tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:49:45 +0000world of warcrafttankingblizzardheroicsthreatwarriorachievementscasualsdailiesdeath knightdpsdruidhardcorehardmodespaladinpugsrageraidingreputationstrategywarcraftA website aimed at helping tanks in World of Warcraft do what they do best, while telling the story of Hyperiom, my own Protection Warrior.http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)Blogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-8276272625979743114Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:09:00 +00002010-12-13T11:10:00.341-08:00Again, folks. Hyperfocus. No blogging cause I'm playing WoW (and also working/going to school) I hit 85. I've maxed herbalism and nearly maxed alchemy. I've been making about 2k a day. I have pictures all over the place; I've been taking a ton of screenshots, but currently I've been messing with video and trying to get it to actually look good and not at all artifact-y and http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2010/12/late-post-on-game-content.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-3551928977389277119Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:52:00 +00002010-12-07T18:52:28.898-08:00Warning: This post is about 1% game content. I mention Azeroth flying, and two zone names. That is the depth of "the cata experience" you will get from this post. Which isn't to say it doesn't have merit--this post isn't about playing cata as a character, this about literally you, a human being existing in the physical universe, manipulating your mouse and keyboard to progresshttp://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2010/12/quite-literally-from-players.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-6999886368507334098Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:10:00 +00002010-11-24T15:11:08.681-08:00I haven't been posting much because I feel like everything's been covered. I got a full set of tanking gear (after many runs with kingslayers and the like to faceroll instances) and I sincerely lack the mental effort to get a full fury set. Seriously, I did the math, and I figure I did >60 heroics in a week. That's what, 8 heroics a day? Actually, no, it's more like 2 heroics http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2010/11/shattering-leveling-playing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-4428237727040895818Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:05:00 +00002010-11-15T22:22:15.273-08:00On balance, or gear levels, or some crazy shit. I dunno. I'm just going to copy-paste it because maybe tomorrow or the day after I'll write a clarified opinion on what you're about to see. It will be disjointed, it does sprawl tangentially over the place, but hey--that's what conversation does. This is a forum topic. It's not as clear-cut as you might like, cause each post is at minimum a few http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-6688945575704302402Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:51:00 +00002010-11-12T12:06:39.184-08:00But I'm back. Hyperiom, the tank, is back. Sicarian, the death knight tank, is back. Other characters and shit--they're all back.I stopped playing in February cause I was sick and tired of the game, as I hinted in my post, nine months ago. However, I'm back in the swing, I'm ready for Cataclysm, and I've stopped giving a shit as to the G-rated slant I was taking. Everyone does that; I'll be http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-been-long-long-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-2804871873498998463Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:29:00 +00002010-01-20T21:39:40.679-08:00So recently I acquired both an Obsidian Edged Blade (ilevel 232 from Onyxia) and a Tyrannical Beheader (from Heroic Pit of Saron). I went fury.SHIT'S FUN, YO.I mean, my gear is terrible. I only pull like, 2.5k dps in a 25-man sartharion raid. Now, that's alright, because I wasn't the lowest dps. Also, it's my first time with the spec, the rotation, and I'm in mostly ilevel 213-226 gear (and a lothttp://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2010/01/furiously-furious-with-fury.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-9050899591835081618Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:31:00 +00002009-12-28T22:31:52.579-08:00Alright, so, I'm back with my first big installment. I'll bet all of my millions of readers were angry that I had a big post about Being Back and then no followup--I'm here to correct this.Note: Here was a giant aoe guide. I decided I can't do it with just text. In the future I'll have a video guide with voiceovers.Right now I'm going to tell you some things:1) Stay ahead of your group. Be the http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-time-to-grapple-big-fish-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-1477695337601808285Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:07:00 +00002009-12-22T19:56:37.691-08:00Alright. My last post? August 22nd, 2009. That was four months ago to the day.I was struck down by disease this past week, and with nothing better to do, and a still-running subscription, yours