There really is quite a lot of meaning packed into these posts. What do you guys think?
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February 26th, 2010 |
 9 comments |  From: News discussion |  Tags: improved icy talons, tank, will of the necropolis Tanks do a lot of taunting off one another. Last week I was reflecting on a post from Chev about taunting. He has tabulated the number of debuffs your fellow [ more...] Significant changes for DK tanks. Probably help dps too, but I don’t write about that as much, like DW Frost dps might be viable (instead of lame). Awesome, [Will of [ more...] February 20th, 2010 |
8 comments | From: News discussion | Tags: 3.3.3, 3.33, blood, patch, tank, will of the necropolis Choosing how to spend your Emblems of Frost is also a decision on whether you get the 4-piece set bonus, which is particularly complicated if you’re a strict 10-man tank. For [ more...] February 12th, 2010 |
22 comments | From: Gear and stats | Tags: cataclysmic chestguard, emblem of frost, gear, set bonus, tank, tier 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...] February 11th, 2010 |
11 comments | From: Raid and 5-man guides, Tanking in general | Tags: avoidance, dual wield, expertise, icc, parry haste, parrygib, tank, theck 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...] February 9th, 2010 |
 One comment | From: Tanking in general | Tags: avoidance, dual wield, expertise, icc, parry haste, parrygib, tank, theck Sure, Unholy’s fairly weak for tanking, but does it matter? The usual argument I hear, a flawed one at that, is “you pay your $15, you choose your spec”. That is [ more...] A writer on EJ did enough tests to confirm the length of [Bone Shield] internal cooldown, for each charge to be used up: 2 seconds. It might be slightly lower [ more...] February 8th, 2010 |
18 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.3, bone shield, icd, internal cooldown, spec, tank, unholy Frost Presence now provides 8% Stamina, up from 6% Stamina. I thought it might be useful to review the tank weapon choices for Death Knights, and provide a rank order. Officers distributing loot could consider this a priority table: I would suggest [ more...] January 25th, 2010 |
41 comments | From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, gear, gear choice, icecrown, loot, priority, tank, weapons 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...] January 14th, 2010 |
13 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Playing better, new to tanking | Tags: ams, aoe, heroics, ibf, tank, training Dual-wield frost tanking threat is effected by the weapon speed. My weapons. I have two: Black Icicle, and I also have two Rimefang’s Claw. They’re not hard to get, just takes [ more...] January 13th, 2010 |
18 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: dual wield, dw, frost, gear, main hand, off hand, runeforge, stats, tank, threat, weapon speed, weapons I read a number of blogs. You can download a file containing them all from my sidebar, which can import to Google Reader. I sometimes read on the train, or [ more...] January 5th, 2010 |
3 comments | From: Boss strategies, Gear and stats, General chat | Tags: boss, gear list, Guild management, other bloggers, pick order, strategies, tank Improved Icy Talons This is a really important buff, providing melee haste like a talented windfury totem. Either you provide it or a shaman does. In a 25-man raid, you should [ more...] January 2nd, 2010 |
35 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Tanking, choose spec | Tags: frost series, howling blast, iit, improved icy talons, one disease, talents, tank, two disease, windfury For Frost tanks, what threat values do some of these talents provide? chill of the grave: +1.6% with Icecrown dodge-nerf radiance, 1.8% outside it (tested by going from 1 to 2 points) January 1st, 2010 |
11 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: acclimation, chilblains, chill of the grave, comparison, frost, frost series, kahorie, runic power mastery, scent of blood, sim, talents, tank, threat, tps Blood is so flexible. You can spec into survival, single or AOE threat. What’s the threat you gain from a heavy threat build compared to one for survival? Survival Here’s a really [ more...] January 1st, 2010 |
13 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, comparison, kahorie, minmax, sim, spec, survival, tank, threat Blizzard have given a unequivocal statement that Frost is designed for dual-wielding. That two-handed Frost will not, and is not intended to, give the same DPS (for raiding) as dual-wield [ more...] December 26th, 2009 |
17 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.3, blizzard, dps, dual wield, dw, frost, raid, tank, tps I have verified some of the threat comparisons using the latest version of Kahorie’s sim. It’s had a few tweaks so I wanted to see if that refinement had led [ more...] December 24th, 2009 |
18 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Tanking, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, comparison, frost, spec, talents, tank, threat, tps, unholy Hopefully your hunters know this. They can misdirect a volley. Thanks QQ for the tip. Tanks, note this change: you won’t see the misdirect buff until your hunter starts shooting. Have you [ more...] December 22nd, 2009 |
4 comments | From: Tanking in general | Tags: 3.3, hunter, misdirect, tank, threat List of new 3.3 BoP plate tank gear from 5-mans and emblem of frost rewards, by slot. You earn Frost emblems from raiding, or from the daily/weekly quests. For gear from [ more...] December 16th, 2009 |
9 comments | From: Gear and stats, choose equipment | Tags: 3.3, avoidance, bop, emblem, gear, loot, tank For raids, I’d go with blood or frost. Here are my posts with much more detail. Patch 3.3 Feb 22, 2010 update: Unholy should not be [ more...] December 9th, 2009 |
14 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, best, blood, frost, raid, spec, tank, unholy Blood remains the best single-target raid tank spec. For blood, nothing changed in 3.3 from 3.22, so you don’t really need to respec. You might go into will of the [ more...] December 9th, 2009 |
32 comments | From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, heroic, raid, spec, tank, threat There’s a maturity cycle that tanks progress through. One of the marks of a mature, experienced tank is they know the encounters and they plan ahead. Newer tanks are usually [ more...] November 28th, 2009 |
2 comments | From: Tanking in general, new to tanking | Tags: experience, maturity, planning, runes, tank To close this series of posts on balance, I wanted to use a few diagrams to outline the problem. This will be my last post on this topic for a [ more...] November 23rd, 2009 |
2 comments | From: Cataclysm, Tanking in general | Tags: balance, Cataclysm, comparison, pve, raid, tank Quite a lot of discussion on tank balance, not just pwnwear, wow.com had a (good) post on effective health and also Ghostcrawler’s posted on it. Here’s an extract from GC, but [ more...] |
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