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Frogger

Frogger is maybe the greatest boss fight in all of Naxxramas.  It drops no loot but offers epic lulz.  After Patchwerk but before Grobbulus there is a section of hallway with 3 (or 4?) lines of green slimes that are moving perpendicular to the hallway.  They move pretty slowly and are spaced far enough apart [...]

The ‘Threat is Dead’ Myth

I’m just going to touch on this a little as I don’t really have hard numbers to back this up. I am going to do my best to gather some hard facts on this but it is not easy to stop in the middle of a boss fight to take note of differing threat [...]

Grand Widow Faerlina

The lovely Ms Faerlina is the second boss in the spider wing and is another pretty simple fight.  She does a poison bolt volley that hits for some initial damage and leaves a cleansable dot and the casts a rain of fire randomly around the room.  Have your shaman and paladins cleansing and the poison bolt [...]

Patch 3.0.3

So we’re getting another patch today, bringing us to 3.0.3. The warrior changes are mostly in relation to DPS, but there are a couple of changes that could pertain to tanking and they both deal with threat.
Rend: Ranks 9 and 10 now do 35% more damage when the target is above 75% health instead [...]

Anub’Rekhan

The expansion is so close I can taste it.  Once everyone gets themselves to 80, Naxxramas is going to be on the menu so I think it is worthwhile to talk about some of the encounters so people will know what to expect before they get there.  There have certainly been some tweaks to the [...]