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Comment by Choochoo

Is it just me, or do these boots seem rather poorly itemized?

Shield block rating is an AoE tanking stat. Spell hit is a single mob tanking stat.

Since spell hit doesn't affect Righteous Defense anymore (physical hit does), all it's good for is Judgements and stacking Seal of Vengeance. Not worth the avoidance/mitigation/spelldamage you would lose stacking it, in my opinion.

Plus, even if you did want spell hit, it just doesn't go with block rating. These stats just don't go together. You'd be way better off having two sets of boots.

Comment by 79440

The itemization on this new Paladin tanking gear is really disappointing. I wouldn't call spell hit rating worthless to a Paladin tank, but I would never trade stamina/avoidance/spell damage for it. Comparing these boots to the Tide-stomper's Greaves (same ilvl) the defense/dodge is traded for block rating on these (reasonable trade) but armor, stamina, and even some spell damage is traded for spell hit rating (very poor trade).

Comment by 87017

These are awesome, that is a ton of block rating, whereas the 2.3 pally tanking boots had almost zero mitigation stats on it at all. These then are a huge upgrade. And perhaps Blizz will be making Righteous Defense affected by Spellhit in 2.4, we don't know. But that much block rating is absolute heaven to me.

Comment by 93714

Unless I'm mistaken, having some spell hit as a paladin tank is still very useful even though they changed Righteous Defense. It still affects Consecrate and your Seals/Judgements, and having a resist on one of those is a huge hit to threat generation.

Comment by 49327

It's got 0 defence rating too, and i'm always finding my paladin is struggling to keep at the defence cap. The 1 socket in the boots doesn't help much with it at all either, not really worth going for at all.

Comment by Avalonia

The only issue I see here is the +spell hit rating. Other than that these are pretty decent.

Comment by 48730

These are very nice boots. What I don't understand is why tankadins get a great set of boots clearly itemized for them, and warriors don't. I'm getting a little sick of this, same thing was done in the 2.3 badge gear. The "warrior" version of the chest and boots drops in ZA (Nalorak and Zul'jin respectively), the pally version is purchasable with badges for both.

Spell dmg and spell hit has been added to these to help important stats for pally tanks to generate threat. So where is the strength on the other gear? Block value is not the end all threat stat, and is only useful for one of the 4 threat skills i use in my rotation. Heroic strike, devastate, and revenge all benefit from attack power. Have you seen what your AP would be if you actually equipped all this gear? Mid-500s, my AP was that when i was in my early 40s unbuffed lol. Thank you Blizz for the hit rating and expertise on the other items.

Anyway... Grats tankadins! :)

Comment by 33682

The name 'Blue's' refers to one of two things,

Blizzard Community Manager who post on the official forums and are often called 'blues'

Or a happy blue dog that teaches kids valuable lessons through fun and song and following clues.

http://www.nickjr.com/shows/blue/index.jhtml

I like to think it's the latter.

Comment by 93008

I have Sabatons of the Righteous Defender and Jungle Stompers already, plus we're killing Najentus, but he hasn't handed me his boots yet.

If a GM handed these to me for free... I'm trying to work out when I'd wear them... probably never?

They're most useful for AE tanking... and have Spellhit?! *sigh* by far the most useless "tankadin" stat for AE tanking, really only useful in 5-mans, where you don't need T-6 level gear, even on heroic.

Most of the new badge gear is poor. I have a few hundred badges, and I'm thinking most of them will end up being used for off-spec healing gear rather than tanking. iLevel 141 items that are worse that iLevel 128 items is really sad.

Comment by Discolando

While these new items aren't looked highly upon for tanking, they're amazing for Paladins who enjoy the Shockadin spec. Before 2.4, there were zero plate items with spell hit on them, which was one of the weaknesses of the playstyle.

Grab this another of the plate badge rewards with spell hit and you're hit capped for heroics. Raiding, however, is another story...

Comment by Kathucka

Weird stats.

Spell hit is useless for paladin tanking. Everything they use is calculated on melee hit mechanics. The itemization points are completely wasted here.

Once you're uncrushable (102.4% miss + dodge + parry + block), more block rating is wasted when tanking a boss. As long as Holy Shield is up, every swing is going to be blocked, missed, parried or dodged, anyway. You can't block more than everything. Since it's possible to get to uncrushable before earning this many badges, the block rating on this item is unlikely to help much.

