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This totally needs to be stickied. pally Druid and Prot warrior all have stickies for their posts, where is the DK tank love? =D
Hi tankspot,
I'm the writer of the DK tanking guides on mmoc, pwnwear, and the battenet forums and i noticed there wasnt a DK specific guide on tankspot. I figured i'd post mine here but if there is one on the way, feel free to ignore this. In my opinion there shouldn't be just one guide, so i'm kind of hesitant since i've already got mine on 3 sites, but seeing as there hasn't been one up here yet then i suppose it's better than nothing. Anyway, here's the content:
This guide will assume you know the basics of the class (basically anything you could get from a tool tip). It is written with lvl 90 tanking in mind and while the information could be useful at any level, it is not made with leveling in mind.
1) Talents
2) Glyphs
3) Stats (Gems, chants, ect.)
4) Playstyle ("rotation")
5) Advanced Playstyle
6) DK specific encounter guides
1) Talents
The new talent system for Mists is designed to be more fluid, but there are still better options both overall and for certain circumstances. I'll provide some standard spec builds, but keep in mind with this more fluid system you will find yourself tweaking a lot more often.
Single Target:
Pick your choice of RC or BT for t75
Pick your choice of RC or BT for t75
Because of the more fluid nature of talents in MoP there is a high chance that you will need to tweak any of the above specs to be 100% optimal for a specific situation. Because of this, I'll give a run down on each tier individually and how you would adjust the above specs in practice.
Tier 1
This tier revolves around diseases. For PvE purposes you pretty much choose between Roiling Blood and Plague Leech. You will use Roiling Blood 99% of the time, except for pure single target fights in which case you will use Plague Leech. It is currently not worth it to use glyph of outbreak with Plague Leech, and you should only use Plague Leech if you have outbreak off CD (so once every minute). Unholy Blight is viable, but doesn't really offer much to compete with the flexibility of Roiling Blood or the resource gain of PL.
Tier 2
For most raiding content you will use Purgatory. It is basically a free death, and that can be very useful in all current raiding content. Lichborne is viable, but it will cost resources to use which means not only do you have to consume resources (runic power and GCDs) to execute, but you also have to prepare for its used to make sure you have the resources to use in the first place. AMZ is good situational raid utility, but only take this if your raid needs it. Default to one of the other two unless you specifically need AMZ for a strategy.
Tier 3
Chilblains can be very beneficial in add control, Death's Advance can be very useful in dealing with positional mechanics, and asphyxiate is useful in handling interrupt mechanics. Unless you need the add control or the interrupt help, it's probably most useful to go with Death's Advance.
Tier 4
Death Pact is more powerful, but conversion coupled with Vampiric Blood can be very useful in dealing with a mechanic where a healer may not be able to heal you or when a mechanic is dealing sustained heavy damage. Siphon can be an option on magic heavy fights, provided you still can get a considerable amount of AP. If you picked Purgatory in T2 then it is highly recommended you also take Death Pact, as that greatly increases the value of purgatory.
Tier 5
In terms of control it is best to go with Blood Tap, as you will be able to place regained Death Strikes where you need them most. Runic Corruption is similar to BT in terms of survivability benefits, but instead of flexibility/control provides consistency. They both serve to lessen gaps between death strikes, but they do it in different ways. BT has some build up, but is more potent when used. RC takes no build up, but doesn't give as much benefit. You are basically choosing control (BT) vs consistency (RC). Generally the control of BT will outweigh the consistency of RC but RC does do more dps, which makes it a very strong option for progression tanking.
Summary: BT and RC are both "optimal". RC will yield a higher DPS, but BT can be used a bit more flexibly.
Tier 6
Remorseless winter is very handy in dealing with stunnable adds, but does not affect raid bosses. Gorefiend's grasp doesn't affect raid bosses either, but can still be handy since very few bosses are completely add-less. Many high end strategies revolve around Gorefiends (t15 Heroic Lei Shen comes to mind). Desecrated ground is pretty much useless unless there is a Mind Control mechanic you can neutralize.
2) Glyphs
Major Glyphs:
Glyph of Vampiric Blood
Glyph of Pestilence
Glyph of Regenerative Magic
Glyph of Loud Horn
Glyph of Dancing Rune Weapon/Ice Bound Fortitude (only when needed, otherwise these are best left out. see below)
Other notes on glyphs:
Glyph of Vampiric Blood is a good glyph in general, but if you want to use as a pre-emptive EH boost, you need to unglyph it.
Glyph of AMS has potential situaitonal use, but due to the fact that it will generally reduce the duration without changing the overall dmg mitigated makes this situationally useful but overall less than desirable, much like DRW and IBF.
Glyph of DnD can be very useful in controlling adds, so it would definitely be recommended for any situation where you would have the AoE spec for add control.
Glyph of Icy Touch can be useful if a mechanic requires dispelling a helpful effect.
Glyph of Outbreak While it shouldn't be needed in a normal tanking situation (thanks to blood boil), but it can be very useful for challenge modes and 5 mans, since you will generally have plenty of RP after a set of trash and can quickly move on to the next pact with outbreak available.
Glyph of Dancing Rune Weapon will give you more threat, but reduces your damage so it should only be used if you can't get initial aggro securely.
Glyph of Ice Bound Fortitude should only be used if you need the lowered CD to help with a mechanic, for example Impale on Madness. impale is one hit, so the reduced duration isn't a problem but with the reduced CD you could have an IBF for every impale as opposed to every other. Unless the reduced CD help with a mechanic do not use this glyph, as it reduces the overall dmg reduction from IBF by 50%.
