Tanking, falling away from goals...

After my Paladins' first trip to Naxx, I spent around 400g on the Auction House, upgrading his much needed Tanking gear. Every quest reward where there was a choice I took a Healing item, so generally my healing gear is a bit better. While it's true a fair bit of my Tanking gear is still level 70 stuff, i've also got a few more epics from Naxx on my Healer.

Naxx on tuesday I had Tanking as my main role for rolling (although I was still healing) and picked up 3/4 items, pity it wasn't more, and I hated losing on items, but still 3/4 tanking items is a nice number from 1 run, especially since I remember on my hunter doing run after run without getting a single item.

But defense is becoming a problem. After the Auction House trip, my Defense lept from 490 to 530, still 10 from the Cap. Then I got a couple of epics from Naxx, and my defense is getting lower... I'd have a blue with 80 Defense on it, and then an epic drops, with 50 more Stamina, a bunch of Dodge, maybe some block rating, and only 66 Defense. While the item is vastly superior, I need defense.

A possible solution is gemming defense. But none of these tanking epics have sockets on them.

This means it'll be a while before i'm in a raid shouting "Let me tank this boss!" especially since i've seen around 7 peices of T7 drop for me, and not won a single peice, even when i'm rolling on healing gear first, at least then I could complain it's not for the spec I need it for the most.

Tonight it's Ulduar, and I won't be allowed to take my paladin, it'll be Tomas the Hunter all the way, which I don't mind much, since my Paladin would have a fair bit of competition for loot, and the chances are other people there have earned it more, although I will be extremely cheeky and ask, if there are few or no paladin healers, the worst that can happen is Ian says no.

I do need some heroics, but i'm not in a rush until 3.2 when I can get great badges, but I want to be great by 3.2 so I can tank the new stuff... But who knows how long that will be away? I might easly get there, I might have no chance, I should do heroics anyway for rep and more items.