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The weekend's Super Rugby action continues with matches in each of the three competing nations.
Saturday's action kicks off with a New Zealand derby between the Hurricanes and the Highlanders in Wellington.
After that Australian neighbours, the Waratahs and the Western Force, do battle in Sydney before the Sharks face the Reds in Durban to bring the day's proceedings to a close.
On Sunday, the Rebels and Cheetahs bring the curtain down on Round Four with a bottom-of-the-table scrap in Melbourne.
Hurricanes v Highlanders
Westpac Stadium, Wellington
Hurricanes coach Mark Hammett's young side face a stern examination when they host the unbeaten Highlanders in Wellington.
Despite being on the road, the Hurricanes have been competitive in all three their opening matches and have proved to be the surprise packages at this early stage of the tournament.
They lost their opening match to the Stormers after matching the Cape Town-based side for most of the 80 minutes. After that, they won a thriller thanks to a late penalty by exciting fly-half Beauden Barrett in the closing stages of their match against the Lions in Johannesburg.
And last weekend they registered another valuable away win when they beat the Western Force 46-19 in Perth and scored six tries in the process.
With Barrett proving a revelation in the playmaking role and other youngsters like Andre Taylor (full-back), Dane Coles (hooker) and TJ Perenara (scrum-half) also putting their hands up in a big a big way, the future looks bright for the NZ franchise.
Perenara announced himself by scoring a hat-trick against the Force last week and the Highlanders defence will be on high alert when he is in possession close to the tryline.
Being unbeaten will boost the Highlanders' confidence and it will be interesting to see if the Hurricanes can replicate their away form in front of an expectant home crowd.
The southerners have grinded out victories over the Chiefs, Crusaders and Waratahs in their previous matches and will be highly-motivated to add the Hurricanes to their list of conquests.
Under the guidance of coach Jamie Joseph, the Highlanders have struck a fine balance between a physical set of forwards and an exciting back-line that have complimented each other well in their previous fixtures.
Up front, seasoned internationals like Andrew Hore and Adam Thomson have been impressive along with captain Jamie Mackintosh while the likes of All Blacks speedster Hosea Gear and former Hurricanes stalwart Tamati Ellison have stood out amongst the backs.
Another player to keep an eye on is scrum-half Jimmy Cowan who has been confined mostly to a role on the replacements bench in previous matches. Cowan will be keen to show Joseph that he should start regularly in the number nine jersey and his battle with Perenara could be one of the highlights of the match.
Prediction: Both sides head into this clash full of confidence after recording impressive wins last week. This should make for an entertaining spectacle with plenty of end-to-end action! Although the Hurricanes are an exciting side, the Highlanders should have too much experience in their ranks - especially in the forwards - to stay undefeated. Highlanders by six!
The teams:
Hurricanes: 15 Andre Taylor, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith (c), 12 Tim Bateman, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 TJ Perenara, 8 Victor Vito, 7 Jack Lam, 6 Faifili Levave, 5 Jason Eaton, 4 Jeremy Thrush, 3 Jeffery Toomaga-Allen, 2 Dane Coles, 1 Ben May.
Replacements: 16 Motu Matu'u, 17 Michael Bent, 18 James Broadhurst, 19 Brad Shields, 20 Chris Eaton, 21 Daniel Kirkpatrick, 22 Charlie Ngatai.
Highlanders: 15 Ben Smith, 14 Kade Poki, 13 Tamati Ellison, 12 Phil Burleigh, 11 Hosea Gear, 10 Colin Slade, 9 Jimmy Cowan, 8 Nasi Manu, 7 John Hardie, 6 Adam Thomson, 5 Nick Crosswell, 4 Josh Bekhuis, 3 Ma'afu Fia King, 2 Andrew Hore, 1 Jamie Mackintosh (capt).
Replacements: 16 Jason Rutledge, 17 Bronson Murray, 18 Culum Retallick, 19 James Haskell, 20 Aaron Smith, 21 Chris Noakes, 22 Buxton Popoali'i.
