Badass (?) BoE Blues in Wrath!

Some more item information has been released! (MMO-Champion.com)

Blade-Binding Bulwark (Req 76)
6011 Armor
43 Sta
19 Str
27 Block Rating
21 Def Rating

Earthbound Cape (Req 72)
107 Armor
31 Sta
21 Str
22 Dodge Rating
18 Def Rating

Greathelm of the Unyielding Bull (Req 75)
1414 Armor
75 Sta
32 Str
46 Def Rating
36 Parry Rating

Grips of the Valiant Champion (Req 72)
997 Armor
31 Str
48 Sta
21 Dodge Rating
24 Parry Rating

Tooga's Lost Toenail (Req 70)
280 Armor
28 Sta
19 Str
19 Def Rating

Worgen's Ring of Revitalization (Req 72)
126 Armor
31 Sta
24 Resil Rating
21 Dodge Rating

Items like these (boe leveling tanking blues ftw) along with Blizz's apparent commitment to improving Blacksmithing's value to tanks is really cool.
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US > Garithos > Tycho (70 BE Pally - For The Horde!)

Interesting note....that shield has slightly more armor than Kaz'rogal's Hardened Heart, which gives us a decent bead on how the ilevels shake out (though in this case KHH wins out due to the socket it looks like). That's level 76 blues on par with i141 epics, a bit more aggressive of a reset than I was expecting.

It's still just one item comparison though, I'll be interested to see more.
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That works for me. If level 76 blues (probably about on par with greens and blues at the end of long quest chains at 80) are on par with what I'm wearing now, I can easily get by on my current gear to level 80 instances, assuming the mechanics changes aren't a massive shake-up.
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Stormreaver US

Modus | Governor

Keep in mind these are BOE blue items that are being linked. Most likely (following current trends) they will drop more commonly from content that is higher level than their lvl req. What we need to see are dungeon rewards, esp. from the higher level content.
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Mavrix
BE Tankadin
Dalaran

vicis pro factum

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dalaran&n=Mavrix

Looks to be in line with itemization level of WoW -> BC: not-quite endgame epics = 75 (or 65 in BC) blues.
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armory | youtube | pally stole my bike

BC vs. pre-bc epic shield

Shield of the Wayward Footman comes to mind as a lvl 65 boe blue
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31200
Looks like it drops off guys around the same lvl.

compared to
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=21269#comments
and
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19349

Roughly on par.

Also, it appears that all tanking gear will have str.
I haven't seen any tanking gear with spellpower yet...
Divine Strength will need a hard look at 80 for sure.

Well with the 2 str = 1 sbv change, plus DK's wanting str for obvious reasons, it seems likely anyway.
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I can keep rhythm with no metronome.

Pretty nice stats on it.
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Exactly like i guessed T6+ will last us until 70
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Proud founder of the 40/21 club

Blizzard said the gear reset would not be as dramatic as it was in TBC but we can see that's clearly false now :/ Looks like there will be dungeon blues that are better than the Illidan and Sunwell shields.
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