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This is a thread for everyone asking about paladin specs recently and just to satisfy my own curiosity
Most shield tanks want the best percentage chance to defend a melee attack (I guess anyway). I was playing about with numbers earlier and this is what I came up with - a good reasoning why NOT to go 50 shield. The maths might be a bit dodgy, but I'm pretty sure it works out Btw this is for a paladin (assuming they go 46 chants) but I'd have thought the same would go for other tanks.
With my spec of 42 shield, 24 parry (I got autotrained points) you have a 25.5% chance to block and 16.5% chance to parry - overall = 42% chance to defend. 50 shield spec = 29.5% chance to block, Parry is variable, you can go medium slash (34 say) and get 7 in parry, or low slash (29) and get 19 in parry. This gives you either 8% chance, or 14.5% to parry, overall = 37.5% or 44% chance to defend, but this SERIOUSLY reduces your damage output and you hit like a soggy baguette, just for 2% extra chance to defend.
And if that hasn't got you convinced, as points over 50 only count for 10% of what they count for under 50, 50+11shield = 31.05 chance to block, 42+11 shield = 29.65. So not very much difference at all
As I said, I'm not 100% sure on the maths, if you honestly think there is a better spec, then tell me!
Edit: sorry bad maths
Most shield tanks want the best percentage chance to defend a melee attack (I guess anyway). I was playing about with numbers earlier and this is what I came up with - a good reasoning why NOT to go 50 shield. The maths might be a bit dodgy, but I'm pretty sure it works out Btw this is for a paladin (assuming they go 46 chants) but I'd have thought the same would go for other tanks.
With my spec of 42 shield, 24 parry (I got autotrained points) you have a 25.5% chance to block and 16.5% chance to parry - overall = 42% chance to defend. 50 shield spec = 29.5% chance to block, Parry is variable, you can go medium slash (34 say) and get 7 in parry, or low slash (29) and get 19 in parry. This gives you either 8% chance, or 14.5% to parry, overall = 37.5% or 44% chance to defend, but this SERIOUSLY reduces your damage output and you hit like a soggy baguette, just for 2% extra chance to defend.
And if that hasn't got you convinced, as points over 50 only count for 10% of what they count for under 50, 50+11shield = 31.05 chance to block, 42+11 shield = 29.65. So not very much difference at all
As I said, I'm not 100% sure on the maths, if you honestly think there is a better spec, then tell me!
Edit: sorry bad maths