Kick-off: 19.35 (06.35 GMT)
Referee: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand)
Waratahs v Western Force
Allianz Stadium, Sydney
The Waratahs head into Saturday's clash with the Western Force brimming with confidence despite losing to the Highlanders in Dunedin last week.
The Sydney-based franchise came close to breaking the Highlanders' winning streak but eventually went down 18-17.
New coach Michael Foley has done well to be competitive in all their previous encounters, despite having a squad that has been decimated by injuries to key players.
New captain Rocky Elsom, Dan Vickerman, Wycliff Palu, Pat McCutcheon, Damien Fitzpatrick, Chris Alcock, Drew Mitchell and Lachlan Turner will all be missing this weekend's clash through injury.
However, they still have several experienced players in key positions who will be expected to lead the charge against their opponents.
Wallabies front-rowers Benn Robinson and Tatafu Polota-Nau and seasoned campaigners like Dean Mumm (lock) and Dave Dennis (flanker) will be vital in the exchanges up front while Daniel Halangahu (fly-half) and Berrick Barnes (inside centre) are expected to lead the onslaught from the back.
The Force, have been struggling to build momentum in this year's tournament and are also struggling with injuries to some of their stalwarts. They are yet to win a match after their three opening encounters and face an uphill task against the Waratahs who are always competitive on their home turf.
Last weekend the Perth-based side suffered a humiliating home defeat to the Hurricanes and they will be desperate to get their show on the road as another loss could see them rooted to the bottom of the table.
A lot will be expected of experienced Wallabies like former captain Nathan Sharpe - who last weekend became the first player to play 150 Super Rugby matches - and his successor David Pocock.
Prediction: The Waratahs will fancy their chances against the visitors who were totally outplayed in their clash with the Hurricanes last weekend. Derbies are usually close encounters but this could be the most one-sided match of the weekend if the rain stays away. Waratahs by 17!
The teams:
Waratahs: 15 Bernard Foley, 14 Tom Kingston, 13 Rob Horne, 12 Berrick Barnes, 11 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 10 Daniel Halangahu (c), 9 Sarel Pretorius, 8 Tevita Metuisela, 7 Jono Jenkins, 6 Dave Dennis, 5 Kane Douglas, 4 Dean Mumm, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 1 Benn Robinson.
Replacements: 16 John Ulugia, 17 Paddy Ryan, 18 Sitaleki Timani, 19 Lopeti Timani, 20 Chris Alcock, 21 Brendan McKibbin, 22 Tom Carter.
Western Force: 15 David Harvey, 14 Samu Wara, 13 Will Tupou, 12 Rory Sidey, 11 Alfie Mafi, 10 James Stannard, 9 Brett Sheehan, 8 Matt Hodgson, 7 David Pocock (c), 6 Angus Cottrell, 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Sam Wykes, 3 Salesi Ma'afu, 2 Nathan Charles, 1 Pek Cowan.
Replacements: 16 Ben Whittaker, 17 Kieran Longbottom, 18 Phoenix Battye, 19 Richard Brown, 20 Justin Turner, 21 Ben Seymour, 22 Winston Stanley.
Kick-off: 19.40 (08.40 GMT)
Referee: Jonathon White (New Zealand)
Sharks v Reds
Kings Park Stadium, Durban
The defending champion Reds go up against a determined Sharks side on a high after beating the Lions last weekend.
The Sharks showed in that 32-20 win that they have the ability to play expansively after they were criticised for their dour approach in their opening defeats away to the Bulls and Stormers.
The win against the Lions was in Durban so playing in front of their fervent home support against the Reds could do wonders to boost the men in black.
The Sharks' forwards are always competitive and will be eager to dominate from the outset, and with bulldozers like Bismarck du Plessis and Willem Alberts in their ranks they could prove a handful for the visitors.
The Springbok duo enjoy the physical nature of the game and if they manage to gain momentum it could be a long and busy day at the office for the Reds.
The Sharks attacking threat will be led by fly-half Patrick Lambie who has the ability to get the best out of his outside backs with his playmaking skills. Another player who could prove a handful for the Reds is Springboks wing JP Pietersen who has shone in the unfamiliar outside centre position.
