The streamlined newbie experience

Unless you have rolled a L1 alt recently, you won’t realise how much Blizzard have improved the experience for new players. People completely new to WoW will really find their [ more...]

Updated strategies index

I’ve put some new references into my meta-guide of Icecrown boss strategies.

The new content is from bloggers Death Goddess (Hinenuitepo), Divine Plea, Children of Wrath (Renaissance Man), Wrathy, Leafhead. Included [ more...]

Many interesting Blue posts

There really is quite a lot of meaning packed into these posts. What do you guys think?

Top guilds and raid encounters difficulty

Players try to play that card a [ more...]

Flask market indicates the beginning of the free epics period

First, Frost Lotus rate up 50%.

Now, Frost Lotus for free from frozen orbs. I bet every orb on your AH is already sold by profiteers ahead of the market. They [ more...]

Patch 3.33 for DK tanks is goodness

Significant changes for DK tanks.

Probably help dps too, but I don’t write about that as much, like DW Frost dps might be viable (instead of lame).

Awesome, [Will of [ more...]

Woo more stamina for us!

Frost Presence now provides 8% Stamina, up from 6% Stamina.
Icebound Fortitude now provides 30% base damage reduction, up from 20% damage reduction. For a geared tank with high defense, this [ more...]

The spoon-fed era

The combination of:

easy and abundant Emblems of such high iLevel,
teleportation instantly to and from the instance,
easy PUGs with cross-realms giving minimal waiting times and
T9 raiders carrying people in random LFG [ more...]

What I like about 3.3

I think 3.3 is a great patch, not just the new content we’ll see but the major changes to the systems. Beyond the new raid and 5-mans, Blizzard have really [ more...]

Rune strike is soooo threatening!

Oh yes, I’m absolutely grinning. I’m flushed.

PTR 3.3 notes:

Rune Strike: Threat generated by this ability increased by approximately 17%.

That’s just what we need in Icecrown to make up for the [ more...]

Theckhd, maths guru, delivers Icecrown answers

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...]

Icecrown pwns you for 20%, and healing in Cataclysm

Icecrown is going to nerf your dodge by 20%, with an aura similar to Sunwell.

Daelos’ post on it:»

For tank gemming, you are basically just dealing with your discretionary gem [ more...]

New LFG is win

I really like the upcoming changes for LFG. It shows a well-thought out solution, which understands the problems it’s trying to solve too.

For example, having the system teleport you to [ more...]

Mucho news

There really is a lot going on right now. Let me show you the posts which have got my attention over the last week whilst I’ve been stupid busy at [ more...]

Turbulent times for unholy DKs

Unholy has gone back and forth so much.

Recently, its threat sucked.
Then it was Unholy Obliterate spec for deeps
That got nerfed away.
Today it’s no-reaping Unholy with no-epidemic
and on 3.3 that’s being changed [ more...]

Frost is for dual-wield tanking in 3.3

New patch notes.

Dual-wield frost tanking with a runeforge is coming. My guide is helpful here.

Also the change to IT Glyph is very interesting and will have consequences in frost and [ more...]

Installer patch notes 3.2.2

I have downloaded the patch 3.2.2 now. Here are the notes for your interest while servers are being maintained and until MMO or someone produces a nicely formatted version.

Boubou wins, [ more...]

PTR 3.22 unbreakable armour

Currently, PTR 3.22 unbreakable armour gives +25% armour and the glyph takes it to +30% (tooltip on glyph is a bit confusing).

If you compare that to bone shield at 15 [ more...]

Patch 3.22

This index post helps readers find my posts on the 3.22 changes for DK tanking. I had it stickied to front page for a while.

Death knight tank builds for unholy, frost [ more...]

DK 3.22 talent changes

3.22 is now live, check my index post.

My tank builds and levelling specs have been updated.

These changes mean:

Unholy dps will go back to using Scourge Strike (instead of Unholy Obliterate, [ more...]

Anub’arak, Koralon and Vezax hard-mode video

Update Sept 7: Paragon have killed Anub’arak in 25-man heroic (ie. ‘hard mode’). Loot and details.

Original post: A greatly respected member of the deathknight.info community, Splug, has published a Tankspot [ more...]

News

Some news that got my attention.

Part two of the detailed and long Eurogamer interview on WoW. Thanks for the link Kadomi.

wowenomics linked to this short interview with production director Jay Wilson.

WoWraid [ more...]

Cross-server PUG dungeons: Blizzcon

One item that got my attention is this, from the wowraid liveblogging in Dungeon & Raid Panel:

1:42

csulok:  CROSSREALM PUG DUNGEONS!

1:42

Cartina:  Cross-Server LFG being talked about

1:43

csulok:  planned for patch 3.3 [ more...]

IGN history of Warcraft, and news

Some news and posts that caught my eye this morning.

A solid article on the history of Warcraft from IGN.

Satorri has written an epic essay on blood tanking.

Plus Cold Comfort is [ more...]

Warrior 3.2 tank spec, and no more badge gear

Warrior tank specs

I presume any tank reader on my site knows Veneretio well, he’s posted the warrior tanks specs he’s running.

No more badge gear tank upgrades

Last night, I got my [ more...]

Hiya Whitetooth, TankPoints on 3.2?

Aug 18: TankPoints r108 released (it includes the new 3.2 RatingBuster maths so it will calculate avoidance correctly), but not pushed with correct TOC yet. Just edit the TOC yourself, [ more...]