Order of Honor

I'm hitting ~72% avoidance when I am in my tanking gear and that's without the nice +block that Virutis uses. I do it using +parry, +% riposte, and +% parry type gear. Keep in mind that +% riposte/parry is uncontested and far different than +parry. Look for items like Hoop of War from T7, Incarnadine Earring, Danak Essence Vial Necklance, +% parry and +% dodge food/drink, Mantle of Jarsath Waste, Shackle of the Court, +parry bracer adornment, +% parry wrist adornments, +%riposte/parry 1h slashing adornment, Drape of the Blackhearted, Green Dragon Shield, and Pristine Incarnadine Table.



Virutis is doing it with much better gear form Avatars and Trak, VP, etc., but I'm just showing that it's still possible with low end raid content and group encounter or lower content.


The new Shard of Hate zone drops a pair of greaves with high mitigation (713) and +3 defense, +6 parry IIRC. Hate Hardened Greaves, and they drop off trash right now (not sure if this will get patched out).

Our VP set greaves are obviously better for DPS and barely inferior from a survivability standpoint. For those that don't yet have VP set greaves, these are that much nicer. I probably wouldn't use the Hate Hardened Greaves except in situations where I knew I would be MTing (or have to pick up aggro from a dead MT) or OTing something rough.