The powerful speedster has settled in nicely in the number 13 jersey and has been difficult to stop on attack. Pietersen has also proved solid on defence and is not afraid to put his body on the line in the tackle.
Last week's victory would have rejuvenated the Sharks and they will be keen to build momentum before heading on their tour to Australia and New Zealand later in the competition.
However, they face a Reds side who are yet to lose a match this season and who can contain attacking threats in several positions in their line-up.
Despite their unbeaten record, the Brisbane-based side didn't have things their own way in their last match against the Rebels though. They found the going tough before eventually winning 11-6 and will be keen to improve on that performance.
Despite being without injured Wallabies fly-half Quade Cooper, the Reds are still a threat but this is their first match without the talented pivot outside Australia's borders and it will be interesting to see how they cope withot him away from home.
Amongst the forwards, lock James Horwill and flanker Scott Higginbotham will take the game to the hosts while scrum-half Will Genia is the man who will try to provide the spark to get the Reds backs firing.
Prediction: This could a closely contested affair between two evenly matched sides. However, home ground advantage could just swing it in the Sharks' favour. Sharks by five!
The teams:
Sharks:15 Riaan Viljoen, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 JP Pietersen, 12 Tim Whitehead, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Patrick Lambie, 9 Charl McLeod, 8 Keegan Daniel (c), 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Anton Bresler , 4 Steven Sykes, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Dale Chadwick.
Replacements: 16 Craig Burden, 17 Wiehahn Herbst, 18 Jandre Marais, 19 Jacques Botes, 20 Frederic Michalak, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Louis Ludik.
Reds: 15 Rod Davies, 14 Dom Shipperley, 13 Ben Tapuai, 12 Mike Harris, 11 Digby Ioane, 10 Ben Lucas, 9 Will Genia, 8 Radike Samo, 7 Beau Robinson, 6 Scott Higginbotham, 5 Van Humphries, 4 James Horwill (c), 3 James Slipper, 2 James Hanson, 1 Greg Holmes.
Replacements: 16 Saia Faingaa, 17 Ben Daley, 18 Rob Simmons, 19 Jake Schatz, 20 Liam Gill, 21 Nick Frisby, 22 Luke Morahan.
Kick-off: 17:05 (15:05 GMT)
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa)
Rebels v Cheetahs
AAMI Stadium, Melbourne
A clash between two of the competitions strugglers hardly sets the pulses racing at first glance, but there could be more to this clash than one would expect.
Both teams have endured poor starts to the season; the Rebels had a bye first up before they were out played by the Waratahs only to put in an improved showing against the Reds.
The Cheetahs have twice lost close games (against the Lions and the Brumbies) but got thoroughly walloped by the Bulls in between. The end result is two teams desperate to get their seasons going with a strong showing this weekend.
Strangely it was the Rebels' defence rather than their attack that was more prominent against the Reds. The addition of Kurtley Beale and James O'Connor has yet to add the world class attacking impetus that was expected. Perhaps the duo - Beale in particular as he has been injured - are taking some time to find their feat in Melbourne, but Damian Hill needs his stars to start firing on all cylinders in order to avoid a third straight loss.
Saturday may just be the day that they hit their straps and should they do so the Cheetahs will be in for another long day on the road.
The Cheetahs will be smarting after two dubious late penalties saw them go down against the Brumbies last weekend. The men from Bloemfontein would have been full value for the victory, only their second on Australian soil.
Naka Drotske's side have put up a fight in more matches away from home than their record suggests but the class of 2011 need to ensure that this is not another season of close contests with little reward.
The Cheetahs got the better of the Rebels when the two teams met last year in the Melbourne outfit's debut season and this will surely contribute to a healthy dose of self-belief on the Cheetahs side.
Fly-half Johan Goosen has impressed for the men in orange and white and combined with the industry of a pack that includes the ever-impressive Heinrich Brussow and bustling skipper Adriaan Strauss, the Cheetahs are not to be underestimated.
Prediction: The Cheetahs will be full of effort but expect the Rebels to cut loose on home soil. Rebels by 15!
