08-13-2007, 11:22 AM
Quote:Being crushed matters in heroics, especially tanking them in only crafted/5 man and heroic gear since you won't have raid gear. Geting to the point where you can have 102.6% Block + dodge + parry + miss without any raid gear is possible, but not easy. 20 defense is 3.2% total avoidance (0.8% block, 0.8% dodge, 0.8% parry, 0.8% miss). Those points stay very valuable for a paladin. For a warrior who can just hit shield block and be uncrushable for the next 2 hits, not so much. But if you don't want to rely on redoubt this talent is still valuable.
Instead of shield block, a protection pally will have holy shield. It increases block rate by 30%. Its basically a slightly lower shield block rate, but a longer duration and more charges(especially with imp holy shield). So that 102.6% becomes 72.6% which is easier to maintain. Now I don't really know how hard it is to hit that point with crafter/blue gear, but it doesn't sound like you were considering holy shield and you said 102.6 was possible. Therefore I'm going to figure that 72.6 is not only possible, but easier to get. If this is true then anticipation goes back to not being as important. If its not then it becomes more important. So you'll have to let me know if you were figuring holy shield in or not and if it affects your view.
This is also why redoubt is questionable btw. If a pally can be uncrushable with just holy shield then redoubt doesn't add anything to the mix. It does help with multiple mobs since charges get ate faster. It also can help cover if you get silenced and so can't refresh holy shield right away. So its still not bad to have, but questionable.