. I just think it's an interesting comparison.