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On 2011-03-23, Ashen Shugar <death...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mar 23, 11:33?pm, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote:
>> On 2011-03-23, Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >>Thanks, that makes sense. If I have to choose between a +sta
>> >>increase against a +str or an avoidance increase, what do I
>> >>prefer?
>>
>> > Um, now that is the question! All depends upon what you feel
>> > you need more at the time, I guess. You want enough stamina to
>> > be able to live through a few hits, enough threat to hold aggro
>> > and enough avoidance to try and save the healer some mana - at
>> > high lvls avoidance is king, lower down I'd go for stamina and
>> > strngth in the main, picking up any avoidance I saw (which
>> > isn't too common so probably just always take it if you see it
>> > and the rest of the stats are decent).
>>
>> Strength beats Stamina for warrior tanking, due to the way
>> strength adds to your block value. Certainly don't avaoid
>> +Stamina, but do not pick it over +Strength for tanking.
>
> Block Value doesn't exist anymore since 4.0.1. (at least, not as a
> particularly changeable stat)
> Instead, blocks just block 30% of the damage.  It's 30% whether it's a
> 50k hit from a boss or a 100 damage hit from a piddling little mob.
> One of the meta gems can make it 31%.  There is such a thing as a
> critical block which blocks 60%, though it was never all that clear to
> me exactly what causes that.  Prot warriors mastery seemed to have a
> bit to do with I think, or maybe it was the "shield block" skill, but
> whichever, the wording kinda of made it sound like it just added to
> your crit block chance rather than made crit blocking possible, but
> critical blocking didn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else. *shrug*

Woah! Thanks for that correction. Yes, Master for Protection
Warriors increase the chance for a critical block, which blocks
60% of the incoming damage.

> But I'd still probably go for str over stamina anyway.  I think
> str may add to parry chances for warriors like it does for
> DK's, though probably not at the same ratio.  You'd want to
> check the mouse over about that though.  I'll probably check
> about that sometime too, along with the other stuff, but gotta
> head off to work now.

Yes, looking it up, every four points of strength adds 0.25 parry
rating.

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Neil Cerutti