LoDBlog

* Mana will be a bigger consideration for all healers. We aren’t trying to make healing more painful; we’re trying to make it more fun. When the cost of a spell isn’t an issue, then casting the right spell for the job is less of an issue because you might as well just use your [...]

A few counter arguments to the Anti-Meter crowd (specific to healers) From time to time we hear from someone that has been recently wronged by the use of meters.  I usually assume this person to be a casual player, since I can’t imagine a more hardcore player not embracing a system of measuring improvement and [...]

Everybody has alts (alternate characters). You may only have one lonely little bank alt or a server of max-level behemoths on both sides of the faction fence but if you play WoW you have alts. For a very long time, Tinwhisker was my only character. Leveling in vanilla WoW wasn’t terribly difficult (although it was [...]

LoD ventured into Ice Crown Citadel (ICC) Tuesday night with great anticipation.  This dungeon is supposed to be the crowning achievement of this expansion, with an end boss of great significance to the Warcraft franchise.  Already I went into this patch skeptical and upset with how the instance will be rolled out with staggered releases [...]

I recently did an interview with Paolo for his blog Penance Priest where I talked about Disc priest healing past, present, and future.  Paolo is a poster on the Plusheal.com forums and used me as an example in one of his blog posts about Disc Priest stat stacking.  I tended to disagree with his stance [...]

Welcome to the land of the bubble.  In Ulduar hard modes disc priests began to learn the value of Power Word Shield (PWS) and ToGC offers a wonderful opportunity to push the usefulness of this spell to new levels.  Disc priests can really break out of their Single Target Healer mold in this instance and often take [...]