The teams:
Rebels: Rebels: 15 Julian Huxley, 14 Lachlan Mitchell, 13 Mark Gerrard, 12 Lloyd Johansson, 11 Cooper Vuna, 10 James O'Connor, 9 Richard Kingi, 8 Gareth Delve (capt), 7 Tom Chamberlain, 6 Tim Davidson, 5 Hugh Pyle, 4 Luke Jones, 3 Laurie Weeks, 2 Adam Freier, 1 Nic Henderson.
Replacements: 16 Ged Robinson, 17 Rodney Blake, 18 Alister Campbell, 19 Jarrod Saffy, 20 Nick Phipps, 21 Danny Cipriani, 22 James Hilgendorf.
Cheetahs: 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Cameron Jacobs, 13 Robert Ebersohn, 12 Andries Strauss, 11 Willie le Roux, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Tewis de Bruyn, 8 Philip van der Walt, 7 Davon Raubenheimer, 6 Heinrich Brussow, 5 Izak van der Westhuizen, 4 George Earle, 3 WP Nel, 2 Adriaan Strauss (c), 1 Coenie Oosthuizen.
Replacements: 16 Hercu Liebenberg, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Justin Downey, 19 Ashley Johnson, 20 Piet van Zyl, 21 Sias Ebersohn, 22 Rayno Benjamin.
Kick-off:16:10 (05:10 GMT)
Referee: Garratt Williamson (New Zealand)


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FERC fights for the green-grid superhighway—even if Congress won't.
ELCON, representing the industrial consumer sector, suggests that any attempt to award points for the imagined but inchoate benefits of renewable energy without a green light from Congress represents no less than a perversion of rate-making principles and a violation of FERC's statutory charge:
"FERC must resist the temptation to socialize the costs of new transmission.
"Political pressure for interregional transmission projects such as may be considered in conjunction with the development of renewable projects is not a reason to depart from the long-standing doctrine of just and reasonable rates." (Comments, filed Nov. 23, 2009.)
But others, such as ITC Holdings, the nation's largest independent transmission company, see this initiative as a natural extension of FERC's present jurisdiction over interstate transmission rates and services, and lawful even without any formal guidance from Congress, as ITC noted in comments filed November 13:
"Regional planning," writes ITC, "has too often been nothing more than the assembly of local projects proposed by individual transmission owners.
"ITC understands that FERC cannot enact climate legislation or a national renewable portfolio standard, but the commission can and should require transmission planning processes to achieve objectives beyond reliability and to look forward, rather than merely reacting."
Unquantifiable Benefits
In testimony on the Kerry-Boxer climate legislation (S. 1733) presented October 27 before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Wellinghoff stated that Congress could "help clarify" FERC authority to allocate green-grid construction costs among project beneficiaries, but warned against any "unduly restrictive language" that would require FERC to calculate "the precise monetary benefits" of any new project.
Hoecker and his WIRES coalition concur on the point, and cite as an example a clause found in section 121 of the draft Bingaman bill (S. 1462, American Clean Energy Leadership Act) , which would mandate cost sharing proportionate to the "measurable benefits" of any grid project. "This restriction," writes WIRES President Paul McCoy (also Trans-Elect's president), "is impractical and a detriment to investment."
This notion of benefits is key for those in the power industry who want FERC to mandate a comprehensive, top-down, and wide-area grid-planning protocol that looks at the big picture, instead of just stapling together a roll-up collection of local proposals under a bottom-up analysis and calling it a regional or super-regional plan.
"Regional planning has too often been nothing more than the assembly of local projects proposed by individual transmission owners," writes ITC.
Thus, as Mid-American Energy explains, multi-state EHV projects suffer under ISO and RTO planning regimes, which it calls "footprint-specific," and too driven by reliability concerns and "near-term economic planning horizons." (Comments, filed Nov. 23, 2009.)
Old Dominion Electric Co-op., a full-fledged PJM member, says what's missing is a "feedback loop," where the smaller, local planning agencies submit plans to a super-regional authority, and then have them returned with input and recommendations on how they can upgrade their project plans to better mesh with macro-scale projects.
