Post Your Armory Page
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My Armory page. Thought I would get this back up and running, its fun to see how different people do there charaters armor.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.x...r&n=Hashbringer
Formerly a die hard enhancement shaman, I have since given up the gimpy survival and clunky totem system for a class with delicious plate, a big ass two hander, and the ability to dps or tank with any tree.
Formerly a die hard enhancement shaman, I have since given up the gimpy survival and clunky totem system for a class with delicious plate, a big ass two hander, and the ability to dps or tank with any tree.
Crusader Evangal, my paladin. Originally my third character (after a druid and a priest), I ended up getting bored of playing Alliance, and made a horde character so all the alliance who bother me would leave me alone. And I haven't seriously played another character since. Dual specced for Prot/Holy, and am currently my 10 man guild's main tank. I recently started using my holy spec for PvP, mainly arena with my brother in 2v2, so my PvP gear isn't too good.
The difference between combat specs is reasonably small now. Fist/Dagger is still on top, but my weapons currently are better than the CD/WG setup. If I had something like Combatant's Bootblade, or Golden Saronite Dragon, I'd go back to CQC.
Wow... Mine looks like shit compared to all of yours.
Especially the chestpiece. Stupid thing.
WoF [Band of the Hawks]
Especially the chestpiece. Stupid thing.
WoF [Band of the Hawks]
Here are my two main characters:
Uldihaa, still the only character with this name in WoW :snigger: .
Teresa, my Deathknight. Not as well equipped as my hunter, but I'm having fun with her; even if I am a little bit obsessed with the Argent Tournament right now, rather than doing instances as either dps or tank.
Uldihaa, still the only character with this name in WoW :snigger: .
Teresa, my Deathknight. Not as well equipped as my hunter, but I'm having fun with her; even if I am a little bit obsessed with the Argent Tournament right now, rather than doing instances as either dps or tank.
My main four characters...
Siane My highest character. And one that yes, has shitty gear. Difficult to get better geared due to some technical issues I have... which leads to my what I'll have to say in the end.
Amariaina Rare name. Only two in existence according to WoW Armory.
Aliiaaki Which BTW, is the only character on US/Pacific Servers with her name.
Brunhilyn Played this one on a shitty server. The one TFFers used to call 'home' before moving to Bloodscalp.
That being all said... for the time being, I've quit WoW. And the main reason was technical. My problem, and the one reason why my 80 had shitty gear was that, it was very difficult to ask for Raids when I can't even walk through Dalaran without the game crashing (so no Dailies). PvPing is easier, but I'll still run into technical issues even here. Now my issue can be traced to my computer (not to say Blizzard is innocent. But I can't blame them for the fact my computer isn't exactly the most powerful nowadays). Like the memory and video card issues.
Still, I've held off of quitting until now since, outside of Dalaran, I could still get in a few good hours of gameplay. The reason why I've kept up with Brunhilyn for example, was that she was in an active (not great. but at least active) guild in what everyone on TFF knew about that server, it was shitty. But recently, that guild died an unceremonious death, and gave me yet another incentive not to play.
And the only one that was in a guild that was good was Amariaina. Keyword was. Now, even this guild is dying. Though admittedly, due my slow leveling (which can again be attributed to technical issues), I myself haven't been a great contributing part of the guild. And even if I hit 80... I don't think I'd have much of a guild left to contribute to.
So in essence, this will be the last I'll be playing WoW... for now. Doesn't mean I've stopped forever. But until I get like, a job and upgrade/buy a new computer, my WoW days are pretty much over.
Siane My highest character. And one that yes, has shitty gear. Difficult to get better geared due to some technical issues I have... which leads to my what I'll have to say in the end.
Amariaina Rare name. Only two in existence according to WoW Armory.
Aliiaaki Which BTW, is the only character on US/Pacific Servers with her name.
Brunhilyn Played this one on a shitty server. The one TFFers used to call 'home' before moving to Bloodscalp.
That being all said... for the time being, I've quit WoW. And the main reason was technical. My problem, and the one reason why my 80 had shitty gear was that, it was very difficult to ask for Raids when I can't even walk through Dalaran without the game crashing (so no Dailies). PvPing is easier, but I'll still run into technical issues even here. Now my issue can be traced to my computer (not to say Blizzard is innocent. But I can't blame them for the fact my computer isn't exactly the most powerful nowadays). Like the memory and video card issues.
Still, I've held off of quitting until now since, outside of Dalaran, I could still get in a few good hours of gameplay. The reason why I've kept up with Brunhilyn for example, was that she was in an active (not great. but at least active) guild in what everyone on TFF knew about that server, it was shitty. But recently, that guild died an unceremonious death, and gave me yet another incentive not to play.
