Wintergrasp.
If you’re a tank on i232 or worse gear, you might have some options not considered before, using PvP gear for stamina. If you’ve run out of Frost Emblems for the moment, these items might be a temporary alternative.
40 tokens: [Titan-Forged Shoulderplates of Triumph].
25 tokens: [Titan-Forged Pendant of Victory]. Huge stamina, bonus threat, no avoidance.
25 tokens: [Titan-Forged Cloak of Victory]
Here’s a comparison for the shoulders with the tier i251, which cost 60 Frosties.
In all
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The new season PvP weapons are awesome. If you can get into an arena team for points and enough rating, man the rewards are sweet.
If you’re only a 10-man raider (like me), particularly it might be the only way you can get an i264 weapon.
If you don’t normally PvP, it’s not that hard to get into. Use emblems to buy resilience gear, do wintergrasp and battlegrounds for more res gear, keybind everything, spec appropriately (use arenajunkies.com
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I set out to tabulate those abilities Death Knights have which require the global cooldown, or trigger it, and which require you are facing the opponent, or can have your back turned.
This is useful for PvP and tanking, and goes towards my effort to help DKs become better representatives of our awesome class.
It’s simply important to know that:
- your tanking cooldowns do not require a GCD to use, just the requisite rune or runic power
- but Death Pact does require GCD to cast and to raise your ghoul
- you do not need to be facing your kited ooze to cast chains of ice
- to taunt with dark command, the mob can be behind you, but death grip requires facing
- death and decay doesn’t require you’re facing anyone, but needs line of sight to the targetted area
- mind freeze doesn’t require a GCD to stop a caster, but strangulate does
- your emergency buttons of blood tap and ERW do not require a GCD.
The table:
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A lot has been written about why you should not keyboard turn (it’s too slow), and that you should keybind. I wrote about how PvP improves your raiding too. I’m going to skip that preamble and just talk briefly about keybinds.
Yesterday the little survey I did on myself included a snippet which Perditio commented on, saying he had the same binds! Spooky because they’re not the most obvious ones.
Movement
I move with ESDF. If you are still on WASD I recommend you spend the next month getting your muscle memory into ESDF instead; you gain QAZ as keybind options.
Take your time with keybind changes, you need muscle memory to set in before you move onto the next change. Do one thing at a time; this could take months. Movement keys particularly took me ages to get used to.
Rebind non-combat actions set by the default UI to shift or alt equivalents (alt is better since it’s usually an awkward key to use in an action binding). So you’d change ‘reply’ to be shift or alt R. Rebind ‘open all bags’ to alt-B, ‘open character panel’ to alt-c, ‘pvp panel’ to alt-h and so on.
Bindings
Binding rule:
Near your hand, bind actions which you hit very often or need to get to very quickly
Emergencies: Blood tap and ERW should be easy to get to, since you will use them for an emergency tank cooldown or a snap DnD.
I have shift-1 is blood tap, shift-2 is ERW (all rune reset).
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Reduce your WoW latency. If you play on an Oceanic server, or on a US server from Europe, lowerping.com is a service which will reduce latency substantially. I have been a paid user now for two months and confidently can say, it works: it halves my in-game latency.
Benefits: normally from the UK playing on an Oceanic server, I get 380 to 400ms lag, but when I’m running lowerping I see 180 to 220ms. Mostly its around 190ms.
If you PvP or raid, this make a very noticeable different. Your dps increases, your reaction time is improved, you respond more quickly.
You can use their free trial to test for yourself, their server will just disconnect you after 10 minutes or so. You just sign up in the normal way, and your usage is automatically as a trial user.
Cost: for an USA/Oceanic server is A$20.45 for three months or European server 16.95 Euro.
Setup: is a bit fiddly, they don’t have fancy documentation with clear labelling. I’ll give you some tips here. Lowerping does have a technical support forum also, and you may well find the answers there already before having to ask.
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I fairly much suck at PvP, but I think what little I have done improved my raiding skill.
Being a tank, before dual-spec, battlegrounds were about me either flag running or being a time-sink. I think I killed a rogue a few times on my previous maintankadin.
With dual-spec, I can actually enjoy it a bit more. I might even zone into an arena on my DK one day.
Key point: you can improve your raiding skill by
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