Theckhd, maths guru, delivers Icecrown answers

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 pwns you for 20%, and healing in Cataclysm

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...]

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...]

Ratio of tanks to the rest

This deserves more discussion. One of the difficult balances a leader has to manage is the number of tanks required in a raid, or the guild, as a proportion of [ more...]

Cataclysm tanking and healing will be more strategic

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...]

Leadership interview: Wrath

The raid leadership interviews

I’m pleased to present the first in a series of detailed interviews with guild leaders on the management of progression guilds, which will be jointly published on [ more...]