- Elixir of Major Agility (battle) - Provides an extra 35 Agility, which translates to 1.54% dodge with Blessing of Kings. Quite valuable for extra avoidance. If threat is a real problem, you could use an Arcane Elixir instead.
- Elixir of Major Defense (guardian) - Provides 550 extra armor. Doesn't seem like much, but the extra armor does help against heavy melee bosses.
- Super Healing / Super Mana Potion - Bog standard healing and mana pots.
- Ironshield Potion - Provides 2500 armor for 2 minutes, shares cooldown with other potions. Against a strong melee boss such as Moroes or Prince Malchezzar, this actually saves you significantly more damage during the cooldown than a Super Healing Potion would heal.
- Superior Wizard Oil - Additional threat. Persists through death.
- Spicy Crawdad - 30 extra Stamina is very valuable to a tank class that's lacking in HP.
- Major Healthstone - Created by Warlocks, and valuable when using Ironshields. Note that if you have Warlocks with different ranks of Improved Healthstone, you can carry multiples.
- Nightmare Seed - A pseudo-Last Stand. Gives a quick 2000 health boost temporarily. Handy if you get bursted and you've blown your Healthstones.
- Dark / Demonic Rune - Only useful for times when you're outgearing the fight and running out of mana as a result. Returns a lot of mana and injures you, thus allowing healing to return more mana. Never use these unless you're not taking significant damage and are high on health.
- Charged Crystal Focus - Another Healthstone, these come from the Ogri'la Daily Quests and farming in the plateau. Worth keeping around.
Also, if you are low on avoidance and trying to become uncrushable, look at Grilled Mudfish, the 20 Agility buff will help, and may let you swap on more than 30 extra stamina in gear (making it superior to the Spicy Crawdad if you can do that).
13-Dec-07: Added in the CCF.
4 comments:
What's your opinion on the difference between Blackened Sporefish (+20 STA and 8 Mana/5) vs. Spicy Crawdad? Is it worth giving up 10 STA to gain 8 mana/5? And could I get answers for both raids and 5-mans?
The MP/5 is pretty immaterial for a tank regardless. Keep in mind you only need to take 16 dps of incoming damage to receive 8 mp/5 worth of mana from SA.
That said, I don't use Crawdads in 5-mans (too costly), so I usually just use Talbuk Steak or something for the +20 stamina, in which case the Blackened Sporefish is superior regardless, if you have them available.
But for raids where mana generally isn't a critical concern and stamina is, it's Crawdad every time if you're tanking it.
Good to know. I bow to your superior knowledge.
Since Ogri'la became available, you can now also farm for the Charged Crystal Foci that drop up there. These are stackable items that heal for 2000 and are on the same cooldown as a healthstone. Nice for long fights.
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