Archive for May, 2008
Let me tank!
Today’s guest poster is Tyaera, a Protection Paladin on the Dath’Remar server. Tyaera feels paladins just need a chance to prove their abilities when tanking end game bosses. Read on.. Being a paladin tank is kind of like wanting to push a square peg into a round hole. Quite often, before I joined my current [...]
Posted: May 29th, 2008 under Tanking.
Comments: 42
UI Redux
Untitled from Fake Name on Vimeo. I don’t think I have ever looked at my UI and said, ‘Ok, now it’s done.’ Since the last time I made a UI post, I have made some changes. The moat visible change was floating combat text. For the longest time I used Blizzard’s floating combat text to [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2008 under Tanking.
Comments: 5
THESE ARE FAKE
With the friends and family alpha of WotLK there have been a bunch of ‘leaks’ for new talents and spells. The exact same thing happened before TBC and has happened before a couple major content patches. It is possible that these aren’t fake. It is also possible that I am Abraham Lincoln and Robocop 3 [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2008 under Tanking.
Comments: 4
7/8 and holding.
I never got around to picking up a T6 helm. At first it was a better upgrade for the hunters and shaman than it would have been for me so I passed on it. Then it stopped dropping altogether. Then I got the helm from Illidan so I really didn’t need the T6 helm and [...]
Posted: May 15th, 2008 under Tanking.
Comments: none
Times they are a-changin’
I had finally gotten on board the Effective Health Bandwagon. Avoidance is great and all but as long as you have a balanced set of gear then you have enough avoidance already so you might as well gem and enchant for pure stamina. I still was a little queasy when I would see people eschewing [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2008 under Tanking.
Comments: none