The New Warlock DPS

[dragonhawker]

Hello ladies,

My guild will be resuming regular raids on January 4th,

Comments

[dawnshadow]

I know very little about warlocks. Sorry. As for tanking gear-- I don't play a warrior, but I have a paladin and dk, so same gear-- it's very rare to find a piece of gear with both dodge and parry. The gear you want can have any combination of dodge, parry, mastery, hit and expertise; the last three are shared with dps, so a mastery/hit bracer can be for either tanking or damage now that all gear has the same amount of stamina. You can even get away with a piece of gear with one of those stats and a dps stat, like crit or haste, but I wouldn't roll over a plate dps for such a piece in BC content or later. You should never see contradicting secondary stats like dodge/haste. However, at low levels (vanilla) it's rare to find a meaningful amount of avoidance on armor; if the dps plate is a significant upgrade as far as armor and stamina goes, roll on it no matter what the secondary stats are. At level cap, you want to try to keep dodge and parry as even as possible. Oddly enough, dks and paladins both value mastery over avoidance to a certain point right now, but I don't know about warriors...

[dawnshadow]

Ack, can't edit... block is also good for you as a warrior. (Bad for dks and druids-- can't block with no shield!-- which is why I forgot....)

[dragonhawker]

Well, block is a stat that only appears on shields anyway, so it's irrelevant :) (And some trinkets, I guess.) I suppose the message here is that my current gear is actually probably fine -- I should just make sure that my tank set has all the stats you mentioned and not crit/haste.

I shouldn't worry so much I guess. I've pretty much been fine in the regulars I've been doing. I don't think there has been a single wipe due to tank death, even if the healer OOMed. (Obviously that will probably change when I do start the eat-ur-face heroics...)