As I’m leveling up to 80 I’m preparing for tanking heroics. I’m trying to hit each dungeon at least once so that I’m acquainted with the content by the time 80 rolls around. Before each of these runs I found myself wandering through WoWHead to find out if there were tanking items that I should be watching for. There are very often decent tanking pieces from quest rewards so I want to be sure to have the quests lined up before my first run. I also take a peek at the drop tables to see if there are any tanking items to hope for.
I thought it’d be nice to do all this research in one go so that I could consult this post as I continue to level up. So here it is.
Now, I’m being rather conservative with the definition of tanking items. I want to see avoidance in the stats. This misses all the one-handed weapons, notably, but I think that’s OK. We all know that most of our abilities scale well with Attack Power now and that we can use DPS weapons instead of caster weapons. Right? Right.
With any luck I’ll get a decent number of drops from the dungeons as I go. I’d rather not have to go too nuts farming crafted and faction items to build a set with enough defense to be uncrittable in heroics. We’ll see.
On to the loots!
| Drops | Quest Rewards |
| Utgarde Keep | |
| [Woven Steel Necklace] | |
| The Nexus | |
| [Boots of the Unbowed Protector] [Gauntlets of the Disturbed Giant] [Tundra Pauldrons] |
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| Ajzol-Nerub | |
| [Signet of Arachnathid Command] | [Expelling Gauntlets] |
| Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom | |
| [Battlechest of the Twilight Cult] | |
| Drak’Tharon Keep | |
| [Kurzel's Warband] | |
| The Violet Hold | |
| [Screeching Cape] [Riot Shield] [Void Sentry Legplates] |
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| Gundrak | |
| [Gal'darah's Signet] | [Solid Platinum Band] |
| Halls of Stone | |
| [Amulet of Wills] | [Pauldrons of Reconnaissance] |
| Halls of Lightning | |
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[Seal of the Pantheon] [Eternally Folded Blade] |
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| The Oculus | |
| [Dragonflight Great-Ring] [Girdle of Obscuring] [Helm of the Ley-Guardian] |
[Bracers of Reverence] [Staunch Signet] |
| The Culling of Strathholme | |
| [Bracers of Reverence] [Staunch Signet] [Leeka's Shield] [Slaughterhouse Sabatons] |
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| Utgarde Pinnacle | |
| [Amulet of Deflected Blows] [Reanimated Armor] [Svala's Bloodied Shackles] |
[Silver-Plated Battlechest] |
Tags: blue, drops, five-mans, quest rewards, tanking items
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