Archive for 'Tanking'
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 [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under Raiding, Tanking.
Tags: Naxxramas, Raiding, Tanking
Comments: 8
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 [...]
Posted: November 5th, 2008 under Tanking, Threat, Warriors, World of Warcraft.
Tags: Threat, Warriors
Comments: 8
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 [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2008 under Raiding, Tanking.
Tags: Naxxramas, Raiding, Tanking
Comments: 1
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 [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2008 under Patches, Tanking, Warriors.
Tags: Patch 3.0.3, Warriors
Comments: 1
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 [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Raiding, Tanking.
Tags: Naxxramas, Raiding, Tanking
Comments: 5