It’s a scarce land, that Warrior-Tanking

June 5th, 2009

In the last two months, after the initial WotLK-hype vanished, warrior tanking instantaneously went from “hot topic” to “silent mode”. The blogging scene paints a clear picture here: Even the most insightful and highest-quality blogs seem to struggle with the quest of finding valuable content to post, interesting stuff to talk about.

Use that Motivation-Booster

June 3rd, 2009

A raid’s motivation most of the time is a fragile thing that may rise or drop at any time. Usually it’s based on how encounters go, and thus on progression raids can be a real problem some times. But there’s always a booster, and nothing gets your raid up and running as well as a clean, smooth kill.

On Raid Design Part 8: Karazhan

June 1st, 2009

In the eight, and last, part of my raid-ranking-series (up to Ulduar) I’ll explain why Karazhan made the top spot.

On Raid Design Part 7 – Zul Gurub

May 29th, 2009

In the seventh part of my raid-ranking-series (up to Ulduar) we’re going back to vanilla again. Molten Core was tier 1,and to spice things up a little when you had that MC gear there came the first troll-lore raid: Zul Gurub. This place rocks, and claims my personal rank 2.

Time to (re-)build your gear set. But how?

May 26th, 2009

So you know what gear sets you want to build. You know the stats and you got the items. A whole inventory full of helmets, chestpieces and trinkets. But what now? How to start? Here’s my approach.

On Raid Design Part 6 – Molten Core

May 26th, 2009

In the fith part of my raid-ranking-series (up to Ulduar) my way once again leads back in time. We’ve seen UBRS as one of the blackrock instances, and now with Molten Core there’s another challenge in that mountain to be reviewed onto rank 3.

It’s about time we get an official heads-up on it

May 25th, 2009

Block, block, block. Last week I got my T8 leg token. I still haven’t purchased tanking pants for it though, because of the ridiculous itemization. Block? Are you kidding? Looking over T8 right now the future isn’t shiny at all, and I’d much rather wear a DK set. But there may be light at the end of the tunnel and my token just might not end up being turned in for the off-legpiece …

Ulduar 10 Best-In-Slot Warrior Tanking Gear

May 20th, 2009

No mumbling this time, here we go right at it, the best-in-slot tanking gear you can get from Ulduar 10.