Darksend's Weekly Tip: Are you gemmed and enchanted properly?

The goal of this blog is to give advice, insights, and help to the community. The "this is new and looks interesting" posts, such as those of the past few days, will contribute a great deal towards that end. My main focus and purpose behind this blog however has always been this segment, which I will be posting once a week, usually on Tuesday. "Darksend's Weekly Tips" will contain guides on various topics ranging from gear to macros to tricks for tanking specific encounters. They will be the most informative, structured, and thought out topics to be posted on the site. The 1st two weeks are going to cover how to properly gem and enchant your gear. So, are you gemmed and enchanted properly?

Although maybe that question is to broad, perhaps the question you should be asking yourself is, "Is this item gemmed and enchanted properly for the gear set I am trying to fit this piece into?"

	Effective Health	Avoidance	Threat
Head	Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector	Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector	Arcanum of Torment
Shoulder	30 Stamina	20 Dodge/15 Defense	40 AP/15 Crit
Back	225 Armor	22 Agility	22 Agility
Chest	18 Stamina (only with kings and imp MOTW)	10 to All Stats	10 to All Stats
Wrist	40 Stamina	6 to all stats	15 Expertise
Weapon	110 AP (kinda)	Mongoose	Accuracy (before hit cap) / Mongoose
Feet	22 Stam	16 Agility	Icewalker
Legs	Frosthide Leg Armor	Frosthide Leg Armor	Icescale Leg Armor
Hands	18 Stamina	20 Agility	20 Hit / 15 Expertise
Red Socket	8 Agi 12 Stam	16 Agi	16 Expertise / 8 Expertise 8 Hit
Yellow Socket	8 Hit 12 Stam	8 Agi 8 Hit	16 Hit / 8 Expertise 8 Hit
Blue Socket	24 Stam	8 Agi 12 Stam	8 Expertise 12 Stam / 8 Hit 12 Stam

This includes no profession specific enchants, but it also excludes some enchants that could be arguably better. For threat on helm, the old world 34 AP 16 Hit from CE rep could be better until the hit cap. For pure avoidance to chest, 10 stats gives 12 agi with imp mark, SOTF, and kings. 22 Defense gives .07% more avoidance than 12 agi. For gloves, Armsman, despite giving parry, may actually be more threat than either of the enchants listed, especially if without either you are already hit and expertise capped. Finally, Tuskarr's Vitality gives much more utility than Fortitude, but for reasons of pure EH it does not make the list.


Next week in part 2 I will be posting a write up on how to decide if socket bonuses are worth matching.