Overview

Ah the tankadin.  We love those front loading, face smashing, light wielding, shield throwing, ground anointing,  judging fools.  Their threat generation has long been king dinagling and we’ve all loved it.  This article will take a look at the “969″ rotation, but in a very simple way.

The “969″ rotation refers to the rotation of greatest threat generation for Paladin tanks.  It is named as such because it refers to alternating 9-second and 6-second cooldowns throughout the rotation.  Now some of the abilities aren’t actually on a 9-second or 6-second cooldown (like consecration )…but the 969 refers to the average I guess.

You can find all the theory crafting you ever want at the maintankadin forums , inclulding Matlab simulations and the works.  A great resource for sure!  But I like to simplify things, and to that end I’ll share with you what really made it clear to me…the 969 is really 2-button WOW!

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Cataclysm is coming and with it the old Azeroth will change forever. Additionally, the expansion will introduce a new race to both the Alliance and the Horde.  Personally I’m excited about returning to the new old world and seeing what new adventures await… Already there has been talk of the Gnomes retaking Gnomeregan  plus a ton of new race/class combinations are going to open up. While our main characters will get to experience some of this new content, the majority of the newly redone zones are going to be best experienced by an alt. So this begs the question… what kind of Alt are you going to roll?

You might think that this is a question you don’t have to answer just yet, seeing as the release date for Cataclysm has yet to be announced, but the sooner you do, the sooner you can prepare.  Seeing as you can be collecting Emblems of Triumph  or Champion’s Seals  to purchase Heirloom gear to help the leveling process out.  Personally I’m going to be rolling a Worgen Warrior, what about you?

Alright, I have to come clean, there really isn’t a rotation to Healing as a Restoration Druid so the title of this post is misleading.  Healing is very situational and depends on a number of factors, so attempting to follow a pre-canned rotation just won’t work.  However, there are some tips that can help maximize your performance. 

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Fantastic site for the Discipline Priest: http://penancepriest.blogspot.com/ .  I really wanted to write something on Disc myself, but it just can not be done better.  A quote that jumped out at me:

“…I have no idea what my HPS (or DAPPS) is or should be on any given fight. Like asking a guitar player how many notes they play on average during a two-chorus solo…those numbers are not only meaningless, but really meaningless.”    – Paolo in regards to healer performance

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Weeeee did it!!!!!! Punch and Pie (our raiding charter) pulled off our first 25 man raid.  Up until now, we’ve been an exclusively 10-man oriented group.  Well, some are more oriented to 10-women, but that will have to be discussed in another blog post.

We ventured into TOC25 to grab some ilvl245 gear and one-shotted every boss until Anub.  I will definitely say that Anub is much harder on 25man than on 10man.  After about 5 attempts we made him the dead and /cheer congratulated ourselves and took the screenshot.

Hats off to everyone for a job well done, and to all the new friends of Punch and Pie…may we wage war with you again!

This week we’re back in ICE10, but if last week was any indication of our potential for success in the 25man environment, the the transition to weekly 25man efforts is not far off.