Tank sets for rated Battlegrounds and beginners knowledge

With the addition of rated Battlegrounds we've seen a legitimate influx of tanking specs in PVP. They're not just flag carriers, either. With an honest look at defending flags in Arathi Basin or Gilneas, any good group leader could see the benefit of a tank being healed to full and blowing their defensive cooldowns then spamming aoe moves to keep the flag from being pulled till the rest of that node's defenders can res.

A few notes on gearing, then, for tanking rated Battlegrounds. I doubt that many people are picking a tank main and off talent set. So how do we gear quickly and efficiently for both dps and tanking roles? Pick item slots to swap first that give you the most bang for your buck. I've picked trinkets first. Trinkets offer the largest difference between dps set and tank set stats. Next consult your bonuses from crafting and enchants to find the biggest stat swaps possible. If I'm a jewelcrafter and want to place agility jc gems in my dps set and stam jc gems in my tank set it would be best to place them in the gear that can also have the best enchant difference made. I can place them in a leg item so when I swap dps to tank gem items I also have a dps leg enchant to tank enchant swap as well. I can rock gloves the same way to swap engineering armor to dps enchants as well. Together I can have two trinkets and two items of clothing that between the 4 of them swap a ton of dps to stam and resilience.

Understand your mastery and how to activate it. My druid can take a lot of punishment but if I don't attack I lose out on absorbs and self healing from talents.

Understand where your mitigation works and doesn't. Dodge of parry aren't going to affect casters but resilience will. With base mitigation plus resilience you can hit some outrageous numbers. Recall that you need to face the enemy to dodge, etc as well.

Whatever pieces of gear you add to your swapping of sets are pieces you're going to have to farm twice each season.

Cooldowns that are pure mitigation are best combined with other mitigation cooldowns in play if needed as they compound another well. Some cooldowns are calculated as a percent of health, etc and can be combined with cooldowns that increase health for added benefit by increasing your total health, and thereby the health received by each percentage.

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New Battleground Brackets

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/138841/new-battleground-brackets

I'm kind of surprised by this. I wonder if twinks will stick to the classic brackets as well. I'm not sure there are enough twinks to go around and cover the new brackets.

Here's hoping the merging of the Battlegroups (Source) that has also been occurring keeps each bracket's queue time reasonable.

Location, location, location: Thunder Bluff, Pools of Vision

This article is about locations in world PVP that can be used to a player's advantage. Both Alliance and Horde locations will be covered. Through research, gameplay, (and hopefully some user submissions) I intend to create a map notes set for an addon to be added to and taken from to help everyone in PVP.

Products of Pwn: Blackened Worg Steak

About to become old school, this food buff may not be replaced by a new one come Cataclysm. If this is the case then farming up some soon to be old-world mats and getting a fine stack of these going is a must.

Eating these steaks will give you a buff that allows you to track humanoids for an hour.

http://www.wowhead.com/item=42997

I'd write more, but the benefit is obvious.

Location, location, location: Skull Rock cave, in Durotar, by Orgrimmar

This article is about locations in world PVP that can be used to a player's advantage. Both Alliance and Horde locations will be covered. Through research, gameplay, (and hopefully some user submissions) I intend to create a map notes set for an addon to be added to and taken from to help everyone in PVP.

Magnificent Macros and Succulent Scripts: Disabling Windows Hot Keys

Seriously. Quickly, easily, and only in WOW. I know you asked on the tech forums. I knows the answer was go look it up. I know you searched all over. I know some of the suggested solutions are extreme.

Well, we're going to disable the keys you want for WOW, and WOW only, in an easily undone manner.

OP!nion: Nerf me hard, Nerf me fast.

OP!nion was just going to be the title for this post, but I think I like it and will keep it for all my obnoxious opinion posts.

Today I wonder about why people like being overpowered. I hate it. It worries me when my characters are overpowered. It's a big storm cloud looming overhead threatening of sleet and lightening.

