Thoughts on Icecrown

Zone spoilers ahead: Icecrown is obviously designed for flying mounts, with the dramatic geography and quest hubs huddled way up in the mountain ranges, a fairly new concept seeing as flying wasn’t available until level 70 in the previous expansion. I don’t imagine hoofing it being all that practical or even possible… Out of all … Read more

Level 80 Crit Cap = 540

Crits hurt. Your first gearing priority as a tank should be to become uncrittable. The formula: (83*5)+(5/0.04) = 540 Defense Skill. Remember that 540 is the crit cap as in, the cap for mitigating critical strikes. 540 is not a hard defense cap. Defense will still continue to increase your dodge, parry, and block by … Read more

Yay Heroics

I hit level 80 at around 5pm on Saturday and then started running heroics an hour later when more level 80 guild members logged on. I might have rushed through 79 for the sake of catching up with everyone >_<. Instance completion is retroactive in the sense that, if you run heroic before you run … Read more