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Paladinning in Warlords of Draenor
Once again, we’re on the eve of a new expansion. Tonight, many of you will be logging in and starting the grind from 90 to 100. For the first time in a long time, many of you will actually be … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Holy Shield, interface, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, simcraft, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, TMI, warcraft, WoW
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Patch 6.0.2 Survival Guide
Patch 6.0.2 is upon us, and with it comes a host of changes to the game and our class. This post is your quick and easy guide to making the transition from raiding in 5.4.8 to raiding in the brave … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting, Uncategorized
Tagged buffs, diminishing returns, interface, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, simcraft, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, TMI, ui, vengeance, warcraft, WoW
86 Comments
Velvet Resolver
On Monday, Celestalon kicked off the official Alpha Theorycrafting season by posting a Theorycrafting Discussion thread on the forums. And he was kind enough to toss a meaty chunk of information our way about Resolve, the replacement for Vengeance. Resolve: … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting, Uncategorized
Tagged Active Mitigation, LaTeX, Resolve, Scaling, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, threat, vengeance, warcraft, WoW
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Dousing the Flame?
Late last night, it was announced that we’d be seeing some hotfixes during server maintenance this week. There were two announcements concerning protection paladins. The first was a nerf to the RPPM proc rates of the intellect legendary cloaks (caster … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, Min/Max, nefs, raiding, Scaling, simcraft, stamina, talents, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
35 Comments
Stamina Breakpoints?
Last week I investigated two different situations where Simcraft was giving a user stat weights that seemed wrong. These turned out to be pretty interesting, and are situations that other players could encounter at some point, so I decided it … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, buffs, Min/Max, rotations, Scaling, simcraft, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
12 Comments
Simulationcraft 101: Getting Started
As I mentioned on twitter last week, version 530-5 of Simulationcraft has been released. This is the first version to include the Theck-Meloree Index, a damage smoothing metric we developed in a series of previous blog posts. However, Simcraft is … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches
Tagged Active Mitigation, Min/Max, raiding, Scaling, simulationcraft, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, vengeance, warcraft, warriors, WoW
124 Comments
The Making of a Metric: Part 3
In our last installment, we nailed down the weight factors we’ll use for our smoothness metric. Today we’re going to wrap it up by specifying normalization conditions for the histogram and formally defining the metric. To refresh your memory a … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, LaTeX, Min/Max, raiding, Scaling, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
55 Comments
The Making of a Metric: Part 2
In our last post, we decided on a functional form for our metric. And while I didn’t write it out in full mathematical formalism, the pieces were all there. In short, we start with a damage histogram $H(x)$ computed by … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, LaTeX, Min/Max, raiding, Scaling, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
19 Comments
The Making of a Metric: Part 1
Simulationcraft now has full support for protection paladin mechanics, and hopefully in a week or two I’ll get around to writing a how-to blog post on using it and interpreting the data. Once I write a few batch files, it … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, LaTeX, Min/Max, raiding, Scaling, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
39 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