Welcome to Tales of a Priest
This blog pays homage to Derevka and keeps his helpful WOW articles available online for posterity.
Welcome Post by Derevka
I’ve always somewhat been the anti-blogger, I’m more of a forum troll myself: Guild forums, mmo-champ forums, Blizzard Realm/Class forums. But after reading a lot of the other blogs out there, I’ve decided to make the leap.
Don’t get me wrong, I really like the content that is put together at a lot of the other priest blogs, but, perhaps, if I focused on only Healing (which is what I do, I don’t raid shadow) I could work on a great Priest Blog. There is always room for more blogs out there.
I think I’d like to apply my write ups with a more live raid healing perspective, provide some insight that may (or may not) be missing out there. I’ll leave the shadow analysis to my DPS brothers and sisters, I’m going to focus on mainly healing.
Background of me: I am a Dwarf Priest and have been playing since January 2005. I’m in my late 20′s. I’ve been in a guild that has gone over the years through the gambit of being a social leveling guild, to raiding, to end game raiding. In classic WoW I’ve raided all of MC, BWL, AQ20, and nearly got C’Thun in AQ40, as well as the early bosses of Naxx 1.0. In TBC (pre 3.0) my guild and I have cleared all of MH, BT, and Kalecgos.
Healing all the way- It’s time for the Shadowpriest discussions to have a ying to their yang. Don’t get me wrong, I love my SPriest brethren. Perhaps the priest community will like my perspective on healing in WotLK, perhaps not. But we’ll see. Close your eyes and jump!
You can find Derevka at the HowToPriest.com website!
Featured Articles
Keep Calm and Keep Healing
Despite having a crazy busy month both in game and out, I’ve spent some time reading at the official forums, the HowToPriest.com forums, Twitter, and a number of emails I have received… and there is a very large negative cloud
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Holy and Disc Best Practices
Inspired by a post by my good friend Vixsin, I’ve decided to do a quick “Best Practices” post. In the interest of full-disclosure, she did toss me an email while I was at a work conference asking for a
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Avalonna Rides Off into the Sunset
This is probably one of the most difficult posts to write. To most of us, World of Warcraft has become a huge part of our life: we talk about it, blog about, we even have get-togethers focused around
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Holy Word: Sanctuary – Scaling in Mists of Pandaria
Holy Word: Sanctuary has been a spell that has been in flux since its introduction at the start of Cataclysm… and that continues to happen even on the Beta– HW: Sanc has undergone a few changes in preparation for Mists
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Update on Heroic Throne of Thunder Raiding – Part 1
I’ve been pretty quiet as of late on the blog, but I hope to do some more visual posting. Firewalls at work have ramped up preventing me from doing ANY editing at the office— but video posts are always more …
Stay Healthy During Mists of Pandaria – How to care for your body during the release
Yes… I am planning on staying up until I hit 90. I am going for Realm First! Priest with a few of my other guildies going for their realm first classes as well. Being a Bostonian, this means Mists launches
…5.2 Discipline Guide – Thunderstruck!
Now yes, we know 5.2 is just riddled with tons and tons of AC/DC references all over the internet… so why not one more? Sorry! I have updated my 5.2 guide which can be found in full as well as
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Mana Regen vs Throughput – Spirit Stacking in Mists of Pandaria
Mana management is a huge part of our game now in Mists of Pandaria. Gearing, gemming, enchanting, and spec choices will be pivotal in how your longevity impacts these first few raids— particularly since so many of these fights are
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Chakra and Why You Should Be Concerned
I don’t like writing posts like this – and by that I mean posts where I completely disagree with the direction the development team is going with the priest class. That said, I do believe and trust that Blizzard can
…Latest Posts
Lightwell vs Lightspring…
There’s been a lot of discussion regarding Lightwell and Lightspring; which is better and under what circumstances. First and foremost, we all need to keep in mind that the Lightspring glyph is a Major Glyph, and we’ll need to dedicate
…3.1 on the PTR Thoughts Incoming
I will be posting my 3.1 PTR thoughts later today and likely expanding on them tomorrow. Stay tuned!
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Level 90 Priest Abilities- Halo, Divine Star, and Cascade
Well, yesterday the beta unlocked level 90 and the final tier of abilities. Here’s a short video highlighting those abilities.
Cascade – The biggest advantage Cascade has its its amazing range. Thebounces can provide the priest with a
…PTR 3.1 Notes – Holy
Yesterday we discussed the Discipline changes, today we will go over the Holy Changes that are currently up on the PTR. I did make some edits to my post from yesterday regarding Rapture (forgot to mention that Aegis doesn’t return
…Healer’s Addendum – Healing Hagara the Stormbinder (Heroic)
This is my first real foray into voice-over videos, so I am really hoping to get some solid feedback on this. There are some great tutorial videos that focus on the overall strategy and do a great job at it.
…Raid Dedication – True Dedication, Award Worthy
Picture this:
Sartharion 3 Drakes. Great DPS. Fantastic progression. Consistent steps forward. We get to 1 drake remaining.
Then, I hear over vent from one of our top DPS… “My graphics card is overheating and the fan is
…AddOn Corner: ForteXorcist
It has been a long time since I’ve done a post about AddOns, but I decided to do one since I get a number of emails asking me about this mod by people who have either seen my UI screenshots
…4 Piece Tier 10 – A Pleasant Surprise
Ok, I don’t like to admit I was wrong.
Ever…
But, I think I might have prejudged the Priest Tier 10 4-piece bonus a little bit. Especially when you consider how RNG it is – but on the
…Why Do You Heal?
Of UI, AddOns, and the like
Every healer knows that having your UI and Raid Frames be functional for you, is a priority. A clean and functional UI is something I obsess over. So, the first thing I needed to do was purge my old
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