Where have all the tank spots gone?
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 Posted in Bosses, Burning Crusade, Dungeons, Wrath of the Lich King | 4 Comments »A warrior, a paladin, a druid and a death knight walked into Icecrown Citadel. "Hey," said Tirion Fordring as they entered the antechamber. "Is this some kind of joke?" I've recently had occasion to go through my old screen grabs, and one ...
What content glut?
Friday, September 25th, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King | 3 Comments »A lot of people have complained that Lich King doesn't contain as much raid content as Burning Crusade. Personally, I think the problem is elsewhere. The first thing to do is dispel the myths surrounding the number of bosses available: Burning ...
Koralon the Faceroller
Monday, September 7th, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King | No Comments »This isn't the much-awaited second post on how to tank. I've had a lot on my plate recently out of game, so blogging has had to take a bit of a pushback until everything else. In any case, Kadomi appears to ...
Achieving the Impossible
Sunday, July 26th, 2009 Posted in Bosses, General | No Comments »Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Not so long ago, in fact, only last week, I said that Sartharion with three drakes up was still almost impossible for a prot warrior to main ...
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, ...
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 ...
I am not perfect. Nor should you expect me to be.
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Dungeons | 5 Comments »I was on the receiving end of a lesson in utmost humility yesterday. At the start or our Naxx run, before anyone was ready, I managed to body pull the first patrol. Ordinarily I'd have suicided, but I was under ...
You have entered the Twilight Zone
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King | 5 Comments »Three Drakes. No waiting. Well-deserved by so many people who have stuck at this for the last few weeks, Sartharion is defeated on "ultra-hard" mode. Roll on Ulduar...
Divining the Future
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Theorycrafting, Wrath of the Lich King | 2 Comments »There's a few things of note in the upcoming patch notes which we can use to divine what the as-yet unseen bosses in Ulduar will be like. For a start, Last Stand is having its cooldown reduced to 3 minutes. When ...
Paradigm Shift
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »Looking back on my original character, I was never very good at playing a rogue. True, I did OK, but I was never great at the whole thing. If I came top of the DPS charts, it was because everone ...