Given Halloween and all, this entry from Tanking Tips is a sad reminder of friends we no longer have with us:
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Patch 3.0
October 14, 2008 By 10 Comments
What to do what to do? So many new juicy talents, so few talent points to spend! It is so exciting to see all the new talents and think about the new possibilities.
Even though I am a tank at heart, one of the things I kept thinking when going over the new protection talent tree was all the possibilities that the new protection talents bring to PVP. Sounds a little bizarre, doesn’t it?
Think of some of these new talents in terms of PVP:
- Improved Spell Reflection – A 15 rage ability on a 10 second cooldown that lasts for 5 seconds. This would be awesome in a PVP situation.
- Toughness – Reduced movement impairing effects is always a good thing in PVP.
- Improved Disarm – Reduces disarm to 40 second cooldown, and lasts for 10 seconds. Think about that. You can now, remove that MS warriors weapon for 20 seconds out of a minute. OR, you can use that disarm against a focus target to help burst them down with the increased damage.
- Vigilance – Think about how much easier this will make it to keep that hunter/warlock pet pulled off of your healer or otherwise.
- Safeguard – Help stop burst damage on a teammate.
- Warbringer – All new snare/root breaking abilities.
- Shockwave – Pulling this off in arenas will be tricky, but a 4 sec stun on the entire team would be pretty devastating, not to mention you’ll be able to do it every 20 seconds.
Now granted, MS is still pretty much required for serious arena play, but protection warriors just got a boost to viability in PVP. Couple all the above with the fact that prot DPS has increased dramatically and you now have a very good shot at going PVP as prot.
Tanking
But of course, we’re here to talk about tanking, right?! I suppose at this point I could post up my planned 3.0 tanking spec and we could hash out why I made the choices I did. Long story short is that there are so many abilities, I just want ‘em all! Waiting the next month before we’ll get new talent points is going to be brutal! Until then, I’ll probably tinker with a few different specs in regards to tanking. I’ll be looking at Main Tank specs, as well as OT/Support/DPS specs too.
For now, you should check out what Vene posts as his planned 3.0 spec.
For the sake of argument, here is the spec I think I’ll go with.
Goals Before Wrath Hits
October 1, 2008 By 2 Comments
So we’re roughly 6 weeks away from the Wrath of the Lich King expansion and the timer is ticking.
I would assume everyone has some goals in mind they want to complete before the expac hits and I am no exception.
As a raid leader and a tank, my biggest goals before the expac were to finish out Black Temple, go back and kill Kael’Thas and down a boss or two in Sunwell.
I am happy to report that 2 of those goals have been met. We dropped Illidan for the first time a few weeks ago. Two weeks ago we decided to head back to Tempest Keep and put in the time to kill Kael’Thas since we skipped that encounter when attunement was dropped for BT/MH. It took us a couple of nights, but we downed KT after getting familiar with the various phases.
So that basically leaves Sunwell Plateau and as of last night, we are now working on that goal as well. Kalecgos has some new mechanics, but I have no doubts that we’ll defeat him soon.
Other than that, I don’t really have any personal goals. I wouldn’t mind picking up a Bulwark of Azzinoth purely for the status but that’s about it. My goals are more oriented towards keeping the guild cohesive and happy until time for the level grind and experiencing the new expansion.
So what goals do you have planned to complete before the Wrath expansion?
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