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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*

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.

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Ashen Shugar