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Tag: Warriors

New patch with new glyphs

There area bunch of new/reworked warrior glyphs in the next patch and they are all awesome.
Glyph of Bloodrage – reduces the health cost of your Bloodrage ability by 100%. (up from 50%).
Not a huge deal, especially in a raid when you are going to be healed anyway, but it’s a nice change for soloing [...]

Socketing at 80

Following a random Naxxramas raid yesterday evening, I sat down and had a chat with the MT of the run. It was refreshing to talk to a tank that actually does his homework; most just blindly socket stamina because “everyone else” does it and don’t really know what they are doing.
The discussion, of course, revolved [...]

The importance of Defense

TankingTips posted up a reminder of the changes that have come about with the increased cooldown to Shield Block. Basically it is something I have been advocating in game moreso than here on the site, but here it is.
Defense is where you want to be.
http://www.tankingtips.com/2008/12/12/how-good-is-defense/

Prot PVP

For the last day and a half I have been hanging out in the battlegrounds quite a bit and I’ve gotta say, its been awesome.  If you haven’t tried it yet, I strongly recommend it.  The build I have been playing with is http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=LZhxZVfzrgbdibIzsGo.
Admittedly, I have a pretty big advantage because I can wear 4 [...]

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 [...]