Subscribe to Altitis
Tag Archives: Tanking
Gearing Up Your Fresh Level 80 Tankadin from Scratch
Author’s note: I have quit playing WoW before patch 3.0.5. Warcraft-related content is no longer being updated, and information in this post may not reflect the live game anymore Based on a mail sent by one of Blessing of King’s … Continue reading
Tankadins and Patch 3.0.8: Farewell to our Pulling Trinket
For 2 years, paladins wanting to tank (hah! As if anyone’d let us) could body pull. For 2 more years, paladins could body pull or use Avenger’s shield to pull 3 targets. Blood knights even had a racial ranged pull … Continue reading
Death Knight Macro: Rune Strike Wrapper
Author’s note: I have quit playing World of Warcraft before release of patch 3.0.5. The content of this post is most likely out of date. Here’s a cool macro template to get your rune strike into your opponent’s face: #showtooltip … Continue reading
Posted in PvE, tools, warcraft toolbox
Tagged Blood, Death Knight, dps, Frost, macros, Tanking, Unholy
Leave a comment
First DK Tanking Experience
Last night I logged on and was basically minding my own questing business in the still almost sparkling new (for me) Howling Fjords when I get a tell asking me if I were willing to tank Utgarde Keep. After trading … Continue reading
BBB on Ferals in Wrath
If you’re interested in Wrath analysis and in things shapeshifting, the Big Bear Butt Blogger has a very in-depth analysis and commentary[...] Continue reading
Muckbeast on Raiding Design
Cambios is a game dev who may just have started his blog recently, yet posts interesting stuff from day one. Taking on some of the more visible flaws in raiding in current MMOs, he writes:[...] Continue reading
About the Difficulty to Write Steady Wrath Beta Commentary: DK Tanking Talents
I probably should have known better. I actually used to.
With the latest beta build, DK tanking talents appear again to spread across all three trees. Again, not much of an issue in general (except that now you actually will have to make some choices as currently not every single of them can be picked anymore), just that with the rate of changes, the class is currently too unstable to try and predict much about it.[...] Continue reading
Some Blue Posts on Tanking Design Philosophy for Wrath
Looking through recent Blue posts, here are a few interesting tidbits regarding Tank design for Wrath. Continue reading
Death Knight Talents Revamped, Tanking Now in 2 Trees
In the newest Beta build, it appears that Blizzard decided to reshuffle tanking talents. Where previously these were scattered over the lower tiers of all three trees, we now find them only in Frost and Unholy.[...] Continue reading
