I have posted the below on Elitist Jerks, which is the final version of the information structure I have been sharing for input (page 3).
I’ve worked out what I’d like to put into the new EJ OP for DK tanks, and what I will exclude. I’m happy to take suggestions.
I’ll start the new tank thread when the Beta changes have settled to a point where we can fruitfully write about raid tanking, which should be when we’re close to 3.9 release.
The information structure I plan to use is documented in this mindmap image.
I do not intend to do all the theorycrafting myself, of course. I will maintain a tidy and organised OP. I believe for many EJ visitors, it’s the only part of the thread they read. I’ll rely on the tank community to reach conclusions on topics like the value of mastery stat vs stamina, how to best use Outbreak, and all the other various issues for us to research for Cataclysm. I’ll then editorialise that into the OP.
The map above shows what information I think should be in the EJ OP, based on its focus on endgame raiding.
As you know, I maintain pwnwear.com, within which I’ll continue to write off-topic or out-of-scope posts, plus writing for newbie tanks (I like to help new tanks get their head the role).
Where there is a content overlap between EJ and my site, such as endgame raiding, I’ll maintain it in both locations. You will not need to contribute at pwnwear to affect the EJ OP. I had to think about how to manage the information spread between the two communities, because I’ll have responsibilities to both, thus combined it into a single mindmap.
In deciding what I think should be at EJ, I looked at other OPs, such as Unholy DPS, Ele shaman and Resto druid. I don’t intend to match their depth, but do want to have similar content headings.
Yesterday I posted a guest article on World of Raids about the Paladin tanking experience for someone, like me, returning to the class after a long absence. It included a new youtube video.
Regulars would have seen most of my written commentary already, which I’d mentioned in the blog ten days’ ago and written into this forum post.
What’s new is this video with commentary, of me tanking BRC as a Pally.
I wonder how Ghostcrawler chooses which threads to respond to. Random I guess.
We’ve had a nicely-formatted post in the beta forums with all the consolidated feedback, including tanking, which Naha put together, and kept it updated, and yet he replies to Consider’s post in the public USA forums which was more about DPS, of course. I’m happy to have a reply there, but why didn’t he answer any of the other threads we’ve had for a few months?
In case you missed it, a competition for Oceanic guilds (A/NZ, Asia) to get 10 beta keys:
We’re proud to announce a brand new contest open exclusively to residents of Australia and New Zealand. We’re looking for some tightly knit guilds who are ready to rumble their way into our World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test.
We want you to share screenshots of your guild’s greatest triumphs and proudest achievements with us. Whether you and your mates just took
Death Knights are waiting, and hoping, for some affirmative feedback and changes from Blizzard. This is a little emotional. I wrote a short post about this phenomena in the forums, on player participation in game design, and that our relationship with Blizzard requires they communicate with us. I drew some parallels to a Tale in the Desert (which Tobold is blogging on), Eve Online (whose council required CCP disclose more information on their efforts to reduce lag), and a
Our Zao, who also moderates at MMO-C and I think hangs out at pwnwear to maintain his sanity, recently attended Gamescon for the full three days, including the long two or more hour queues to get onto playing the newest games.
He’s written up a report on all the different games, which I’m posting here for your reading pleasure. To ask questions or comment, you can reply here or in the forums. He also got a very disturbing photo
A day after I spoke to Consider about writing up our concerns, having been frustrated by the latest Beta patch, Naha on the official beta forums has done exactly what we intended. Awesome, saves me a lot of time. Also shows how Consider and I were wanting to express a wider view shared amongst other DK testers.
If you are in beta, please cross-check your own problems with the DK current state against Naha’s post and provide your
Back in the old days, I had a Paladin called Hammerjudge. Creative name, eh. Actually, I had two.
First one was in Australia, then when I knew I was moving to the UK, I bought an EU kit (whilst in Australia, from shatteredcrystal), then levelled a Dranei on EU. I healed for a while whilst earning a slot in my awesome guild the Dottagers, then tanked, then WotLK was announced and I was sold on a DK, who was
This article is a review of LiquidWeb as a hosting company, with whom I had a dedicated server for five months, and am now using one of their cloud servers. Today I’m covering how awesome Liquidweb are, detailed proof on how I can say that honestly, why I recommend a fully managed service if you’re not a Linux geek and some advice on CPU issues on shared hosts.
