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Tag Archives: WoW
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
28 Comments
The Once And Future Sim
I hinted about a “secret project” in my last post, and promised I’d be more forthcoming this week. It’s about time for the big reveal. But first, let’s take a trip down memory lane. In The Beginning, There Was Hit … Continue reading
Posted in Simcraft, Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blog, game design, LaTeX, simcraft, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
18 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
Patch 5.3 WeakAuras Configuration
Since 5.2, I’ve made a few modifications to my WeakAuras configuration. Nothing major, but definitely some quality-of-life improvements. One option that WeakAuras lacks is the ability to set a trigger based on Spell ID and time remaining. You can do … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, UI, Uncategorized
Tagged Active Mitigation, buffs, control, interface, rotations, tank, tanking, theck, ui, vengeance, warcraft, WoW
19 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
On Measuring Survivability
The last few posts have garnered a lot of comments, and some of them have indicated that there’s some misunderstandings about the simulations we’re performing. This set of simulations started back in September, and has been evolving ever since. And … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Simulation, Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, rotations, Scaling, simulation, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
33 Comments
Stamina: Updated Smoothness Data
In the last post, I mentioned in passing that there was an odd thing happening when a gear set dropped from 7k to 6k haste. I elaborated a little on what I thought was the cause: we were crossing the … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, diminishing returns, Min/Max, Scaling, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
54 Comments
Stamina Addendum: Socket Stuffer?
Earlier this week, I made a pretty lengthy post discussing the merits of stamina as a smoothing stat. One of the common (and expected) criticisms was that I used the usual itemization ratio of 1 haste : 1.5 stamina for … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, diminishing returns, Min/Max, Scaling, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
9 Comments
Stamina: Keeping You Up Longer
What’s the most misunderstood element of tanking? There are a myriad of topics you could offer as guesses. But the question I field more often than any others isn’t about rotations, talents, glyphs, or cooldowns. It’s not even about which … Continue reading
Posted in Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Theorycrafting
Tagged Active Mitigation, blocking, diminishing returns, Min/Max, Scaling, stamina, tank, tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, warcraft, WoW
93 Comments
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