tank – Kaylriene

I Got Keystone Hero, So I Have More Thoughts About The War Within’s First Mythic Plus Season

This week, I went back to start cleaning up the remaining goals I had for The War Within’s first season of content. That involved finishing up Glory… Read more “I Got Keystone Hero, So I Have More Thoughts About The War Within’s First Mythic Plus Season”

With this week’s unveiling of the Dawntrail Media Tour information, including tooltips, a preview of the first dungeon, and getting to see actual gameplay in the new… Read more “Speculating About Dawntrail Part 1 of 2 – Job Actions, Abilities, and What The Changes (Might) Mean”

The War Within beta went live, and with it, a challenging change – the effect of damaging trinkets and cantrip effects (weapon procs) are going down by… Read more “Blizzard’s Shadowboxing Match – Their Fight With Themselves on Tanks, Healers, and Trinkets in The War Within”

FFXIV dungeons have something of a formula. You’ll hear people say it’s always two trash pulls, a boss, repeat 3x, and that is true, but then you… Read more “Some Tips for Dungeon Runs in Final Fantasy XIV, Part 1 – For Tanks”

After a chunk of heavier posts on issues facing the MMO community(mostly the FFXIV one!), I wanted to look at something lighter but also still interesting to… Read more “Evokers Are The First Non-Tank Spec Class Added To WoW, But Why?”

Yesterday, the news was a murmur in FFXIV corners of the internet – someone on Media Tour had leaked screenshots of tooltips, with full assortments of tank… Read more “The FFXIV Endwalker Media Tour Tooltip Leaks and A Lot of Thoughts on Sage Gameplay”

This week, Blizzard was forced to admit that tanking in Shadowlands was broken. Okay, that is somewhat hyperbolic, but a genuine bug had led to a metagame… Read more “Balance and the Actual State of Shadowlands – Looking at the Tank Buffs”

Tank design in most holy trinity MMOs boils down to managing a trifecta of gameplay components for a player to focus on and learn – managing threat,… Read more “Tanks for the Threat – Threat Changed In Shadowlands and I Don’t Like It”

Now that my Gunbreaker in Final Fantasy XIV has hit 77 and is closing in on the current level cap of the game, it is time to… Read more “The Journey to Level 80 Gunbreaker, and Lessons Learned on Tanking in Final Fantasy XIV”

I’ve been tanking in WoW for around 5 years as my main role now, but yet, the job is still somewhat scary. Not so much in WoW,… Read more “Tanxiety Through the Eyes of a New Game”