Monthly Archives: August 2012

5.0.4 Tankadin Spreadsheet

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Theck

As a result of a twitter discussion between Rhidach, myself, and Kerridos, I took some time the other day and wrote up a spreadsheet for balancing avoidance and calculating stat weights.  You can access it here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjPXp3A1frAgdFQzc3hRSjNuYUZDZzFqcjRESkVXb0E#gid=2 It’s on Google … Continue reading →

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Tankadin WeakAuras String – 5.0.4 update

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Theck

<edit4> Updated 9/18/2012 with minor tweaks/bugfixes. <edit3> On several people’s suggestion, I moved the “ding” sound for SotR to 5 holy power, from 3.  That even started to irritate me in LFR tonight. <edit2> One more minor update – I … Continue reading →

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Patch 5.0.4 Round-Up

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Theck

With patch 5.0.4 arriving on live servers tomorrow, and many of the fundamentals of our class turning upside-down and inside-out, I’ve been getting a lot of questions. It seemed like a good idea to post a quick summary of up-to-date … Continue reading →

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MoP Beta Mitigation Stat Weights – b15983

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Theck

The last few days have seen a flurry of beta activity, but none of the builds have done anything to change our survivability calculations. There was one significant survivability change: SotR was finally adjusted to grant the mitigation buff on-cast … Continue reading →

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MoP Beta Mitigation Stat Weights – b15961

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Theck

In terms of mitigation, there have only been a few changes since we last looked at this topic (build 15739). Most of the previous derivation still works. Here’s a quick rundown of the changes we did see: Block was changed … Continue reading →

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We Didn’t Need Pants Anyhow

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Theck

The recently-announced Vengeance revamp gives me a chance to revisit one of my favorite rants.  Vengeance isn’t exactly a new topic for us, as you may already know.  I’ve covered it in this blog post, and this one, and Mel’s … Continue reading →

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Haste Makes Waste

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Theck

In the last few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time working on my MATLAB/C# simulations for Mists of Pandaria (which, unfortunately, has also meant a lot less time for blogging). While there’s still a lot to do, things … Continue reading →

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Turning off the buff rewards a Feat of Strength in MOP

Posted on August 6, 2012 by anafielle

Remember this post about “Stop Telling Raiders to Turn off the DS Buff?” UPDATE TIME! The buff has been a pretty active topic of debate these days. I have to say:I don’t know why we’re still arguing about this. People who … Continue reading →

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