Raid leadership in general

My one-night raid guild kills Blood Princes

The guild I’m in, Axis, killed Blood Princes 10 last night. Last week, we got Putricide (I missed that one, had real-life stuff intercept me). We only raid once a [ more...]

Independent film: the Raid

This endeavour is to make a film about raiding. Below is an HD promotional video made, featuring Darksend from Tankspot, and others.

You can pledge a few dollars to help get [ more...]

Stupid people don’t even realise it

The Dunning-Kruger effect. This is a remarkable theoretical and proven phenomena.

I didn’t know they’d proven it:

is a cognitive bias in which people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence [ more...]

Raid mentor

I was watching the interview series celebrating 5 years of Wow and 15 of Warcraft. (I’d never played Warcraft, saw it a few times over shoulders, but RTS never grabbed [ more...]

Number of tanks required, a game design issue

Yesterdays post asking ‘whether DKs are being benched’ appears to have two root causes:

tank class mechanics which make a given tank the preference on certain categories of encounter
encounter design which [ more...]

Raid classification and losing

I really paused for thought after reading Tobold’s classification of raid encounters.

Looking at the title of his post, ‘raid encounter classification’, you might well think his answers would describe the mechanics [ more...]

What gear is required for a raid

The reactions to Gevlon’s feat of clearing Ulduar-10 in blues show that many players have fallen into the trap of thinking gear is the only solution to clearing raids. Gevlon [ 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...]

On leadership: guest Satorri

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

Learning to raid lead

One of my guild’s best healers (Diggie) asked once in officer chat, how do I learn to raid lead? He’s been doing it since, improving all the time, by running [ more...]

Burnout is inevitable

Many of you might be familiar with the incredible, voluminous and precise research carried out under the Daedalus Project, by Nick Yee. The researcher looked at MMOs for ten years [ more...]

Raid calendar management

Two key topics here:

(1) have a defined raid schedule

(2) make it easy for people to sign up and be invited.

Defined raid schedule

Setting the day of week and time for a [ more...]

EPGP loot system

Loot is a huge topic.

Do not think “I raid, therefore I DKP”. A loot system is a solution. To take your guild in the direction you intend, firstly define the [ more...]

Loot systems

Loot systems are definitely something I’m going to write more about. Just came across this post about a system I’d never heard of before: Shroud Loot System.

Personally I like EPGP [ more...]

Tanking weapons in 3.3 (39 comments)
- Gravity: I didn’t actually analyse that. Looking at the strike values, you can see that a...
- Tarragon: When do the 25 man weapons become better then the 10 man ones? Or are all the 25 man...

Frost tank spec in 3.3 (61 comments)
- Gravity: yah, never compare your threat to that of a pally. They own threat.
- Instructions: I missed that part! I’m sorry! I think we can totally conclude the following:...
- Vanyana: Thanks for the reply, I don’t really have a problem with threat so I guess I...

Forums at pwnwear (4 comments)
- Gravity: Thanks guys, and it’s going well so far. Quite fun! Aye Rhidach, I’ve been...
- Dril: It’s a real shame about DK.info, I used to troll there, normally as a guest, but...
- Rhidach: I was originally going to comment that forums might be a bad idea, but then you...

Blood tank spec in 3.3 (32 comments)
- Drunknite: Wouldnt GoD be a threat increase? Just thinking about it (haven’t tested) but...

3.3 Death Knight dual-wield tanking (93 comments)
- tiny dk: Im speccing do Frost purely for aoe with main spec blood for raids and was wondering if...
- Jerad: Falrics Wrist Chopper is an itemized no no. Shield block for a DK does nothing.

The streamlined newbie experience (6 comments)
- AJ: Much appreciated.
- Gravity: The obvious visuals are from Shadowed Unit Frames plus Dominos, both of which are the...
- AJ: Gravity, this is probably an annoying question, but i have to ask. What UI is that? Now to...

/played (5 comments)
- Instructions: I don’t want to look at this. I think it’d be pathetic to see what...

The end of loser DKs is nigh! (15 comments)
- Wraithwail(caelsetraz): to be quite honest i am tired of nooby people playing the deathknight....

Flask market indicates the beginning of the free epics period (19 comments)
- Gravity: mr robot seems pretty good for deeps, but I managed to crash it the few times I...
- Instructions: Problem 1) Coding in .net = bad Problem 2) Microsoft = bad Sidenote: has anyone...

Warriors from the swiss army, DKs from lego (16 comments)
- xorellion: So many people are caught up with counting their DPS, not realizing that there’s...
- xorellion: Nothing stings worse than a healer saying “Great.. A DK tank” and leaving...