Tank Hard!

So you’re level 70 and you never dropped a point in cooking. And now you see all these spiffy stat foods floating around, but you always have to buy them from the Auction House or ask a friend to make it for you. Sick of being a slacker? Here’s how to power [...]

Continuing with his Build a Better Threat week, Veneretio has posted on TankingTips.com about a proposed Threat Forumla evaluation based on Equivalent Threat Points (ETP). Basically this is a method of normalizing everything based on stats that increase the items value as a threat producing item.
It is loosely based on Gingamok’s Rule of Thumb:
0.6-0.7% [...]

One easy way to increase your threat generation is by the use of [item]Adamantite Sharpening Stone[/item] for sharp weapons or [item]Adamantite Weightstone[/item] for blunt weapons.
Either of these grant an extra 12 damage to weapons plus 14 to melee crit rating. In my opinion, the added damage will grant you more additional threat than using [...]

TankingTips has posted a short little note on things you should and shouldn’t do when tanking mobs that hit like pansies.
It is worth pointing out how Shield Block Value can be used to increase your threat generation through the use of Shield Slam, one of the best threat generating abilities warriors have at their disposal.
He [...]

Yesterday we discussed how the Combat Table is important from a ‘getting hit’ point of view. Today, we’re going to dish out some damage ourselves, so let’s see how the Combat Table relates to when we are the ones doing the attacking!
I refer you to our first post on the Combat Table for reference [...]