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With the Hyjal and Black Temple attunements a thing of the past, no doubt many of you have ventured into the wonderful world of Tier 6 content. With all the new Badge gear though, the question quickly comes to mind… are there any upgrades here?

Hyjal Summit

1. Rage Winterchill

Drops nothing for you… let’s keep moving along.

2. Anetheron

Our first tanking item to question is The Unbreakable Will. Impressive dps, nice fast speed, armor, stamina and defense. All and all a very nice tanking weapon.

• Is it better than Mallet of the Tides though? Nope.

If you’ve been following this site for a while, you’ve no doubt heard me say/write about gearing yourself for an encounter. Another concept that isn’t discussed nearly enough is to actually spec for whatever the focus of your raid’s progression is at the time.

The Common Parts of an SSC spec

If you look over the 4 specs that follow, you’ll notice a number of common talents amongst all of them that make up the core of all the specs you’ll use in Serpentshrine Cavern. I’ve added a brief explanation to each talent selected to help give some insight behind what makes up a stable spec.

One of our polls a while back brought that to light. Not all of you still are the leader and some of you are the back up, but ultimately it confirms what a lot of you probably already know. As a tank, you are given the opportunity to lead, often. Some of you are forced to do it, some of you aspire to it and I bet some of you screw it up. In fact, I guarantee it. I screw it up every week, one way or another. It just goes with the territory and it’s nothing to get all worked up over.

As a warrior, your toolbars are undoubtedly overfull with a variety of abilities. Here’s a nice, easy way to free up a couple spots that I stumbled across at Tankspot thanks to Lore.

#showtooltip item:32578
/use item:22105
/use item:22104
/use item:22103
/use item:32578

Basically all in 1 button, it uses the biggest Healthstone possible and if no healthstone is available then it tries to use a Charge Crystal Focus. I’ve tweeked it a little to show the tooltip for the Charge Crystal Focus since those are stackable to 20 and it’ll let you easily keep track of how many you have remaining.

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