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• Sunguard Legplates
• Unwavering Legguards

Let’s Talk about Trinkets!?

What do trinkets have to do with comparing these two leg pieces? Nothing and perhaps everything.

Sunguard Sextant
138 Armor
21 Defense Rating
35 Dodge Rating
23 Expertise Rating

Icon of Unwavering
10 Stamina
30 Block Rating
59 Block Value

Which trinket would you use? If I make the Sunguard one cost 25 badges more than the Unwavering trinket, does that change your decision? Should the cost of an item even matter to you? Not really.

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• Sunwell Radiance
• Protection Paladins
• The Furies Deck
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 Podcast #4: It's time for 20 Questions [34:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

With the Hyjal and Black Temple attunements a thing of the past, no doubt many of you have ventured into the wonderful world of Tier 6 content. With all the new Badge gear though, the question quickly comes to mind… are there any upgrades here?

Hyjal Summit

0. Trash Loot

Pepe’s Shroud of Pacification is a welcomed addition to your threat set, but won’t replace the ever amazing Slikk’s Cloak of Placation for Survivability.

1. Rage Winterchill

Drops nothing for you… let’s keep moving along.

If you’ve been following this site for a while, you’ve no doubt heard me say/write about gearing yourself for an encounter. Another concept that isn’t discussed nearly enough is to actually spec for whatever the focus of your raid’s progression is at the time.

The Common Parts of an SSC spec

If you look over the 4 specs that follow, you’ll notice a number of common talents amongst all of them that make up the core of all the specs you’ll use in Serpentshrine Cavern. I’ve added a brief explanation to each talent selected to help give some insight behind what makes up a stable spec.

One of our polls a while back brought that to light. Not all of you still are the leader and some of you are the back up, but ultimately it confirms what a lot of you probably already know. As a tank, you are given the opportunity to lead, often. Some of you are forced to do it, some of you aspire to it and I bet some of you screw it up. In fact, I guarantee it. I screw it up every week, one way or another. It just goes with the territory and it’s nothing to get all worked up over.