What's left for the bosses is a large amount of spell damage, armor, and stamina.

The place where these might be somewhat useful would be in AoE tanking situations, such as Hyjal Summit trash for Serpentshrine Cavern murlocs. In those situations, a paladin will get pummeled with so many hits that they'll burn through all the charges of Holy Shield before they can refresh it. In that case, the block rating on these boots will allow them to block more hits and take somewhat less damage as a result.

Also, the large amount of block rating on this item is probably enough to allow you to swap out your Libram of Repentance for a Libram of Divine Purpose or maybe even a Tome of the Lightbringer.

Comment by 166803

Random note, but this has the highest Shield Block Rating of any item out there.

Comment by 193029

Bull$%^&! These boots arent blue at all!

Comment by Wrendil

So am I the only paladin tank that has ever missed a shield throw? Does spell hit not help with that? I know it takes a notch out of my initial threat. But I am just now starting raiding in Kara and doing all the heroics, so I'm sure there are more experienced tanks than me.... But maybe just a little spell hit for "flavor" wouldn't be a bad thing!

Comment by Scarrio

With the changes in 3.0 these actually useful for a Titan Grip / Fury warrior who offtank occassionally instead of Vindicator's Plate Greaves since hit rating became consolidated.

-42 armor
- 35 crit rating
+9 stamina
+22 hit rating
+23 block rating
-1 strength
+1 red socket

Titan Grip can use the extra hit rating, we're usually already swimming in crit% and it's a dual-purpose piece. Throw in a strength gem and it ends up being +9 strength.

That, and it's one of the few badge-obtainable plate boots. Pretty reasonable, I think.

Comment by 131187

Definitely good for warriors now!

Comment by 242390

These boots are definately good for all plate users now. The boots really shine on Fury Warriors as of patch 3.0.3 since Warriors especially Titan's Grip spec require minimum 200 hit rating (ok thats in my opinion) to be effective (otherwise too many white misses and therefore no rage). Im currently using these boots on my warrior for dps as its the best i currenlty have access to and will last me until level 78 at least. Hit rating is the way to go for Titans' Grip spec warriors as long as you do not sacrafice strength and a relative amount of haste and crit and these boots are an extremely good way to achieve a decent amount of Hit Rating. As for the gem socket a 10 strength or 20 Attach Power is probably the best choice available.

Comment by 57336

changed in 3.0 (i guess) from spell hit to physical hit

Comment by 246021

I found this to be, at least for me, the best look with these items for 4.3 transmo :

http://www.wowhead.com/compare?items=16860:30048:16859:16855:16853:32573#.

Anyway, i deleted the cloak long ago, so i can't have it anymore and it's skin is unique =(

Also i dont have the legs , so i use Justicar (Tier 4) ones. I found that Valor or Lawbringer ( Tier 1) aren't bad choices too!

I'd like to ask you guys for Cloak/Legs/ And maybe belt suggestions to improve the look , but i think i've pulled i very cool one here ;D!

Comment by 766812

With the current look of this and similar items (something tells me it may have changed at some point) I have found the following Items to look the best as a set:

Brighthelm of Justice - Helmet : Hydross
Pauldrons of the Argent Sentinel - Shoulders : Morogrim Tidewalker
Glowing Breastplate of Truth - Chest : Lurker
Glorious Gauntlets of Crestfall - Gloves : Lady Vashj
Girdle of Hope - Belt (closest match i.m.o.) : Azgalor in Hyjal
Legplates of the Holy Juggernaut - Legs (closest match i.m.o.) : Sunwell 1st boss
Blue's Greaves of the Righteous Guardian - Boots : 390 JP sold in Shattrath

The Legs are those from the "Sunwell Plate" set but appear to match better than any other items i've found, and the Belt is meant to match tier 6 but it also works very well.

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Blue's Greaves of the Righteous Guardian

Item Level 32
Binds when picked up

Feet	Plate

10 Armor
+2 [Strength or Intellect]
+4 Stamina
+2 Parry
+2 Haste

Prismatic Socket
Socket Bonus: +1 Stamina

Durability 80 / 80

Requires Level 27

Sell Price: 1

Players can win this item when selecting the following class specializations:

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Warrior:
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This item is part of the following transmog set: Crystalforge Armor (Recolor)

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This item can be purchased in Shattrath City (3) and Isle of Quel'Danas .

Blue's Greaves of the Righteous Guardian

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