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Since this thread is about defence for regular dungeons I took you to be talking about them. Even the level 80 ones really don't require that much defence.
Even in Normal Lv80 dungeons, you don't want your tank eating criticals.
If I recall, the bosses are at least Lv81 which would take a def of 530 to be uncrittable against a Lv81 mob, right?
I remember running Oculus, it was _hard_ and I'm not talking the drake phase, that mage I remember he hit pretty hard with his physical hits, and then the boss where you teleport around on the platforms, those groups hit like trucks (for a normal dungeon) too if I recall. I know I wouldn't want to be eating criticals there either.
And then you got HoL... or HoS, too. Or CoS.
I can't think of any places in these dungeons where I'd want to be taking critical hits.
At Lv80, fresh 80, in full Lv78-80 BoEs, 530 def is easy to attain. To step into a dungeon without it, you'd have to purposefully not equip cheap tanking gear you can pick up out of the AH as soon as you dinged 80.
535 will likely take a little enchanting or a BoP or two, or a couple thousand gold for things like a Titansteel Shield Wall (which you *should* pick up asap anyways).
540, definitely need enchants and gems, no way around that. BoPs would be very nice at this point too, and if you can reach 540, chances are you probably have at least 24k health and you should be starting heroics anyways.
Very few people go to Normal Lv80 dungeons; you get no emblems of conquest for doing so, you'd almost need a group of friends who aren't quite geared to step into heroics (any DPS who knows their class/rotation can pick up the full crafted blue PvP set and step into a heroic and do enough DPS to clear the dungeon).
So, when you ding 80... one should ask themselves... "should I just cheap-*** my way through Normal Dungeons for a couple weeks to get BoPs in Normal, or just skip that and do a few days of Argent Tournament to come up with the money to buy a REAL tank set that will get me through N-ToC and into H-UK and the like?"
I think the answer would be pretty clear to me. Why purposefully gear to 'barely be good enough' when 'easily able to' is not hard to come by? Face it, a full set of Tempered Saronite/Daunting isn't expensive. Titansteel Shield Wall goes for about 1k-1.5k on most servers, that'll take you 5-10 days at max worth of dailies (which you should be doing anyways, the Teldrassil/Sen'jin Protector is just too awesome of a weapon to pass up) will give you the money for that, and not to mention, you will be needing Sons of Hodir rep anyways. Also, if you enjoy Dual-speccing, you'll want to do Knights of the Ebon Blade for the boots. I remember getting 350-400 gold per day doing Argent Tournament, Knights of the Ebon Blade, and Sons of Hodir. Doing that, 3 days would get you the Shield Wall, and another 2 maybe 3 would get you your Tempered Titansteel Helmet.
It isn't hard, TBH.
Edit: The Priest in the OP said he is Lv79... that means he's probably doing the "Level 80" dungeons -- HoS, HoL, Oculus (*shiver*), CoS, etc. I can't imagine why he'd want to step into the <Lv75 ones.
Edited, Oct 4th 2009 10:53am by Zariamnk