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Hi Satori,

First of all, let me thank for your excellent work. Your detailed and patient answers to my old questions about my custom IT-oriented build in the old tanking thread helped me get past...

Right; but you can create a mathematical model which, when you plug in specific damage and healing scenarios, will give you a formula for conversion of avoidance and mitigation into EHP. This is...

Sorry about making it long, I thought this was an issue deserving of exploring in some depth.

However, I don't think I did a good job of explaining what exactly I was trying to accomplish.

My...

Hi all.

We all know how to quantify the DPS trinket procs: normalize proc strength over expected uptime, and voila! you got a passive stat equivalent. However, I have never seen any model for...

Right, for some reason i thought Ebon Plague got refreshed by some other moves; must be my mind playing tricks on me... anyway, this explains why you should twist, rather than let it drop, as Unholy....

Blood tapping... at 1min refresh, you can do it every third disease refresh cycle as Unholy. And of course if you are Blood, you have plenty of HS spamming to do anyway.

But you actually get more...

Well, with canonical disease twisting, you wouldn't wait -- you would just switch the refresh order each cycle: first PS/IT (or IT/PS if running in), next cycle IT/PS, then PS/IT again, etc. What I...

Perhaps some kind admin would move this thread there.

Indeed; and in some circles it seems t be taken for granted that disease twisting is a good idea -- but I am trying to understand why it is...

Hi all, I am relatively new to the DK DPS -- been at it at 80 less than 2 months -- and I have recently learned about disease twisting.

The idea seems clear enough: change their order of...

This sort of thing is why I use Disease glyph for single-target. the DPS loss in pure single-target is not drastic (I replace the Dark Death glyph, you lose the DC bonus, but you get to replace...

DOH! I had read that somewhere, but I forgot. Thanks for reminding!

I also made a point of zooming the camera in closely today, makes it much easier to pick up the orbs. And SS helps keep myself...

Hi,

I am my guild's only holy pally, which of course means that I am the guild's backbone on Valithria fight. We have recently started on 25-man heroic modes (yes, well, hence my realm's name --...

Blizzard has declared that they are doing away with the great DK experiment, the attempt to make each tree suitable for either DPS or tanking. In Cata Dks will be like warriors are now -- one tanking...

The difference is that with HS, you can simply spam HS heedlessly -- you will never accidentally break up an FU pair, preventing DS from going off. With IT spam you can, so you have to cast IT only...

Indeed, that's what I have been doing -- IT on Death, instead of HS. I tried IT on availability yesterday, before I figured out the Death Rune rule, and it just makes rune tracking even more...

I am not terribly undergeared -- GS over 3k from wow-heroes -- but my guild's top Fury warrior is a total threat whore, and I have seen better-geared and more experienced tanks lose threat to him. In...

Dps and rotation you are toally right about, as I have found out today -- managing the runes becomes a lot more complicated. What do you mean by IT heals though? Do you mean my idea about...

So, I just ran a couple of heroics with the Icy Touch build, and then VoA-25. Earlier I ran a few heroics with the standard Blood tank build. My impressions so far, based on limited data:

1) The...

Yup.

it should. I based it on advice from this guy, Satorri, you may have heard of him. :) I read your writeup on Dk tanking religiously.

Well, no, I expect the IT abuse to actually give me...

Hi guys,

I just converted my secondary DPS blood spec to tanking (here is the char, here is my current talent build -- I find blood DPS just not nearly as fun as Unholy, and I always pull bigger...

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This is probably a stupid question,but I am wondering, why are so many BiS auxiliary items (rings, capes, etc.) canonical tanking ones (Str/Def/Dodge) instead of Agility? Does the Dodge...