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Patch 6.1 – How Do I Protection?
Patch 6.1 arrives today, bringing a number of changes. I’ll try to keep this short (ha!) and just hit the points that matter to us. Goodbye Glyphs Glyph of Alabaster Shield has been removed. Glyph of Harsh Words is now … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Holy Shield, Min/Max, raiding, rotations, Scaling, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, TMI, warcraft, WoW
53 Comments
Haters Gonna Haste
*Tap Tap* Is this thing still on? I’ve been very busy lately between holidays, preparing for classes, and recovering from the plague. I’ve barely had time to play, let alone write blog posts. In fact, I really don’t have time … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting, Uncategorized
Tagged buffs, haste, Holy Shield, Min/Max, raiding, Scaling, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, TMI, warcraft, WoW
72 Comments
The Trouble With Haste
Yesterday, we were informed of a few hotfixes that were being applied to protection paladins. From the hotfixes blog: Protection Mastery: Divine Bulwark now increases Shield of the Righteous’ damage reduction by 0.5% per point, down from 0.75% per point. … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting, Uncategorized
Tagged Active Mitigation, avoidance, blocking, buffs, game design, Holy Shield, Min/Max, Scaling, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, TMI, warcraft, WoW
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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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Simulationcraft 6.0.2 – New Features
Now that we’re made the transition into raiding in a post-6.0.2, pre-level-100 world, I wanted to bring you up to speed on what’s been happening in Simulationcraft in the past few months. Simulationcraft 602-1 was released on Tuesday, and you … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Simulation, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Scaling, simcraft, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, 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
Protection L100 Talents
I want to talk a bit about our level 100 talents, but not in the way you might expect. This post isn’t going to be full of numbers, nor is it going to be a comparison of how the talents … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, buffs, game design, Holy Shield, Min/Max, rotations, skill, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
58 Comments
Simulationcraft Automation Tutorial – Part II
In the last post, we went over the interface of the Automation Tool and demonstrated how to use it to perform simple talent, glyph, and gear comparisons. Today we’re going to dive into the last comparison type: Rotations. This comparison … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Min/Max, rotations, Scaling, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, TMI, warcraft, WoW
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Simulationcraft Automation Tutorial – Part I
If you follow me on twitter, you know that I’ve been intermittently commenting on the new Automation Tool that I’ve been building for Simulationcraft. I’m happy to say that the tool is more or less finished at this point, complete … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Min/Max, rotations, Scaling, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, TMI, warcraft, WoW
10 Comments
TC401: Avoidance Diminishing Returns in WoD
Avoidance and diminishing returns are topics we’ve spent a fair amount of time discussing in the past. In 2012, I wrote a series of three blog posts discussing avoidance diminishing returns in Mists of Pandaria, chronicling the background of the … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged avoidance, blocking, diminishing returns, LaTeX, Min/Max, simcraft, tank, tanking, TC101, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, warriors, WoW
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