[Tanking] A list of available consumables, gems & enchants

[T1B]

Gems
Avoidance

* Thick Dragon’s Eye - 27 Defense, jewelcrafter only, any slot
* Eternal Earthsiege Diamond - Meta - 21 Defense and 5% increased Shield Block Value
* Thick Autumn’s Glow - Yellow - 16 Defense
* Stalwart Monarch Topaz - Yellow or Red - 8 Defense and 8 Dodge Rating
* Enduring Forest Emerald - Yellow or Blue - 8 Defense and 12 Stamina

Effective Health

* Austere Earthsiege Diamond - Meta - 32 Stamina and 2% armor increase
* Solid Sky Sapphire - Blue - 24 Stamina
* Regal Twilight Opal - Blue or Red - 12 Stamina and 8 Dodge
* Enduring Forest Emerald - Blue or Yellow - 12 Stamina and 8 Defense

Threat

* Sovereign Twilight Opal - Red or Blue - 8 Strength and 12 Stamina
* Champion’s Monarch Topaz - Red or Yellow - 8 Strength and 8 Defense

Enchants
Weapon Enchants

* Titanium Weapon Chain - CHEAP - Increases hit raiting by 28. The beauty with this one is that it’s pretty cheap. You can often find this enchant for under 50g.
* Enchant Weapon - Accuracy - VERY EXPENSIVE - Likely to be one of the primary tanking enchants, this one grants 25 hit and critical strike rating. Be ready to shell out some serious cash for this one for now.
* Enchant Weapon - Exceptional Agility - DECENT PRICE - Grants 26 Agility, a great avoidance enchant.
* Enchant Weapon - Mongoose - CHEAP - We’ll see if this old favorite can maintain it’s luster at level 80.

Shield Enchants

For your shield, you basically have 4 options.

* Enchant Shield - Tough Shield - 18 shield block value, a Burning Crusade enchant, won’t likely stack up to wrath enchants.
* Enchant Shield - Mighty Stamina - 35Stam - NOT IN GAME YET - Will be nice if/when it is added
* Enchant Shield - Defense - FAIRLY CHEAP - 20 defense rating, good for getting to the magic 540.
* Titanium Plating - FAIRLY CHEAP, ADDED PATCH 3.0.8 - 40 Shield Block Value, Blacksmithing created Item

Head Enchants

Time to grind out some faction for your head enchant!

* Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector - Revered with Argent Crusade - 27 Stam and 20 defense rating

Shoulder Enchants

More faction work!

* Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle - Exalted with Sons of Hodir - 20 dodge and 15 defense
* Lesser Inscription of the Pinnacle - Honored with Sons of Hodir - 15 dodge and 10 defense
* Master’s Inscription of the Pinnacle - If you have the Inscription profession - 52 dodge and 15 defense

Pants Enchants

* Frosthide Leg Armor - 55 Stam & 22 Agi
* Jormungar Leg Armor - 45 Stam & 15 Agi
* Dragonscale Leg Armor - If you are a leatherworkder - 72 Stam & 35 Agi

Boots Enchants

* Enchant Boots - Tuskarr’s Vitality - 15 Stam & Minor Run Speed improvement
* Enchant Boots - Greater Fortitude - 22 Stam

Wrist Enchants

Now you wish you were a leatherworker!

* Enchant Bracers - Expertise - 15 expertise rating
* Enchant Bracer - Major Stamina - Added in patch 3.0.8, +40 Stamina
* Fur Lining - Stamina - If you are a leatherworkder - An amazing 90 Stamina

Glove Enchants

Hand enchants offer a few more options depending on your personal preference.

* Enchant Gloves - Armsman - 2% threat and 10 parry rating
* Enchant Gloves - Expertise - A cheap enachant for 15 expertise rating
* Enchant Gloves - Precision - Also cheap for 20 hit rating
* Enchant Gloves - Crusher - A little more pricey for a flat 44 attack power

Cloak Enchants

* Enchant Cloak - Titanweave - 16 defense rating
* Enchant Cloak - Major Agility - A bit pricey for 22 Agility
* Enchant Cloak - Superior Agility - Much cheaper for 16 Agility
* Enchant Cloak - Mighty Armor - 225 armor

Chest Enchants

* Enchant Chest - Greater Defense - 22 defense rating
* Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats - Fairly expensive, +10 to all stats

Consumables

Battle Elixir

* Guru’s Elixir raises all stats by 20, so is quite the excellent choice.
* Elixir of Expertise does exactly what the name suggests, raising expertise. Strong stat for tanks, so it’s a very good consumable to use, if you’re not using a flask.
* In a similar vein, you could also use Elixir of Accuracy for hit rating for threat.
* If you can’t get either of those battle elixirs, I would use either Elixir of Lightning Speed, Elixir of Deadly Strikes or Elixir of Armor Piercing, but I personally don’t think they’re as strong as the other two.
* You want to use something that scales with Blessing of Kings? How about Elixir of Mighty Strength for bigger Shield Slams?
* If you’re of the druidic persuasion, Elixir of Mighty Agility is probably the best option.

Guardian Elixir:

* Elixir of Mighty Fortitude is very nifty, and offers tons of extra health plus regen.
* Defense is a very strong avoidance stat nowadays and still worth stacking beyond the crit cap, so I highly endorse Elixir of Mighty Defense.
* Elixir of Protection offers extra armor, I will have to test if I get more mileage out of extra armor than any of the others.

Flasks:

* Flask of Stoneblood is the tanking flask, I suppose. It’s a shame that it’s just health now, no longer any extra defense.
* If health is no concern and you want to increase your personal DPS and threat, there’s Flask of Endless Rage.

Food:

All the new buff food brings back all the stats that show up on gear these days. You get to choose between strength, agility, expertise, hit, haste, armor penetration, crit rating plus 40 stamina. Which one you want to use is really up to you. Used an expertise battle elixir? Combine it with buff food that gives you extra strength, e.g.

* Strength: Dragonfin Filet
* Agility: Blackened Dragonfin
* Expertise: Rhinolicious Wyrmsteak
* Hit: Snapper Extreme
* Haste: Imperial Manta Steak or Very Burnt Worg
* Armor Penetration: Hearty Rhino
* Crit: Spiced Wyrm Burger or Spicy Blue Nettlefish

Delicious copypasta from several blogs & the WoW forums. Compiled for you by yours truly ^^

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C&P Level 80 Rare Tanking Gems for Warriors | Tank Hard!

edit : oh wait nvm you said it's a C&P compilation .. nice but it's alot of common sense ..

[madsherlock]

Nice post, but could have been better if you'd considered patch 3.1 changes which will come soon, and perhaps the blacksmith's ability to socket things that other's cant.
EDIT: Not flaming, just saying this guide is not complete and will soon be outdated, and could in some cases turn out to make some tanks waste money and time on professions and gems they shouldn't have.

[markons]

well there is a typo mistake. where you write about gems you wrote enchants and where you write about enchants you wrote gems....

[jesusisgod]

Very very incomplete.

[gtdarkside]

^jesus is not god

[JDKHEXMAASTER]

Nice post. +Bookmark