A hack that can bypass your authenticator!

There was a report of a user who suddenly had a memory error in WoW. After it crashed, he tried to log in again and had been hacked.

The answer has [ more...]

Enjoying your tanking

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...]

Which abilities require the GCD or facing opponent

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...]

Tanking to be less squishy

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...]

Jewelcrafting: Profit!

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...]

Levelling enchanting

I decided to level enchanting and mining on my new DK. Enchanting is expensive to level up.

From 1 to 300, it has cost 720g so far. Some of the enchants [ more...]

DK levelling in Unholy no-epidemic, plus a few addons

Found some great addons too, but first a snippet on levelling:

I ran the no-epidemic unholy dps specs in the simulator for L68, to see how it scales at low gear [ more...]

You don’t have space to track any more objectives: error solved

This is poor UI design and on-screen instruction. The Blizzard quest tracker says “you don’t have space to track any more objectives”, that’s OK but then it’s proposed solution is [ more...]

Death Knight levelling specs

Verified for 3.22 plus commentary on no-epidemic unholy.

What are the specs and talent options for levelling up a Death Knight? Fortunately, they’re all good. Here are some templates to help [ more...]

Ulduar cleared in blues, not epics

Wow. Thanks to RJK for highlighting this post on a site I rarely visit, Greedy Goblin. Great for money-making tips, but… raiding?

In short: the goblin’s guild cleared 10-man Ulduar, wearing only blues [ more...]

How to raid fast

I just came across this speed-raiding guide on StratFu, written in February but I’d not seen it before. It’s very comprehensive, and covers in details the points I have just [ more...]

Converting wipes to knowledge: guest Satorri

I’m very pleased to say that Satorri, a very well-known Death Knight poster on TankSpot has agreed to have his essay on wipes published here at pwnwear.com. His bio concludes [ more...]

Mimiron 10

Note: I’ve updated my 10 and 25-man guide post too, nearly finished now.

Last night I got to see, and kill on the 12th attempt, Mimiron 10-man. It gave me some [ more...]

PvP to improve raiding

I fairly much suck at PvP, but I think what little I have done improved my raiding skill.

Being a tank, before dual-spec, battlegrounds were about me either flag running [ more...]

Learning styles differ

Some people can listen to instructions on Vent and get it, others are kinesthetic and the fight won’t click in their heads until they’ve been in it. Thanks to youtube, [ more...]