Patch 3.3.0 DW tanking and def capped?! Finally

Macpayne

Death Knights

* Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle: There is now a 1-handed version of this rune in addition to the current 2-handed rune.
* Talents
o Unholy
+ Night of the Dead: Now reduces the damage your pet takes from area-of-effect damage by 45/90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.

# Glyphs

* Death Knights
o Glyph of Icy Touch: Instead of granting additional runic power, this glyph now causes Frost Fever to deal 20% additional damage.

Man with there finally being a 1 hnd runeforge for +def and stam I'm seriously looking at giving dual wield tanking a shot. To not have to use so many enchants/gems/trinkets on defense and expertise, I can finally make a dual wield gear set with about the same hp I have now. Oh and if thinking about parry gib, as long as one has 21 Expertise with slow 1 handers or 30 expertise with fast 1 handers, they will have the same chance on a parry that say a warrior with sword and board would. Off to the PTR to look into it and the new 5 man.

Nëliel · Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:42 am Post subject:

Errr..in my current tank gear all I had to do was grab 1 defense/stam gem to get to 540, actually a little over, 542, so i could use the 2 2% parry runes..i have the slow dps main hand and a titanguard in the off-hand for tanking stats, its not doing bad for when i do go to tank a few things again

Macpayne · Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject:

Ahh thats most of my issue now is that I currently have to use the repelling charge trinket, and 5 defense gems.
With fights such as Gormok where just his bleed alone ticks in the 4k range, I couldnt justify looting a 1 hndr when to switch would cost me 5540 health through gems/trinkets/and losing VoTW talent.
Im just so stoked that this runeforge will allow me to stay close to my current 2 hander health. Cant wait!