Too much skill speed on Fending armor

I've noticed a lot of lvl 60 fending gear has SS on it, which, to me, IN MY OPINION, is pretty useless.

Yes I know you can hit the magic number to get one more attack out of berserk, but before the min/max time, what use is SS to a tank.


If it was on every piece, fine, but it isn't.

I just got my 1st Alex piece (helmet) and tbh I don't really want to swap out my upgraded Law helmet for it.

If you didn't want the helmet, why did you get it?
SS is okayyyyy. It affects DoTs you know.

Though WAR only has a single dot. Speaking of that dot, and now that riot blade is no longer a net tp loss as it were in 2.0, is it time for Fractures's tp cost to be normalized? DRK's scourge acts the same but costs 20 tp less than fracture. So yeah.

This is one of the reasons why I'm putting all my alex towards my alt mnk since there are alot of good pieces. I'm hoping esoterics eases up on this as WAR only need about 460-480 sks to get 9 gcd in Berserk and sks is almost useless to the other tanks as it will just drain their tp faster with no way to recover it.

True. I was wanting to get the full set for WAR, but who knows what the esotercis will be when they come out. I might just start saving my alex drops for a while.

Actually is not too bad more dps anyway the parry stat is not all that great atm

A WAR complaining about Skill Speed?

Okay.

With various pre existing cooldowns, HARDER / FASTER hitting mobs + Raw Intuition / Equilibrium (AMAZING) If a warrior complains about skill speed that warrior isn't doing it RIGHT. Equilibrium with berserk can heal you for absurd amounts of HP and without it still amazing.

Skill speed for a WAR is awesome.

What sucks is the parry that's everywhere.

Considering the stat weights are horrible for level 60, you should be aiming exactly for things like skill speed for warrior, also you should be hating parry not SS.

The Parry hate is exaggerated. Parry's biggest weakness is the presence of magical damage which if I understood Yoshi correctly will only be more prevalent going forward.
Parry comes on defensive gear but acts as additional mitigation overtime. Probability works out that you can expect average mitigation of 1% mitigation for every 5% chance to parry. Ultimately maxing at 20% @ 100%.
The average mitigation is reliable, the 20% on a hit that you want isn't. Crit is the same way doesn't make the stat poor if it works out math wise.

My own avoidance of Parry is being unsure if 3.0 changed the rate which I assume it did and the presence of magical damage directly hitting its value.

All secondaries are in a bad spot right now. I rock 540 SS and its still too slow to matter.

Parry is HORRIBLE and should not be compared to crit.....crit is always in effect, parry is seldom. Crit is 50%+ damage that is always useful. Parry is 20% reduction that is seldom useful. (Regen tics for more then parry mitigates)

At this point in gearing you want ilvl on the left, and then gear for as little VIT as an encounter calls for on the right, fill the rest with STR.

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Originally Posted by AnimaS

Equilibrium with berserk can heal you for absurd amounts of HP and without it still amazing.

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I don't get it. Won't Equilibirum heal you for the same potency regardless if you have Berserk on or not? Am I missing something here?

There isn't enough skillspeed on tank gear.

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Originally Posted by skyzong

I don't get it. Won't Equilibirum heal you for the same potency regardless if you have Berserk on or not? Am I missing something here?

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Equilibrium is affected by attack power. STR gear and Berserk affect it. I get healed for around 3.5k in VIT gear, 4.5-5k in STR.

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Originally Posted by Launched

There isn't enough skillspeed on tank gear.

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Truth.
With the hive axe, I had to very selectively upgrade my other gear in order to maintain my berserk window.
I'd take more if it was available.

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Originally Posted by Launched

Equilibrium is affected by attack power. STR gear and Berserk affect it. I get healed for around 3.5k in VIT gear, 4.5-5k in STR.

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Oh wow, you're right. Tried it out and got healed for 7k. This is very good to know. You'd figured this is something they would add on the ability description.

One thing to remember is that we are only on week 5 of the expansion. We are barely off the baseline for level 60s.

4 new gear sets (PvP, Esoterics, Crafted and Alex Savage) are getting added in 3.05. We need to wait and see how those turn out before complaining to much about itemization.

Actually something kind of interesting.

The more magic damage is scaled, the weaker paladins will be, which seems kind of sad because even by SE's wording, they do less damage than other tanks because of their great mitigation. But when so much damage is magical, your damage debuff, 1 equipment slot and 2 abilities are basically ignored. I can understand it if their damage was similar---but its not, and its noticible with their threat compared to other tanks.

Yeah PLD is in a bad place right now.

Offensively they are behind and defensively they are just on Par. If a mob has a major physical tank buster PLD would be a head but for this round of savage PLD is left wanting.

I love skillspeed <3 better than parry imo as OT!

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Oh wow, you're right. Tried it out and got healed for 7k. This is very good to know. You'd figured this is something they would add on the ability description.

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Second wind is also affected by berserk. I usually pop it during berserk and have seen anywhere from 1.5k - 3.5k. Basically a free cure.

Secondaries are not worth worrying about until Esoteric gear comes out and you actually have a choice between secondaries. Currently iLvl > all