Dear classic community,
I’m trying to avoid a feeling. That feeling when you have 2 pieces of gear and you don’t know which one is best because you might know stat priorities, but not their exact values.
Let’s use feral tank as an example.
From what I’ve looked up on google there are different priorities depending on the information source.
Wowhead:
- 9% Hit Rating
- Armor
- Agility
- Strength and Attack Power
- Stamina
Blizzard forums: in this post people seem to agree with those 3 stats, similar to noxxic and icy veins but they don’t mention defense nor any other stat: blizzard forums classic feral tank stats topic
#1 Armor
#2 Stamina
#3 Agility
This post on reddit seems to be agreed on this: reddit post on classic feral tank stats
1 Armor
2 Stamina
3 Dodge/Agility
4 Defense
5 Hit
6 Crit
7 Strength/AP
Pawn:
Pawn uses this values to calculate what item is better, as you will see, the numbers are absolute nonsense. 1 health per 5 seconds is 20 times more valuable than 1 armor? 1 armor is as valuable as 1 intellect? Strength is double as valuable as armor? (remember we’re talking feral tank here) 
You can edit the values in pawn, but the question remains, what values do I enter? I know some values become obsolete when you reach hit cap or things like this, but that only happens at high level of gear and I will worry about that later on.
- Dodge = 3.5872
- 1 Health per 5 sec = 2
- Hit = 1.50069
- Crit = 1.275
- Stamina = 1
- Agility = 0.48
- Defense = 0.39
- AP = 0.34
- Strength = 0.2
- Armor = 0.1
- Intellect = 0.1
Icy veins and noxxic agree on priorities: (finally some common ground between 2 sources of information)
- Armor;
- Stamina;
- Defense;
- Agility/Dodge;
- Hit chance until 9% (Hit Cap)
- Strength;
- Attack Power;
- Critical Strike chance;
Now what I’m trying to figure out is what source is more trustworthy, (it seems icy veins and noxxic have some priorities that make sense) But I still don’t know the weights.
Armor has a higher priority than stamina. This only tells me I’ll pick 1 armor over 1 stamina. What about 2 stamina?, 3? 5? 16? You see what I mean?
Stamina has higher priority than agility. Again, following this I can tell 1 stamina is better than 1 agility, but what about 1 stamina vs 2 agility, or 4 or 18?
Once I figure out the exact weights (I know they will differ at max level once I start getting propper gear) I can enter those weights onto pawn and let the addon do the math for me.
Thanks in advance and greetings from Barcelona!