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What’s the difference between a good tank and an exceptional one? 6 Nov 2011 | 08:10 pm
Business Time recently went through a lull where it felt like our team was not pulling in the same direction. It was as if the team was no longer striving to achieve the same objective. There was la...
Recently in a podcast near you 19 Sep 2011 | 05:57 am
Summer has come and gone. This summer was filled with crazy times at work and with a fair amount of raiding to keep the Raid Leader in me sane. I have continued waging wars on Twitter against the pa...
Tanking Basics 24 May 2011 | 10:56 am
The Call to Arms changes to the Looking for Dungeon tool have encouraged many to give tanking a try. Since many of these new tanks have had little experience in that role, I think a post about the b...
Why should you play a warrior? (Edited and reposted) 23 May 2011 | 06:18 am
Edit: This is a repost with some edits of my first post at Sword and Board. This is the first of a series of posts focusing squarely on the warrior in Cataclysm. I will go through the basics all the ...
Halfus Wyrmbreaker 14 Jan 2011 | 11:27 am
How to win (in one paragraph) Halfus is harder to explain than he is to kill. Select a drake killing order, kill the drakes, beat the enrage timer, …, profit! Basic Instructions Each week, you wi...
The nerf that was needed 13 Jan 2011 | 04:29 am
The expansion has now been around for a month. Can you believe it? It’s only been 36 days since that very cold night stuck standing outside EBGames (Gamestop for you Americans). How have you been e...
Magmaw 8 Jan 2011 | 12:37 pm
How to win (in one paragraph) Add management is the hardest part of this fight – master that and you win. Basic Instructions Phase 1 Dodge flame pillars. If you stack all but one player up with ....
Omnotron Defense System 8 Jan 2011 | 10:31 am
First, thanks to all those that encouraged me to write cheat sheets for the raid encounters. Hopefully these will be as useful, if somewhat less concise. Voss and I firmly believe that no encounter s...
Expectations – A raid killer 5 Jan 2011 | 11:25 am
Raid leading is like a lot like Project Management. What is a project? A project has: A start (We start at 6pm) An end (We end at 9pm) A specified scope (What is going to be accomplished, the goa...
The end of casual instancing 18 Dec 2010 | 05:23 am
Cataclysm happened a bit more than a week ago and strangely enough, it is leaving me feeling of two minds about it. I find the world to be superbly done. The quests have never been better. The humo...
