Paladin Tank - Weapon Choice

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Paladin Tank - Weapon Choice

Post by MindyMcfly » 09 Jan 2009 17:45

Just curious as to what you think about as a Paladin Tank weapon for WoTLK.

Should you go for Spell Power Weapon or one with defence and attack power stats?

Let theorycraft commence.....
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Re: Paladin Tank - Weapon Choice

Post by genobi » 17 Jan 2009 03:43

Love you Jim:P lazy cut and paste inc

"As it was in TBC, the weapon slot has the largest effect on your overall threat generation, but for different reasons. In TBC, a spellpower weapon was the preferred way to go for tanking, because all of the paladin damage spells (at the time) scaled with spellpower and nothing else. This is no longer the case in WotLK, since every prot paladin damage ability that scales with spellpower now also scales with attack power (and in fact scales better with AP than with SP because AP is cheaper) and the two new spells, ShR and HotR, don't scale with spellpower at all.

The best weapons now are standard tanking weapons, since HotR scales strongly with weapon dps and these weapons also have mitigation/avoidance stats on them (especially handy for reaching and maintaining crit immunity). While a spellpower weapon would boost damage from a number of different abilities, the overall effect would still be weaker than the scaling of a melee weapon on HotR damage. (If there were weapons that had sacrificed dps converted into AP, those would be the best weapons, but those don't exist.)

The speed of your weapon is relatively inconsequential. Slower weapons have slightly better properties for parrying (both yours and your target's) and for using HotR with Seal of Righteousness. Fast weapons allow you to stack Seal of Vengeance slightly faster. Neither of these effects is significant enough for weapon speed to be a factor in your gear decisions. Choose the weapon that has the highest dps or the best stats."

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Re: Paladin Tank - Weapon Choice

Post by Esoteric » 18 Jan 2009 12:00

Genobi you BLEEP n00b come back to me :'(
Don't micromanage my psychodamage.
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