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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
If fellow tanks haven’t seen this TankSpot article on the 3.2 avoidance changes yet, it includes the new ratio for optimal avoidance and is worth a look. Has some impressive [ more...]
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