And the only one that was in a guild that was good was Amariaina. Keyword was. Now, even this guild is dying. Though admittedly, due my slow leveling (which can again be attributed to technical issues), I myself haven't been a great contributing part of the guild. And even if I hit 80... I don't think I'd have much of a guild left to contribute to.
So in essence, this will be the last I'll be playing WoW... for now. Doesn't mean I've stopped forever. But until I get like, a job and upgrade/buy a new computer, my WoW days are pretty much over.
Sizdothyx My only character after the Great Server Crash of '06.
I've been hoping to toss up a Hunter or a Priest, but have been too lazy to do so. Might start next week. Who knows. I've been quite active in 10-mans, but on 25s, the furthest I've gone is probably Sapphiron. I haven't even attempted Malygos yet.
I like my new mace, though. Much fun topping DPS charts with 4.5k
I've been hoping to toss up a Hunter or a Priest, but have been too lazy to do so. Might start next week. Who knows. I've been quite active in 10-mans, but on 25s, the furthest I've gone is probably Sapphiron. I haven't even attempted Malygos yet.
I like my new mace, though. Much fun topping DPS charts with 4.5k
Cerl, my highest level character (as of this posting) I've mostly been trying to get her to 80 so I can get shit for other characters. Being a DK, she's the youngest of my characters, but also the most powerful by far.
Edit: Got some good advice on some minor speccing changes and made them. I'm probably going to get Lichbourne and Deathchill again, even if they are PVP-based skills, because 1) I hate Fear with the intensity of a thousand charlie horses, and 2) I love being able to decide when I crit at least once every three minutes. Of course, if I get an item that will prevent Fear, Sleep or Charm status, I may bypass Lichbourne.
Reena, my Blood Elf Priestess My second highest, mostly because she was Friend Leveling with a friend of mine who's running a Druid so I could unlock the DK option, but now she's leveling on her own, since said druid is now running with my DK.
Edit: Got some good advice on some minor speccing changes and made them. I'm probably going to get Lichbourne and Deathchill again, even if they are PVP-based skills, because 1) I hate Fear with the intensity of a thousand charlie horses, and 2) I love being able to decide when I crit at least once every three minutes. Of course, if I get an item that will prevent Fear, Sleep or Charm status, I may bypass Lichbourne.
Reena, my Blood Elf Priestess My second highest, mostly because she was Friend Leveling with a friend of mine who's running a Druid so I could unlock the DK option, but now she's leveling on her own, since said druid is now running with my DK.
Looks like he's leveling by tanking instances, which is fine if you can get the groups for it. It's just a lot slower than the traditional method of grinding/quests. For tanking pre-80, his setup isn't that bad, spec or gearwise. I wouldn't expect a pre-80 toon to be def capped or have optimal spec anyway.
I also wouldn't tank under 80 as frost, let alone freaking dual wielding, but meh. It's leveling, so damn near anything goes.
I also wouldn't tank under 80 as frost, let alone freaking dual wielding, but meh. It's leveling, so damn near anything goes.
Cerl has been tanking instances, and is largely going to be a tank for her life because I like being Tank. Actually, I mostly like being able to survive, which means high armor and stamina, which seems to compliment Frost spec and Tanking best.
I've been running her with two friends of mine, a heal-tree Druid and an Unholy DK, and we've been ripping through a majority of the quests, including a number that had supposedly tough enemies. Thanks to the heal-tree, we've never had much problem with any enemies... outside of when we run an instance via Dungeon Finder.
As for leveling, it might take a bit longer to take down enemies, but I've been fine with leveling Frost. :huh.:
I've been running her with two friends of mine, a heal-tree Druid and an Unholy DK, and we've been ripping through a majority of the quests, including a number that had supposedly tough enemies. Thanks to the heal-tree, we've never had much problem with any enemies... outside of when we run an instance via Dungeon Finder.
As for leveling, it might take a bit longer to take down enemies, but I've been fine with leveling Frost. :huh.:
Then, quite frankly, you need to change your gear. You're almost entirely in DPS gear (not really your fault, since the only places that non-dps plate drop are the instances, and it's like one piece per instance) right now. Check your auction house and see if they have the "Cobalt XX" (wherein XX is boots, bracers, helm, etc) and the "Tempered Saronite XX" sets. These should provide huge increases in survivability on a per piece basis.
And if you must go frost dw (which I really, really do not recommend) to tank, you want to pick up the slowest possible weapons you can for both hands and go with something like this.
