Comments on: Sunguard Legplates vs Unwavering Legguards

By: Hao

Hao — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:11:59 +0000

I see what everybody is saying about the legplates, but for me, my first priority is replacing that great shermanar ring with the sunwell badge ring. The Sunguard legs will be about #2 or 3 on the list with me just getting the S2 shield (of which I hear OP a lot in our guild chats). I’m running ZA more (since we can essentially farm the first boss) so I can get the Jungle stompers.

By: Ayres

Ayres — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:20:41 +0000

witch i also use the autoblocker and the pocket watch for avoidence set, and stam trinks 51+57stam for stam set… 18k ub hp ftw.

By: Ayres

Ayres — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:19:06 +0000

sungaurd all the way, i have both the unweaving and sunguard wit 15stam gems, and switch em up and find that the tps given from sunguard is a bit more then the unweaving.

cheers

By: Alent

Alent — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:20:53 +0000

Vene, I just want to say, you’ve added a new trinket to my wish list, even if it isn’t real. Spoony bard!

By: Rustyboy

Rustyboy — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:56:07 +0000

I think it really depends on what other gear you have and what the encounter is. For VR as an example you could use the Sunguards for the extra expertise and stack more threat genenration through other gear especially when your not the MT at that time in the fight, but when you are tanking VR you get the benefit of the extra avoidance etc.

By: Rustyboy

Rustyboy — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:50:48 +0000

Unwavering for trash when you really want as much rage as possible, I try to keep my avoidance low for trash/most 5 man content. Sometimes I use a shield spike on an old shield for extra threat so high block is good especially when the trash isn’t hitting you that hard and you have 700+ SBV. Hard hitting trash and most boss fights unless its a rage starved the Sunwell ones are way better, so much so that there’s really no question. I would question any tank that decides to go with Unwavering just because the Sunwell ones cost more badges. In the end choice is better than no choice at all.

I’m not in T6 so I generally make sure I have 23 Expertise and then as much hit as possible depending on the encounter.

For trash/easy 5 mans I use threat gear (SBV, Expertise, Hit, Low Avoidance). For hard hitting bosses I use a mitigation set (Stam, Armour, Avoidance, Expertise) and I also throw in a max Avoidance, Stam and Armour set for rare occasions where threat is not an issue but dying quickly is (e.g. Tidalvess SSC).

By: Alc

Alc — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:43:43 +0000

Also keep in mind, engineering as plenty of throwable bombs that help warriors to aoe tank. Otherwise you gotta use the easy-throw ones… -_-’

Personally, me thinks the best tanking professions are engineering and enchanting.

By: Kerchunk

Kerchunk — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:32:51 +0000

I suppose if you want to gear assuming you will ALWAYS be the OT and ALWAYS “mainly on trash,” but I would assume at some point you would want to take on another role so you might as well gear with long-term goals in mind and not pigeonhole yourself into being the trash OT

By: Speidel

Speidel — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:14:39 +0000

Yea, having lots of block value is fun no doubt, but not missing your shield slam is going to be much more important than just a few hundred more points of damage/threat.

By: Djiss

Djiss — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:50:32 +0000

I kinda give up on trying to pump my SBV. Now I try to get as much as possible of my Hit/Expertise cap, while trying to stay high on Stam/Def.
Of course, our guild is only in T5 content, which I prolly begin to outgear.

I was planning to get Unwavering leg for thrash/heroic, but I think I’ll just keep the badge and put some DPS gear.