Glyph of Regenerative Magic is a good standard glyph to have. It will let you use AMS more often, which will let you generate RP more often.
Glyph of Festering Blood is a very situational glyph. Basically use this when you need good burst aoe on adds that won't live long enough to be worth spreading diseases onto.
Minor Glyphs:
Most of these are cosmetic, but there are a few you may want to avoid as a tank though. Glyph of Army of the Dead removes the taunt from the ghouls you spawn, which ruins it's value as a way to recover a horrific add situation. Glyph of Tranquil Grip removes the taunt from Death Grip, which isn't something we want.
3) Stats
survivability oriented priority - mastery>parry>dodge>hit/exp
balanced priority - mastery>hit/exp to 7.5%>parry>dodge
damage oriented priority - hit/exp 7.5%>parry>dodge>mastery
alternate damage oriented priority (not recommended for 25m)
- hit/exp to 7.5%>haste(to GCD cap)>parry>dodge
There is no "correct" or "incorrect" priority out of these (unless you are consistently dying and are using a damage oriented priority, in which case you picked wrong) and the right one for you will depend a lot on your raid, your healers, how well you use CDs/Death Strike, so on so forth. Be careful with the damage oriented playstyles, and be ready to go back if your healers are having trouble with it. You want to maximize damage, but that is not your TOP priority. Surviving is still #1.
note that balancing avoidance no longer means keeping their values equal. See below for how to optimize avoidance and diminishing returns.
Balancing Avoidance and DR
Balancing Avoidance and DR
Due to Parry double dipping with SoB stacks, there is no real reason not to prefer it to dodge. The resources you gain with parryhaste (your melee speed increased after a parry) outweighs the resources lost with properly balancing DR.
Hit and Expertise
With more hit/exp you will have a chance at more SoB stacks, so in a way you're basically choosing between one RNG and another. in general the dmg reduction from hit/exp capping is around 2%. This makes hit/exp capping a net loss in dmg reduction after factoring in the loss of other stats. A good argument for hit/exp capping is DPS, as capping is a very significant dps increase. If your healers are not running into mana issues and you need more raid dps, definitely consider getting some hit/exp.
Stamina vs Mastery
Another point of contention in the DK tank community in how they prioritize stats is Stamina vs mastery, which can be boiled down to Effective Health vs Mitigation. This is a HIGHLY subjective topic, and what may work for one tank may not work for the next. This is due to different playstyles from both the tanks involved as well as their healers' playstyles.
Beyond making it so you can survive the highest single amount of damage in an encounter, EH works to reduce spike damage. lets say you define "spiky" as going from full to below 50% of your health in one shot. if your health was x, a hit worth x/2 would be "spiky" dmg. If you were to increase your health to say 1.25x, the 1/2x hit would only be 40% of your health instead of 50%. you made the relative dmg less by increasing your health. As DKs our spike damage primarily comes from hits that aren't Dodged/parried/absorbed, which we call a Full hit.
Since it's impossible to maintain a blood shield 100% of the times (assuming tank&spank rules in progression content) you will get hit with full hits throughout the fight. Reducing the spike threat from these full hits could make you subjectively easier to heal, despite a slight increase of Damage taken. Where the controversy comes into play is when you incorporate your healer's mana. More damage, relatively a reduction or not, still needs to be healed back. In other words, more dmg = more mana spent. Generally a healer's mana takes priority over reducing the spike damage they have to deal with, so it's generally better to try to minimize overall damage but that doesn't mean you should totally ignore the spike dmg part of it. This is why it is 100% subjective, and there is no "right" amount of EH as long as you are not dying in 2 hits. Everything beyond that is between you and your healer.
the 2 best professions from a stats point of view are Blacksmithing (2 gems each valued at 320 (or 240) of any stat) and Leatherworking (750 stamina at the cost of 170 mastery)
Other professions bonuses:
Enchanting - 480 stamina
Jewelcrafting - 480 stamina or 320 mastery (2 JC gems at +160 normal gem value)
Engineering - 1920 dodge on-use glove enchant with a 1 min CD
inscription - 450 stamina
mining - 480 stamina
Alchemy - 480 stamina or 240 mastery and 720 armor
All other professions do not provide any bonuses for tanking.
Since stamina's value from gems is now less than for secondary stats (an epic non-JC gem is 320 mastery or 240 stamina) gems are no longer a fantastic way to adjust EH balance (add/detract stamina) since it's a 1 to 1 exchange, whearas using a stam trinket in place of a mastery trinket would provide more stamina per mastery. This means that unless you really need more EH and already have used the other options you will want to follow the same standard model from Cataclysm
Gemming for defense:
Yellow slot: Fractured gem (mastery)
Blue slot: Puissant gem (mastery/stamina)
Red slot: fine gem (mastery/parry) or Keen gem (mastery/exp) if you are going for hit/exp caps.
Prismatic slots: fractured gem (mastery)
If you want more stamina from gems to increase EH, put some Mastery/Stam hybrids in yellow slots until you are at a more comfortable EH level for the content you are attempting.