truly started playing WoW again.I started doing random heroics for gear, and met a recount-topping death knight who liked my style and was on my server. Now, I'm in enzo, which is four regulars who know http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/12/im-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-6322390289858160062Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:37:00 +00002009-08-22T15:39:49.490-07:00Hey guys. This will be more informal than my other posts cause I'm workin quick watching the 3v3 finale.Cataclysm got announced, and I'm excited for it, and I know I am foaming at the mouth because we get to revisit Azeroth and put in better quests and phased zones and Ragnaros is available again. I like the new races, the new professions, and the new guild leveling system, and the Path of the http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/08/cataclysm_22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-9063375782578289182Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:59:00 +00002009-08-17T20:47:18.415-07:00death knightdruidpaladinthreatwarcraftwarriorworld of warcraftThis is a combination of a "Hard and Fast" guide and a fairly in-depth guide. I won't go to Elitistjerks levels, or even some of the more advanced tankspot guides (though I draw on them as a source and I recommend that you all read them) but it will cover more than the very basics. What is threat? Threat is a measure that the game uses to tell who the mob will attack. If you have high threat on http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/08/threat-guide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-9058809160310314084Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:34:00 +00002009-08-17T20:47:51.710-07:00heroicspugstankingworld of warcraftSing the above title when listening to Jamie Foxx's "Blame it on the Alcohol" and it will all make sense.Now, I ran a Heroic HoL today. We had two wipes--not even on the last boss. In the first FIFTEEN MINUTES. Literally, we were going great, beat the first boss with his +35% damage boost up for the achievement, and cruised through the mass-of-slags before Volkhan.Or so I thought. I tanked him uphttp://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/08/blame-it-on-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-tank.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-4960404196386374252Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:14:00 +00002009-08-17T20:48:56.438-07:00blizzardcasualshardcorehardmodesraidingworld of warcraft"Welfare epics. Morons and slackers being in full Ulduar gear. Back in the day, you were ready for Molten Core if you were wearing good blues. If you were in half epics you had respect. If you were fully purple, you were a god of war. I know that Kungen, main tank of the world-renowned guild Ensidia, still makes money just by sitting in Orgrimmar. People will swarm him and trade him gold. He can http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/08/pandering-to-casuals-on-raiding.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-5531876974225548566Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:26:00 +00002009-08-17T20:50:11.291-07:00achievementsheroicsstrategytankingworld of warcraftOver the past few days, a few new friends and I have been doing achievement runs. Our group composition has been me--Protection Warrior, with Arms dps offspec; Survival Hunter; Blood DK, with unholy tank offspec; Boomkin, with resto offspec; and Resto Shaman, with Elemental offspec. We're all pretty skilled players, and between that and easy-to-get ilevel 226 gear (I acquired Gauntlets of the http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/08/achievement-runs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-7684848308043957555Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:47:00 +00002009-08-17T20:49:37.705-07:00blizzarddailiesreputationworld of warcraftPreface: We all know daily quests. In Burning Crusade, daily quests were the thing to do. The cap was twenty-five a day, and I hit that near cap every day. Why? Well, I would do thirteen or so on the Isle of Quel'Danas (at first for an insane 3000+ rep a day, then for an insane 120+ gold a day), then another four or five for Skyguard Rep, trying for an Aether Ray--then another five or six doing http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/08/daily-quests-starts-with-method-ends.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266577302701840835.post-2004146101362252336Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:26:00 +00002009-08-17T20:50:51.626-07:00dpsragetankingthreatwarriorworld of warcraftBuffed. That's all I can say. I've gone from doing 1200-1500dps on heroics to 1600-2000. This is about a four hundred damage-per-second increase, which is about +33%. That is a HUGE boost (Can you imagine if a 6k dps rogue got a patch that bumped him up to 8k without any change of gear or talents or playstyle?)1)There has been an increase in AP gained from Armored to the Teeth (which increases http://tankcraft.blogspot.com/2009/08/32-for-prot-warriors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Hyperiom)0