Every so often a healer decides they want to go DPS and a new Shadow Priest, Elemental Shaman, Boomkin, or even a Ret Pally is born. Sometimes a healer has real life events that require them to hang their Benediction up. Now you’ve lost a core member of your healing force, what does this mean …
Naxxramas Achievement Tips
The concept for this post was thought up by a IM conversation I had with Matticus after my guild banged out a bunch of achievements in Naxx last night. Thanks for the brainstorm! You’ve cleared 25 Man Naxx and Malygos and you’re making progress (or have completed) 3 Drake Sartharion… 3.1 and Ulduar are a …
3.08 Today – Preparedness
3.08 is launching today, and the hands-down biggest change that will affect priests is the COH nerf. I apologize for covering this over and over, however it is important to prepare. There WILL be fights that we will need to adjust, but lets see if we can address some of those. 1. Malygos – Vortex. …
3 Drake Sartharion
We did it! Took us a little longer than I think we all would have liked, but we did it. /cheer Some tips for those healers who are doing it now. 1. Don’t bring too many healers. 6 even 5 is enough. DPS needs to be strong to take the drakes down, so you don’t …
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 dead, I am locking up.” What do you do? What do you do? Well this is the …
Character RE-Re-Customization
Well it has been 30 days since I did my Character Re-Customization— and now, I did it again. Derevka is back to being a short, stout, freckled dwarf again and I missed her. When I showed up to a raid as a male dwarf, I got tons of comments on Ventrilo, whispers, raid chat, and …
My Guest Post at Matticus (Redux)
So, do to Blogger screwing up my schedule to post… my post about my guest post at World of Matticus went out hours early. So apologies to my RSS readers who got that early, and no Matticus post existed! But, I have a guest post up at World of Matticus today. It is a post …
Healing Assignments: More Than a Chore
Sigh, healing assignments. If you have done them like I have been doing them, it means you have been doing them for your guild for years. Perhaps you think about them on your way home from work, class, or before a raid– it makes you shudder. Fact is: very few people enjoy doing healing assignments. …
Why Do You Heal?
It is always interesting when I ask healers: Why do you heal? It is, after all, a very loaded question- and timely now that WotLK has launched. Wrath really introduced the the changes to Spellpower/Healing Power. It is now, for the most part, only a matter of +hit to transition to a Caster DPS player. …
Queues, Server Lag, and Raiding
No one likes queues to play Warcraft- duh, stating the obvious. I can prepare to deal with over 1 hour long queues by logging in and not letting myself AFK/DC while I am cooking dinner and spending some quality time with my better half, so I can be logged in and on time for sending …