The Dps Tank

Shiney horizons.

Meatpieandwow — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:06:26 GMT

I stopped my breif stint of blogging for the following reasons :

Curse has so much spam, and i got over it. Im blogging now because its 12 AM and im bored.

Seems warrior's are going to continue to bypass the block stat, blizzard to scared to say the stat is broken. Which has been quite obvious as it rarely appears on gear in favour of Dodge and parry. They may or may not even fix it, block is nopw just so useless against raid bosses as being able to block 3-4k (as a prot warrior) means literally nothing as the boss is going to hit for 20k+ now. The flavour of the month is dodge and parry, where'as blizzard in an attempt to balance tanks, have brough parry up to the same level as dodge and dodge down to parry, nerfing druids through nerfing agi....waa? MMk I really was not aware that they would do this because I never felt druids were doing better then me in terms of tanking. In turn this will nerf rogues in pvp against melee classes, but not by that much.

On the Topic of pvp, i moved to a new realm, Frostmourne - only to find it is run by retards and d**k faces. Havnt found a guild since i got there and I will inform you if I do. I took up arms as my off spec to give pvp a go, rogues destroy me, its true and im not afraid to admit it. In my mind rogues are quite overpowered 1 on 1 with a rogue literally being able to go through a set of stuns, get me to 40%, stealth up and refresh those stuns and then finish me off, which I think is quite ridiculous that a rogue can cut a plate wearer with 700 resilience down so easily.

I also decided to embark on an epic quest to do every quest in most of the NR zones. Accumulating enough gold for my epic flyer which is awesome cause iv been playing for a long time.

The Death of the Manual

Meatpieandwow — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:04:04 GMT

Remember when your manual was just as thick as the box it came in? This mainly applied to RPG games, but they were still neccescary to even get a game to run back in the good ol days. These were lovingly created and wrapped up and put into the box. With the price of the game, it probably tacked on 10% of the price.

Other then being used for copywrite purposes (line 8 - pg 123 word 4, type it in or your game will explode and teh fuzz will be on yo door dawg), a manual can be used for a multitude of real life interaction with your game. An exaple could be hidden passwords for doors or cryptic clues, UV lights come with your game to find the evidence. I dunno, how bout a random picture in the credits page thats the face of the killer, and your like lol WUT.

The only manual a game has came with in recent memory that had some effort put into it was Grand Theft auto - San andreas, while totally useless in its own write, presenting it as a brouchur was a neat idea (forgive me if they had done this for previous GTA games, i never played them, except for the original 2d versions).

Note - This is a 2 parter with Death of the non casual game. thingy. Let me know what you think in comments.

The death of the non "casual" game.

Meatpieandwow — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:53:10 GMT

Nintendo, you need to be stopped. If i wanted to pick up and play a game, i would have done that with every other game i have ever bought. No i prefer to sit there and stare at them. God forbid i actually pick it up and "play it". Also referred to as the casual game.

I swear if one more game comes out that says "Easy to pick up and play" (that dosnt have a tube of arthritis cream with it so people with arthritis can actually like, pick it up.) i am going to explode.

Remember when games used to beat you? When you spent a week trying to beat the god damn level, and then it was all like epic win when you did and you threw the controller across the room and it richochet of the wall and hit the eject button on your console which then proceeded to vomit your game out of the spot where it goes in and your dog grabs it and you find it 2 days latter protruding out of your dogs rectum because it cant actually expell it? ( /breathes)

These things belong on the internet, and they deserve to be free, and the god damn Wii vital watchamacally is retarded. Apparently it helps you sleep. Go die.

QQ

Meatpieandwow — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:24:30 GMT

Im not sure if its just me, but protection Palidans seem to be way more buff then prot warriors at the time of writing. Im not here to QQ, im just here to get it out and see what the Curse community thinks. They seems to be doing Way more threat then they should be able to be doing. It just seems impossible for me to keep up, shockwave and thunder clap are no match for their mighty burst threat and tanking alongside one is nearly impossible, even shield slam crits cant keep up and iv had one aggro off me despite i was focusing all my threat on it.

More issues, I feel for the fury warriors, also i feel my off spec, It just seems so nerfed right now, though im sure that the gear from ulduar with its high strength do reconcile the dps hit, i think Blizzard would have just been better off waiting a bit and letting a few get a bit OP before the ultra nerfage.

The helm that shall never be.

Meatpieandwow — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:19:11 GMT

Well after having been raiding with my guild every week for the past couple months, one should assume that I would have aquired a decent level of gear. And in truth, I have, I am, in my mind, 2 peices of swish loot from being as good as it gets...till ulduar, But saph still wont drop my helm /sigh. Heres my armoury link.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dath%27Remar&;n=Golnan

Yes, I am ashamed that i am still using the arcane-shielded helm, but hey this gives me a chance to say...Im a chick now Wooooooot. I am the most well geared female dwarf on my realm, or on multiple realms. This is a great chance for me to gloat, but ill leave that till later. All you Dorf gurls out there give me a Booyaa.

Zomg lul wtf.

Meatpieandwow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:56:40 GMT

Come on Ulduar, get your but out here and lets do some real raiding. I like at least the majority of the current WoW community was shocked when we first blitzed through Naxxramas on heroic difficulty, but hey the promise of ulduar being totally swish is just enough temptation to drudge on through the molasses that is naxxramas(wotlk version, not saying pre-bc's classic raid was bad).

