Since the World of Warcraft TBC version of the Retro Suit P2 does not have a new shield, defense and anti-mounts players are still using the Guardian of Aldo's Legacy dropped by Grul in P1. Fortunately, the P3 stage will drop two brand new shields, which is not only a very classic appearance, but also one of the best in the entire TBC version in terms of attributes.
The two shields of the P3 phase are the Heart of Kazloga (Card Heart) dropped by boss Of Mount Haigar 3 and the Barrier of Essinos (Egg Shield) dropped by illidan of the Dark Temple, which were loved by players in the TBC version more than a decade ago, so which of these two shields is better? Let's analyze it.
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Although the Egg Shield is an Illidan drop item and has an equipment level of 151, in terms of basic attributes, the card heart is not inferior to the Egg Shield, and the difference in attributes between the two is extremely small in the case of using blue quality gems.
The armor value of the card heart is 5930 points, and the armor value of the egg shield is 6336 points. Although the difference between the two is 400 points of armor, the reduction effect of these 400 points of armor is not as high as expected.
In terms of shield block value, the card heart is missing 18.2 block value, but this 18.2 block value is equivalent to 18.2 damage reduction, that is, each attack will be reduced by 18.2, which is almost meaningless in boss battles.
The advantage of the card heart is the increased 21 hits, although many players feel that the hit attribute is not as important as the DPS for the tank class, but the damage of the DPS class is very high today, and the hate pressure of the tank class is increasing. The high hit can also make the tank more comfortable, not to mention that from the P3 stage, the hatred ability of the defense will gradually decrease, which further enhances the value of the hit attribute.
In addition to the base attributes, the biggest advantage of the Egg Shield is that it has an additional trigger effect, which is a 2% chance to gain 2000 armor points when hit for 10 seconds.
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Admittedly, 2,000 armor points is very valuable for tanks, but the biggest problem with this effect is that the trigger is too low.
The average attack speed of the TBC version boss is 2 seconds, and the defensive Thunder strike can reduce the attack speed by 20%, that is, it becomes 2.4 seconds, and it can hit 25 times in 1 minute. Even if calculated according to expectations, on average, it can only be triggered once every 2 minutes, not to mention that the trigger of the egg shield does not reach 2 minutes at all.
More than a decade ago, many players started with egg shields, and there was a very interesting meme in that year, that is, the trigger of egg shields was based on each day, that is, it could only be triggered once a day. Although the actual situation is not so exaggerated, it also reflects how low the trigger probability of the egg shield effect is from the side.
In addition, there was a saying that the trigger of the anti-riding egg shield pulling the mob would be very high, but the nostalgic suit was not the 3.13 version, and the anti-riding of the 10,000-year-old TBC did not need to be injured, and the anti-riding of the nostalgic suit still needed the magic wound, instead of using the egg shield, it was better to directly use the magic wound shield dropped by Akmund.
In fact, in P3, the use of egg shields and card hearts can actually be, players can choose to start according to their actual situation, the pursuit of hatred will use card hearts, focusing on survival to use egg shields. However, since the egg shield is dropped by Illidan, and the difficulty of Illidan is there, players can directly choose the card heart.