Lazeil opinion

[soccer84playa]

I see you're wearing some stam trinkets and 4p now and I started wondering about things so started building character profiles. I wanted to know your opinion of this.

http://chardev.org/?profile=218216

You might notice some tank(stats) + hit/expertise item I might have reforged the tank(stat) to mastery vs. the expertise/hit. This is because I found that your overall avoidance increases this way. Also you notice I'm wearing helm and off piece chest. I did this because this combo gives you 472 mastery vs 350 mastery. Trinket choices I picked because those on use are very useful on most bosses. SOE loses a lot of usefulness on baelroc although the dodge and mastery still make it useful. The on use can still reduce dmg on upwards to a 300k swing, but if used in the early stages of fight it pays off more then the end. 102.4 avoidance raid buffed (mastery food). You also sit at nearly 4% hit and 27 expertise which isn't needed but it's nice (not something I actively went after just comes on some of the gear I picked). I think I'm only 200stam below your stam tanking setup (on the profile I have basic tanking buffs up to see avoidance that you'd have in raid so the stam on profile is much higher. You need to remove the buffs to see base stam). Between my JC and Enchanting and your alc/LW stam will come from diff places but overall should be the same (well you'll get more from LW).

Obviously you are aware of most of this if not all so I am wondering your opinions for this setup vs a different setup and what pros cons you can see from each?

[Lazei]

http://chardev.org/?profile=178295 For non resist fights.
http://chardev.org/?profile=218249 For resist fights.

Compared to yours both of those have more dodge+parry, more HP and more resist (if needed). SoE is also usable with a bit of tooling around if a small extra CD or more avoidance is needed.

[soccer84playa]

Well those are two very good profiles. I can't say much about them besides personal preferences. I do like SoE for the extra CD.

I tweaked some stuff... yes I did stay away from the agi cape and dps ring, but those could be used. it's my personal preference not to look at those items for tanking.

http://chardev.org/?profile=218376 (avoidance w/ soe) 16.75/16.86/63.94 -- 102.55
http://chardev.org/?profile=218387 (resist w/ soe) 16.94/16.86/63.78 -- 102.58
http://chardev.org/?profile=218404 (resist w/ spindle) 16.77/17.30/63.51 -- 102.58

soe could be changed on the resist profile with spindle but for avoidance I use soe to reach cap and like the cd.

Dodge food with both makes it easy with feast :P

Thx for pointing out the dodge and parry was pretty low on my first profile.

At this point would you be trying to push your dodge/parry as high as you can or are you going after more stamina now?

[newpriest]

So i see you put the agi cape in that character model you made Laz. I have wondered for a while now if you view that as bis or not. I have had it for a while now, i think it dropped on our first 3 LR kills. I use it, though it seems wierd. I know Theck lists it as bis as do other bis lists (for what they are worth), but it seems odd to me to forgo avoidance just for more mastery which is losing more and more importance, and a small amount of stam. I personally am on the side of stam is kind of junky on fights that don't have high magic damage incoming.

I'm not looking for you to reply with numbers or anything but just curious is you use the cape you have because you think it is bis or because you don't have the agi cape yet (i noticed multiple hunters in Paragon without it so it would make sense).

Other than that my only other question is whether you agree with this statement: "after block cap becomes inevitable work your dodge and parry up to 17% before concerning stamina" meaning continue gemming mastery + hybrids, look for gear with dodge+parry and do not reforge it. I know you do it a bit differently, just looking for your weigh in.