Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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so, i fully understand the necessity of being defense capped. Just at the moment i am not, purely because this toon is so new.
My point is that insistence on this stat is often given more weighting and emphasis than is often required, and i hoped to back that claim up by saying that i'd managed to run these instances in a non-defense capped toon. I wouldn't even say we went to the icecrown heroics hoping to clear them (i'm not arrogant when it comes to things i've no experience in).. rather to see how we'd go in the first instance, and keep doing that for the drops and emblems that we could both earn there. Our group was up for continuing to the next instances as things went well.