Gemming for Offense:
Yellow slot: Quick gem (haste)
Blue slot: Lightning gem (hit/haste) or Forceful gem (haste/stam) if you are above hit cap
Red slot: Wicked gem (exp/haste) or Fierce gem (haste/str) if you are above 7.5% exp cap
Prismatic slots: Quick gem (haste)
(will replace with actual links once the live database is updated to allow linking mop items in forums)
Shoulder - Greater Ox Horn Inscription/Secret Ox Horn Inscription(inscription only) (300 stamina 150 dodge/750 stamina 150 dodge)
Chest - Superior stamina (300 stamina)
Wrist - Mastery/Fur lining - Stamina (Leatherworking only) (170 mastery/750 stamina)
Gloves - Superior Mastery (170 mastery)
Legs - Ironscale Leg Armor (430 stamina and 165 dodge)
Feet - Pandaren's Step (140 mastery and movement speed boost)
Ring - Greater Stamina (Enchanting only) (160 Stamina)
Back - Greater Protection (300 stamina)
weapon - Rune of Swordshattering (Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle is also viable, though does not result in as much overall dmg reduction.)
Choosing between Swordshattering and Stoneskin Gargoyole:
It depends entirely on what content you are running. For low damage intake situations Swordshattering is obviously the way to go, as it provides ~3 times more overall dmg reduction when compared to Stoneskin. Where it turns into a grey area is when you incorporate burst damage intake, such as what you'd find in progression raiding. the more "progression" you get (harder content/lower gear) the more SSG gains value. not because it does more dmg reduction, but because further down that path you go the more threatening burst damage is. By the time you reach 25H hardcore progression raiding the burst damage is almost the only thing that matters, and SSG does more (albeit not a lot) for spike damage, even though it does less overall mitigation.
So which is right? It depends on you. In a perfect world you would pick SS for the overall dmg reduction, but it all depends on what kind of burst damage you are taking and what your healers prefer. If you're not sure, lean towards the side of Swordshattering.
4) Playstyle
Single Target:
Use FU runes (including combos of F U and D runes) on Death strike, dump Runic Power with Rune Strike, make sure you always have diseases on targets you are tanking, and dump blood runes with heart strike (above 35%) Soul Reaper (below 35%) and make sure you are keeping diseases up through Blood Boils from Crimson Scourge to maintain diseases. If you are left with an open GCD, use Horn of Winter. It's free Runic Power and should be used anytime you don't have something else to use.
very similar to the Single Target, except you may have to use D runes on Blood Boil (4 or more targets) or Heart Strike (3 targets or less), as well as D or U runes on Death and Decay. Try to balance survivability with AoE threat, since D and U runes spent on non death strike abilities means less death strikes. It's better to err on the side of survivability, since a dead tank doesn't hold aggro well.
Beyond knowing the basics of DK tank gameplay, there are certain things that can help separate an good DK tank from a great one.
Death Strike
Death strike takes the dmg you took in the last 5 seconds and converts into a heal and subsequent shield via our mastery. An optimally timed Death Strike is one that has the largest about of damage in that 5 second window. Maximizing DS throughput on the other hand, is about using your runes to maximize the number of death strikes throughout the fight. Balancing these 2 ends up being a matter of making sure you always have an FU pair cycling while still waiting until you have a good amount of damage in your 5 seconds window. The easiest way to do this is use an addon like BloodShieldTracker to track your damage window, and only DS when you have a good chunk of healing from the shield or you are about to get another FU pair back. Keep in mind having a DS when you need it is always more important than your overall DS/min.
Scent of Blood and Death Strike
Many people have come to the conclusion that you should wait until you have high stacks of SoB before using Death Strike. This is simply not true, and your current stacks of SoB should have no affect on how you use Death Strike.
Runic Power
We dump RP by using Rune Strike, but we need to be using Rune Strike efficienly for the maximum number of RE procs. This is done by only using rune strike when you have both your F or U runes on CD (fully depleted) so you don't waste RP on a rune strike that can't proc RE, as well as making sure you never cap your RE which is also wasted rp. When looking at rune striking you also have to consider Plague Leech if you took that talent. you can think of Plague Leech as a guaranteed RE proc, since the return is the same. This means that ch rune cycling to get the most benefit from RC procs, which you should be doing anyway.you may want to wait to dump RP on rune strike if you are about to use Leech if you only have 1 pair fully depleted, since Leeching will leave you with no fully depleted pairs.
The last and probably most important thing is the cooldowns we have at our disposal. One of the DKs strengths is our CDs, and using them efficiently helps separate the boys (paladins) from the men (dks).
Cooldowns are always best used when planned ahead of time, to maximize effectiveness. Knowing exactly when you are going to use each cooldown throughout a fight is much better than simply using them to react to emergencies that could have been prevented with better CD management.
Ice Bound Fortitude - This is our biggest dmg reduction cooldown, and should be used to manage harder hitting infrequent abilities
Dancing Rune Weapon- If you need it for threat you will glyph it and use it very early, otherwise use it as an avoidance increase (for mechanics with a stacking debuff that is applied physically) or to boost personal dps (during a mechanic like Hagara's Feedback for example).
Anti-Magic Shield - This is one of the most useful cooldowns we have. As the name suggests, use this one on any fight with a significant amount of magic damage. In some cases, it can prevent certain DoTs from being applied, allowing you to drop the stacks and start at 0 again which can be invaluable.
Bone Shield - With 20% reduced dmg taken for its duration, maximizing the uptime on this cooldown is important. It is important to realize that it has an internal cooldown preventing it from losing stacks too fast. With 6 stacks you have a guaranteed duration of 12 seconds. Use this on cooldown unless you are saving it for something (like impale from the Madness encounter)
Vampiric Blood - When glyphed this is a reactive cooldown, as you lose the EH bonus. Use it when your survival is dependent on being topped off very quickly (period of large damage or mechanics like Baleroc's Decimation blade). Unglyphed this can be a nice EH boost to help handle large spike dmg.