But more important, green-grid proponents want FERC to consider factors such as those listed by the DOE's Electricity Advisory Committee in its January 2009 white paper, Keeping the

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I found a guy that crafted one for me for 150g nether fee. Took me about 12 hours playing time to farm or buy the mats. Since I herb, did most of it killing Bog Lords in Zanga and got my rep up to boot, so I could buy transmute earth to air. Total cost was right around 1000g. Worth every copper IMO.i'm working for the Gyro-balenced Khorium destroyer. But as it stands now i'd like to get a blue in there until then, any suggestions?
The best thing was, skilling this thing up. Took it to Elwynn and one shotted about 200 Defias. Revenge is sweet . The animation is awesome and it's a blast whipping it out in front of your PUG for the first time in a dungeon.
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Great list - using it to gear up atm (Armory - current progress, some rubbish in slots i know).
One omission for your list and Berg's list too I can't quite figure out is the Adamantite Breastplate. I understand it doesn't have any +def, and getting 490 is (for me) the biggest problem with pre-kara gear - but the stamina you can hit with gems (+76) puts it (well above - edit) around the same as Vindicator's Hauberk for Tankpoints for me. Does it drop off in points as other gear is improved? Also, the str bonus (for threat generation) seems helpful to me - I'm not using it right now, but keeping it for tanking instances with PuGs that need a bit of extra healing space.
I feel like stacking all this avoidance to hit 490 i'm going to lose threat and effective health. Oh well, new gear will solve all my problems I expect!
Last edited by algernon; 09-05-2007 at 12:43 PM.
YES! I have the same question with the Adamantite Breastplate. Been using it for a while and I don't understand why it's not on the list. It's cheap, easily attainable, and customizable. A great all around piece IMO. Why no love for Adamantite?
I looked at the [item]Adamantite Breastplate[/item] for the list but discounted it because I considered the [item]Breastplate of the Warbringer[/item] to be slightly superior and fairly easy to obtain. The quest to obtain this is the three person "Forge Camp: Annihilated" quest in Netherstrom.
The Breastplate of the Warbringer has good stamina, a very good chunk of defence (which helps with hitting that 490 mark) and the added bonus of threat-generating +30 hit rating.
I recognise that the +34 strength on the Adamantite piece is nice, but I would not trade it out for the +31 defense of the warbringer piece. I know you could socket it up with Stam gems or Avoidance gems but I still don't think it would overtake the Warbringer.
Happy to hear your thoughts.
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Thx Polar - working on it all, slowly! This gear list is getting me up towards 490 def & decent EH (I hope) - and since we haven't started Kara yet, everything is progression!
But, for instances (just starting heroics soon), aggro is still an issue since i've got almost no +hit on my "best" gear. I've collected a load of gear with +hit +crit +str etc, but if I load up on that my HP drops to <9k and I'll be laughed out of a heroic instance!
So, my question is - what do you recommend for a decent aggro set at the pre-kara stage? Or should I ignore it for now, concentrate on progression & resocket some of this stuff for +hit when it gets old?
I plugged my values into the spreadsheet and found to my surprise that getting my threat generation rotations right gave me a far bigger increase in TPS than any gear would do.
So the moral of my tale is download the spreadsheet, put your stats in, and have a play to see what things contribute most to TPS.
You will probably find that getting the right combination of heroic strikes, shield slams, revenges and devastates will go a long way to giving you the increase you seek. If you are skilled enough to have this sorted already, consider gathering a "block value" tanking set to add DPS and threat to your shield slams. Swap into this for trash or low hurt fights and then switch back to your full tanking gear for big boss fights.
You could also consider swapping out some tanking gear for a little DPS gear to get you doing a bit more damage and also allowing you to get hit harder and build more rage.
Happy to hear from others if they have any other suggestions.
Last edited by Polar; 09-13-2007 at 11:23 PM.
Thanks for the link!
The thing I like most about +hit is that when you click something you want to reliably work, there's a greater chance it will work. For instance if there's a caster about ready to heal something or blast something hard, you do not want your Shield Bash or Conc Blow to fail.
