Parry-haste confirmed to be mostly off in Icecrown Citadel

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...]

Parry-haste doesn't seem to exist in ICC

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...]

Dual-wield, weapon speed and expertise

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...]

Why can't bosses have expertise?

On PTR tank forums, that question was asked. Players scale up, why not bosses too? Ghostcrawler’s response:

It’s something we actually talk about quite a bit. We won’t do it for [ more...]

Avoidance value of expertise

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...]

3.3 Death Knight dual-wield tanking

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...]