Empower Runic Weapon - This returns all your runes to you, so use it when as many runes as possible are on CD.
Army of the Dead - while casting AoTD your dodge/parry chances are added up and turned into raw dmg reduction. 15% dodge and 15% parry would make AoTD give 30% reduced damage taken while being casted. Because it's based on your avoidance, it's best to use this in cunjunction with DRW (which raises your parry) for an extra 20% dmg reduction. you DO have to actively casting it while taking the damage for it to be in affect, so make sure you time it with whatever ability you are trying to reduce the threat of. (prepositions aren't words to end sentences with)
5)Advanced Playstyle
This section revolves around DK tanking in hardmode progression content or any content where burst damage is a concern. It may not apply if you are overgeared or not running heroic content, and is not intended to be correct for 5 man tanking/old content tanking, though you may find some of the information useful regardless and I highly encourage reading it through if you want to really improve as a DK tank.
First lets lets look at what death knight tanking "is" as well as what defines a good DK tank. We are the "self heal" tank, which makes us very mana efficient. We generally take far less external heals than other tanks, at the cost of taking slightly more damage compared to a warrior or paladin tank.
Where it becomes complicated is that due to our reactive healing style of tanking we have to take damage before we can heal ourselves, as well as the fact that we will naturally take more damage due to less armor and raw dmg reduction (10% vs 15% for pallys and 25% for warriors for example). This means that while our dmg taken will be only slightly more than other tanks, the shape of the damage will be very different and much burstier, with periods of very light damage followed by very large damage. You may have heard the common complaint from healers that DKs are "spiky", and this is where that comes from.
So how important is the shape of our damage? As long as the damage we are taking is roughly equal to the other tanks at the end of the day, does it really matter? It depends on the content you are running, but generally yes. It matters very much. Because of this spiky nature, we have to really step back and think "how do I go about being the 'best' DK tank? Should I focus on raw dmg taken or should I concentrate on minimizing bursts? which one is more threatening to me as a tank?"
For most content you will find that how you handle those bursts is what will make you a mediocre or fantastic tank. Tank healing is already pretty mana efficient compared to raid healing, so focusing on increasing our already fantastic self heals is generally not going to do as much for you compared to focusing on minimizing the threat from the bursts. That's not to say you should ignore overall damage taken, but it shouldn't be your #1 concern unless your burst damage is small enough that it is no longer is a threat at all. When this moment occurs will depend on the content you are running, your gear level, and if the content is nerfed or not.
Advanced Death Strike
Now that we've come to the conclusion that generally (heavy emphasis on generally) focusing on minimizing the burst damage vs the overall damage taken is going to result in better tanking and happier healers, we can apply this ideology to find that death strike should be used in a way that will not just result in the most healing/dmg reduction, but that will help reduce the threat from burst damage.
If you were to time death strikes for maximum healing/absorption, you would wait until you had plenty of damage in your 5 second window. This would likely mean waiting ~4 seconds after a large burst (depending on what kind of damage you took before the burst) to allow for the most possible damage in your window with an extra bonus of having more SoB stacks on top of that.
If you were to time death strikes for the purpose of recovering from burst damage, you would death strike immediately following a large burst, using the heal from DS to put you back into comfortable range and using the shield to give your healer some more time to get you back to full before the next hit. In this case you didn't wait for any extra damage to increase your heal/shield, but you did make sure that the burst damage you took was taken care of as best you could and minimized it's impact.
These are two extremes (waiting for all dmg in 5 seconds and waiting for none), and the "correct" usage will usually be between the two, depending on how much damage you are taking and how bursty it is. for example if you had only gone from 100% to 70%, then it would probably be safe to allow for more damage and in that window, but if you burst from 100% to 35%, you will want to help get yourself back to a comfortable level by death striking right away. For example if you go from 100% to 70%, then get healed to 80% off some HoTs and then get full hit to 30%, you would likely have waited to use it on the drop to 70% and would have used it immediately after the burst to 30%.
In other words, if you are not taking much burst damage (100% to 70%) then consider waiting a bit longer (unless you already have a lot of damage in the last 5 seconds) and if you burst then it is better to react to that burst to recover from it quickly.
Beyond that is maximizing throughput without sacrificing optimal Death Strikes, which is simply trying to keep at least one F U pair cycling at all times without ending up without a pair when you need it. An example of how you can put yourself in a bad position by using Death Strike too much is if you use a pair for the sake of throughput and then get bursted, you will have to use your remaining F U pair to recover, leaving a large gap between that Death Strike and the next one. If this does occur, pop a defensive cooldown as this is the most threatening position to be in (not counting any mechanics). If you have to pick, always choose for well timed death strikes over raw DS/min, since it is much better to have a death strike and not need it than to need one and not have it. You will generally lose overall mitigation by sitting on runes too much, but remember we are more concerned with burst damage than just the numbers of overall damage taken.
Advanced Cooldown placement
Beyond timing death strike better you can work to minimize the burst in the first place with proper cooldown usage. A BIG part of death knight tanking is making sure we are using our cooldowns optimally in addition to just our death strikes, and when done right the two will work together. Using a cooldown like IBF or VB when you know you won't have an F U pair in a while can prevent getting too much burst damage when you don't have the runes to recover with Death Strike. If you have a Death Strike in your back pocket either through 10 or more stacks of BT or just an FU pair handy, save your cooldowns for later when you know you won't have a DS ready for several seconds. Cooldowns used in this manner should be used preemptively, not after bursts. This means knowing when you are going to be Death Strike starved for the next several seconds and using the cooldowns before you take any burst damage. They all have 10 or more second durations, so you can easily fill a DS gap with any one of them.
