Paladin talent choices

[Kevin]

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.

I was counting on holy shield for that 102.6%. Warriors need to get there as well, but they get 75% from shield block. They only need 27.6% from other stuff, as you say paladins need 72.6% (actually 67.6% because you'll get the heroic badges to make holy shield get you 5% more). This is not an easy number to get to without raid gear, it can be done, but it's hard, especially if you want any +spell damage at all.

And yeah I fully aggre on redoubt. You don't plan on it being up. If you did, then you can get to uncrushable almost as easily as a warrior as you only need to get 15% more avoidance than they do. But you can't, so you now need 45% more than a warrior since holy shield is 30%, shield block is 75%

lock Rating and Defense Rating are the two cheapest ways to reach uncrushable. Plus approximately 19 Defense Rating is 1% pure avoidance. On a side note, being uncrushable isnt actually that important for 5 mans being the highest lvl mobs (bosses only) are 72. Stamina, AC and Block Value (not Block Rating) will eventually be your most important goal, after a certain level of avoidance and Defense Rating (490 for uncrittable).

Oh duh. I knew I was saying something really wrong when i was typing that up at 5 or 6 am my time and still hadn't slept yet. You are right, crushing doesn't matter. Slap the GG.