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Tag Archives: raiding
Tiers Are The Silent Language Of Grief
As you may have noticed, the PTR went up recently. And with it, we got some reveals of our set bonuses for T16. Let’s take a brief look at them and ponder their usefulness. 2-piece bonus The 2-piece bonus grants … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, avoidance, blocking, buffs, diminishing returns, gear, itemization, Min/Max, raiding, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
41 Comments
A Tier In My Eye
Sorry for the slow updates, I’ve been deeply engrossed in a secret side project that I’ll hopefully get around to unveiling/announcing next week. However, for this week’s installment of “what Theck could throw together in his spare time” I bring … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, buffs, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
13 Comments
Out of Insight, Out of Mind
In the last post, we discussed a variety of topics related to modeling Seal of Insight. Now it’s time to put that modeling discussion to work. The Model I decided to stick with the conclusion I came to in my … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, diminishing returns, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, vengeance, warcraft, WoW
22 Comments
Modeling Seal of Insight
Seal of Insight is the last major paladin mechanic that has yet to be added to the simulation. The last piece of the puzzle, as it were. There are a number of reasons I’ve put off adding SoI, some of … Continue reading
Posted in Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, control, LaTeX, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
15 Comments
Sacréd bleu!
The comments section of last Friday’s post hosted some interesting discussions. Wrathblood pointed out that some of the avoidance gear sets were performing about as well as the Control/Haste set, and Kihra cautioned against counting out Control/Mastery entirely. There was … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, LaTeX, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
33 Comments
Tier 14 Retrospective
You know that feeling sometimes, that those of us in our 20s or 30s get about our college days? We’ll look back and think, “Man, those were the best days of my life.” And that’s kind of a sad thought, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, From Ana's Inbox, Raid Recap, Raiding
Tagged 16/16H, Anafielle, Hardcore raiding, raiding, Something Wicked, Something Wicked tanks, Tier 14, Tier 14 retrospective
33 Comments
Valor Morghulis
This is a post I wrote almost three months ago. But I wasn’t very happy with it, and ended up letting it sit around as a draft. Every few weeks I would come back to it hoping to edit it … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Encounters, Raiding, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches
Tagged game design, raiding, theck, warcraft, WoW
39 Comments
Protection Tier 15 Set Bonuses
Earlier this month, the set bonuses for T15 were revealed, followed by a few clarifications from Ghostcrawler. To summarize what we know: T15 2-piece: Casting Word of Glory or Eternal Flame also grants you 40% (additive, not affected by DR) … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting, Uncategorized
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, buffs, diminishing returns, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
36 Comments
5.1 Warrior Simulations – Part 1 – The Model
It’s been quite some time since we last looked at warrior mechanics. While this is primarily a paladin-centric blog, I like to dabble in other classes from time to time, specifically when it seems like there’s something I’m uniquely suited … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, diminishing returns, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, vengeance, warcraft, warriors, WoW
11 Comments
Damage Smoothing for Paladins – Round Three
It’s been almost two months since we took a close look at damage smoothing and gearing strategies. In that post, we definitively concluded that the “control” gearing scheme, which focuses on reaching hit and expertise caps before other stats, was … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, diminishing returns, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, warriors, WoW
15 Comments
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