Magnificent Macros and Succulent Scripts: the rearview mirror

I've never seen this script used outside of an old Mage exploit. It can no longer be used to turn your character while holding down auto run or to blink. However it has some nifty uses in game.

Products of Pwn: An Apple a Day

So you want to camp the opposing faction more severely after they try to gank you and you turn the tides, huh? Maybe you want a new way to embarrass those who don't release immediately. Maybe you want to hang out in town telling jokes but are missing that last bit or interaction to make you the in-game Gallagher. Either way, this is for you.

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Battlegrounds: Tol Barad Preveiw

Blizzard has posted their Tol Barad preview recently:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/1159457

The new PVP area/ quest hub.

World PVP: level 90 guards in starting zones.

WOW insider popped this up a while ago. It's worth knowing.

http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/05/cataclysm-guards-in-starting-zones-buffed-to-level-90/

Location, location, location: Stormwind Cathdral of Light basement

This article is about locations in world PVP that can be used to a player's advantage. Both Alliance and Horde locations will be covered. Through research, gameplay, (and hopefully some user submissions) I intend to create a map notes set for an addon to be added to and taken from to help everyone in PVP.

Insanely Easy WOW Macro Guide: Introduction

Can't make a macro, eh? Your macros come from random web pages and internet searches and do kinda what you want, but not exactly? You receive errors sometimes when tapping your macro? You lose CDs or global CDs because your macro does extra "Bonus" stuff when you don't mean for it to? If it fails to do what you like it automatically casts on your target's target, or your target's target's target and other random garbage?

Don't cry, emo kid, I'm here to help. You're going to make macros that do what you want, exactly, not what anyone else decided or designed. I'm as convinced you can follow and excel at my macro making method as the fat guy at 7-11 who refuses to bathe is convinced the moon landing didn't happen.

Introduction
Page 2: You're going to make a macro, part 1
Page 3: You're going to make a macro, part 2
Page 4: You're not going to make a macro: Basic Macro Theory
Page 5: Basic Macro Commands list

Read on

Insanely Easy WOW Macro Guide page 2: You're going to make a macro, part 1

This is part 2 of the macro guide. Rock part 1 before you come here.


Introduction
Page 2: You're going to make a macro, part 1
Page 3: You're going to make a macro, part 2
Page 4: You're not going to make a macro: Basic Macro Theory
Page 5: Basic Macro Commands list


Here we introduce your educational tool and initiate the pictorial section. You will follow along and get a full understanding of how your new awesome tool works while learning about basic macro editing.


Read on.

Insanely Easy WOW Macro Guide page 3: You're going to make a macro, part 2

This is part 3 of the tutorial, if you haven't already, start out at the intro :)

Introduction
Page 2: You're going to make a macro, part 1
Page 3: You're going to make a macro, part 2
Page 4: You're not going to make a macro: Basic Macro Theory
Page 5: Basic Macro Commands list


Or, read on.

Insanely Easy WOW Macro Guide page 4: You're NOT going to make a macro: Macro theory

Awe, the posts seemed so cheerful till now, we were going to make a macro, we were learning so much. But I have to play Debbie Downer and tell you what is impossible, and what I simply suggest you don't make.




This is page 4 of the guide, if you haven't started at the intro, do so now, otherwise, read on.

Introduction
Page 2: You're going to make a macro, part 1
Page 3: You're going to make a macro, part 2
Page 4: You're not going to make a macro: Basic Macro Theory
Page 5: Basic Macro Commands list


Read on

Insanely Easy WOW Macro Guide page 5: Basic macro commands library

This is page 5 of the Macro guide, read the other pages first:

Introduction
Page 2: You're going to make a macro, part 1
Page 3: You're going to make a macro, part 2
Page 4: You're not going to make a macro: Basic Macro Theory
Page 5: Basic Macro Commands list



Or, read on

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