Obviously if a cooldown is required for a mechanic, save it for that. It's better to survive a mechanic than to minimize the burst damage, since you can recover from normal burst damage more easily than you can recover from tanking a mechanic with your face. "Because the guide told me to use all my cooldowns in coordination with my death strike" is not a good enough excuse for dying to a burst damage mechanic over and over again.
Maximizing Tank DPS
On top of optimal survivability, a hardcore progression tank will be required to focus on personal DPS as well. With vengeance the way it is, tank dps is much more impactful on the raid than in previous expansions and increasing tank DPS can be an effective way of beating an enrage timer as well as just making the encounter easier through some extra deeps.
Most of these tradeoffs require a potentially steep survivability cost, and trading survivability cost for DPS should always be done very carefully. There are some tradeoffs that have less impact on your survival, and should be done first with the more "dangerous" options being done if more dps is required beyond the first changes.
While Tank DPS is important, surviving is always #1 and being an unstable tank is a hefty price to pay for extra dps. If you aren't stable there had better be a good reason for that extra dps, or you are just making it harder on your healers for no reason, which is obviously not good. If you are trying to rank, make sure your healers are on board first.
Maximizing Riposte:
Riposte only increases our dps while it is active, which means we want to maximize uptime where we can. there are mechanics that prevent us from getting great uptime, for example you don't want to keep taunting off the other tank for riposte if that means you never drop your tank debuff stacks. However if you can, try to grab dodges/parries where you can when not tanking. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO COMMUNICATE THIS TO YOUR OTHER TANK. Do NOT just taunt the boss for vengeance/riposte without saying you are doing so.
Secondary stats:
If survivability is not a concern, trading mastery/avoidance for secondary stats can be a DPS gain. I would not recommend this for normal progression tanking, but if you are trying to rank or if a fight has very little tank dmg and a very tight enrage timer than consider trading survival stats for secondary stats. The actual DPS per point between haste/crit is negligibly close, so you can consider them equal in terms of overall damage. However, haste will help with survivability (faster rune regen is great for Death Strike) while crit will not. Therefore the priority for secondary stats is haste>=crit.
Death Siphon:
Death Siphon (tier 4) scales very well with our vengeance. it requires anywhere from 101k to 155k depending on weapon ilvl (101k for ilvl 549 weapon and 155k for 580) total attack power for 2x Death Siphons to equal Death Strikes damage, which means you will need to watch your attack power to maximize your dps. It is very important to keep in mind that Death Siphon costs a D rune, which means using one Death Siphon will result in a significant delay in your next Death Strike. Use with caution.
Dancing Rune Weapon:
While DRW is a great tank cd, it is also a decent DPS cd. There is a trick that will increase it's value beyond it's face value though. DRW copies your abilities and deals them as it's own attack at slightly reduced power, and this includes Outbreak, Icy Touch, Plague Strike, and Pestilence. This means you can have 2 sets of diseases rolling simultaneously, and can spread them both through pestilence. Like any DPS CD, try to time it with any buffs/procs to increase it's value.
There a couple ways to optimize it's use, depending on how many targets there are:
Single Target
Apply double diseases by using Icy Touch and Plague Strike immediately after using DRW, and reapply with outbreak right before DRW falls off. This will give you ~10 seconds of extra double diseases uptime at the cost of 1 death strike (F and U runes) or two Death Siphons (2 D runes) which is a net gain either way, though it is best to avoid using D runes to apply diseases for DRW since it's more of a DPS increase to trade a death strike instead of 2 death siphons.
2 Targets or more
Apply double diseases with Outbreak immediately after using DRW, and use pestilence to spread both sets to all targets.
Reapply all sets with another pestilence before DRW falls off.
Last edited by Reniat; 10-22-2013 at 02:28 PM.
This totally needs to be stickied. pally Druid and Prot warrior all have stickies for their posts, where is the DK tank love? =D
I'm not the man hiding behind the door in fear of danger. I'm the one that knocks... -WW, BB
I was wondering if this was going to get any activity
I've updated it to match the other locations.
how do haste and mastery compare for survivability?
Harsh Words and Steel: A Protection Warrior Guide
MoP RPS Calculator
Hunters, Just get a Sporebat, most LFRs will be missing that buff.
Haste is well below mastery in terms of survivability.
EDIT: though i will point out that haste gives more mitigation than hit/exp, though hit/exp aren't really valued for their mitigation anyway.
Last edited by Reniat; 11-19-2012 at 06:01 PM.
Something I had missed in the MOP changes (I assume) which I don't see mentioned here: Crimson Scourge now makes your blood boil OR death and decay free. So when thinking about maxing your dps, you should probably be looking to drop death and decay if you have a decent amount of time left on your diseases.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of DK discussion here - where is there an active DK tank community these days? It would be quite useful to do some encounter specific tips/tricks discussion (i.e. for boss X you can do Y).
How is the stamina trinket from DMF rate for a fresh 90 DK?
Great guide! Very informative and extremely detailed. Bravo!
you've probably already moved beyond needing this answered, and i apologize for not answering sooner.
Thanks. You think double mastery trinkets would be best? I now have lfr mastery trinket and stam trinket but would I do better with 463 and lfr mastery for normal 10 mans?
could you say which specific trinkets you have?
Harsh Words and Steel: A Protection Warrior Guide
MoP RPS Calculator
Hunters, Just get a Sporebat, most LFRs will be missing that buff.
