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Hey Lisa! The best summary post is still http://tanklikeagirl.com/blog/2011/01/11/the-new-prot-warrior-top-10/ and more detail in http://tanklikeagirl.com/blog/2010/11/02/button-mashing-in-4-0-1-or-not/. Changes since 4.0.1 are minimal, with Devastate being a little bit better than it used to be. Another great guide is over at Ktok's Glaivecow site: http://glaivecow.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/prot-warrior-tanking-guide-4-1-edition/ Hope this helps!
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And that's the idiots you have to put up with in WoW. Just sharing this idiocy with the world, you anonymous coward. Anyone understand why I am not WoW blogging anymore? :P
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They are both great guilds. DotA has more members and has more evening activity, and they raid at night server time. DotH is smaller and we raid daytime, but I would say we're just as friendly.
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Don't think much of it. You can use Cleave and HS more often than either of the two abilities you mentioned, given you have sufficient rage. Just put them both on easily accessible bindings and use something like Power Auras to show you they're off CD.
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You are absolutely welcome, my pleasure!
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Mandatory for tanking for me: Tidy Plates: Threat as nameplates, Skada for damage and threat, myThreat for centralized personal threat, PowerAuras/WeakAuras for cooldowns, RaidWatch2 as boss mod, Sheepdog and AdiCCMonitor for CC monitoring, SimpleRaidTargetIcons for marking, InlineAuras for debuff tracking. Still using Stuf for unit frames.
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It's WoW-Armory for WP, but it can't seem to handle the new Cataclysm gear. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wow-armory/
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I will update combat ratings within the next couple days, but until then, check out http://elitistjerks.com/f15/t29453-combat_ratings_level_85_cataclysm/
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They should and they will. We currently have a legacy of WotLK weapons that were all fast. Based on datamined information from the Cataclysm beta, all tanking weapons will now be slow. This will be a boost to Heroic Strike damage, but also Devastate. You can already start replacing the faster weapons with a 2.6 weapon, if you can get your hands on a decent one.
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I have! It's quite cute, but doesn't come anywhere close to her PvZ song when it comes to catchiness. Also, the world doesn't need more blood elfs! ;)
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First, you need to be self-hosted to make this work. If you are, check out the following site: http://www.wowhead.com/tooltips
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I firmly believe that dungeon design dumbed down a lot of elements in WotLK. A complete lack of scaling has made heroics laughable since Ulduar, so for almost 1.5 years now. As tank, I miss careful pulls, marking kill order, assigning crowd control options. Even before we all started outgearing heroics, people had lost interest in that, because they had AoE buttons and tanks were suddenly able to keep large groups of mobs on them.
As a 10-man raider, I don’t feel WoW has become too easy. Naxxramas was an easy raid, Ulduar was awesome, ToC is this weird place that takes as long as a TBC 5-man would have taken, and Icecrown Citadel has some great encounters.
This question was actually asked 5 months ago, and it should be pretty obvious that a lot of us are now milling around in game, because almost all content is done. My guild needs LK and Ruby Sanctum still, but after that, there’s only hardmodes left and that’s not really new content. I have no idea what we’ll all do, aside from leveling more and more alts. -
I think every role in WoW is equally hard in end-game. To be a capable tank, healer or DPS, it’s all challenging, to do it right. I know that people tend to say DPS is easily replaced, but I don’t find that’s true at all. Progression falters when DPS is lacking, just as much as it stalls when tanks have low health pools or healers can’t keep people up. I personally am still more intimidated by healing, but I also find it extremely fun, just as much as tanking.
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Bioware has been for years the only crack that gets me away from WoW. I have played KotOR, Jade Empire, both Mass Effects and of course Dragon Age. I always go for the paragon side somehow. The glowier the halo, the happier I am. I always peter out when I try to play the dark side. But I owe it to myself to complete Mass Effect 2 as a badass renegade sometime in the near future. I am almost more excited about Mass Effect 3 than Dragon Age 2. :)
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For the Horde! There’s no question for me, I want to play a goblin, very badly. Ever since I watched Gravity’s goblin DK video, I want me one of those. It doesn’t hurt that all reports I have heard so far indicate that the goblin starting zones are fantastic fun. :) I am actually transferring my level 70 rogue off Bronzebeard, to make room for the future goblin hunter. I really need more character slots.
I will eventually roll a worgen as well, but likely only to play the start zone. I don’t have room on Bronzebeard for a 2nd alliance character, and I do not know any other alliance players US-side. I know a lot of people are very excited about the worgen, but they don’t actually appeal to me that much. -
I did actually post about builds way back in April 2009, when dual specs were released. In my mind, you either use the threat build including Deep Wounds, or you use a more defensive build for progression raiding. For someone who’s a fresh 80, Deep Wounds all the way. As new tank you’ll probably struggle with AoE threat, so pick up Cleaving, Shockwave and Sunder Armor, and Thunder Clap is a must as minor.
Soon, we’ll have vastly different talent trees, and I am looking forward to finding out what will work best in Cataclysm. :) -
I am a very goal oriented WoW player who prefers group content of any kind. Gear is definitely nice, but ultimately a means to an end, to push further in the game. I love progression, but it has to be with my friends, which is why I love the tightly knit 10-man raid environment the most. I am very much a perfectionist and have quit playing characters that I feel I cannot achieve the high standards I set for myself. So, as summary, my top motivation in WoW is to kick some serious ass with my friends and experience all PvE content.
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I am a very goal oriented WoW player who prefers group content of any kind. Gear is definitely nice, but ultimately a means to an end, to push further in the game. I love progression, but it has to be with my friends, which is why I love the tightly knit 10-man raid environment the most. I am very much a perfectionist and have quit playing characters that I feel I cannot achieve the high standards I set for myself. So, as summary, my top motivation in WoW is to kick some serious ass with my friends and experience all PvE content.
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