Archives - Tips of the Past
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
- C02: The New 41 Point Talent Trees!
- A Quick Guide to Tanking Halion10&25
- C01: An Early Look at Cataclysm’s Protection Spec
June 2010
May 2010
- The Camera Man never gets Enough Credit
- Hi, I’m Specing Impale/Deep Wounds.
- ICC25… Not an Upgrade
- The Removal of “On Next Attack” Abilities
April 2010
- Specing for the Fight: Taking on the King
- Becoming a Tank in your Guild
- The Dungeon Tool is ruining your chances of Raid Tanking
- Finally, A Legendary Shield! [Updated]
March 2010
- Talking Tank: Reloaded [Updated]
- Patch 3.3.3: Revenge is Back!
- The General Philosophy to Approaching Items
- Putting Faces to Names & The UI World
- Consistency, The Unspoken Bond between Tanks
February 2010
- GearScore isn’t going away… and it’s better this way
- Reflecting on 6 or 7 Tanking Mistakes you’ll consistently make
- Reactions to Patch 3.3.2
January 2010
- The New T10 Gloves and Chest
- Warning: 25 man raiders should save Emblems of Frost
- Handling the Fast pace of the LFG Tool
- The World of Weapons
- Gearing for Festergut and Rotface
December 2009
- The Emblem of Frost Pick Order
- A Quick Tanking Guide to Day 1 in ICC10
- Vigilance for the Forgetful
- An Interview with Satrina’s Impeding Scarab
November 2009
- My dirty, little secret: The Leadership Bible
- A Rare Post: The Number of Tanks I want in Cataclysm
- The Mail Bag: Beasts, Sets, Expertise and not getting to do Naxx
- Podcast #8: That’s the game you’re tanking
- The ability I’m still not fast enough with
October 2009
- Chill of the Throne
- Back to Basics: I’m 80, now what?
- DPS > TPS. Why nothing and something has changed.
- The Road to Content: Reputation vs Gear vs Experience
- A Triumphant Debate… again.
- The Lady’s Loot
September 2009
- Revelations: Rethinking Glyph of Indomitability
- I need more in a Trinket than Stamina
- Back to Basics: The History of Block
- Talking Tank, Saturday on Rawrcast
- Do you know who’s Alive? You should.
August 2009
- The Emblem of Triumph Pick Order
- The 2 Specs I’m running as of 3.2 + 1 I’m not
- The Emblem of Conquest Pick Order
- The 1st thing I Command you to do!
- Over Taunting isn’t just Bad Manners anymore
July 2009
- The Upgrade that 15% of you can’t even afford
- First you must Follow
- 7 Things I’ve learned about Specing
- The ONLY way to Spec: 2 Protection Specs or 1?
- The Roller Coaster Ride that is Block Value
- Buffing Shield Wall: The Whole > The Parts
June 2009
- Riddle me this: Who do you Vigilance?
- The Thing I take for Granted the most…
- You get what you Pay for…
- Back to Basics: Selecting Targets
- Is Resilience back?
- The Secret to Enjoying Tanking Freya
May 2009
- From Clicks to Keybindings: Movement
- Hodir’s “Mage Trick” and More!
- The Raw Power of the Ulduar Offtank
- Should I Gear, Gem or Enchant for Defense?
- Are you Double Potting?
- Once you’re comfortable, Overwhelm yourself
April 2009
- 8 Thoughts on Tier 8
- The Art of Warbringer
- Shattering Throw: The Best Ability you’re Not Using
- Avoidance vs Effective Health: Content we Undergear
- Avoidance vs Effective Health: Healers not Focusing
- Avoidance vs Effective Health: The Myths
- Back to Basics: Tanking Stats
March 2009
- Do we have Infinite Rage or No Rage?
- Review of the UA (37/2/32) Spec
- From 5 to 10/25: The Raiding Transition
- What Tier 7 to wear?
- The Key is Reflecting
- Podcast #7: Return of the Main Tank
- Attacking on the Run: Strafing
February 2009
- Some things are worth fighting for…
- The Trash Caps
- Back to Basics: Clustering
- Sometimes, 20% > 30%
- It snuck up on us… we’re Amazing Add Tanks
- Deciding on the Best of Today’s Shields
- Warrior 3.0.8 Tanking Enchants
January 2009
- At least, 41% of Tanks aren’t Heroic Striking enough.
- 1 Gun. The only Gun you need, again.
- It’s time to Step down as Main Tank
- Expertise is always better than Hit
December 2008
- The Golden rule of Specing
- A guide to Specs and Experimentation
- The Rotation. It’s not as Easy as you think.
- How good is Defense?
- Marking: You’ve probably forgot you could do it.
- The Emblem of Valor Pick Order
- Don’t ditch your old Defense Trinkets just yet!
November 2008
- The Badge err… Emblem of Heroism Pick Order
- An overview of the Major Glyphs that Matter
- 8 (+1 Read more…) Quick Changes you may have Missed
- Killing Kritters 2.0 - WotLK Edition
- The Road that I’ll follow to 80
- 2 New Macros that you never had and should use!
October 2008
- The New Warning signs of a Bad level 80 Spec
- Your Role: Maximizing DPS and Minimizing Damage Taken
- We mourn the passing of…
- Stop using your Bad Macro Now rather than Later
- Level 70 Glyphs making Bad Macros Good!
- My 3.0 Level 70 Spec
- The Druid Complex
- Dodge > Parry, Always.
- How to deal with the Final Countdown
September 2008
- Will the Crushing Blow Myths Finally End?
- Sometimes it’s good to be really, really Defensive
- Why gear up now for Karazhan?
