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Holy Priest PVE So if Blizzard had decided that ONLY inscriptionists could create Dust of Disappearance they would make a fortune from me on our server.  Each night before a raid I buy a stack of 20 to make sure I do not run out due to the fact that I reglyph numerous times throughout [...]

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 [...]

With the upcoming release of patch 4.0.6 there’s been a lot of changes in regards to gameplay, mechanics and balance both on both PvE and PvP scenarios. For this blog I’ll focus on the tanking changes as well as mention some basic tips to help out players who are not as familiar with the class [...]

We still have a 2 week wait until Cataclysm goes live. And so it is time to keep up the blogging, this time we’ll talk about one of the most controversial changes implemented on this expansion: Healing. For over two years, you could say we got spoiled with a really bad healing model. For the [...]

* 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 [...]