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http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Death Knight UI/addon 4.0 update

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:29:37 +0000

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Well there you go!
Raid warnings: essential. Using the program I do, not so much. :) Find
one that works, and use it!
I've never actually used DXE, Tam, so I couldn't say how much I like it.

My switches to Skada and BigWigs were entirely motivated by desires to
reduce resource utilzation by addons, and DBM and Recount tend to bloat
like Microsoft programs. I might have to give DXE a whirl at some point.

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : It's ... Just ... About ... Time!!!

Wed, 3 Nov 2010 07:09:26 +0000

Hey, Grav! Good to see you're doing well, and the site and EJ are up and ready for Cata! I'm getting there, slowly :)

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : 4.01 Please Hold While We Redirect Your Call

Wed, 3 Nov 2010 07:08:23 +0000

In the upper right hand corner, just click the 'subscribe to posts' tab!

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : I Went to Icecrown and all I got was this Lousy Screenshot

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:59:06 +0000

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Thanks Calli!

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : I Went to Icecrown and all I got was this Lousy Screenshot

Thu, 9 Sep 2010 04:42:41 +0000

Lol! ;)

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : I Went to Icecrown and all I got was this Lousy Screenshot

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:14:07 +0000

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Thanks, Tam! :)

Indeed, we were somewhat surprised that the one 'true hardcore' guild
(Bane, a Horde guild - the type that all take time off work/school when
a raid is released to push progression) hadn't gotten it yet.

I joined Insomnia just after Icecrown came out, and my previous guild
had been stuck on heroic Beasts, so I hadn't even seen heroic Anub until
later in the Icecrown cycle. For that matter, I hadn't seen Algalon
until a few weeks ago, either, but it was still fun to go do that too!
-Hine

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : The 'Little Things'

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:58:10 +0000

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Thanks, Anaia. Not sure I know what you mean by BA shared topic, though?

Indeed, the army trick is well-known in general, but yes, many do not
know it.... Especially the part about getting it off before you get in
combat so you can double pot. That's why a pet peeve of mine is tanks
not giving a consistent and regular pull countdown. My tanks aren't very
good about it, but I've learned that when the ready check comes back as
'all ready,' I start my summon immediately. Occasionally it results in a
botched army launch when someone panics and says 'wait!' but usually
once the RL says everyone is ready, the tank starts countdown a second
or so later and if I summon army quickly enough, I can get that double
pot off. 'Little things,' indeed. :)

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Cataclysm Release Date: Take #3009

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:53:09 +0000

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I certainly won't object!
I have my week off already approved, but if it's earlier as long as
Blizz gives us enough notice, I'll be fine. As much as I'd like to play
hooky, I can't in good conscience skip work without advance notice.
I know beta still has lots of rough spots and Blizz won't give us a firm
date until they feel comfortable launch will go reasonably well, but I
do hope it happens *soon*!

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : But, the Meters!

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:07:39 +0000

CRAZY! Furies are crazy at the moment, and my man Massakur is insane. :) This week I posted the #6 unholy DK parse, and I was waaaay behind him.

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Cataclysm Release Date: Take #3009

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:06:40 +0000

Seeing as I now have that week off approved, I sure hope so! ;)

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Blood dps spec for 3.3.3

Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:09:12 +0000

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Fadi,
Are you just commenting on this now? Look at the date of the post.

I really hope you're not under the misconception that blood is good for
dps for ANYTHING right now.
That 12k was months ago in vastly inferior gear. I'm doing 16-17k on
heroic Saurfang now as unholy.
But if you look at some of the data I've posted elsewhere in this blog,
the ten best blood DKs in the WORLD can't hold a candle to frost or
unholy on ANY fight in ICC any more. Blizzard has specifically said that
they're abandoning blood as a dps spec, and unfortunately it's already
trailing behind even in current content.

You mention movement.... Um, on the fight you reference - Saurfang -
there isn't ANY movement whatsoever. I'm just not sure of your point
there. I agree, that one's ability to deal with the movement aspects of
most fights in ICC is one factor that separates the decent DKs from the
truly good ones, but this fight isn't the one.

You can say I was sloppy if you have evidence, but I'm afraid you
weren't paying attention, and don't know much about the world of DKs
right now. As for myself, I certainly do make mistakes, and can be
sloppy at times, but I regularly post top-100 worldwide parses, so I
think I do generally know what I'm doing.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting!

