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Blizzard Dev Blog: Preemptive Mitigation

Today’s Dev blog is about how they want to move away from reactive mitigation to active mitigation, and talks about three different possible models. And more specifically, how it’ll affect Blood Death Knights in 4.3. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3401304 The third model seems … Continue reading

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Blizzard Dev Blog: More Threat!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3300854 Today’s blog is pretty lengthy, but the highlight is: Hotfix: The threat generated by classes in their tanking mode has been increased from three times damage done to five times damage done. In an upcoming patch: Vengeance no longer … Continue reading

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Rage of the Firelands Patch 4.2 Released!

Patch notes can be found here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2993743 I’ve listed the changes Tanks should be aware of below. Major ones being Dungeon Journal, the changes to Crowd Control spells, Feral Druid’s damage changes, and Paladin’s Holy Shield change. The CC change is … Continue reading

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Blizzard’s Dungeon Journal Preview

The preview for 4.2′s Dungeon Journal is up at http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2943357, with a couple screenshots. This is going to be a pretty handy tool for everyone, since it’ll let you see at a glance all the important abilities for every Dungeon and … Continue reading

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Ask the Devs #9: Tanking

The newest Ask the Devs blog is up, and this one is all about Tanking: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2649805301 It’s definitely worth a read, and here’s some of excerpts: Paladins: Mastery is an attractive stat for paladins, but has some design problems. It scales … Continue reading

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Dungeon Journal in 4.2

Blizzard has a short little FAQ up at http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2456449381 for the new Dungeon Journal that’s coming. It’ll be pretty convenient being able to see and read about each bosses’ spells, abilities, and phases from within the game itself before engaging them, … Continue reading

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Patch 4.1 Coming Soon!

And Blizzard has helpfully put up a feature guide as well as the official patch notes. Hit the link for the full list: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2657803 Changes relevant to tanks are listed below. Of special note is the increased CD on Word of … Continue reading

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4.1.11 Patch Notes, Crabby, and the Tomb of Immortal Darkness

First say hello to Crabby! I’m sure he’s going to be a huge help to Tanks everywhere. And boy, when are they ever going to have the chance to post 4.1.11 patch notes? This is a once in a lifetime opportunity! … Continue reading

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Blizzard Dev Blog: Hit and Expertise for Tanks

There’s a new blog by Ghostcrawler up on the official Blizzard site, mostly talking about the new direction their blogs are going. But it also mentions their thoughts on how to make Hit and Expertise more interesting for Tanks, since … Continue reading

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Patch 4.0.6 Live!

Patch 4.0.6 has come out, and it has a couple of changes Tanks should be aware of which I’ve listed below. For the full patch notes, see http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2166872. Death Knights Icebound Fortitude now breaks stuns when used, in addition to … Continue reading

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