Video guides ICC heroic

Vox Immortalis have released some new video guides to compliment their already-extensive stable.

Video guide to heroic Putricide is on youtube:

They also recently added Heroic Putricide as well as the Dances with Oozes, Flu Shot Shortage, and Full House achievements. Visit their channel for a full list. Registered users can also download high-res versions.

Updated strategies index

I’ve put some new references into my meta-guide of Icecrown boss strategies.

The new content is from bloggers Death Goddess (Hinenuitepo), Divine Plea, Children of Wrath (Renaissance Man), Wrathy, Leafhead. Included are two blog posts on the Lich King, plus one remarkably definitive 10-man guide that Leafhead referred me to.

I also want to highlight a superb post from Veneretio on consistency. It is about how you do the same thing, predictably, so your raid knows what you will

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DK levelling in Unholy no-epidemic, plus a few addons

Found some great addons too, but first a snippet on levelling:

I ran the no-epidemic unholy dps specs in the simulator for L68, to see how it scales at low gear levels. Result is it checks out at the same dps as traditional. I updated my Death Knight levelling specs page with builds.

Having just got my new DK to L75 in blood, I’m going to try unholy for some variety and to get a feel for this short

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DPS DKs: What happens when your raid needs another Tank?

Here’s a guest post from a reader, who became a regular commenter, then blogger! – G

I AM DPS, HEAR ME ROAR!!!!!
(meow)
I started my wow life as a rogue and loved putting up the huge dps numbers throughout the Burning Crusade. I found that as I progressed through BC raids and the expansion cycle, I enjoyed doing max dps with every class I tried and was really very good at it, whether I dps’d as rogue, lock, or enh shammy.

Along came LK and Death Knights. As I discuss in my blog, I wanted to have a class capable of tanking, but really, I just loved the mechanics and playstyle of DKs, so I became a DK convert. The guild I was in when LK dropped had a good number of tanks and I did top dps, so I was never asked to tank, and frankly, tanking made me very very nervous. I knew I was good at dps, but I also knew that at least initially I wouldn’t be stellar at tanking, so I never really ended up doing it. I still amassed some tanking gear when it would have been de’d otherwise though.

Lo and behold, when I returned to the game and found a new guild, they needed me to tank!

Now what?

Oh, shit…… they need me to tank.
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Death Knight levelling specs

Verified for 3.22 plus commentary on no-epidemic unholy.

What are the specs and talent options for levelling up a Death Knight? Fortunately, they’re all good. Here are some templates to help you decide between unholy, frost and blood levelling specs.

I have had the (un)fortunate pleasure of levelling two DKs. As of writing, I’m L68. My previous main Gravity tanked Ulduar 25 in England but because of a move back to Australia, I decided to reroll. (You can’t transfer EU to Oceanic servers).

You can get to L68 in about 1 day and 12 hours played (I did) by using a flying mount at L60 (costs 620g with no faction discount).

I’ve included L68 and L79 versions of the specs so you can see how you build out the spec as you go. I even did some dps sims.

A good quest for tankspot readers

A good quest for tankspot readers

The specs

First a few explanatory notes.

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Crusader’s Coliseum guides from wowhead

Not quite the place I’d expect to find well-written boss strategy guides: wowhead.

The’ve got Jaraxxus, Northrend Beasts and Twin Val’kyrs written so far, plus Ulduar bosses. I’ve updated my Coliseum guide to include these condensed, to-the-point and well-written strategy guides from wowhead. Worth a look.

How to raid fast

I just came across this speed-raiding guide on StratFu, written in February but I’d not seen it before. It’s very comprehensive, and covers in details the points I have just touched on about fast raids.

Their guide includes:

  • a set of two videos with on-screen tips
  • guiding principles and detailed notes for leadership
  • top ten speed tips
  • for addons to help, check some of my recommendations or Vranx’s. An older version of the stratfu guide suggested out-of-date addons, particularly these were wrong:
    • don’t use XRS, use Raidbuffstatus
    • don’t use Utopia, use DebuffEnough
    • use Recount for death-log analysis, not Expiration
    • use EnsidiaFails, not Failbot.

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Crusader’s Coliseum strategy guides

I have compiled the best boss strategies into a handy page here. It includes videos from Tankspot and written guides.

Ulduar 10 and 25 differences: full guide

What are the essential differences you need to know about when going from 10 to 25 man Ulduar? Here are the changes. This does not explain hard modes, except on a few.

> Read the full guide here

I assume you have watched TankSpot videos and read strategy guides, so this does not cover those basics.

In the 25-man column I’ll describe if the ability or your strategy needs to change. If something simply hits harder, I’ll still say

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Naxx strat guide: hidden gem on wowraid

I just told Teza he needs to profile these guides more.

wowraid has really good strat guides for Naxx. Sure, it might be old-hat for some people but if you need them, instead of wowwiki or stratfu guides, you should check these out.

This is hidden gem, the content is excellent. It’s quality is assisted by a little community of hardcore raiders who like helping out and hang out in #wowraid, plus who edit guides like this. (Example, I was

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TankPoints user guide is published

The permanent page for the Official TankPoints user guide is over here.

TankPoints is an addon that can help you make decisions about which gem you should use, how pathetic parry is from strength, which enchant is better for you, what damage reduction you get in Frost resist gear and more. The guide helps you use TankPoints for these things.

I’ve had so many questions at dk.info that could have been prevented by the tank understanding what TankPoints can

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