Euliat's sim puts haste at the bottom numerically, but it's not just the numbers that we care about. All haste does is increase DS/min by giving you runes back faster. Now, that's not bad by any means, as faster rune regen means less time without a DS available, which is when we're most vulnerable. However, you have to look at WHY we death strike and how it works with your healers.
Ideally Death Strikes should be placed after large bursts. This means that whenever you burst down, you are getting a significant heal as well as a shield. The heal helps your healers bring you back up to a safe level and shield gives your healers time to get you the rest of the way to full. This is what gives us stability. If you burst down and don't have a death strike, you are putting the weight of that burst entirely on your healers shoulders. that situation is what can give a tank a "squishy" or "spiky" feel.
A haste build would reduce the chances of being caught with your pants down with DS, but it would also mean you're not offering as much burst recovery to your healers as your shield will be much lighter with a haste build. This is why even if haste were to give similar overall mitigation (which it doesn't) we would still value mastery because of how we use the stat, which goes beyond just the numbers the stat gives us. A similar article could be made with mastery versus avoidance, and i'm sure at some point someone will bring forth a very detailed argument filled with math that shows "avoidance gives more tdr" and this level of abstract theorycrafting will come back out again.
This is one example of where tank theorycrafting (especially DK tank theorycrafting) becomes more abstract than just finding the lowest dmg taken/sec and why I personally think tank theorycrafting is more fun than DPS theorycrafting, which is more about numbers.
I'm not really interestedd in TDR, i'm interested in the maths behind your stat priority
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As i said, my stat priority isn't based on numerical data, but rather is based on what will achiev maximum stability in raids. You can't put numerical weights on something like "stability" for DK tanks. You're asking me to give you a mathematical priority for something that can't be numerically defined.
Actually, "stability" as you put it could be defined as the delta between average DTPS and the DTPS of a short time frame, say 2-3 boss swings long, similarly to how e.g. Excel compares the accuracy of a suggested graph formula to the data points it has been given and how well they map out on eachother.
Alternatively, if you would take a music player algorithm (a relatively simple DA conversion based on sinc functions) and let it loose on the swing damage over the fights duration, you would actually end up with a pretty nice continuous graph on which you could base any number of stability formulas on.
The only things you can't really put numbers on as a tank is ability control: When to use what abilities. Although that has more to do with the repeatability of events than a mathematical issue.
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you're still ending up with a number that may or may not reflect the pressure being applied to your healers through your dmg intake. You hit it on the head at the end there, with addition of WHEN abilities are used. Mastery is valuable because we can put its value where we need it most, and as far as i know (a degree in computer science only requires up through calc 2, so for all I know Gauss may have made a "Gaussian Tank Stability and ability placement algorithm" formula that i'm not aware of) you can't realistically make a set of weights that factors in the control of each stats value unless you try to make an algorithm that emulates human healer reaction.
But that's just it, healers (mostly) react to your health, which in turn reacts to the damage you just took.
So you already HAVE an idea of healer reaction. And by adding more Haste, you reduce the chance that your healers need to carry a damage spike on their own (similarly to how hit & expertise work for most tanks) because you can 'break' more strings of damage with DS.
More Mastery, on the other hand, only helps create the feeling of full-to-null situations avoidance currently give us where there is a large damage burst, then nothing, then burst again,... This is more difficult to heal as a healer, because the tank's required healing is less predictable. The formula you are looking for in this case is called "Mean Square Error", but in order to put this into gear value, I would need to write a sim first and then implement such a function, weight it appropriately and so on.
On math vs when to use DS: If you take a boss' output you can easily map out a maximum 'spread' of DS uses and compare against that for a "DS effectiveness level", but because DS heals, it also changes the way healers behave, which means even a simplified model of the tank+healer combination is so complex that any change in variables (read: a different boss fight) completely redefines the way you need to look at it. But tank health changes is only a small part of this system and we can (and should) certainly try to work on an abstract version of how this works and how gear changes the situations you tank in.
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The Duchess of Cambridge has also returned to what she wears best: Alexander McQueen. After sporting a red frock on Sunday and covering up with a black coat on Monday - both by the Brit brand - this is the DoC's third McQueen outing in as many days. What a hat trick! Sarah Burton is fast proving to be her go-to designer for such high-profile events and who can blame our Middy when it's such a winning formula? We say she looks mighty elegant.
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'Both the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Cambridge look stunning today,' the excited milliner exclusively told Grazia Daily. 'They both have a unique yet timeless sense of style and wear hats so well! It's the dream to have two members of the Royal family wearing my pieces to such an important event.'
No prizes for guessing what Camilla's wearing. Yep, the Duchess of Cornwall also stayed true to her trademark fashion formula with a golden basket weave motif dress coat and nude trimmings by Anna Valentine topped off with another Philip Treacy hat. This is the same tried-and-tested combo that she wore for her own wedding, Kate and Wills' Big Day and, of course, Saturday's flotilla. You gotta admire that commitment.
Meanwhile, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie brought a splash of colour to the proceedings with Bea in a cornflower blue coat dress by Kinder topped off with Stephen Jones headgear and Euge in a purple Suzannah frock also with a Stephen Jones number atop her head. See, not one lady parts hat in sight.
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Former NFL offensive lineman Kwame Harris has been charged with felony domestic violence after allegedly beating his ex-boyfriend following a restaurant argument over soy sauce.
Following a pretrial hearing in the case Monday, a judge in San Mateo County, Calif., judge set a late April trial date for Harris, who played five seasons with the San Francisco 49ers and one season with the Oakland Raiders, Assistant District Attorney Al Serrato said.
