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.
Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday
So after a significant slowdown to my posting activities, this is my 300th post on Altitis. Incidentally, the blog is also 1 year (and 10 days) old now.
An Apology to Stop, and a Reply on Death Knights
A week ago, Stop replied to my short Death Knight post. Unfortunately, his reply got caught by Akismet, making it the first false positive I got.
Death Knight Tanking Unveiled
As everyone will have found out by now, there’s a lot of WotLK info bursting out today. Gamespy’s report on Deathknight is particularly interesting.
Reader Question: Best Moments in WoW?
One of our regular readers would like to continue verifying how deep the often stark contrast between my favourite hardcore blogging antagonist Stop and me is running, and wrote us both asking to define our best moment in WoW
And while I’m complaining, let’s talk about Repair costs
Talk about a Non-Sequitur: Poster Veemon raises some valid points (unfortunately presented under a whiny layer distracting from the issues) on the matter of repair bills for tanks when put in perspective with their overall poor farming capabilities.
Blue poster Tharfor responds with this little gem of corpspeak:
Each class has an upkeep cost, which includes things [...]
A Plea for a Specialization-Driven Approach to Tanking
Despite the general difficulty finding tanks in the game, on most WoW-related forums you will see the TBC-old war about class tanking superiority (or alleged lack thereof) erupt every so often, akin, for that matter, to the similar perpetual arguments you’ll find amongst healers.
This is, often, fueled by the world’s top Catassing Few achievements and [...]
Global Cooldown 2.3 Revisited
OK, so after going through a couple of spreadsheets here are my conclusions:
People not using stopcasting on spells with casts longer than the GCD will either see no change or actually improve their DPS if they happen to hit the next spell button within the Quartz red zone
People currently using /stopcasting on spells with cast [...]
Defense Theory II: PvE Defense for Tanks
With the Attack Table basics covered, here are the details for PvE defense - applied to tanks, because they’re the most focussed on mitigation here.
First things first, when tanking raid bosses, these are level 73, and this lowers your defense values seen in the paper doll in favour of the boss.
Now let’s go back to [...]
Defense Theory I: The Attack Table and You
Whenever someone or something performs an attack, a single /random roll is performed by WoW - for simplicity’s sake, let’s assume it’s a /random 100 roll. The resulting number is then checked against the so-called Attack Table.
This Attack Table lists the various outcomes versus a certain percentage range. When a NPC attacks a player, the [...]
Defense Theory: Introduction
Last night, another pallie on our server asked me whether stacking resilience was worth it for PvE. While the short answer is “no”, things are actually a lot more complex beneath the surface.
In order to explain the reason behind the short answer, we’ll need to delve into defense theory a bit at first. As the [...]
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