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Radio Silence and SotR Musings

Theck wrote 5 days ago: It’s been a quiet two weeks here on Sacred Duty, and I apologize for that.  All three of us ha … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Game design, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting

Lunchtime musings - Lv90 Talents Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other?2 comments

Jar wrote 2 weeks ago: With the release of the updated tier 6 talents for druids there has been some discussion over the de … more →

Tags: General

Warrior Block Calculations - Part 47 comments

Theck wrote 4 weeks ago: In the last three posts, we’ve built up the equations we need to calculate the survivability s … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Game design, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting

Warrior Block Calculations - Part 31 comment

Theck wrote 1 month ago: So far, we’ve developed the general expressions for warrior block mechanics, and we’ve w … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Game design, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting

Warrior Block Calculations - Part 213 comments

Theck wrote 1 month ago: In the last installment, we calculated expressions for the normalized scale factors that represent t … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Game design, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting

Warrior Block Calculations - Part 14 comments

Theck wrote 1 month ago: In response to my earlier work on paladin MoP Block mechanics, several of my warrior friends asked i … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Game design, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting

MoP Block Calculations - Part 413 comments

Theck wrote 1 month ago: In this final installment, we’re going to use a Monte Carlo simulation to see how accurately t … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, Warcraft

Aspect of the Iron Hawk - Reaction to Peregrina2 comments

Pathemeous wrote 1 month ago: Peregrina over at Piercing Shots has written this article about why the new Hunter talent Aspect of … more →

Tags: Wow, Mop, mists of pandaria, World of Warcraft, Aspect of the Iron Hawk, Mists, hunters, Aspects, AotIH

MoP Block Calculations - Part 329 comments

Theck wrote 1 month ago: Last time, we painfully ground through the necessary calculus to develop relationships between diffe … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, Warcraft

MoP Block Calculations - Part 210 comments

Theck wrote 1 month ago: Suggested subtitles: How to make String Theory look easy Why I quit theorycrafting 101 reasons I sho … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, Warcraft

Deckbuilding: Murlocmania

drydwen wrote 1 month ago: Murlocs, murlocs and even more murlocs. That’s what you will see if you are going for a Murloc … more →

Tags: Decks, murloc, Crabbyfin, Coastrunner, Swarmtooth, Slippyfist, King Bagurgle, Shalug'doom, Poison Tipped

MoP Block Calculations - Part 17 comments

Theck wrote 1 month ago: There’s been some question about how the new block mechanics will affect our damage intake, an … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Active Mitigation, Blocking, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, theorycrafting, Warcraft

Mists Of Pandaria Beta - The Morning After11 comments

Oestrus wrote 2 months ago: While I was not one of the first few to receive a Beta invite, I did pay close attention to all of t … more →

Tags: cataclysm, beta, Update, holy priest, Glyphs, discipline priest, circle of healing, Haste breakpoints, heartsong

Loot, Damned Loot, and Statistics18 comments

Theck wrote 2 months ago: There really wasn’t much paladin-specific information provided in the MoP media event – … more →

Tags: Theck's Pounding Headaches, QQ, Raiding, Design, Wow, theck, Theorycraft, Efficient Raiding, Warcraft

Followup à Block5 comments

Theck wrote 2 months ago: A few weeks ago, I wrote an article that was pretty critical of the new block implementation.  Now t … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Design, Wow, scaling, Tanking, theck, Classes, Theorycraft

Mists of Pandaria Buffs/Debuffs Matrix19 comments

Theck wrote 2 months ago: Yesterday, Ghostcrawler gave us a peek at the plan for buff and debuff distribution in MoP.  However … more →

Tags: Tanking, Raid Leading, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Raiding, Design, Wow, theck, Theorycraft, raid strategy

Folie à Block28 comments

Theck wrote 2 months ago: (Madness of Block) In the latest developer blog, it was revealed that blocking will move to a two-ro … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Design, Wow, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft, Warcraft, theorycrafting

Vengeance: Once More, With Feeling18 comments

Theck wrote 3 months ago: If you’ve ever read the blog, you might notice that one thing Mel and I agree on is Vengeance. … more →

Tags: Tanking, Theck's Pounding Headaches, Raiding, Design, Wow, scaling, Tanking, theck, Theorycraft

Rogue Report Card.8 comments

Squelchy wrote 3 months ago: Given that this is, ostensibly, a class-specific blog, you may be surprised to learn I don’t c … more →

Tags: musings, Raiding


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