Hey Costin big fan of your channel and i love and appreciate the info and insight you provide in each video. I would like to suggest you work more with your thumbnails. It makes it very very hard to distinguish each video from another. Also the text seems too small to be comfortably readable from the thumbnail size. I hope it helps you reach a wider audience, your info deserves to be heard from everyone!
I'm not sure how things are playing out on the beta or how they played out on private servers because I haven't played on either. But I was a prot paladin in TBC and I can tell you that even though resilience says on the tool tips that it reduces your chance to be hit with critical strikes- on live servers resilience did not work in PVE situations and only applied in PVP. IDK how much time you have to test, or if you have access to try it out for yourself, but if you do you should give it a try. I remember being a noob trying to get into raid tanking and getting the crit reduction cap through PVP gear and reaching the cap on my tooltip, but the combat log had me being hit with crits left and right until I farmed for defense rating. The game was actually quite strict about that rule. You could go into AV with PVP gear and be crit reduction capped, then tank Drek and be hit with crits. Throw on your PVE gear and be uncrittable again. If I remember correctly, later on in TBC the tooltip was adjusted so that when you moused over the resilience tooltip it even said "In PVP situations".
So, I vividly remember doing Kara 'merciless runs' with my pvp guild in original tbc, tanks had minimal defense but large resil values. I was healing (pvp gear has terrible regen) they weren't getting crit with way way less than 490 def
That's a good question, I'm not sure either and was thinking the same thing. Perhaps there are situations where his healing or other spells benefit more from the spell power than he would from having threat on gloves when he is not tanking.
@@mayhemguitar07 In the other video he said that the spellpower is better while u still have low gear, but the 2%threat eventually outscales it, but now he just enchants 2% immediately
Hey Costin, I know a big point of yours is to use your brain and adjust gear depending on fight, but is the Protection(avoidance) equivalency point system a good rule of thumb? Its hard to get a good sense of how, for example, armor is valued against spell power, etc.
Can we talk about faceguard of determination? It has a metric fuck ton of mitigation and can really open up some room for more mana/hp. What do you think?
@@jrgenerdahl4649 all three are viable....depends on what you want. Enchanting gives you a little bit more threat + ability to disenchant items (can be very lucrative when farming instances and replacing gear) Engineering gives you little better stamina trinkets (+12stam) and Sapper + Grenades + Dynamites Jewelcrafting gives you a decent trinket with stamina and threat use and later little stat boost in form of better gems Personally, I'm going with Ench + Engi because I love enchanting as a profession and Engi cause of sappers, mostly for 5mans. I could do without stam trinkets but It's a nice bonus.
Loving the guides. Do you use default stat weights on seventyupgrades? I’ve seen multiple theorycrafting pages with vastly different BiS lists and tried plugging those items into SU and got different numbers. Didn’t know if you changed anything around.
you only save 100mana per consecration just to keep 2 righteous gear for tier 4 BIS. You only do one extra consecrate for every 7 consecrates. that is so not worthwhile. definitely has to be replaced.
Hi costin, love the videos but would you maybe consider raising the volume of your voice a bit? I have some hearing loss and have to listen at max volume and can still barely hear. I asked some friends if it was just me and they expressed they had some trouble with volume as well. Thank you for all the great info
Gavel for LC is too slow imo, so still better stay with Continuum Blade to make more threat with seals, because that ~20bsd is not worth at all in this case.
gavel works really well for me threat wise and as to the comment about the 200 bsd for kara, i get as much threat as possible because i'm not going to be the reason my dps have to hold back and i have a couple of bamf dps in my raid team
@@HesusInc tanked paladin since original BC, and i'm glad your dps don't have to hold back, but that doesn't change the fact that i'm going to go for the biggest threat i can get so they don't have to. it's not like i'm giving up avoidance for that threat, it's my weapon.
Threat will be a Huge issue unless you are decked in t3/2.5 at the start. There is more naxx gear on 1 mid pop server than all of original vanilla. People are coming in geared tf out. With the lack of snap threat and dogshit itemization from classic. The start of tbc is going to be rough until pallys start getting gear to increase their mitigation and spell power. It is going to be almost impossible for boosted pallys as well.
Having an easy to get gear list from normals and quests should be on every pre-raid bis list. Thank you so much for this🙏
Been really appreciating your videos! Very instructive and easy to follow.
Hey Costin big fan of your channel and i love and appreciate the info and insight you provide in each video. I would like to suggest you work more with your thumbnails. It makes it very very hard to distinguish each video from another. Also the text seems too small to be comfortably readable from the thumbnail size. I hope it helps you reach a wider audience, your info deserves to be heard from everyone!
I'm not sure how things are playing out on the beta or how they played out on private servers because I haven't played on either. But I was a prot paladin in TBC and I can tell you that even though resilience says on the tool tips that it reduces your chance to be hit with critical strikes- on live servers resilience did not work in PVE situations and only applied in PVP. IDK how much time you have to test, or if you have access to try it out for yourself, but if you do you should give it a try.