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Template change

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:20:34 +0000

Ty sir. ;)

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : DPS Scaling in ICC: Another Angle

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:17:03 +0000

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : DPS Scaling in ICC: Another Angle

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:16:50 +0000

Hey Judge! Yes, emphasize a couple of very good points. Certainly, there will be plenty of raids where, as a decently-geared and well-played enhance, you'll top the charts. The enhance in my guild is quite good and has very solid numbers. Will you do 30k on Blood Queen? Sadly, no. If you were a fire mage or a fury warrior in top gear, maybe, but No, you won't as a DK or an enhance. No matter how good you are. A second point is that we still need our players that run a 'weak' spec - for the raid composition and synergy. Our more-fortunate bretheren need to keep in mind that our survival hunters, enhance shammies/frost DKs and so on have a very important part to play in a raid's success. They deserve more dps love in the future, but neither should we forget that they matter right now, too. A third point that I take from this is that a lot of players may want to look at what they're playing. If they're 'serious,' while they can moan about how much they love BM, really, it's not a viable spec right now. I've seen lots of blog posts by BM hunters or frost mages saying that 1) they're fine and 2) why won't Blizz buff them (see how they contradict themselves). No, they're not fine for raiding, and Blizz does need to buff them - if Blizz intends them to be raid-viable. But right now they're not.

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Template change

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:13:39 +0000

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Thanks Anaia.
I do think this color is more 'readable,' but not sure how it goes with
my DK....

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Template change

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:13:38 +0000

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Indeed, Kratozz, the Black theme is very 'Deathy' :) but I have had a
few complaints about reading difficulty.
*sigh* Ah well, I'll keep looking for a good fit.
Course, can't Death Knights find love too? :P

Thanks for the reminder on Frost.
Yes, unfortunately I never felt I had gotten a decent set of one-handers
to give it a try.
My look at dps scaling convinced me that frost dps was better in Tier 10
compared to unholy than in Tier 9, but still not as good as it should
be.
I thought about having my DK guildie Dreddnaught add his impressions and
I could put in a parse with his info when he was playing frost, but
since we got an enhance he's been unholy too.

It's certainly my intention to look at all types of DK dps with every
tier of new content and I think Unholy 2H has emerged as the clear
winner in ICC. That's not to say you can't be Frost DW; if you really
really like it it's not too bad, and if you don't have an enhance
shammy, it's worth having one in your raid.

I'll definitely plan to explore all the viable specs for Cataclysm as
well. So far on beta DW Frost is actually better than Unholy from what I
hear (wtb beta key heh), but we've got a ways to go before live, so
we'll see what happens.

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Still Undead and Kicking

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:01:29 +0000

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Thanks, Anaia!
Yeah, not sure why the Twisting Nether doesn't have much up to date
stuff.... But glad you stopped by!
There are a few, but very few DK blogs I've been able to find.
Gravity's Pwnwear is a very popular site with at least 10 times my
traffic, in part because it's more theorycrafting, but is focused
primarily on tanking. Consider of Elitist Jerks fame recently started a
theorycrafting heavy blog and he's got lots of really good stuff there.
I've found a few others that wright about DKs, but most are updated
pretty infrequently. Mine's a more 'traditional' blog in the sense of
just writing about my Wow experiences, so I think there's a place for
all! Anyway, glad to offer something at least a few find worth reading,
and I'll keep it up. :)

-Hine

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : Oranje!!!!! (Orange)

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:05:45 +0000

Thanks, Tam! ;) Interesting follow up here. I paid/farmed about 50k worth of the materials to make Shadow's Edge when Primordial Saronite was very expensive. I thought the money lost. Wrong. The quest rewards once you have Shadowmourne make up for it. I equipped most of them, gave one to a guildie, and sold one item. It sold for 20k, and is now relisted by the buyer for 150k..... who knew?

http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ : DPS Scaling in ICC: Another Angle

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:02:52 +0000

@Anaia - I agree ;( They should be getting some love in Cata with several heroism classes though. @Anaroth: yes, no real earth-shaking info here. The high end is a little higher from when I did the post in May, but not too different. It's easy to see on WOL, but in general, the 100th-best dps on a given fight is several thousand behind the leaders. Also, it is interesting to see what 'average' guilds are doing. There are plenty of guilds out there where their top dps is a shammy. Unfortunately, one conclusion I'd draw from these data is that those guilds have a lot of underperforming dps (and maybe a way-overperforming shammy - but still not good enough to crack the top 100 due to scaling issues). I'm lucky to be in a guild where we have several people on those top 100 lists weekly. Of course, it's our fight execution and other elements that sometimes isn't the greatest. :)