Legedi,Mar 23 2006, 01:08 PM Wrote:I look at blocking differently now that we are in BWL than when we just did MC. In MC most mobs hit between 500-700 normal hits. Even Golemagg only hits in the 700-900 range. There blocking 100 damage often is nice damage migration. I would spam shield block all the time. It helped the healers not have to heal as much.
But now in MC our healers are decked out much more. I don't need to worry about making them more effiencient. Our raid structer is much different now. I worry more about holding aggro since our DPS is much higher. So I use all my rage on aggro moves now.
And in BWL stuff hits for 800-1100 normal hits, crits up to 1600, and 2200 crushing hits. Plus special attacks that hit between 4000-6000 damage. Here having the chance to blocking a few hundered damage is not going to save you. But having a few hundred extra HP can.
For anything less than a 40 man raid having a high block value, with a high chance to block is still really good (execpt for than dang bloodlord. Took me from 8000 hp to 60 hp in less than 3 seconds while enraged :wacko: ). In 5 man instances blocking 100 damage can easly be a quarter to half the damage a mob does.
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The fact remains that I don't have your stam yet, so I have to take all the damage reduction I can get. 70 hp won't save me either in BWL, so it's a wash. All I can do is keep going and gear up some more. There's only 2 of you with that kind of stamina in our group, so the rest of us have to catch up. I'm at the point where only better stamina on gear will help, and that gear comes out of MC and BWL, so I just have to do the best I can and keep going, as neither 2% block nor 70 stam will make much difference in BWL. Just have to keep going and wait my turn to pick up the leftovers that you guys leave behind.
Edit: I think what I'm trying to say is that we agree, but we're at two different places. You're at the 'one of the two best-geared warriors in the alliance' spot, and I'm in the 'not there yet', so we have different viewpoints. When I get the gear you have, I'll change how I look at it. Right now, for BWL, neither choice makes much difference *for me*. Just takes time.
--Mav