Archives - Tips of the Past
May 2008
- Podcast #4: It’s time for 20 Questions
- What gear from Hyjal and Black Temple is an upgrade?
- How to Spec for every fight in SSC
April 2008
- 68% of Tanks are Raid Leaders
- Uncluttering your Toolbar: Healthstones
- Podcast #3: Rant-tastic
- SSO Neck vs Brooch of Deftness
- The Badge Pick Order: 2.4 Edition
- Podcast #2: You Tricked Me!
- TankingTips.com Readers Confirm: It was April 1st Yesterday!
- Blue Confirmed: Thunderfury Upgrade!
March 2008
- Taunt Revisited
- Podcast #1: John the Tank
- Part 3: Maximizing your Boss Threat
- The Vene Rule
- Battleworn Tuskguard… not so worn anymore.
February 2008
- Part 2: Maximizing your Boss Threat
- The Biggest Myth about Protection Warriors
- Part 1: Maximizing your Boss Threat
- Tweak your Toon with Trinkets
- How to Taunt, etc
- The Road to Passive Uncrushable
January 2008
- An Expert Guide to Expertise
- What’s the Hit Cap?
- Executioner vs Mongoose
- Stop Tanking. Start Watching.
- If you tank without Itemrack or Outfitter … read this.
- 10 New Formula Calculators for Tanks
- The “I just hit 70″ Tanking Gear Guide
- Bonefist Gauntlets vs Iron Gauntlets of the Maiden
December 2007
- 6 Tanking Blogs I read
- Holiday Highs and Lows
- What’s next? You decide.
- No Excuses! Pre-Karazhan gear that will let you tank Black Temple.
- How much Avoidance does Defense give?
- The New Badge of Justice Pick Order
November 2007
- 8 Posts on Tanking that I’ll probably never write
- Super Healing Potions… not worth it.
- The Auto-Blocker is no longer #1
- 3/6 - How bout you?
- Am I ready for Zul’Aman?
- Killing Kritters
- Block Value: Everything you ever wanted to know
October 2007
- Stop waiting to use Thunderclap
- You are Lucky to be a Warrior
- What kind of Tank are you?
- 9 ways to Stay a Sharp Tank
- Hi, I’m a Swordsmith.
- 1 Harsh Reality of being a Tank
- Improved Defensive Stance… worth it?
- The Quick Guide to Effective Health
September 2007
- What professions should my Warrior pick?
- 10 ways to Prevent Burning Out
- 5 Ways to Combine Resilience and Defense
- Warning: 490 Defense does not make you Immune to Crushing Blows
- Are you losing Aggro in 9 Seconds?
- Maximizing your Void Reaver Threat
- 1 Gun. The only 1 you need.
- Parry Explained
August 2007
- I love my Spec, Take 2!
- The New Archives
- 3 Shields, 3 Enchants, 3 Situations
- Stop making your Off-Tank do Your Job!
- A beautiful post on Motivation
- Know what you need. Set 3 Gear Goals!
- Helping Out ~ Tanking Illhoof
- Why Improved Shield Wall is so Amazing
- The Golden Rotations
July 2007
- Attack of the Invisible Sunders
- Thunderfury beyond 70
- The long overdue review of Omen
- Shield Slam Explained
- The Threat Formula
- Tanking mobs that hit like Pansies
- Welcome to Build Better Threat Week!
- Why 1 point in Tactical Mastery?!
- Weapon Speed: Fast vs Slow
- How to Handle your First Raid with a New Guild
- When can I start tanking Karazhan?
- The 3 Pillars of a Great Tank
- I Love my Spec
- Hit Rating Revisited
- I hate Figurine of the Colossus
- Ridiculously Important Information: Socketing
- Multi-Tanking: 5 ways its NOT your fault.
- ZG is still the Place to Be.
- The reason you should be doing Arena.
- What race should my Warrior be?
- King’s Defender vs The Sun Eater
- 2 ways to Handle 99% of your Bad 5 man Pulls
June 2007
- Hit Rating: Important?
- The Art of Line of Sight
- Quest for the Darkmoon (cards)
- Kara/Heroics: Resistence Required?
- Tanking Robots
- Stop Waiting for Super Awesome Epics
- Sundering Trash is Trashy.
- Badges of Justice: What order to get the Items?
- The Deal with Devastate
- Mongoose vs Battlemaster
- The 3 Sets of Tanking Gear
- My Current Fav 5
- Are you Immune to Disarm?
- Solo Tanking Moroes
- A simple Mocking Blow Macro
- The 25% Block Myth: Avoiding Crushing Blow