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Tuque the Would be Tanker

saedo — Sun, 09/21/2008 - 02:54

So, on the side I've been scraping various tanking pieces for the hell of it. Hey, it's plate, not a lot of competition usually so default default default! So I thought I might try to use it one of these days.

Anyways, like the nerd in me twice before, I gotta make a list. It'll help me figure out what I should gem, what I should enchant, etc, etc. But a bit harder to simply rank this gear. Have to figure out avoidance, stam, and threat. And can't really mix the stuff, so perhaps having 2-3 pieces around more tailored to one of the 3 would be more useful for the diff situations.

So, going by avoidance first, with special mention of threat and stam. First off the numbers!

7.9 Block Rating = 1% Block
15 Defense Rating = 0.25% Miss, 0.25% Dodge, 0.25% Parry, 0.25% Block => 0.066666667
18.9 Dodge Rating = 1% Dodge => 0.052910052
22.4 Parry Rating = 1% Parry => 0.044642857
25 Agility = 1% Dodge => 0.04

Head: [Battleworn Tuskguard] - 3.216931217
[Crown of Dath'Remar] - 5.87744709 (Kil'jaeden)
[Hard Khorium Goggles] - 4.401851852 (Crafted)
[Helm of Uther's Resolve] - 3.769312169 (Kil'jaeden)
[Faceplate of the Impenetrable] - 3.510582011 (Illidan)
[Lightbringer Faceguard] - 3.357571958 (Archimonde)

Neck: [Strength of the Untamed] - 1.902380952
[The Darkener's Grasp] - 2.566931217 (Kael)
[Pendant of Titans] - 2.372751323 (RoS)
[Barbed Choker of Discipline] - 1.911111111 (Maiden)

Shoulders: [Pauldrons of Stone Resolve] - 1.0
[Pauldrons of Abyssal Fury] - 3.304761905 (Supremus)
[Lightbringer Shoulderguards] - 2.466931217 (Shahraz)
[Crystalforge Shoulderguards] - 2.148214286 (VR)
[Spaulders of the Thalassian Defender] - 1.35 (Eredar Twins)
[Pauldrons of Perseverance] - 1.35 (Eredar Twins)

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Or Use Headphones

Grovinski — Mon, 09/08/2008 - 08:42

Note: Only 2 lab workstations have speakers. If you want to listen to your recording before sending you need to save it and then use either workstation #12 or #1 to listen to what you recorded.

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ryuwolf & kerilyn

darkwolf — Wed, 09/03/2008 - 19:46

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Another Guild NAxx run!

Raid Zone:

Naxxaramas

Your Mom's HouseWith Wrath of the Lich King on the prowl, Naxx will soon be out of commission. I want to throw together what looks like to be the final Naxx run Downfall will get into before LK hits. I figure we start in Spider Wing, Make our way over to Deahtknight Wing. Where we go after that is unknown! If oyur availible todo so and want to come. Sign Up.

If you don't get invited, Sorry in advance! Please Be attuned for this!

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Vulk's plans for Wrath (with a little edumacation on retribution)

Vulk — Sat, 08/23/2008 - 17:31

Now I'm going to make it official. I'm sure many of you have heard me mention this before but Vulk will be going Ret to level to 80, and then staying Ret for Raids. That Right, I wont be around to heal for you and play fun games like "How Low Can You Go?" (tanks are going to miss that one). I will be there to pew pew for you all in raids.

Lately I have made browsing WoW Insider and MMO Champion making it my twice daily routine. I have been drooling over the paladin changes since they first announced them. Of course there is a nerf coming for damage but its still beta and as of now nobody's damage has been equalized. Bottom line though is that they have really done a 180 and take a deep look to fix the Ret tree. They have changed almost everything about retribution paladins and have tuned it to a 100% viable class spec now!

To begin I will go over some of the changes they have implemented to improve the spec. I say some of them because I am bound to miss a few because,as I said, there is so damn many changes lol.

Starting with fundamental changes:
Seals: They have completely reworked the seal and judgment system. Seals now last 2 min and are no longer consumed by judging. That means that paladins no longer have to judge and reseal every 8 seconds saving immense amounts of mana. In addition seals proc from Crusader Strike and, our new ability, Divine Storm adding a decent amount of damage.

Judgments: They have removed the Judgment spell we all know today and have replaced it with three different spells that all ad a debuff. Judgment of Light (restore health), Judgment of Wisdom (restore mana), and Judgment of Justice (prevent fleeing and limiting movement speed). For ret this means that we no longer have to seal, judge then toss up our damage seal allowing us to focus on dps.