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Tanking to be less squishy

DK tanks can feel squishy compared to block-tanks in 5-mans. You can offset a lot of this through skill. We have a pretty impressive arsenal to use.

Here are some important [ more...]

Boss Notes: useful addon

I have mentioned this great addon once before, Boss Notes (back in Sept 09). Those guilds going up against Putricide you might find it helpful. Saves alt-tabbing to whichever website [ more...]

Raid classification and losing

I really paused for thought after reading Tobold’s classification of raid encounters.

Looking at the title of his post, ‘raid encounter classification’, you might well think his answers would describe the mechanics [ more...]

Addon: Boss Notes

I like this addon, Boss Notes. Gives you an in-game notebook for each boss.

Comes with dot-point reminders of the key things for Ulduar bosses, for example, and you can enter [ more...]

Cross-server PUG dungeons: Blizzcon

One item that got my attention is this, from the wowraid liveblogging in Dungeon & Raid Panel:

1:42

csulok: CROSSREALM PUG DUNGEONS!

1:42

Cartina: Cross-Server LFG being talked about

1:43

csulok: planned for patch 3.3 [ more...]

Warrior 3.2 tank spec, and no more badge gear

Warrior tank specs

I presume any tank reader on my site knows Veneretio well, he’s posted the warrior tanks specs he’s running.

No more badge gear tank upgrades

Last night, I got my [ more...]

Blood tank in heroics, tested

Hi all,

I had a few readers tell me they had no troubles as Blood tank heroics, so I went and tested it more thoroughly.

Result is I’ve changed my view, and [ more...]

Leadership interview: Spike Flail

The raid leadership interview series

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

3.2 Death Knight blood tank specs

Verified for 3.22 and 3.3.

See my 3.3 Blood spec page.

There are so many possible and valid variations on a Blood maintank spec, I thought it’d be useful for me [ more...]

3.2 Death Knight tank specs

Overview of blood, unholy and frost recommended tank [ more...]

Boss tanking in 3.2, any spec bias?

Violet Hold heroic: ugly bosses

You’ll be doing VH heroic a lot in 3.2. There are two bosses people have trouble with:

Ethereal boss Xevozz
Void elemental boss Zuramat

Xevozz requires continual kiting. Here’s the path you should [ more...]

Lots of 5-mans to tank

Improved LFG interface

I like 5-man heroics.

I like trying to do them as quick as possible and enjoy a bit of good old fashioned AOE tanking. With 3.2, everyone will be [ 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...]

More raiding nights?

Blizzard news about the next tier of raiding content, with five bosses, coming in 3.2 includes an important change.

There will be four different versions: 10-player, 25-player, 10-player Heroic, and 25-player [ more...]

Frost tank spec in 3.3 (59 comments)
- Vanyana: Thanks for the reply, I don’t really have a problem with threat so I guess I...
- Instructions: You might also want to make sure you’re pressing the RIGHT attack at the...
- Gravity: DPS is about right for that level, I think, because it is threat that matters more. Do...
- Vanyana: Can’t seem to find much info on this but I am main spec dpswiyh a off spec 2H...

3.3 Death Knight dual-wield tanking (93 comments)
- tiny dk: Im speccing do Frost purely for aoe with main spec blood for raids and was wondering if...
- Jerad: Falrics Wrist Chopper is an itemized no no. Shield block for a DK does nothing.

The streamlined newbie experience (6 comments)
- AJ: Much appreciated.
- Gravity: The obvious visuals are from Shadowed Unit Frames plus Dominos, both of which are the...
- AJ: Gravity, this is probably an annoying question, but i have to ask. What UI is that? Now to...
- crankyhealer: I know! I just walked up to that stupid blood elf and pwned her face, while her...

/played (5 comments)
- Instructions: I don’t want to look at this. I think it’d be pathetic to see what...
- Uru: worst console command in game, seriously feels a bit better if you can think at wow like...
- Karatheya: I dread doing that calculation, but since I haven’t done so in a year or more,...
- Brangwen: I loves me some altaholic! I am WAY to scared to look at the little summary at the...

The end of loser DKs is nigh! (15 comments)
- Wraithwail(caelsetraz): to be quite honest i am tired of nooby people playing the deathknight....

Flask market indicates the beginning of the free epics period (19 comments)
- Gravity: mr robot seems pretty good for deeps, but I managed to crash it the few times I...
- Instructions: Problem 1) Coding in .net = bad Problem 2) Microsoft = bad Sidenote: has anyone...
- Gravity: Yeah frustrating eh. I run it under an emulator on my Mac.
- aeura: damn I really wish Rawr worked on macs…

Warriors from the swiss army, DKs from lego (16 comments)
- xorellion: So many people are caught up with counting their DPS, not realizing that there’s...
- xorellion: Nothing stings worse than a healer saying “Great.. A DK tank” and leaving...

Spamalyzer addon: can identify lag (1 comments)
- Brangwen: Done and Done. SpamFu was wonderful for this, cheers for the heads up on the shinier...

Unholy, threat not so bad? (13 comments)
- noob: Unholy tanking with a pet is fun and i would like to share this spec,...

The class you avoid playing (20 comments)
- Gravity: I just did to L5 on an alt, and it’s definitely much easier than before. Mana...
- Uru: they did a lot of improvements for leveling low chars in wotlk indeed. my paladin in tbc was...
- tadrinth: I’ve started a couple of paladin alts and never gotten past 35 or so. Usually I...
- Lasciell: You know, what you said makes me think that I might have more fun leveling a Mage...

Updated strategies index (1 comments)
- Meloree: Veneretio’s post is something I’ve commented about before over at...