And if you must go frost dw (which I really, really do not recommend) to tank, you want to pick up the slowest possible weapons you can for both hands and go with something like this.
:huh:
How is that not tank gear?
From what I understand, stamina is the primary thing tanks want, followed by strength, then agility (I know dodge, armor, parry and such are important too, but those are very random, so I stick with the primary stats since those usually give bonuses to parry and the like anyway). Almost all of the Plate that I've seen has either been Stamina/Strength, Strength/Agility (not tank gear), or Stamina/Int (which is more paladin gear).
Sure, I know my gear is not the best, far from it. But I'm not exactly hunting purples with teeth gnashing. I'm running randoms PUGs with friends. What drops is what drops and every other piece of gear I've seen is either shit, won by someone else in the group during the need roll or clearly not tank gear.
How is that not tank gear?
From what I understand, stamina is the primary thing tanks want, followed by strength, then agility (I know dodge, armor, parry and such are important too, but those are very random, so I stick with the primary stats since those usually give bonuses to parry and the like anyway). Almost all of the Plate that I've seen has either been Stamina/Strength, Strength/Agility (not tank gear), or Stamina/Int (which is more paladin gear).
Sure, I know my gear is not the best, far from it. But I'm not exactly hunting purples with teeth gnashing. I'm running randoms PUGs with friends. What drops is what drops and every other piece of gear I've seen is either shit, won by someone else in the group during the need roll or clearly not tank gear.
Hate to break it to you, but you are very, very wrong about what stats are important to a tank. The most important stat is defense until you hit the cap (which depends mostly on the level difference between you and the boss), after which defense is -still- a good stat. Mostly because anything with defense? Still gonna have stamina and strength, almost universally (there are a few exceptions, but by and far, anything with defense, has those two).
Defense is the most important stat until you hit the crit cap. Unfortunately, as you're levelling it's hard to measure what the exact crit cap is since defense diminishes in value as you level, and the crit cap is dependant on the difference in levels between you and the boss.
Generally, crit cap is [Your level] x 5 + 5 x [Difference in levels between boss and you] + 125. So at level 73, if you were fighting a level 76 boss, your defense cap would be 505. Anything less, and the boss can crit you.
If you have defense gear, it generally comes with some dodge/parry/stamina/strength/etc, anyhow, so primarily you're hunting for anything that has defense on it, not just that it has stamina.
Strength is, in fact, one of your least important stats. Yes, it helps your threat. It also vaguely helps your parry as a DK. No, it's still not a stat you want to even worry about unless you're finding you're having threat issues. Even then, I'd probably tell you to look at hit rating and expertise first, given you have very little of either.
Similarly, agility is again not that important. Mostly, it's good because it vaguely helps your dodge, and ups your crits.
As a tank, you really have a lot of stats to look at. Strength and Agility, however, are not even -close- to your main stats.
Some stuff you definitely want is Tempered Saronite X, from blacksmithing, at least once you hit level 74 (as I believe that's required to use it). Alternatively, search the AH for green gear with the suffix "of the Champion", which is generally a mix of stamina, strength and defense or the suffix "of Defense", which is just defense, but generally a looooot of it. Or just look up wowhead for blue gear with defense that you can get through questing or instances, and hunt for it. Or look at those Cobalt X items that Bjorn also mentioned, although those are greens.
Go browse through http://www.tankspot.com/ for a lot of information on tanking.
Bjorn's right, you're geared mostly as dps right now, not a tank. This is actually still alright for normal instances to some degree, you're just working your healer tree friend really hard by not being crit immune, but it's still doable.
Once you hit 80 and try to do heroics, however, your friend is REALLY going to hate your ass while it's not def-capped, because you won't just be working him hard, you're going to stress him into a heart attack, assuming you guys somehow stay alive through those heroics. And that's assuming people don't just look at your gear, go "Ewwwww" and jump ship on you. And forget about even attempting raids without def-cap.
Oh, and Bjorn is right about the weapon speed. You really want slow weapons when dual-wielding. This is because a lot of your damage depends on the damage range of weapons, not the dps (Frost Strike, Obliterate, Blood Strike, etc). In your armory page, you have a coldstone cutlass (2.6 speed and 287 max damage) on your off-hand and a stoneblade slicer (1.7 speed and 187 max damage) on your main hand.
You really want to get rid of that stoneblade slicer. Baring that, however, you should at the very least switch the two weapons, so the cutlass is in your mainhand and the slicer in your offhand.
