Tanks gear for stam or mitigation in BC?

[Diamedes]

Ive heard rumors of longer lasting fights in BC requiring healers to gear more towards mana regen and tanks more toward armor and mitigation instead of just as much hp as you can get. Anyone in beta have any thoughts on this? Are bosses in karazahn doing a lot of burst damage or not hitting as hard and just much longer fights?

[Areeker]

I've always thought that as a tank one would want to get as much mitigation, armor and stamina as possible no matter what...

[Suave]

I think that, as in live, tanks will want stamina and mitigation...

[mattstruck]

Well my experiance so far in beta as a warrior is that a true tank for end game will want +stam, +armor, +defense.


And the stam is crazy on the warrior greens ie +30 stam and items apporaching 1000 armor are scary.

[longasleep]

consider that the droods get much better stamina and armor just from going bear cuddle form. we will have to get insane gear like that to keep up =) with them. oh well gladly our parry/block/dodge pwns droods still ^^.

battletanker~

[Suave]

Well in the expansion druid can get dodge % roughly equivalent to dodge + parry of warriors. Block makes up for lower armor, Last Stand etc make up for lower hp. Leaving things somewhat even as it stands.