With the patch fast acommin, and the details of the patch being updated quite regulary, Iv decided to give a critical analysis of the key features on the patch that im extreamly excited to see.

1) Defensive stance damage penalty decreased by 5%(Zomg lul wtf.) - MAOR DAMAGE. I love damage, but I cant help but feel like this is for nought, as every other class is getting a boost in their dps.

2) Rage generation through parrys/dodges(Zomg lul wtf.) - MAOR RAGE. Bout bloody time, now I wont have a problem farming or having to worry about putting points in talents that decrease ability cost.

3) Dual spec (Zomg lul wtf.) - NO MAOR GLYPH MARKET. Take that Scribes, try and sell your glyphs now.

4) Ulduar (Zomg lul wtf.) - NO MAOR NAXX (for those who arnt in welfare blues). If gear isnt a factor in this place im quitting, srsly.

5) Golnan (Zomg lul HELL YEAH.) - GOLNAN STILL THERE. My character golnan is gonna be all like kizzaaaaah Kizaaaah Woopachang while he carves crap up with tons of rage, more damage, wasting money on dual spec (aiding in making scribes poorer) and owning the loot tables up in Ulduar.

The patch looks good folks, stop pointing out bugs in the ptr and get it out sooner please :D

PS : I fully understand that naxx was made to be easy so players who only just hit 80 after Ulduar is on farm wont be stuck there much as the same as guilds not being able to get into SSC and TK.

Notating Rotating.

Meatpieandwow — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:34:55 GMT

Hi guys, me again ^^

/insert intro explaining whats been going on in my life.

The other day, while tanking heroic malygos(EoE), a fellow warrior tank whom i have never met asked me what rotation I used half way through the fight (rude man :P).

Not having much time to reply to him at the present time though I was inclined to, I realised that I did not stick to 1 particular rotation, and could not give him to much advice on it, basically, work your own out. After recieving some rude remarks from said player I began to really think about how not worrying about a strict rotation could affect me, or more importantly, how it wasnt.

The introduction of shockwave and sword and board / more AP means warrior tanks are really a loaded machine gun, with a small amount of reloading time in between slam spams. The aggro gaining process is rarther simple now, and I vividly remember having at least a 5 second time in BC so that dps classes wouldnt pull off me and die, now its just charge in with reckless abandon, and watch out for whatever (E.G Sparks on maly, and -/+ on thadius).

Without me even noticing it, blizzard has changed a old rule of tanking, watch your rotation while watching the fight.

Wtb more rage.

Meatpieandwow — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:24:21 GMT

Grrrr, wtb more rage.

Pallidans dont have this problem, but building up intitial threat on a boss can be a real pain if you dodge and parry the first few hits.

Its lame, it sucks, and blizzard is fixing it. I hope. If the change that is to be implemented that enables us to recieve rage through dodges/ blocks / parrys is implemented, Im going to be one very happy warrior indeed.

Anyway, on to more pressing matters. Judging that rend should be in my current rotation a few weeks back, I have noticed that a lot of other warriors arn't using it. For reasons unknown to me.

Rend is possibly one of the most useful moves during a single target encounter, as it is garrunteed to do a certain amount of damage. Obviously, when shield slam is up or revenge, your going to use those. But when shock wave/ conc blow / every other move modified by your stats is down, Rend is the way to go why you wait for them to pop back up. It adds at least an extra 150 dps when applied regulary.

Same goes for Deep wounds, instead of dropping your points into cruelty, how about you go and drop some in Impale and deep wounds. It will boost the damage you do on your critical hits, and of course, add more single target dps, while significantly boosting your AoE threat.

Its a win win in my opinion, tell me what you think :D.

The life of a Tank.

Meatpieandwow — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:00:29 GMT

Well, hello there. I assume that your reading this because either

A) Your bored and hopped on to look at random news and addons and happened to randomly click this blog. or,

B) You like reading gaming blogs on curse.

Mmmmmk.

Every now and then I will add updates to my blog, so if you actually happen to like reading these, check in every so often, now lets get.... blogging?

My character that I play full time is a young (though I supose 2 years in RL is 57 years in WoW time) Male dwarf, who goes by the name of Golnan.

After leveling to the heighty heights of lv 80, spending 4k Gold on crafted epics / enchants and gems. I began raiding the next day with a guild I had been in for well over a month. Needless to say, I was promptly kicked the next week after winning a roll on T7 leggings, and then telling the GM off for giving me **** about pulling aggro off the main tank. I am now known as a ninja to some on my realm (Dath'remar...Pay me a visit ^^).

Moving on to another guild, Outsider PO, was great, had fun, got loot, Guild Disbanded and I was left out in the cold, cold, world of warcraft. Which sucked *** because I, a fairly well geared tank, couldnt even find a guild to raid with.

Of course, I, Bounced around from guild to guild till I found the right one, which I just joined today, Xcellence, of Dath'remar (Visit meh :D)

Well thats it for this Blog, hope you liked it, post comments on what I should write for the next blog (tanking tips?), and dont point out ****ing spelling mistakes please :P.