Blizzard, in the developer chat, has asked the tank community for some discussion and feedback on whether threat is fun.
Q. You talk a lot about changing how we [ more...]
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Tanks do a lot of taunting off one another. Last week I was reflecting on a post from Chev about taunting. He has tabulated the number of debuffs your fellow [ more...] Splug has offered a few tips on tanking the Lich King, which are worth noting. Interesting question there about Unholy possibly being useful, and on death drip the phase 1 [ more...] Wintergrasp. If you’re a tank on i232 or worse gear, you might have some options not considered before, using PvP gear for stamina. If you’ve run out of Frost Emblems for [ more...] A quick note to advise that Rawr Tank DK module doesn’t (yet) account for the 4-piece set bonus of T10 gear. This means you can’t use its survival/mitigation points to [ more...] Choosing how to spend your Emblems of Frost is also a decision on whether you get the 4-piece set bonus, which is particularly complicated if you’re a strict 10-man tank. For [ more...] February 12th, 2010 | 22 comments |
 From: Gear and stats |  Tags: cataclysmic chestguard, emblem of frost, gear, set bonus, tank, tier 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 1. A clever nerd wrote an addon which checks if the boss you’re fighting has been parry-hasted. 2. Another clever geek wrote a script which parses logs to determine if parry-haste [ more...] February 9th, 2010 | One comment |
From: Tanking in general | Tags: avoidance, dual wield, expertise, icc, parry haste, parrygib, tank, theck A writer on EJ did enough tests to confirm the length of [Bone Shield] internal cooldown, for each charge to be used up: 2 seconds. It might be slightly lower [ more...] February 8th, 2010 | 18 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.3, bone shield, icd, internal cooldown, spec, tank, unholy 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 wanted to share a snippet on this finding I made whilst trying to verify the value of [Improved Icy Talons] in my previous analysis. I thought at first Kahorie’s had [ more...] January 31st, 2010 | 9 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: haste, improved icy talons, Rune Strike, windfury I put together a quick spreadsheet to work out what damage reduction you get from [Unbreakable Armor]. In my gear, approximately, I’d take 13.5% less damage when it’s up than [ more...] January 28th, 2010 | 50 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: armour, damage reduction, ua, unbreakable armour 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 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 Dual-wield frost tanking threat is effected by the weapon speed. My weapons. I have two: Black Icicle, and I also have two Rimefang’s Claw. They’re not hard to get, just takes [ more...] January 13th, 2010 | 18 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: dual wield, dw, frost, gear, main hand, off hand, runeforge, stats, tank, threat, weapon speed, weapons 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 In order: [Consecration] I used to be a pally tank too, so I know what I’m missing when I do Halls of Reflection: no gaps in the [ more...] January 7th, 2010 | 19 comments |
From: Tanking in general | Tags: aoe, blood, frost, halls of reflection, maintankadin, paladin, threat I read a number of blogs. You can download a file containing them all from my sidebar, which can import to Google Reader. I sometimes read on the train, or [ more...] January 5th, 2010 | 3 comments |
From: Boss strategies, Gear and stats, General chat | Tags: boss, gear list, Guild management, other bloggers, pick order, strategies, tank Progression tanks, before the next wing is opened: I recommend you get this new version of TankTotals, get familiar with it, give the author some feedback and then use it when [ more...] January 4th, 2010 | 3 comments |
From: Addons, Tanking in general | Tags: addon, effective health, eh, gear choice, progression, tanktotals, total effective health 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 Blizzard have given a unequivocal statement that Frost is designed for dual-wielding. That two-handed Frost will not, and is not intended to, give the same DPS (for raiding) as dual-wield [ more...] December 26th, 2009 | 17 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.3, blizzard, dps, dual wield, dw, frost, raid, tank, tps |
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