So +hit is not just about threat generation, it's also about reliability/consistency. That's sort of hard to measure mathematically.
Of course, I went for the 490 defense before the +hit. I'm not sure if this was the correct order to do things in or not but that's what I did. Prior to getting my +hit, I relied a lot on Improved Taunt and found that I had to use it quite a bit. Now, not so much.
But yeah, the biggest improvement to threat generation that is free, is always using your highest aggro generating talents.
490 defense is absolute priority, a dead Tank is worth nothing.
Polar - thx for the link - I've put off looking at this because it's a complicated sheet & I don't entirely understand it! Also, it seems more geared towards unlimited rage raid bosses than the trash mob situations i'm mostly talking about atm. I'm putting my stats in now & will see what I get.
Brain - For particular & maybe all raid bosses, where a tank can be 1-2 shotted by crits, then zeroing that chance by getting 490 def is an absolute I agree.
At least for running through trash mobs in regular or heroic instances, a crit is not nearly so likely to cause a wipe (with exceptions I know, but i'm talking in most cases). For those parts of an instance run dropping some def seems acceptable to me if it gives a significant benefit elsewhere. That said, those trash mobs are also unlikely to cause the group significant problems if you do miss an interrupt or shield slam.
in heroics, trash kills clothies.
a crit will kill a tank most of the time as well since reactive healing still is the method in heroics.
i get regular hit for 4k sometimes by heroic trash, crit would be 8k. if that doesn't cause wipes, then you must be an uber tank, or tauren.
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Sadly I'm neither - point taken. I'll be holding on to my 490 def as recommended!
In heroics you don't need 490 def. Remember that there is no lvl 73 mobs in heroics so their crit chance is still above 5% but slight lower than bosses.
In summary, TBC raiding is easy. 9/10 encounters can be summarized with 1 phrase. Stay out of the fucking fire.
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I think that Jade-Skull Breastplate should be add. Its drop from Nethermancer Sepethrea in Mechanar (15%-24% drop rate) and in my opinion its better then Breastplate of the Warbringer, but of course its only suggestion
I know that you exclude boss drop - but I think some of them should be include, why ? Its easy - almost everybody is doing instances like Botanica (here is nice shield Aegis of the Sunbird) and Mechanar (a special that one of your items needs to make quest in both of that instances) and truly there is not so many items from boss drop in normal instances for tank. And all instances can be done even with decent eq. And sometime (depends on server) its easier to find party for instance then find ppl to make quest (for example Zuluhed the Whacked) or chain quests (like attune to Ogrilla).
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The point of the guide is to show some a list of gear that does not require repetitive 5-man runs to obtain.
I openly admit that there is some better gear in the 5 man runs and that most tanks will be picking some of their gear up in the course of getting keyed for heroics.
The Jade Skull Breastplate is a nice piece, but it has around a 1 in 6 chance of dropping. On average, you will need to run Mechanar 6 times before you will see it. I ran it 10 or so times and never saw it!
And that is the point of the list. If you want to be geared up for Kara quickly then go for the items on the list. If you happen to get some better drops along the way then good for you. Even if you see no drops from 5 mans, the items on the list will give you sufficient stats to get started in Karazhan.
PS - if you are looking for the ultimate gear list then check out http://www.tankspot.com/forums/gear-...w-2-2-2-a.html
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Finaly got my Sha'tar shield last night, but just wanted to get a confirmation from some old and wise heads about my gear, my question is, am I ready for Kara.
I think there is one trinket left for me to get, Dabiri's Enigma. Ignore my spec, I tank with 11/5/45. Am I ready for Kara w/o putting strain on the healers?.
EDIT: My shield is so new I havn't got Solid Stars yet, and I have the crossbow with stamina + defence.
I do have 4/5 Bold Set, missing the leggings. That was going to be one of my other questions, the Bold set seems to have far less defence, but seems more balanced, with Str and Agi, whereas the Felsteel simply has Stamina, how good is the Bold set?
