Defense rating?

[Boomrooker]

Does defense rating help you in pvp?Or is it just pve thing i see it increase dodge parry and block by VERY small bit?

 

[kHayne]

It's primarily a pve thing. It reduces your chance to be crit as well as your dodge/parry/block, which is slightly useful, but the anti-crit value nowhere near as high as resilience, and dodge/parry/block is next to worthless in pvp, since it does nothing vs casters, and vs rogues you'll take most of your damage while stunlocked and hit from behind where dodge/parry/block doesnt work.

Also, just a suggestion, maybe you should keep all your warrior queries in one thread?

 

[Boomrooker]

It's primarily a pve thing. It reduces your chance to be crit as well as your dodge/parry/block, which is slightly useful, but the anti-crit value nowhere near as high as resilience, and dodge/parry/block is next to worthless in pvp, since it does nothing vs casters, and vs rogues you'll take most of your damage while stunlocked and hit from behind where dodge/parry/block doesnt work.

Also, just a suggestion, maybe you should keep all your warrior queries in one thread?

So it does work in pvp vs hunters and palas i think at least you get your dodge parry increased a bit.

 

[kHayne]

Don't know if you can dodge hunter shots. +Def may be useful against ret palas, and it does help against rogues once you're out of the stunlock, and of course other warriors and feral druids.
Unfortunately it gimps you for everything else. Which is largely why prot warriors in pvp are pretty lol, although they make great flagrunners in WSG and EOTS.

 

[Boomrooker]

Don't know if you can dodge hunter shots. +Def may be useful against ret palas, and it does help against rogues once you're out of the stunlock, and of course other warriors and feral druids.
Unfortunately it gimps you for everything else. Which is largely why prot warriors in pvp are pretty lol, although they make great flagrunners in WSG and EOTS.

Well not gonne go into bg as prot or arena jsut wanted to know cause even if you are prot or holy spec healer horde isnot gone stop to ask me if i am pvp spec before they gank me.

Pawned a hunter yester day he was lvl 26 i am 22 at sumon stone to bfd with a shield and a 1 hander but i am not really prot yet got 5 points in crualty and got improved thunder clap.Now i am going full prot with rest.

 

[TheShogun]

I wouldn't advise you to level as Prot.
Pre-Outland you can still tank any 5man instance with a DPS Spec.

 

[Cube3]

In pvp .... ever been up against a prot warrior with 20k+ HP ? U can't kill him solo... dam impossible... sometimes u can't even hit him as he just blocks and deflects everything.

 

[Boomrooker]

I wouldn't advise you to level as Prot.
Pre-Outland you can still tank any 5man instance with a DPS Spec.

I just kinda like to carry a shield and to tank alot of mobs but these days i lvl like i do on my priest barely get chance to quest do one instance a nigth takes about 2 hours of wow during the weekdays wich i only play 3 hours a day on a weeknigth.

Weekends ill feel the pain if i cant solo quest but i got a friend with a disc priest that lvl with me.

 

[wow4life]

As a PvE tank I occasionally run flags in WSG for fun :> Give me a healer then I can survive just about anything. Even without a healer I can handle melee with little or no problem but ranged is a different matter.

Rogues and warriors are a joke as a PvE tank as they find it near to impossible to hit me if I am wearing my avoidance set.

But imo this isn't a serious pvp approach and only worth doing for the occasional laugh. Something that works slightly better is to put your block set on and shield-slam the enemy into oblivion

 

[TheShogun]

In pvp .... ever been up against a prot warrior with 20k+ HP ? U can't kill him solo... dam impossible... sometimes u can't even hit him as he just blocks and deflects everything.

U step behind him. Problem solved.