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...]
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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...] 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...] 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...] 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...] 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...] I have verified some of the threat comparisons using the latest version of Kahorie’s sim. It’s had a few tweaks so I wanted to see if that refinement had led [ more...] Hopefully your hunters know this. They can misdirect a volley. Thanks QQ for the tip. Tanks, note this change: you won’t see the misdirect buff until your hunter starts shooting. Have you [ 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 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...] For raids, I’d go with blood or frost. Here are my posts with much more detail. Patch 3.3 Feb 22, 2010 update: Unholy should not be [ more...] Blood remains the best single-target raid tank spec. For blood, nothing changed in 3.3 from 3.22, so you don’t really need to respec. You might go into will of the [ more...] Quite a lot of discussion on tank balance, not just pwnwear, wow.com had a (good) post on effective health and also Ghostcrawler’s posted on it. Here’s an extract from GC, but [ more...] Frost tanking has always been and will remain in 3.3 a very solid choice. You can tank with either dual-wield or a two-handed weapon and both are viable. DW is [ more...] 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...] What is the best Death Knight Unholy tank spec in 3.3? I set out to simulate the various talent choices to find the highest threat unholy DK tank build. Below [ 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...] 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...] 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...] 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...] 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...] Unholy has gone back and forth so much. Recently, its threat sucked. 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...] Dec 9th, correct for patch 3.3. Can and should a DK dual-wield as a tank? Patch 3.22 made it possible, with rune strike now being effected by Threat of Thassarian. Patch 3.3 [ more...] |
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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...]