The charges stem from an altercation outside a Menlo Park restaurant between Harris, 30, and Dimitri Geier, who suffered several facial fractures that required surgery, Serrato said.
According to a lawsuit obtained by the Bay Area News Group, Harris took issue with Geier pouring soy sauce on his rice during dinner at Su Hong restaurant in Menlo Park, Calif. Harris then revoked his offer to drive Geier to San Francisco International Airport. As Geier was retrieving his luggage to place into a cab, Harris attempted to pull Geier's pants down, accusing Geier of stealing his underwear.
That's when the situation turned violent.
Prosecutors are pursuing the domestic violence charge because the two men used to live together and had an on-again, off-again romantic relationship, Serrato said.
"Whenever we move forward with charges, it's because we believe the evidence is sufficient," Serrato said. "Certainly the injuries are consistent with a serious assault."
Harris has pleaded not guilty and posted $75,000 bail after his arrest, defense lawyer Alin Cintean said. Harris acknowledges he and Geier once were a couple, but says he struck Geier in self-defense, Cintean said.
"Mr. Geier first assaulted my client, and my client had a reasonable response to being assaulted," he said. "Unfortunately, Mr. Geier is the one who ended up with an injury."
Although a handful of former NFL players have come out as gay, none has while still wearing a uniform. Cintean said Harris, who played for Stanford before he was drafted by the 49ers in 2003 and has gone back to school to finish his undergraduate degree, identifies as gay, but "is not very public about it."
"He is a very private person. He doesn't like to talk about his personal life," he said.
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They already have a combo nickname, but now Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have the official stamp of coupledom: a unified dress code. As the the KK pair hit the Kouture shows (giggle) in Paris, we couldn't help but notice their synchronised style was more co-ordinated than ever. Not only that, but they're firmly sticking to a monochrome-only palette. Yep, it's getting that serious.
The most recent piece of evidence appeared when the loved-up pair hit the front row at Valentino's show looking like ying and yang. Kim opted for a lacy LBD with gladiator heels while Kanye went all-white in a crisp shirt, matching trousers and yep, white trainers. Bleuuugh Aww.
And at the Stephane Rolland show a day before, we were treated to another dose of neutral-coloured co-ordination from Kim 'n' Kan. She wore a black mullet-style dress adorned with a ginormous white ruffle while he wore a black T-shirt, black jacket, black trousers, black shoes and (probably) black socks.
But the lookalike obsession first forced us to raise a quizzical eyebrow at Sunday's BET Awards in Los Angeles when they both wore head-to-toe white. This followed a snap on Kim's Instagram of His & Hers Air Yeezy trainers. Surely clothes swapping is the next step.
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In fact, this mutual monochroming is just the latest development in Kim's fash-over. From her black Givenchy peplum dress and sharp-shouldered blazers to her biker-tastic leather leggings and black pointed Christian Louboutin heels, Kim's style is noticeably sleeker, simpler and well, more Kanye-ian. Compare these recent outings to her wardrobe BK (Before Kanye) and the transformation is undeniable. Who could forget the flashy bling, the layers of curled extensions, the bright colour-blocking and glitzy gowns that she endorsed so avidly? They are long gone.
So is this style affinity Kimye's way of telling the world they are the perfect matchy-match? Or is it down to Kanye moulding his new lady into a more fashwan-y and couture-appropriate dresser? Now that he's a bona fide designer, he can't be having an utterly bonkers bombshell beside him (*ahem Amber Rose).
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fun until we lost all the slides
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Are there more slides for different bugs that you can buy as a kit? I really like the product but wish the slide holding container was made of stiffer plastic and easier to open and close for little hands. other then that I am happy with this item as a gift.
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Between three teachers at the center that I work at we have these for our science centers for the preschoolers. But over time the slides have managed to disappear. Is there any option in replacing these.
My boys love it
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My boys are 11 and 5 years old they loved the microscope but they have last the slides and i cant find them in any stores but over all they love it
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Hello,Great Product, but no where on your websight can I find replacement slides. Would be nice if there was additional slides as well.
Light stopped working!
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My daughter used her microscope for 15 minutes and now the light won't turn on. She is very upset! I don't see any way to get inside to replace a bulb or anything either. Very disappointing.
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This is a great toy! The two complaints I have are: don't put the speaker on the bottom and PLEASE make more slides for this toy! Once they go through all the slides they want new ones to go through...plants, more bugs, etc. PLEASE MAKE MORE SLIDES FOR THIS TOY,
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This is a great gift but didn't take long to get through and discuss the slides and the fun just stopped till the next child gets old enough. But it was a a super gift for the first few days. Lost some of the slides would love to purchase a replacement.
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Although I feel this is a fantastic product, is well made and the kids love to use it, I am VERY sad that GeoSafari did not make other slide sets for this talking microscope. The kids have done all the slides that came with it so many times, it would sure be wonderful if there were other slide sets available about other topics, that we could purchase.
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This gift was given to my 7 yr old stepson from his grandparents for christmas. Not only did he have fun with this, but me and his father did as well!! We all learned alot about bugs with this game. You can learn some quick facts about the different bugs (there were alot of varieties of bugs in the slides) then take the quiz afterwards. Or just learn the facts or just take the quiz. Very educational game! Highly recommended!
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Friday, January 20, 2012
13 Elements of a Good Story
23 comments:
- mooderino said...
I think a litle humour, even when tackling the most serious subjects, can keep things from getting too stuffy.
