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Posting here on parry-haste, the proc nerf and following me on Twitter. The other day I posted about preliminary findings which show ICC has parry-haste mostly turned off for the raid [ more...] February 11th, 2010 | 11 comments |
 From: Raid and 5-man guides, Tanking in general |  Tags: avoidance, dual wield, expertise, icc, parry haste, parrygib, tank, theck Sure, Unholy’s fairly weak for tanking, but does it matter? The usual argument I hear, a flawed one at that, is “you pay your $15, you choose your spec”. That is [ more...] The new season PvP weapons are awesome. If you can get into an arena team for points and enough rating, man the rewards are sweet. If you’re only a 10-man raider [ more...] February 3rd, 2010 | 6 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, gear, pvp, season 8, stamina, weapons I thought it might be useful to review the tank weapon choices for Death Knights, and provide a rank order. Officers distributing loot could consider this a priority table: I would suggest [ more...] January 25th, 2010 | 40 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, gear, gear choice, icecrown, loot, priority, tank, weapons I set out to tabulate those abilities Death Knights have which require the global cooldown, or trigger it, and which require you are facing the opponent, or can have your [ more...] Instead of writing my own guide, I’ll compile references to those already written. I have an index of the guides from those sites most people use, plus have tried to include [ more...] January 20th, 2010 | 4 comments |
From: Boss strategies, Raid and 5-man guides | Tags: blood princes, deathwhisper, festergut, gunship, icc, icecrown citadel, lana'thel, lich king, marrowgar, putricide, rotface, saurfang, sindragosa, valithria What gems do you use for tanking? This should be fairly well-known, but it might be an interesting discussion if we have any avoidance advocates out there who don’t like [ more...] January 19th, 2010 | 40 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: avoidance, gem, socket, stamina, theck DK tanks can feel squishy compared to block-tanks in 5-mans. You can offset a lot of this through skill. We have a pretty impressive arsenal to use. Here are some important [ more...] January 14th, 2010 | 13 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Playing better, new to tanking | Tags: ams, aoe, heroics, ibf, tank, training Frost dual-wield tanking is very popular now. Six months ago, many people were violently against the idea. A year ago, it was so bad I put up a sticky on [ more...] January 11th, 2010 | 23 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose equipment | Tags: dual wield, dw, expertise, frost, parry haste, parrygib, warrior Just wanted you to know, I checked Unholy vs Frost and Blood in Kahorie’s sim, and the TPS gap I’d seen in earlier simulations has been closed somewhat. This is [ more...] January 7th, 2010 | 13 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, comparison, threat, unholy Improved Icy Talons This is a really important buff, providing melee haste like a talented windfury totem. Either you provide it or a shaman does. In a 25-man raid, you should [ more...] January 2nd, 2010 | 35 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Tanking, choose spec | Tags: frost series, howling blast, iit, improved icy talons, one disease, talents, tank, two disease, windfury For Frost tanks, what threat values do some of these talents provide? chill of the grave: +1.6% with Icecrown dodge-nerf radiance, 1.8% outside it (tested by going from 1 to 2 points) January 1st, 2010 | 11 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: acclimation, chilblains, chill of the grave, comparison, frost, frost series, kahorie, runic power mastery, scent of blood, sim, talents, tank, threat, tps Blood is so flexible. You can spec into survival, single or AOE threat. What’s the threat you gain from a heavy threat build compared to one for survival? Survival Here’s a really [ more...] January 1st, 2010 | 13 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, comparison, kahorie, minmax, sim, spec, survival, tank, threat I have verified some of the threat comparisons using the latest version of Kahorie’s sim. It’s had a few tweaks so I wanted to see if that refinement had led [ more...] December 24th, 2009 | 18 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Tanking, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, comparison, frost, spec, talents, tank, threat, tps, unholy List of new 3.3 BoP plate tank gear from 5-mans and emblem of frost rewards, by slot. You earn Frost emblems from raiding, or from the daily/weekly quests. For gear from [ more...] December 16th, 2009 | 9 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, avoidance, bop, emblem, gear, loot, tank For raids, I’d go with blood or frost. Here are my posts with much more detail. Patch 3.3 Feb 22, 2010 update: Unholy should not be [ more...] December 9th, 2009 | 14 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, best, blood, frost, raid, spec, tank, unholy Blood remains the best single-target raid tank spec. For blood, nothing changed in 3.3 from 3.22, so you don’t really need to respec. You might go into will of the [ more...] December 9th, 2009 | 32 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, heroic, raid, spec, tank, threat I’d hope you’ve seen this thread on maintankadin, it’s been fairly regularly mentioned around the blogosphere and twitter. Theck has worked out a new formula for effective health which accounts for [ more...] November 30th, 2009 | 7 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: eh, formula, gear, stat, total effective health There’s a maturity cycle that tanks progress through. One of the marks of a mature, experienced tank is they know the encounters and they plan ahead. Newer tanks are usually [ more...] November 28th, 2009 | 2 comments |
From: Tanking in general, new to tanking | Tags: experience, maturity, planning, runes, tank Here’s a debut post from Tykot. – Gravity Across all the guides and strategies I read, not to mention peeking at Ensidia’s armory profiles, Jewelcrafting stands out as the obvious #1 profession. Not [ more...] Frost tanking has always been and will remain in 3.3 a very solid choice. You can tank with either dual-wield or a two-handed weapon and both are viable. DW is [ more...] November 15th, 2009 | 61 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, frost, howling blast, spec, tank, tps, unbreakable armour I like warrior tanks, they have so many abilities really they deserve to be called the swiss army knife of tanks. Warriors can intercept and charge, interrupt/silence many ways, cancel [ more...] November 11th, 2009 | 16 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: blood, frost, leadership, lego, tank, tps, unholy, warrior A lot has been written about why you should not keyboard turn (it’s too slow), and that you should keybind. I wrote about how PvP improves your raiding too. I’m [ more...] November 6th, 2009 | 25 comments |
From: Tanking in general, new to tanking | Tags: aoe, keybinding, macro, pvp, tank I get a lot of questions like “what’s the rotation for that spec?” Rotation is like Death Knight basics, and since I write on more advanced tanking questions, it’s not [ more...] November 5th, 2009 | 16 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, new to tanking | Tags: dps, frost, glyph, priority, rotation, spec, tank |
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