In General, tanking Vezax is a pain
Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »Our first attempts at General Vezax were less than stellar. It's all too easy to stay in the saronite clouds too long and commit suicide, or misjudge an interrupt or your distance when kiting him. However, our strategy was eventually formed, ...
A Professional Professional?
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in General, Healing | 1 Comment »For the first time in approximately forever, I find myself missing a raid because I had to stay in the office late. And while I'm disappointed with that (especially as my girlfriend is sitting close by healing on that self-same ...
A Sense of Entitlement
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in General, Rants | 1 Comment »It's happening more and more, and I can't help but be irritated by it as time goes on. I'm in the Ironforge Auction House, or in Dalaran running errands, and before too long, I get a whisper: "hey m8, wanna run ...
No idea what happened there…
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »But anonymous commenting is once again enabled. Puzzled as to how that changed as I've never even been near that options screen before. I should have suspected something sooner - my spam queues were suspiciously empty...
Victorious Interventions
Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in Bosses | No Comments »Hodir is one of those fights that's highly mobile, and if you (and they) are doing it right, involves the dps generating far more threat than most people would ordinarily think sensible. It's a fight where I'm constantly keeping one ...
Cool down!
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »Recently I've been taking two tanking specs to Ulduar - the good, ol' Deep Wounds threat spec, and a new and shiny spec - Cooldown spec. When paired with the Glyph of Shield Wall and Glyph of Last Stand, it ...
Pride comes before a fall
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons | 1 Comment »In order to get some idea of how the upcoming bosses in 25-man Ulduar work, I've been running the 10-man version on Sunday afternoons. And our latest run was nothing short of specatularly successful - we ended up wiping on ...
Violence-free Gold, Fast.
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Posted in General | 2 Comments »For a long time, protection warriors had to struggle with not being able to kill things quickly, as did healers. Nowadays dual-spec has reduced the problems of grinding, as has the buff to prot DPS. But there are still going ...
Player versus… Ally?
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 Posted in General | 3 Comments »Ahhh, Childrens' Week! I don't know why, but it's one of my favourite holidays. Probably because the activities revolve around a small storyline and have a definite linear conclusion, unlike the "drink yourself stupid" activities of Brewfest or the "Why ...
