PSA: Restoration is a useful stat for tanks

I have a public service announcement in response to someone who was ridiculing me in-game for having restoration mods in my 2 pieces of gear with yellow sockets. (I have dominance mods in the other sockets)

Restoration is indeed a useful stat for tanks.

Resto mods give more stats than a dominance mod, even taking into account that dom is doubled in tank stance. For example, Restoration VII gives 162 Restoration while Dominance VII gives 54.

I'll give the info for ice:
Bitter Winds: Shield Damage Prevention = 100% Dominance + 100% Restoration
Shatter Restraints: Shield Damage Prevention = 100% Dominance + 100% Restoration
Winter Ward: Shield Damage Prevention = 100% Dominance + 100% Restoration

Ice Elemental: Healing scales with 100% Dominance + 100% Restoration
Hibernation: Healing scales with 100% Dominance + 100% Restoration

(Reflection while in tank mode does not get helped by resto, except when using regenerative shielding hand mod, in which case it improves the amount of healing)


I know it helps with the other tank powers as well, maybe someone else can chime in for the details on those.

Pretty sure it factors into rage and fire quite heavily, along with the crit heals innates.

I already know this but thanks anyway.

Resto doesn't help Rage tanks. They do help fire (self-heals).

Is it really that unknown that resto scales shields? If yes, then I'll add it into my guide "A few things you probably didn't knwo yet".

Of course it's great to have as an ice tank because we have so many shields.....

So your PSA is more like Resto is useful for some tanks and shields.

I'm sure it is. You run into clueless people all the time in game.

There's still people in game (and shockingly on here) who think Dom has an effect on aggro. SMH.

Rage tanks self heal outside of rage mode a portion of damage dealt. Precision and might help a rage tank more than resto does.

Resto only effects 2 things for Rage tanks.

1. The small heal from Ire.
2. The mitigation totals on Redirected Rage.

The shield is bad so number 2 really doesn't count lol.

Rages other heals are based on DMG recieved (Severe Punishment, Relentless Anger), Prec DMG delt (Remorseless Recovery), and might DMG delt (Ragebringer, Rage Blast, Without Mercy)

GL and have fun!

Its mostly with Shields, which is why its just as important as an Ice Tank compared to Dom. With the exception of Fire and Ice, Restore doesn't really help the other 2 a whole lot.

well of course restoration helps tanks ( mainly ice & fire) but i would go with dom& hp or resto&hp before pure restoration for any tank power.

For my Fire Tank I use:
Blue= Dom & Health
RED= Might & Health or Might & Domain
Yellow= Resto & Health

Has worked out pretty good for me so far.

LOL. OMG. I was trying to tell this to a tank in hh the other day. He said you needed 4500 dom to keep aggro on black adam. I tried kindly to explain your taunt keeps aggro. Not dom. He proceeded to call me a fool and said I was making myself look stupid. Asked why then a tank with lower dom couldn't steal aggro. While I explained they could. Was told to stick to healing(was on my sorc at the time) Even though I'm one of the better tanks on game. It's mind boggling people can make it to end game and be clueless about how their power and this game works

Neither is an option for yellow sockets.

For Ice and Fire, anything that gives at least 0.5 dom to 1 resto pick the dom. If you're getting over double the restoration compared to dom, and your dom is above that required to pull enemies in that tier, then I'd get the restoration.

It's not, the game does a very poor job of making this information available in game, or explaining how any of this actually works.

Considering most guides are about the same size as a final year thesis and not much easier to read through...

Then how easy/quick it is to get to endgame...

I'm amazed anyone knows anything, I'm amazed I know this stuff.

Don't let stupid people bring you down to their level.

It says under the stats in the menu: "Restoration increases healing and increases the potency of certain defensive abilities."

Resto health is an option for yellow. With fire once your over minimum dom requirement you can mod resto health in everything and be golden.

Ah, yeah my mistake.

Certain defensive abilities means shields. Most rage tanks don't use shields