Defense is the most important stat until you hit the crit cap. Unfortunately, as you're levelling it's hard to measure what the exact crit cap is since defense diminishes in value as you level, and the crit cap is dependant on the difference in levels between you and the boss.
Generally, crit cap is [Your level] x 5 + 5 x [Difference in levels between boss and you] + 125. So at level 73, if you were fighting a level 76 boss, your defense cap would be 505. Anything less, and the boss can crit you.
If you have defense gear, it generally comes with some dodge/parry/stamina/strength/etc, anyhow, so primarily you're hunting for anything that has defense on it, not just that it has stamina.
Strength is, in fact, one of your least important stats. Yes, it helps your threat. It also vaguely helps your parry as a DK. No, it's still not a stat you want to even worry about unless you're finding you're having threat issues. Even then, I'd probably tell you to look at hit rating and expertise first, given you have very little of either.
Similarly, agility is again not that important. Mostly, it's good because it vaguely helps your dodge, and ups your crits.
As a tank, you really have a lot of stats to look at. Strength and Agility, however, are not even -close- to your main stats.
Some stuff you definitely want is Tempered Saronite X, from blacksmithing, at least once you hit level 74 (as I believe that's required to use it). Alternatively, search the AH for green gear with the suffix "of the Champion", which is generally a mix of stamina, strength and defense or the suffix "of Defense", which is just defense, but generally a looooot of it. Or just look up wowhead for blue gear with defense that you can get through questing or instances, and hunt for it. Or look at those Cobalt X items that Bjorn also mentioned, although those are greens.
Go browse through http://www.tankspot.com/ for a lot of information on tanking.
Bjorn's right, you're geared mostly as dps right now, not a tank. This is actually still alright for normal instances to some degree, you're just working your healer tree friend really hard by not being crit immune, but it's still doable.
Once you hit 80 and try to do heroics, however, your friend is REALLY going to hate your ass while it's not def-capped, because you won't just be working him hard, you're going to stress him into a heart attack, assuming you guys somehow stay alive through those heroics. And that's assuming people don't just look at your gear, go "Ewwwww" and jump ship on you. And forget about even attempting raids without def-cap.
Oh, and Bjorn is right about the weapon speed. You really want slow weapons when dual-wielding. This is because a lot of your damage depends on the damage range of weapons, not the dps (Frost Strike, Obliterate, Blood Strike, etc). In your armory page, you have a coldstone cutlass (2.6 speed and 287 max damage) on your off-hand and a stoneblade slicer (1.7 speed and 187 max damage) on your main hand.
You really want to get rid of that stoneblade slicer. Baring that, however, you should at the very least switch the two weapons, so the cutlass is in your mainhand and the slicer in your offhand.
Thank you for reminding me why I usually don't give advice. Instead of taking information which has already been established through extensive testing and number crunching, you ignore it in favor of your own arbitrary, unfounded, "gut feeling" opinions.
Running with friends is no excuse for having a wonky spec, wonky glyphs and an overall gear setup that will make life harder not only for yourself but for your entire group as well.
Running with friends is no excuse for having a wonky spec, wonky glyphs and an overall gear setup that will make life harder not only for yourself but for your entire group as well.
One thing that both Bjorn and Kayeich are forgetting is that Akun is only 73 and a casual.
If he were trying to pull heroics with that kind of setup, I would be chewing him out right alongside the two of ya. Under 75 or so though, the dungeons are extremely newb-friendly and have a huge margin for error. A druid can wear resto gear, go bear, and still survive reasonably well at that point.
What I'm saying is that you're trying to teach him like he was an end-game tank, with optimal spec and gear. He's not. Akun's the very epitome of a casual, so mostly let him play as he wants. If he's still looking for advice when he's taking on heroics, by all means, give him both barrels.
I would still say ditch the dual wielding though. It works for tanking when your overall ilevel is high enough that hit rating just comes along with gear, but before then, you're just doing a whole lot of whiffing.
If he were trying to pull heroics with that kind of setup, I would be chewing him out right alongside the two of ya. Under 75 or so though, the dungeons are extremely newb-friendly and have a huge margin for error. A druid can wear resto gear, go bear, and still survive reasonably well at that point.
What I'm saying is that you're trying to teach him like he was an end-game tank, with optimal spec and gear. He's not. Akun's the very epitome of a casual, so mostly let him play as he wants. If he's still looking for advice when he's taking on heroics, by all means, give him both barrels.
I would still say ditch the dual wielding though. It works for tanking when your overall ilevel is high enough that hit rating just comes along with gear, but before then, you're just doing a whole lot of whiffing.