LoDBlog

Raiding in Cataclysm has definitely been interesting. Blizzard decided that they were going to take away how effective our AoE healing was but made many encounters that were dependent on major tank/raid damage. I am by no means complaining just stating the fact that you need to become more resourceful on how an encounter works [...]

Usually on a raid boss encounter everybody in your group thinks about the same stuff, generally speaking.. However more often than not, you will find people that focus on the wrong stuff, and bring down the quality of your attempts significantly. Here’s a small guide with basic information we should all aim to do on [...]

One thing that I love about World of Warcraft is that there are constant debates on all range of topics everywhere you look. Here I’ll address and give my opinion on several issues facing the moonkin community that I find interesting at the moment. This is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes [...]

It’s been quite a while since my last Drunken Retnoob blog post.  To get back into the swing of things, I think I’ll copy the format of my previous Captain Heroic’s Guide to Gearing Up a Ret Paladin, and update it for a Cataclysm version.  At this point, we’re all Captain Heroics, relying on 5 [...]

Following Meafor’s lead, I have also decided to help out my fellow Moonkins by doing a little research in pre-raiding gear for Cataclysm. I’ve listed several options for most gear slots so one can have the flexibility to play around with different stats (i.e. whether your hit capped or not) and whether you have the [...]

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 [...]

So as part of the Ladies of Destiny 5th Anniversery blog series, I’ll be writing a response to each of Matron’s posts, to let you know everything he got wrong or important details that he left out!  There actually wasn’t a whole lot going on in that first year before we started running Molten Core [...]

LoD celebrated our 5th birthday on Feb 22nd 2010.  As part of the celebration I’d like to take a trip down memory lane and go year by year, recounting the trials and tribulations, lessons and achievements, wins and losses, and try to capture what has made this guild home for so many during the years.  [...]

The Problem – We all know how it goes in raid guilds.  When you’re raiding and things are dying people are happy.  When you’re not raiding and when things aren’t dying people are unhappy.  It’s basically that simple.  There are many different flavors of drama, but most of all of gets solved, or ignored, if raids [...]

A recurring theme on WoW forums that I’ve seen since the days of Molten Core, is uninformed raiders complaining about Damage Meter mods and how they hurt the raid.  The truth is that damage meters are a tool, much like a hammer.  When used properly, a hammer can help you build some very cool stuff [...]