Threat for Threat’s Sake
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Bosses, Dungeons | 2 Comments »Like most tanks at my level of progression (or so I'm given to understand), I tend to gear for threat over survivabilty, so my DPS can go that little bit further all-out and help to beat the enrage timer. It's ...
An Epic Quest Has An Epic Reward
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in General | 3 Comments »The Midsummer Fire Festival has arrived! In previous years the whole event has been, for me, somewhat of a disappointment. The whole "visit four corners of the globe to touch the flames" with very little in the way of rewards ...
Viva la Renaissance!
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Dungeons, General | No Comments »So the group with which I conquered Kara a few weeks ago decided to take on Zul'Aman. It was fun, despite not getting past the dragonhawk boss. There's a few edited highlights below. It might be a while before we can ...
DPS, How Not To Do It: #2 (Mages)
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Class Discussion | 2 Comments »Today's DPS, How Not To Do It feature is for everyone's favourite crowd control class, the Mage. Much like the Hunter article that preceded it last week, I'm going to go through some common actions performed by some mages, some ...
Thunder… Thunder… Thunder Clap Ho!
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Theorycrafting | 1 Comment »So, going back to my post a few days ago on crushing blows. I made a decent job of illustrating a stat that you really shouldn't be stacking to try to avoid crushing blows. Block rating in that situation is ...
DPS, How Not To Do It: #1 (Hunters)
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Class Discussion | 9 Comments »The first in a series, these articles aim to set down just what I think the different DPS classes can do to help with my tanking. After a heated discussion with a Hunter of my acquaintance, I thought it would ...
Victory or Death!
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »A nice, smooth raid last night. First four bosses in Mount Hyjal all one-shotted, with a distinctly relaxed air to the raid, followed by a quick trip to Black Temple to take down Teron Gorefiend. I've no idea what was different, ...
On Block Rating
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Theorycrafting | 4 Comments »A recent discussion I had with our raid leader over block rating brought some useful information to the fore. It started with him suggesting that my passive block chance was low and I should perhaps tweak my gear to increase ...
A Reunion of Sorts
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Last night, probably for about the first time in about a month, I ran Karazhan. It was awesome. Yes, the run took longer than I'd usually spend there, but I wasn't running for the loot or the badges, or anything ...
Of Shields, and Shoes and Sealing-wax
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Well, maybe not the last two. Good progress all round tonight, with the first four bosses in ZA one-shotted (and very nearly three down within the timer). Still no shield, though. Not that it mattered because this evening's MH went swimmingly. Despite ...
