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The Winner:
No Excuses! Pre-Karazhan gear that will let you tank Black Temple

Interestingly enough, I was going to write, “In Defense of Fury Warriors” as my next post, boy was I wrong. To my Darkspearian friends, don’t worry “The Vene Rule” will come out eventually, possibly over the holidays

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Now if only that dirty Dragonhawk would drop his shield.

I’m assuming the pre-kara gear for BT will include a lot of heroic drops, badge items, and probably a darkmoon card and an arena item or two. i.e. overkill for most of Kaz. Using the above guide, I got my warrior alt strolling into Kaz with 13k hp and 510 def only two days after hitting 70.

@Andre: if I had it to do over again, I’d worry much less about getting my entire Bold set than I did leading up to raiding Kara. There is much better tanking gear available at some of the slots. For instance, I never got the chest because the Aldor rep chest is excellent and not hard to get. There are similar examples at other slots.

Your post ideas:

Passive Uncrushableness has been talked about a lot already … it’s a “fun” idea but requires you to nerf you other abilities to the point of being of very niche and questionable use.

I think new badge item order has a whole lot to do with the gear you’ve already been able to amass. I was tanking often in the PvP belt (Moroes stinks) so my first choice wasn’t a question. I have the badge reward cape and neck as well as attuneman’s bracers, Curator’s pants and T4 hands. So for me, I think neck/cape will be next two (I’m not sure order matters all that much for this) but if I didn’t have the bracers, pants and hands I do have, they’d take priority.

Bonefist Gauntlets vs Iron Gauntlets of the Maiden: although a bit subjective … I think the Bonefist is pretty much clearly superior. But again depending on what you have you could see that differently …

The other ones are either too vague for me to comment or I don’t quite understand what they might mean. I vote for:

No Excuses! Pre-Karazhan gear that will let you tank Black Temple

… as I’d like to hear what you think on this matter …

Would benefit me the most at the moment. I’m working on my T3 Dugeon Set at the moment. I’m @ 485 defense at the moment and could easily get 490. I currently have two peices of the bold set the gauntlets from SV and the shoulders from SLABS.. I have been running Arc for the chest piece but it never seems to drop. In my current state I could most likely run Kara but I dont wanna go there and get destroyed. And look like a noob warrior