- How to Talk about your Warrior now and soon
- 5 Macros that Suck
- Interviewed at WorldofMatticus.com
- Why I chose a Warrior
August 2008
- Rage Floating: Chain Pull like a Champ
- The Holy Grail: A Use for Rend
- The Progression of Weapons
- Warning: The following Talents are Hazardous
- The Fundamental Gearing Principle
- TankSpot.com turns 1 year old!
July 2008
- Podcast #6: You’re all Noobs!
- How’s my Threat? [Calculator]
- Tankatronic Goggles vs Battleworn Tuskguard
- Polls: What’s your Ideal 5 man?
- Deathfrost does NOT stack
- Do you get Nightmares when you Tank?
- Simplicity: Tanking Hyjal Waves with a Paladin
June 2008
- Where’s an Offtank to soak?
- Heroic Strike, More than a Rage Dump
- 5 ways to Survive with Trinkets
- Throwing yourself ahead of the Competition
- Avoidance outside the Math: Dodge, Parry, Defense… Block?
- Podcast #5: The Pizza is a Lie
- AOE Tanking: It really is your fault
May 2008
- Happy Birthday to TankingTips.com ~ 1 Year Old
- Gearing yourself so you can Gear yourself
- Marking Targets made Simple
- Am I ready for …?
- Sunguard Legplates vs Unwavering Legguards
- Podcast #4: It’s time for 20 Questions
- What gear from Hyjal and Black Temple is an upgrade?
- How to Spec for every fight in SSC
April 2008
- 68% of Tanks are Raid Leaders
- Uncluttering your Toolbar: Healthstones
- Podcast #3: Rant-tastic
- SSO Neck vs Brooch of Deftness
- The Badge Pick Order: 2.4 Edition
- Podcast #2: You Tricked Me!
- TankingTips.com Readers Confirm: It was April 1st Yesterday!
- Blue Confirmed: Thunderfury Upgrade!
March 2008
- Taunt Revisited
- Podcast #1: John the Tank
- Part 3: Maximizing your Boss Threat
- The Vene Rule
- Battleworn Tuskguard… not so worn anymore.
February 2008
- Part 2: Maximizing your Boss Threat
- The Biggest Myth about Protection Warriors
- Part 1: Maximizing your Boss Threat
- Tweak your Toon with Trinkets
- How to Taunt, etc
- The Road to Passive Uncrushable
January 2008
- An Expert Guide to Expertise
- What’s the Hit Cap?
- Executioner vs Mongoose
- Stop Tanking. Start Watching.
- If you tank without Itemrack or Outfitter … read this.
- 10 New Formula Calculators for Tanks
- The “I just hit 70″ Tanking Gear Guide
- Bonefist Gauntlets vs Iron Gauntlets of the Maiden
December 2007
- 6 Tanking Blogs I read
- Holiday Highs and Lows
- What’s next? You decide.
- No Excuses! Pre-Karazhan gear that will let you tank Black Temple.
- How much Avoidance does Defense give?
- The New Badge of Justice Pick Order
November 2007
- 8 Posts on Tanking that I’ll probably never write
- Super Healing Potions… not worth it.
- The Auto-Blocker is no longer #1
- 3/6 - How bout you?
- Am I ready for Zul’Aman?
- Killing Kritters
- Block Value: Everything you ever wanted to know
October 2007
- Stop waiting to use Thunderclap
- You are Lucky to be a Warrior
- What kind of Tank are you?
- 9 ways to Stay a Sharp Tank
- Hi, I’m a Swordsmith.
- 1 Harsh Reality of being a Tank
- Improved Defensive Stance… worth it?
- The Quick Guide to Effective Health
September 2007
- What professions should my Warrior pick?
- 10 ways to Prevent Burning Out
- 5 Ways to Combine Resilience and Defense
- Warning: 490 Defense does not make you Immune to Crushing Blows
- Are you losing Aggro in 9 Seconds?
- Maximizing your Void Reaver Threat
- 1 Gun. The only 1 you need.
- Parry Explained
August 2007
- I love my Spec, Take 2!
- The New Archives
- 3 Shields, 3 Enchants, 3 Situations
- Stop making your Off-Tank do Your Job!
- A beautiful post on Motivation
- Know what you need. Set 3 Gear Goals!
- Helping Out ~ Tanking Illhoof
- Why Improved Shield Wall is so Amazing
- The Golden Rotations
July 2007
- Attack of the Invisible Sunders
- Thunderfury beyond 70
- The long overdue review of Omen
- Shield Slam Explained
- The Threat Formula
- Tanking mobs that hit like Pansies
- Welcome to Build Better Threat Week!
- Why 1 point in Tactical Mastery?!
- Weapon Speed: Fast vs Slow
- How to Handle your First Raid with a New Guild
- When can I start tanking Karazhan?
- The 3 Pillars of a Great Tank
- I Love my Spec
- Hit Rating Revisited
- I hate Figurine of the Colossus
- Ridiculously Important Information: Socketing
- Multi-Tanking: 5 ways its NOT your fault.
- ZG is still the Place to Be.
- The reason you should be doing Arena.
- What race should my Warrior be?
- King’s Defender vs The Sun Eater
- 2 ways to Handle 99% of your Bad 5 man Pulls
June 2007
- Hit Rating: Important?
- The Art of Line of Sight
- Quest for the Darkmoon (cards)
- Kara/Heroics: Resistence Required?
- Tanking Robots
- Stop Waiting for Super Awesome Epics
- Sundering Trash is Trashy.
- Badges of Justice: What order to get the Items?
- The Deal with Devastate
- Mongoose vs Battlemaster
- The 3 Sets of Tanking Gear
- My Current Fav 5
- Are you Immune to Disarm?
- Solo Tanking Moroes
- A simple Mocking Blow Macro
- The 25% Block Myth: Avoiding Crushing Blow