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Longer answers:
-Your expertise is woefully low, from getting all that ulduar level gear. You may need to swap out some gems for expertise, or look for expertise gear. Please note, Nax 25 is FULL of expertise gear.
-Stop using 18 stam patches, they are terribad. For chest, use 22 def or 10 stats. For gloves consider either armsman or expertise, 22 stam or tuskarrs for boots.
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-If loot is an issue, prioritize a weapon first over anything else. you can also get a decent helm from HToC, if you dont chase after T8.5 from badges.
-For spec, swap out Sudden Doom for Imp Icy Touch. You also missed rune tap, you might look where else you can get 4 points to pick that up. Sudden doom isa bit more threat, as compared to a lot of mitgation from Imp Icy touch (unless you have another specced DK to keep that up, or a TC warrior, specced paladin tank, specced feral bear, etc.).
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I personally use the armor trinket for main tanking, I prefer the armor to say dodge from the badge one. Matter of preference I guess.
The two armor trinkets of wotlk seem to be treated almost like a joke, my guild just called the defender's code a bad trinket when it dropped and i was the only one of 3 tanks who wanted it, and I don't even see it at all in the gear ranking thread. I was looking at what my damage reduction through armor did when i equipped and unequipped it, and I think it would be accurate to think of this trinket as equivalent to about 1.2% chance to dodge in damage reduction, and about 600 hp in effective health before considering the semantics of steady damage reduction vs. bursty damage reduction.
there's also 15 ap, but meh.
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I personally use the armor trinket for main tanking, I prefer the armor to say dodge from the badge one. Matter of preference I guess.
All depends on the fight really.
Personally I'd go for defense and then stam.
Hence why I have repelling charge + Essence of gossamer
the armor is preferable against bosses that hit really slow and hard since a fatal string of hits is much more likely
versus fast hitting bosses that favor avoidance, since a fatal string of hits is much less likely
its also good for patchwek OTing, since you need as much mitigation as possible to be able to take two hateful strikes in a row if you aren't topped off fast enough
For Starters: I do agree those armor trinkets are a bit underrated, however, at the moment (for me at least) I don't see Defender's Code as worth the DKP. Really Defender's Code is a Druid Tanking trinket (even if it's getting nerfed for them in the next patch), for druids it's currently best in slot. It's still good for warriors but I think you're overselling how good it is.
Whenever I look at how good armor is versus Stam (or more accurately hp) I enter the competing numbers into the Effective Health Calculator here at Tankspot and see how the effective health totals come out. What I determined back at level 70 is that about 1 stam is close to 20 armor in the amount of EH they both give you. 20 Armor was actually more, but stam scales with Kings while armor doesn't. So generally back then I used that 1to20 conversion as just the "quick and dirty" number when making those decisions on the fly.
So, my question is this: Is the Effective Health Calculator still valid for level 80? I believe it is, but I don't actually know.
Based on that question there are two answers:
1) The Effective Health Calculator is still valid. In this case I question where you're getting the 600hp number from. According to the Effective Health calculator 850 health ends up about equal with approximately 484 in terms of Effective Health. So between 48 and 49 stam (and right around 44 stam when you take Kings into account, unless you're using the 2% armor meta...). No matter how you slice it, I don't see the number getting up to 600 hp.
2) The Effective Health Calculator isn't valid any longer. In this case you're right and it's a better trinket that I thought (and I think than most thought). Though personally I still doubt I'll ever want to spend the dkp on it (at least not until I get last laugh, Helm of Vital Protection and a few other pieces)...mostly because more so than other slots in my gear I like to use my rings and trinkets in particular to min/max values...and in my opinion this trinket doesn't know what it wants to be. It's got Armor which makes it an ok (but not great) effective health trink but then the use is dodge which makes it a great (on use, but not passive) avoidance trink.
What all that means is it's a good trinket for any set (except threat), but it's not the best for any set. So it's simply not the trinket for me.
Regardless of which answer is right in regard to the Effective Health Calculator this is not a trinket I'll likely be picking up anytime soon.