Moody Writing
- January 20, 2012 at 1:56 AM
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- January 20, 2012 at 2:55 AM
- PaSsu said...
This is worth one full "How to" book on writing. I think this is going to be a good scale I could use if I ever venture into writing a novel.
Mooderino is right about Humore, that is something I don't want to miss out either.
- January 20, 2012 at 2:56 AM
- Slamdunk said...
Good list Rachna. Your #8 is the best for me--strong character development makes or breaks a book.
- January 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM
- Rahul Bhatia said...
The generic rules very thoughtfully compiled!
- January 20, 2012 at 7:02 AM
- Robyn Campbell said...
Love this list, Rachna. #12 is my favorite. Probably because I love writing dialogue so much. I write too much on first drafts and always have to go back in and take a lot of dialogue out.
I might have seen this on your earlier post. But it was worth a reread. Happy weekend. :-)
- January 20, 2012 at 9:11 AM
- Rachna Chhabria said...
Hi friends..I can't believe I forgot humour. Personally, I love adding humour, more often than not in a subtle way in my descriptions and dialogues.
- January 20, 2012 at 9:18 AM
- Karen Lange said...
Good stuff, Rachna! Nice to have it all summarized in one post.
Have a good weekend,
- January 20, 2012 at 10:51 AM
- Kristen Wixted said...
Wow, that's a lot of requirements! I just look at the cover--jk.
I need most of those to stay with a book, certainly.
And cheating is totally allowed.
- January 20, 2012 at 11:53 AM
- The Golden Eagle said...
Great list!
I'm bookmarking this post to refer to again in the future. :)
- January 20, 2012 at 3:53 PM
- Stephen Tremp said...
Sub plots are essential to a great story, yet tricky to write. I used a quasi-love affair between the good guy and the antagonist's girlfriend that lingers and won't go away until the story nears its end. This provides for a great sub plot and some conflict anfd tension along the way.
- January 20, 2012 at 7:38 PM
- Victoria Dixon said...
Love the list and you did a great job. The one thing I might add is the use of internal dialogue to spark morality/belief questions in both the reader and the character. I love stories that can do that for me. A greater depth of story is achieved at that point, if you ask me. That said, I've noticed that I will continue reading with a lot of these. However, if the villain comes off as too villainy at the beginning, I get turned off. For me, I prefer beginning with someone I love. If I begin with someone I hate, it's like that transfers to the book and I can't continue. I suddenly hate the book and have no reason to continue.
- January 21, 2012 at 5:40 AM
- Mohamed Mughal said...
Most of my writing these days doesn't have antagonists; I have my central character(s) emersed in a confluence of circumstances that form the plot and story...I can only hope that those ingredients fall together into an interesting mix :). Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
- January 21, 2012 at 6:00 AM
- SBJones said...
Looks good. I like transitions from the ordinary to the extraordinary. The story happens in the extraordinary. But real characters are rooted in the ordinary.
What would Twilight be like if she never found out about vampires and werewolves?
Where would Star Wars be if Luke never left the desert planet of Tatooine?
How boring would Breaking Bad be if the guy never got cancer and turned to a life of cooking meth?
- January 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM
- Lydia Kang said...
For plot-driven stories, this is right on the money, Rachna. :)
- January 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM
- Terri Tiffany said...
Cheating is allowed! You always write such informative posts!
- January 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM
- Lynda R Young said...
I don't see it as cheating at all!!
This is a great post that covers all the points. Love it!
- January 22, 2012 at 2:58 PM
- Life Unordinary said...
informative as always!
Rachna you need to write a book on how to write!Basically a compilation of your blog posts.
- January 22, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- Shallee said...
Cheating is totally allowed. :)
I think you hit all the basics on the head! These are all the things I look for in a great book.
- January 23, 2012 at 3:28 PM
- alexia said...
Oh, great list! Emotional pull is definitely a must.
- January 23, 2012 at 7:24 PM
- Alka Gurha said...
You should write a film script...Such wonderful tips here. As always.
- January 25, 2012 at 8:32 PM
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Recently got to know your blog through a recommendation from another blog: http://www.lifeunordinary.com/
and I'm so glad I found your blog! :) Great posts! Thanks for the treasure trove of tips, advice and views.
- February 9, 2012 at 9:40 AM
- Rochelle said...
I actually prefer some part of my antagonist to be likable. I actually don't meet many people in real life who are so terrible that I want to see them fall, but I've met some that are otherwise good and then make poor choices.
Those people can make good antagonists, too, because then we think "If only they understood, they could be on the protagonist's side! They don't have to fall!"
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While he portrays an arrogant and dominating boyfriend on Impact Wrestling, Chris Sabin is doing the total opposite on his Twitter account. He has been posting sad messages about missing Velvet Sky. He even stated that only half of him is celebrating his birthday, as his other half is now gone.
It was revealed earlier in the week that TNA had signed Alpha Female, a wrestler who is known in Europe. Management has decided to pair her up with Chris Sabin, who recently broke up with Velvet Sky on screen. The relationship is designed to be a focal story line point for the Knockouts division.
Chris Sabin decided to do a little taunting by posting on Twitter how he won the TNA X Division Championship all on his own.
While they play a troubled couple on screen for TNA, former world champion Chris Sabin and former Knockouts champion Velvet Sky are actually dating. The two of them have been romantically involved with one another for quite some time now.
On Impact Wrestling, Jeff Hardy defeated Chris Sabin to advance in the TNA World Heavyweight Championship tournament.
Pictures surfaced online of TNA stars Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin smoking pot at a party.