Need some lvl 70 AA advice

[Raidyen]

<p>I am trying to figure out what to do with my aa's now.  For the last 67 levels, i have played primarly in a duo, or a group of 4 or 5 close friends.  I have been the tank in these groups, and have AA spec'd accordingly.  Str 4/6/8/4/2 Sta 4/4/7/8/2.  So last night we did an OOB run, and my ranger friend had a parser.  I was parsing just above the fury in the group.  Granted the fury was a level higher and is DPS spec'd, and i was tanking, but still, i felt that i was way below where a swash should be.  Plus the fact the wizard and ranger where often doubling even tripling what my dps output was.</p><p>Later that night we took the group over to MMC, and picked up a tank, so i decided to respec my aa's just to see what all the fuss was about with wis/agi.  With that spec (along with getting the mobs back) i was consistantly matching or even beating the level 70 wizard and the 69 ranger in dps.</p><p>So now im at a major delima.  I still need to tank often with a fury duo, and also with my small group of RL friends, however i don't like the lack of dps i do with my current tanking build.  So i am trying to find a build somewhere in between.  I want to stay with the sta line, the hitpoint and defensive increase plus the use of a good shield are huge for tanking, and for pvp.  So i am trying to decide between agi or wis to go with it.  Now wis the only thing useful while i am tanking with a shield is coule, but in a group with a real tank i can drop the shield and get the full benefits of that line.  On the other hand, the agi line i gain all the benefits of it even with a shield, however 4 points are wasted in run speed, there isn't any increases to defense, and i don't think the dps increase would be as much as the wis line when im not tanking.</p><p>So does anyone have any experience or opinions with this?  Any input will help.  Thanks !</p>

[NorrinRadd]

Try Maxing out your Str/Wis Trees & Using your Def. Stance when you MT for your group of Friends(Master the Stance if you can) & see how that works for you.  4/4/7/8/2 In Wisdom.

[Rippitt]

What he said. 4-4-6-8-2 STR 4-4-7-8-2 WIS With that build, defense stance, and wearing all the claymore rewards, your avoidance will be roughly 60% or very close to it. I have the 1h from lyceum with the 2% riposte/parry adornment on it (it also has +2 defense and procs +10 defense) for tanking. Everything proc'd I'm at around 62% avoidance and 3500 mitigation with just my buffs. Unfortunately that's better than most level 70 plate tanks, even some of those with at least KoS raid gear.

[Raidyen]

<p>ok ill give that a shot this weekend.  I am a little worried about loosing the AoE taunt, and the extra 1k hitpoints the sta line gives, but if it gives me some more damage to offset that, i might be able to live with it.</p><p> Thanks.</p>