For my math I looked at my damage reduction values through armor to basically convert the trinket into how much it reduces my damage compared to an empty slot there. To do this I looked at 1 - damage reduction through armor to see my damage taken with and without the trinket:
without trinket: 61.21% reduction, or 38.79% damage taken
with trinket: 62.13% reduction, or 37.87% damage taken
Then to convert to damage taken in comparison i divide:
37.87 / 38.79 = 0.976 or 97.6% damage taken.
Then I can take this number and divide my hit point total by it to get a value of what my relative effective health would be through the mitigation of the trinket
25571 hp / .976 = 26200 hp, a 629 hp increase.
with kings, stamina would scale up to 11 hp per point, but you should also use the buffed hp value when you have blessing of kings, since the effective health change scales up as your hp pool increases. I should have probably used a buffed value for my hp pool, which I believe would've been about 30k hp leading to about a 700 hp increase but I don't have those values on me at the moment.
I believe I also used a guess and check method on the eh calculator and found that i would need to increase my hp value by about 580 to achieve the same eh if i didn't have the trinket equipped (using unbuffed values again), the difference from this may be due to my calculations here being against a level 80 mob and the ones through the calculator being used with a level 83 mob.
also, yes, this is obviously less of an eh increase than the essence of gossamer, but this increase is through damage reduction, so it is like you have a trinket that both adds a value to your effective health and provides a bit of damage mitigation, which I found through a similar method to be the same for me as about 1.2% to dodge, on the same trinket. There's also the whole advantage of steady vs. bursty mitigation making it easier on the healers, but that advantage is difficult to quantify so we can only say that it is superior to exactly the same amount of equivalent dodge, and can not really say how much more it should be valued.
I did not factor the on use ability of the trinket into any calculations.
The EH calculator is still valid, I recently fixed it with the help of Satrina.
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I raided overtime last night and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet so I may be dumb right now but... is it valid to calculate the value of armor by basically adding the flat EH increase AND the % mitigation increase? The increase to EH takes into account (in fact is caused by) the % mitigation increase so aren't you kinda doubling up there?
That being said I still think it's an awesome trinket. I think it happens far too often that warriors instantly disregard high +Armor items as "Bear loot" and increasingly now I see items with Parry being disregarded as "DK loot", when in fact these items can still be some of the best available to us.
However the avoidance given by repelling charge, including block, would outweigh the armour trinket. The armour trink may be able to provide 1/2 the effective hp + 1/2 the effective avoidance, without block, of the essence + charge, but isn't armour contributions from trinkets and such going to be removed from armour % increases from tallents/gems?
Even then, using armour over a raw HP increase would be situational, especially if a boss/mob was removing that armour.
Way too early to be thinking, and watching Top Gear late at night probably wanst the best idea for me >_<
If the trinkets are not gaining anything back from the changes in the next patch, which I wouldn't really understand since I think every tank has at least 10% of an armor boost through talents, it may be time to point out that nerf to blizzard, but I doubt it would make too much of a difference because I'm pretty sure these trinkets are a fair bit ahead when you want a balance of EH and mitigation.
Ignore my comment about armour nerf, thats only for bears!
According to wowheads weight scale the Defender's Code is worse for a pally tank than Essence, and worse than Repelling Charge.
Undervalued to me because its more situational than a HP boost, or an avoidance boost.
Extra armour may reduce the amount of constant damage taken, but doesnt give you extra cushion to fall back on. The same goes for essence.
And charge I keep because of the 84 defense rating, which is so tasty and frees up other gems/chants.
How is it more situational than an hp or avoidance boost? it does give you extra cushion, it does reduce damage taken, and it does apply to all physical damage that comes your way. It is probably one of the least situational stats we have access to.
Specifically what I was referring to was the claim that the armor gave half as much damage reduction as the avoidance trinket and half as much EH as the stam trinket so add them both together and BAM it's as good as either one! The increase to EH is purely a cause of that damage reduction so you can't add both together.
Last edited by nykken; 01-08-2009 at 09:06 PM.
If you needed avoidance you would take 2 avoidance trinkets.
So in my opinion those armor trinkets are leftovers from before they decided to reevalue armor for druids and DK's. And is now more or less worthless.