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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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 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 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 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 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...] December 24th, 2009 | 18 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Tanking, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, comparison, frost, spec, talents, tank, threat, tps, unholy 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...] December 22nd, 2009 | 4 comments |
From: Tanking in general | Tags: 3.3, hunter, misdirect, tank, threat 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...] December 16th, 2009 | 9 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, avoidance, bop, emblem, gear, loot, tank 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...] December 9th, 2009 | 14 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, best, blood, frost, raid, spec, tank, unholy 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...] December 9th, 2009 | 32 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, heroic, raid, spec, tank, threat 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...] November 15th, 2009 | 61 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, frost, howling blast, spec, tank, tps, unbreakable armour 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...] November 2nd, 2009 | 43 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, aoe, bone shield, glyph, kahorie, Simulation, spec, tank, tps, unholy 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...] October 31st, 2009 | 3 comments |
From: Gear and stats, News discussion, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, avoidance, Cataclysm, healers, tank 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...] October 29th, 2009 | 12 comments |
From: Cataclysm, News discussion | Tags: 3.3, avoidance, Cataclysm, ghostcrawler, healers, stamina 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...] October 11th, 2009 | 17 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.22, 3.3, avoidance, emblem, gear, gold, tank 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...] September 22nd, 2009 | 93 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.22, 3.3, dual wield, dw, expertise, frost, kahorie, Simulation, spec, tank |
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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...]