Stoneskin Gargoyle for Dual Wielding DK tanks

#0 - Aug. 16, 2009, 9:30 p.m.

Dual Wielding as frost dps with Threat of Thassarian has been an awesome experience thus far. The numbers have been comparable to most 2h dps builds and it looks pretty cool and is fun to play. Now that this talent has been added, I'd love to retry DW tanking, as maintaining threat should be less of an issue than it was pre-patch. Unfortunately, I'd have to give up using the Stoneskin Gargoyle rune.

The bonus stats from Stoneskin Gargoyle are just far too valuable for any DK tank to pass up especially after the recent nerfs to stamina and armor. Is there no way to make a halved stat Stoneskin rune enchant for one-handers, similar to the spell/sword shattering enchants, without affecting Blizzards intended DK tanking mechanics?

Thanks!

Ghostcrawler

#15 - Aug. 17, 2009, 5:37 a.m.

Keep in mind that quote was before we decided that Frost could be focused towards dual-wield. We have no problems with Frost DKs tanking with two weapons.

The original logic behind Stoneskin Gargoyle remains though -- there generally are not two-handed tanking weapons, so hitting say the defense cap can be harder. A DW Frost DK can use two tanking swords. Grab one of them Quel things. :)

Ghostcrawler

#70 - Aug. 17, 2009, 11:21 p.m.

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the people who get their panties in a bunch over the term 'defense cap' are just going overboard though. hitting the defense to be uncrittable has been called the defense cap for years and years and there really is no reason to change it.

I agree with Ciderhelm here. Calling it a cap does help spread disinformation among players just starting out tanking. That is what we call it around the office though. In any case, we have a solution to the "defense cap" [sic] at Blizzcon. :)

I can't comment on items that have only been described through data-mining, but if we were to drop a one-handed tanking sword in future content, we would let all three sword-using tanks use it.