Here’s a semi-expensive way to block mailboxes, auctioneers etc.

pro-tip: placing great feasts in the same spot will stack them and you can’t click through them.

Enjoy.

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Stamina vs dodge is a debate that has been going on since the beginning of time. Stamina obviously gives you a larger health pool, which means you can take more hits before a healer needs to worry about you. It also allows you to survive the high bursts of some of the harder bosses. Dodge, on the other hand, lets you take less hits. This not only reduces the amount of heals that you need, but it also reduces the amount of time you’re at low health, due to dodgeing during bursts, which gives healers time to heal you back up to full.

In this guide, I hope to clear up some of the common misconceptions associated with the topic, and intend to inform you as to why stacking dodge can be valuable. I may be a bit long-winded at some parts, and may not explain some things as much as I should. If you notice something that you think should be changed, please don’t be afraid to speak up. Keep in mind I’m no math expert, and I’m not in one of the top raiding guilds, so the information here is just what I’ve picked up through my own tanking experiences, and from reading many other threads. So, on with the guide, and I hope that it helps you.

Now, a topic that often comes up in the discussion of dodge vs stam is “Playing to the class’s strength”. Namely, a high health pool. For this, go ahead and throw on that polar set with full stam gems. Grab that essence of gossamer and go to town. Feel free to get your hp as high as you want. However, which bosses require that? The only thing that comes to mind which absolutely requires more health than can be gotten by maintaining a balance of dodge and stam, is 3 drake sartharian. No other fight currently requires that much health, so it’s pointless to have that much. If a boss can be tanked with 35k hp, who do you think will tank it better. The bear with 60k hp and 20% dodge, or the bear with 35k hp and 40% dodge? Obviously, the higher health one might keep a fuller health bar through the fight, but his healers will have less mana, and he’ll have taken more overall damage.

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Ashes’s Death Knight Tanking Guide

Updated 6/2

1. The Basics
1.1 Gameplay
1.1.1 Rune System
1.1.2 Runeforging
1.2 Skills
1.3 Talents
1.4 Specs
1.5 Rotation
2. Advanced Training
2.1 Stat priorities
2.2 Enchants, Glyphs, and Runeforges
2.3 Dungeons & Raids
3. FAQs
4. Acknowledgments
5. Links

Foreword:

My Death Knight’s name is Rhnea. Generally, most people refer to me by my pally’s name Ashes. I have played all the tanking classes in raiding environments. That said, I have only raid tanked on my Death Knight on the server Mal’Ganis. DK Tanking is a sort of proactive tanking. We have 2-3 cooldowns and Blade Barrier. All these are activated by either pressing a button or using all of the blood rune slots. This means you have to know what to expect and when to expect things so you can minimize the incoming damage, as compared to other tanks who are built to take damage and press oh-@##@ buttons when they need.

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Easy Arena Grand Master

This method makes getting the Arena Grand Master trinket/achievements incredibly easy. The only catch is that you need to be a GNOME. Heres how I personally do it:

1)Die in the STV arena, near the chest.
2)Wait until a chest spawns (3, 6, 9, or 12oclock) and jump on top of it. Try to stand on the exact middle.
3)Wait until somebody loots the chest. At this point, you will be standing on thin air, as a ghost.
4)Wait until the next time the chest spawns but DO NOT MOVE. AT ALL. When the Arena goblin sets down the chest, people will begin to fight over it.
Simply rez and loot the chest, safely hidden inside of it. You can still be targetted, but they cant see you

Repeat this as many times as you want. It is especially good for getting AGM on twinks or other low level chars.

Heres my rogue inside:

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This trick is great for healers.

This exploit requires you to have:

The Last Line Of Defense – Quest – World of Warcraft
Taking Battle To The Enemy – Quest – World of Warcraft
At The Enemy’s Gates – Quest – World of Warcraft

Works for both Alliance/Horde.

If you have read the quests, you should immediately know what is going on.

If not, this is the instructions.

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first you need to drive the siege tank (can’t remember name but a pic of it anyway) and position yourself here

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source: http://www.alteracvolley.com/daily-quest-guide-midsummer-fire-festival/

The Midsummer Fire Festival is a great way to earn some fast gold for your level 80 characters or quickly get experience for your lower level toons. Unfortunately, two of the dailies that come with this in-game holiday require some above average eye-hand coordination. Those quests, More Torch Tossing and More Torch Catching, can both be completed in a minute or two with the right technique.

Since I’m a Horde player the above video shows me completing these quests in the Spirit Rise section of Thunder Bluff. In addition to the video tutorial, here are some notes for each quest:

More Torch Tossing

Before you accept the quest, make sure you have the quest item located on an easy to reach key on your toolbar. I have a secondary row in my interface devoted solely to obnoxious daily quest items so I can quickly hit a button and activate an item.

• The key to More Torch Tossing is all in your starting position. Try to place yourself in between the fire (so you can light the torches) and the center target.
• It’s also helpful to have your camera as far back and up as your computer can handle. I prefer to keep it at about a 45 degree angle as well.
• After each successful toss, quickly position your cursor back over the center target and activate the item. Then when the next target is lit up you can just click near it and re-center your cursor as you wait for the next one.
• If you happen to miss a target, or are late in clicking on one, take a second and let the next target pass without an attempt. This will get you back in sync with the rhythm and save you from constantly falling a second behind on each throw.

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For this guide to work you need An inscriptionist at 450 and the ability to hit a macro in trade chat at peak time on most servers.

Make a macro to look like this
/trade  My Mats 250 gold! Pst me! You get a 25% chance at getting a nobles card which sells for 700g+! Test your luck with my mats! Pst me for more info.

What you need to know that is in order to make one darkmoon card of the north You need the following list of items

x6 Snowfall ink Snowfall Ink – Item – World of Warcraft
x3 Eternal Life Eternal Life – Item – World of Warcraft
x3 Ink Of The Sea Ink of the Sea – Item – World of Warcraft

The kicker about this guide is that many people on the auction house post their herbs. What you are going to be going after is Lichbloom, Adder’s Tongue, And Icethorn. On my server they sell for around 20-25g per stack. But there is a way to make them sell for 15 gold per stack. You see what you do is when you search for lichbloom suppose a person named Punchy put up 20 stacks. What i would do is open up my mail box and send Punchy this mail.

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source: http://www.skeletonjack.com/2009/06/27/t8-death-knight-top-10-best-in-slot-bracers-aka-%e2%80%9cwrist%e2%80%9d-slot/
Posted by: Skeleton Jack

Heya guys!!  Welcome to the T8 edition of Best in Slot Items for Death Knights!!  Today we’re gonna talk about the best Bracers for your wrist slot that you can get for your DK.

Items have been broken up into 6 categories depending on your current Hit and Expertise Rating.  Please refer to the Hit and Expertise Revisited post if you have any questions regarding Hit and Expertise caps, their value, and how to get there.

PLEASE read the notes at the bottom of the post.  The notes are important.

Blood – Top 10 Best in Slot Bracers

1. Decimator’s Armguards 455.75 APE
2. Armbands of Bedlam 436.11 APE  (Hard)
3. Bitter Cold Armguards 429.55 APE  (Hard)
4. Solar Bindings 418.46 APE (Hard)
5. Fluxing Energy Coils 412.72 APE (Hard)
6. Bracers of Unrelenting Attack 400.31 APE
7. Wristbands of the Sentinel Huntress 358.39 APE  (Emblems)
8. Bracers of the Tyrant 356.42 APE
9. Bracers of the Smothering Inferno 348.1 APE
10. Frost-bound Chain Bracers 345.26 APE

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