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If you're trying to tank, PvP gear is a horrible choice. If you've been running randoms, then you should have a fair stock of JP available, use those for something that you'll have a hard time replacing in the near term. If you're after crafted gear for a start, look at some of hardened obsidium gear, and gapfill with quest rewards out of Twilight Highlands. But steer clear of PvP gear, or you're going to be supremely squishy due to the almost complete lack of avoidance, since resilience does jack squat for PvE.

AnimeJ wrote:

If you're trying to tank, PvP gear is a horrible choice. If you've been running randoms, then you should have a fair stock of JP available, use those for something that you'll have a hard time replacing in the near term. If you're after crafted gear for a start, look at some of hardened obsidium gear, and gapfill with quest rewards out of Twilight Highlands. But steer clear of PvP gear, or you're going to be supremely squishy due to the almost complete lack of avoidance, since resilience does jack squat for PvE.

No truer words have been uttered.

To give you an example my pally tank has not set foot in a raid and I am working on my ilevel still (I just hit the min for FL so I can theoretically go, but not likely). Brilicus

What I did was once I hit 85, I worked on getting all 333 gear which is the highest dungeon gear you can get before heroics. The later quest rewards in most of the new caty areas were 325 which were good gap fills for the missing gear not given from dungeons. Once I opened heroics though I ran the hell out of them and got enough JP to start to get 359 gear. Doing the Firelands dailies will help with some gear as well (my necklace and cloak for example).

Demonicmaster wrote:
AnimeJ wrote:

If you're trying to tank, PvP gear is a horrible choice. If you've been running randoms, then you should have a fair stock of JP available, use those for something that you'll have a hard time replacing in the near term. If you're after crafted gear for a start, look at some of hardened obsidium gear, and gapfill with quest rewards out of Twilight Highlands. But steer clear of PvP gear, or you're going to be supremely squishy due to the almost complete lack of avoidance, since resilience does jack squat for PvE.

No truer words have been uttered.

To give you an example my pally tank has not set foot in a raid and I am working on my ilevel still (I just hit the min for FL so I can theoretically go, but not likely). Brilicus

What I did was once I hit 85, I worked on getting all 333 gear which is the highest dungeon gear you can get before heroics. The later quest rewards in most of the new caty areas were 325 which were good gap fills for the missing gear not given from dungeons. Once I opened heroics though I ran the hell out of them and got enough JP to start to get 359 gear. Doing the Firelands dailies will help with some gear as well (my necklace and cloak for example).

Yea, it's to the point where if you run randoms a bunch between 80 and 85, you can have enough JP to get at least one, maybe two pieces of T11, plus the Thrall cloak and for plate wearers, the Molten Front boots right as or right after you hit 85. That plus whatever tank gear you've picked up in randoms will just about do you for starting heroics at 329 ilvl. Gaudin, my prot pally, and Elithruldor, my DK. And Elith still has to work through Hyjal to get to the Molten Front, too.

T11 content is so nerfed now it can be done while semi afk. So you could start gearing up there. On my mage alt I cleared BWD and BoT some 20 minutes after I dinged 85.
So this should do the trick with the gear.

Did you read the new blog regarding blood tanking and tanking in general? A lot of nice changes for DKs, some too good to be true (bone shield idea). Making all tanking more active/reactional pleases me greately, since it indicates that bosses will be balanced towards that, and not towards the tank with so called block cap.

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