I remember being a noob trying to get into raid tanking and getting the crit reduction cap through PVP gear and reaching the cap on my tooltip, but the combat log had me being hit with crits left and right until I farmed for defense rating. The game was actually quite strict about that rule. You could go into AV with PVP gear and be crit reduction capped, then tank Drek and be hit with crits. Throw on your PVE gear and be uncrittable again. If I remember correctly, later on in TBC the tooltip was adjusted so that when you moused over the resilience tooltip it even said "In PVP situations".
So, I vividly remember doing Kara 'merciless runs' with my pvp guild in original tbc, tanks had minimal defense but large resil values. I was healing (pvp gear has terrible regen) they weren't getting crit with way way less than 490 def
19:41 almost sounds like he's saying hitlers :D sorry had me cracking .. good video tho thank you, keep them coming!
What about the badge helm? Maybe you mention it later in the video.
is the 64.07 w/o HS also including the miss% from the boss or no?
In a previous video u enchanted gloves with spellpower instead of threat for early stages, what has changed?
was gonna ask the same... I thought 2% threat are for warriors
That's a good question, I'm not sure either and was thinking the same thing. Perhaps there are situations where his healing or other spells benefit more from the spell power than he would from having threat on gloves when he is not tanking.
@@mayhemguitar07 In the other video he said that the spellpower is better while u still have low gear, but the 2%threat eventually outscales it, but now he just enchants 2% immediately
I think if you have let's say 300sp 2% of that is more than even 40sp
Hey Costin, I know a big point of yours is to use your brain and adjust gear depending on fight, but is the Protection(avoidance) equivalency point system a good rule of thumb? Its hard to get a good sense of how, for example, armor is valued against spell power, etc.
I use this gear and have no problems with mag/gruul it’s not as complicated as you think
Can we talk about faceguard of determination? It has a metric fuck ton of mitigation and can really open up some room for more mana/hp. What do you think?
I'd go with t4.
So what is the bis 2 professions? I need to know
engineering + enchanting/JC
Okey. So engineering is best. But What is better? Jc or enchanting
@@jrgenerdahl4649 the best is enchant. Next you can choose either engi or JC
@@jrgenerdahl4649 all three are viable....depends on what you want.
Enchanting gives you a little bit more threat + ability to disenchant items (can be very lucrative when farming instances and replacing gear)
Engineering gives you little better stamina trinkets (+12stam) and Sapper + Grenades + Dynamites
Jewelcrafting gives you a decent trinket with stamina and threat use and later little stat boost in form of better gems
Personally, I'm going with Ench + Engi because I love enchanting as a profession and Engi cause of sappers, mostly for 5mans. I could do without stam trinkets but It's a nice bonus.
Engineering + Enchanting is what I rock.
awsome guide, thanks!
Loving the guides. Do you use default stat weights on seventyupgrades? I’ve seen multiple theorycrafting pages with vastly different BiS lists and tried plugging those items into SU and got different numbers. Didn’t know if you changed anything around.
you only save 100mana per consecration just to keep 2 righteous gear for tier 4 BIS. You only do one extra consecrate for every 7 consecrates. that is so not worthwhile. definitely has to be replaced.
what would you recommend instead?
you forget spelldamage... felsteel requires BS afaik and most pala tanks will be going engi/ench/jc/LW
Is he a Scryer or Aldor ?
Hi costin, love the videos but would you maybe consider raising the volume of your voice a bit? I have some hearing loss and have to listen at max volume and can still barely hear. I asked some friends if it was just me and they expressed they had some trouble with volume as well. Thank you for all the great info
Will darkmooncard vengeance be out phase 1?
I do not believe so, they had access on the beta, but iirc its supposed to come out around BT?
Gavel for LC is too slow imo, so still better stay with Continuum Blade to make more threat with seals, because that ~20bsd is not worth at all in this case.
What about Blade of the Archmage?
@@Tadpole952 better but low stamina, so idk if for 29bsd is worth if 200bsd is enough for kara
gavel works really well for me threat wise and as to the comment about the 200 bsd for kara, i get as much threat as possible because i'm not going to be the reason my dps have to hold back and i have a couple of bamf dps in my raid team
@@Iggybart05 i'm tanking kara and have around 200bsd, have some pumpers and they dont need to hold up or something (tanking as paladin around 8 years)
@@HesusInc tanked paladin since original BC, and i'm glad your dps don't have to hold back, but that doesn't change the fact that i'm going to go for the biggest threat i can get so they don't have to. it's not like i'm giving up avoidance for that threat, it's my weapon.
Threat will be a Huge issue unless you are decked in t3/2.5 at the start.
There is more naxx gear on 1 mid pop server than all of original vanilla. People are coming in geared tf out. With the lack of snap threat and dogshit itemization from classic. The start of tbc is going to be rough until pallys start getting gear to increase their mitigation and spell power. It is going to be almost impossible for boosted pallys as well.
with those new pvp changes that gladiator gavel is highly unlikely :D
Not if you play Arena?
@@Bollibompa is there a single paladin with 2050 rating?
S1 weapons require 2050 rating now 😬😬
S1 weapon is not gona happen unless u buy a boost!