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...]
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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 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 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’m really delighted to have this guest post! Enjoy. – Gravity Rawr.TankDK Hello, I’m Shazear the current contributing developer for the Tank DK module in Rawr. For those who don’t know, Rawr is a [ more...] November 17th, 2009 | 4 comments |
From: Addons | Tags: avoidance, gear, rawr, Simulation, stats, tank 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 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 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...] October 6th, 2009 | 3 comments |
From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: agility, avoidance, expertise, gear, tank One of my must-have addons, being a stats geek, is TankTotals. It just got updated to v3.310 and is now compatible with patch 3.22. If you’re not already using TankTotals, let me [ more...] September 24th, 2009 | One comment |
From: Addons | Tags: addon, avoidance, dual wield, dw, review, stats, tank, tanktotals Jan 6th: ha ! I knew I was right. See this Blue post. Original post follows. I’d like to do some analysis on how a shield-tank feels less squishy in heriocs, because [ more...] September 20th, 2009 | 21 comments |
From: Heroic 5-mans | Tags: avoidance, block, paladin, shield, warrior Two comments from Ghostcrawler recently are clearly pointing at a design change which means we’ll have a more strategic playstyle for Cataclysm tanks and healers. In Cataclysm: relative to the damage input [ more...] September 4th, 2009 | Leave a comment |
From: Cataclysm, Tanking in general | Tags: avoidance, Cataclysm, ghostcrawler, healers, player, raid, stamina, tank In case you haven’t checked, the new TankPoints is out a few days ago. It works correctly with 3.2 mechanics, but you have to edit the TOC file (to 30200) [ more...] August 25th, 2009 | Leave a comment |
From: Addons | Tags: 3.2, addon, avoidance, tank, tankpoints, tanktotals Aug 18: TankPoints r108 released (it includes the new 3.2 RatingBuster maths so it will calculate avoidance correctly), but not pushed with correct TOC yet. Just edit the TOC yourself, [ 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...] Update Aug 12: this calculator is now wrong since in patch 3.2 the rating:percentage ratio changed. I developed this here for out-of-game convenient analysis, using google spreadsheets. If it gets mucked [ more...] In January, when Whitetooth worked out (laboriously) what the miss cap is (related to diminishing returns, it’s 16%), I came across this handy set of macros coded by the other [ more...] |
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