This is a detailed review, based on personal experience, and includes
I’ve been really busy this last week or so. Haven’t got as much beta testing done as I’d have liked, but there are only so many hours in the day when I can play the game. Many times, I can write articles or forums posts most easily. I wanted to highlight a few key things.
EJ
For over a year and a half, Suno has been maintaining the DK tank thread at Elitist Jerks. He’s done well and I
This is a review of the Logitech G13 gamepad, which I recently bought to play World of Warcraft. This is an extract, click through to read the whole thing.
The G13 is a USB device. It is recognised as a keyboard by either Windows or Mac. Its configuration software is fully cross-platform.
It has no ghosting. You could press all the keys at once. The G13 was specifically designed to avoid the ghosting problem of normal or gaming
We’re gathering some data on how the now-implemented shield for DK tanks works, in this thread.
Most interesting is that the buff can get to 102% of your heal, at least. Previously we established that the full value of the death strike is used for the barrier value, whether it was overhealed or not.
Insolence has posted a WoL analysis of general questing, which lets us see some of absorb values.
This article helps understand how to integrate a forum with wordpress. Over the next week I’m going to write a few posts about geeky technical things. First up is wp-united, and my views on forum integration with wordpress blogs, technically mostly, and a tour of the various forum software which can be integrated with wordpress.
Situation: I had a wordpress site which was getting so many comments on it (pwnwear, this one), notably including conversations between commenters, as opposed to
Guild Wars 2 is an upcoming MMO which I’ve been keeping my eye on for a while. They’ve released a video of the game now, and OMFG it looks awesome.
One of the earliest announcements that got my attention is their incredibly clever idea (and execution) of a game world in which you make a difference. They call it Dynamic Events. Below, described by their Lead Content Designer (source). » continue reading
I uploaded this onto youtube a few days ago. In case you haven’t seen it though.
This is the second part of questing in Deepholm, this time with video commentary. I got some software to help me edit and do voiceovers, so this video is of a higher production quality than those previous.
Lastly, if you’re on an RSS reader, it’s worth having a look at the new pwnwear front page. I’ve updated its navigation to be
I’ve noticed these topics being discussed more recently: burnout, slacking raiders, low attendance, and poor morale. Pre-expansion, it’s something we all expected. The summer in the northern hemisphere also correlates with raiding problem, since for some reason beyond my comprehension, people want to go outdoors and not play WoW.
True geeks have no life outside their cave.
Jokes aside, the impact of all these factors can be personal and upsetting. It’s also inconvenient. Finding a new guild can be
This is a must-read from a self-described ‘geek feminist’.
If you have any issues with the term ‘feminist’ then replace it with ‘critic’, and read the post.
My longer-term readers will know I can get fairly upset and vocal about harassment and the poor treatment of women in guilds. Related posts from me include parents who play WoW and relationships in-game. The first article includes a link out to empoweredfire, related to guys treating women poorly in-game because they hide
I posted these thoughts below in the new thread on official beta forums, which I’m hoping will become a DK Tank thread. It has some great points in it before my post, which are worth reading too.
In our pwnwear forums, we have a thread which will talk mostly about AOE Tanking.
It’s valid that the earlier point that casting death strike effectively puts bone shield on cooldown.
The 3 rune DnD makes it an opener, combined with blood
These two guides, written by the lookingformore husband and wife team, are really good:
situational awareness pt 1: learning to mouse turn and more, finding your own style
situational awareness p2 2: fine-tuning your mouse controls
This is a topic I find very intriguing and I believe is very important.
I’m a big advocate of mouse-turning and keybinding. I’ve written about it in the past and recommended people use PvP to improve their PvE skills. Also knowing
I’m at L83 on the DK and there isn’t much left for me to test until Blizzard roll out a major DK patch.
Please help me, I will test whichever class that gets the most votes. You need to register in forums, but it’s really fast and easy. Update: it’ll be Paladin first. » continue reading
I’ve just received an email from Blizzard (from the same address that sent me the original alpha/beta invite), telling me the new installer is ready. Apparently you delete the existing game, then download a new one from battle.net.
Important note: as an Oceanic player, the battle.net URL redirected me to SEA.battle.net which gives a BROKEN downloader. Manually type in https://us.battle.net/ and download the beta installer from there instead, and it works. Thanks to the fellows on official forums.
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