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.
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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 | 37 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, gear, gear choice, icecrown, loot, priority, tank, weapons 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 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 | 31 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 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 | 59 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 What is the best Death Knight Unholy tank spec in 3.3? I set out to simulate the various talent choices to find the highest threat unholy DK tank build. Below [ more...] November 2nd, 2009 | 43 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, aoe, bone shield, glyph, kahorie, Simulation, spec, tank, tps, unholy My gratitude to Honors for tweeting this. Theckhd is a serious maths guru. He worked out the avoidance value of expertise. He has now looked at the -20% dodge aura [ more...] October 31st, 2009 | 3 comments |
From: Gear and stats, News discussion, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, avoidance, Cataclysm, healers, tank The race change feature is now available. You can’t create any of the new race/class combinations in Cataclysm, but you can at least change race. I have already written a detailed [ more...] Rawr, the multi-faceted simulation tool, has had a developer working on the DK tank module for a while now. It has just been updated to reflect the 3.22 changes also. Rawr [ more...] October 27th, 2009 | 2 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose equipment | Tags: 3.22, rawr, Simulation, tank Plate tank gear you can get from emblems, BoEs from the AH or professions. Useful to plan gearing up a new or alt tank without having to actually raid. Helps [ more...] October 11th, 2009 | 17 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.22, 3.3, avoidance, emblem, gear, gold, tank In late August, Theckhd of Maintankadin started an epic post to work out, if expertise was an avoidance stat, how good would it be? The exact ratios below apply to [ more...] October 6th, 2009 | 3 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: agility, avoidance, expertise, gear, tank Dec 18th: updated for 3.3, using latest calculations from the simulator, and adjusted for ICC avoidance aura. Jan 4th: dual-wield frost updated. DPS Death Knights are really into Equivalance Points (“EP”) [ more...] September 8th, 2009 | 8 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.22, blood, ep, equivalence points, frost, gear, kahorie, Simulation, stats, tank, tps, unholy, weapons I’ve seen a few questions on this over time: what food should a tank eat for buffs? The best tank food is Blackened Dragonfin, since it gives you avoidance. You’d take this [ more...] If you’re handling loot, you should know what kinds of weapons a DK tank will want. If you’re giving loot priority to tanks this should also mean DK tanks get [ more...] September 4th, 2009 | 10 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: dual wield, gear, loot, stamina, stats, tank, weapons Which race has the best abilities for tanking? Which racials help a tank more so than a PvPer or DPSer? Before DKs were born, I wrote this analysis so I could [ more...] |
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