Karazhan Requirements-Tank/Off-tank

[Warraid]

The time is near all my little ones to get attuned and geared for Karazhan.

This post is all about the requirements that I myself as well as Doomhamm feel necessary to be the minimal amount to enter Karazhan and do well on the first boss, second and even third boss.

For the armor situation. The best is to have all blues that are 66 and up. This is usually the top notch gear and has the best stats. If you have a couple greens it's okay because some of those greens out there are ridiculous.

Secondly I will discuss a lot of the stats that you will need to make yourself the ultimate tank you can be.

The biggest things that you'll want are Hit Points (HP), Defensive Rating and Armor.

Minimum Requirements for these in a prot warrior are:

HP-11000
Defensive Rating-480
Armor-12000 (with shield equipped)

Now for an dps/prot warrior (off tank)*with tanking gear on:

Hp-10000
Defensive Rating- 480
Armor-12000

Without tanking gear on to help DPS:

HP-9500
Def. Rating-400
Armor-7200

I hope this was somewhat informative to all you up and coming 60+ Warriors

[zhengdian]

for all you Metal heads out there, here's a link to a tank who's been pounding thru Karazhan a few times, might give some ideas to gear to watch for. yeah, I know... lots of purpz.
armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonmaw&n=Miyagi
oh, and he still gets wiped sometimes

[Warraid]

Don't be posting the armories of other warriors on my forum...

I find it disrespectful to those warriors in our guild

Here is both myself and Doomhamm's armory pages to let you get a sense of what we're looking for in a tank and off-tank.

Warraid
armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonmaw&n=Warraid

Doomhamm
armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonmaw&n=Doomhamm

[zhengdian]

sorry, no disrespectin meant, just to show what's comin from Kara

[Warraid]

I know man, I know. I was just kidding.

Personally I'm excited for the gear that will be coming out of Kara. That's why I'm trying to get all those ready for it. We need to make the most out of our runs and I think this will help. At least with the tanking side of things.

[zhengdian]

I've been shopping around and have laid out a gearing plan for myself, unfortunately it involves running many many tempest keep runs and shadow labs. I might also be looking for some tailors to make me a few pieces... couldn't talk my wife into the primal mooncloth specialty, she likes that shadoweave stuff.
One thing I'll suggest, be patient, and don't pressure. I've seen guilds lose people because they were told "you have to do this". Encouragement and assistance works much better. I'd love to get on and run some folks thru Auchidone instances.... and to get them their Kara key stuff done.