Blood Shield Tracker - A Death Knight Tank Addon

 So we have this new fancy mastery, Blood Shield. While this sounds very nice on paper blizzard provides no way of tracking this new ability. Good thing our friends over at the pwnwear.com community have developped a new addons called Blood Shield Tracker. This is a great tool for tracking the new ability.


The Blood Shield Tracker addons not only tracks our blood shield but also tracks the average healing we will get from our next Death Strike. As you can see in the screenshot. The larger bar on top is the Blood Shield the smaller bottom bar is the estimated heal for our next Death Strike.

As of this writing, the addon is still in beta phase the developers aren't hiding that. My guess is that it is very near completion. It has a very nice management interface with a mini-map icon is you enable it. You can also customize the look of Blood Shield Tracker. In my opinion, the ease of customization is this addons only remaining weak point.

You can download it from here at cursed.com and discuss it here at pwnwear.com.

Using right now. It has my vote. Can't wait to see what we will have once this come out of beta. Thanks guys.

4.0.1 and the Deathknight

See bottom of page for DK specific patch notes.

4.0.1 has sundered the World of Warcraft as we know it. Bringing many changes to all aspects of the game and requiring us to relearn most of our classes. Look forward and welcoming theses changes here are the DK spec I'm looking into.


Boss Cruncher:
25 man single target raid tank with no utility. http://wowtal.com/#k=Yf93jyRh.a5o.deathknight.WiqGi

AoE Madness:
25 man AoE raid tank spec with no utility. http://wowtal.com/#k=Yf93ftf1.a5o.deathknight.n3KBx

Lonely DK:
5 man/Raid spec with utility and AoE for when other classes are not present with the buffs. http://wowtal.com/#k=YfOo1Fi1.a5o.deathknight.n3KBx

Frozen Death:
Off-spec DPS raid spec.
http://wowtal.com/#k=ebuORkQ.a5o.deathknight.xlGwT

Let me know what you guys think of these and as always a good place to discuss these spec is on the pwnwear.com forums more specifically here.

Nexwave

Sorry for the lack of news. I've been working on getting a small IT company going with my cousin. We founded Nexwave a few months ago and its been taking much of my time since. Things are finally falling into place and I should be able to get back to blogging soon.

Now to advertise a little ;-)

Nexwave is a web and IT service company located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We offer a wide range of web marketing services and networking solutions to small businesses in any industry. Our clients value the quality of our personalised services, which adapt well in the environment of new and small businesses.

Now since the blog is mainly in english, you can visite Nexwave at http://tech.nexwave.ca/ or in french at http://tech.nexwave.ca/.

More WoW comming soon.

At Long Last, Deathknight Tank Buffs

Long awaited buffs put us back in line with other tanks as far as effective health. And the buff to IBF is a very nice plus.

Reading the original post, I do belive that the changes are effective immediately although the spell tool-tips will not be updated right away.

3.3.2 - No Deathknight buffs

While DKs are saved from beeing in patch notes this time, for better or for worse. We did find ourselves with a hidden buff, well if your a DK tank in T10.

All tank T10 sets found an armor increase of about 1000 on the chest and gloves. Like I said not a direct DK buff, but we'll take what we can get. The entire Scourgelord's Plate set now has 10,261 armor its name.

For entire patch notes you can go here. See the Item section for details on armor increase.

Happy tanking.

pwnwear.com?

Hey I would just like to bring http://pwnwear.com/ to everyone attention. This is a great site where you can find almost everything DK related. The site contains analysis log and multiple other informative tools and posts all summed up by Gravity in a way that you don't need to analyse/read them for hours.

The site is definitely worth checking out and participating in. Pwnwear.com has earned a place in my Sites section at the bottom left hand side of the Home page.

3.3 - Fall of the Lich King

A litle late but here it is. The death knight patch new for 3.3. Make sure you check out the killer patch trailer.

While not much has changed as far as are class goes, the increas threat on RS should prouve to be a nice buff for us DK tanks. Also with the addition of 1 hander version of  "Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle" called "Rune of the Nerubian Carapace" will we see the rise of the dual-wield Death Knight? Here are the DK specific patch notes for more detailed changes and the youTube version of the patch trailer.