A Healing Druid’s Naxx-25 Shopping List

As many of you longtime readers are now aware, I have joined forces with Matticus and Conquest for Wrath of the Lich King. Matt is a hard taskmaster–even before we started raiding, he gave us homework! The nerve! However, as a veteran of too many years in graduate school, I LOVE homework. Here is my …

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Post Raid Reflections, Anxiety, and Member “Poaching”

Bear with me. This post isn’t about anything empirical. It’s not a list post. It’s not an informative post. I’ll even be happy if it draws 0 comments. I’m a little overwhelmed at the moment and it’s an odd sensation. I’m usually in control of myself during raids. But before I continue, I think I …

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Matt’s Monday Cop Out

Not really much of a mammoth sized post today. Today’s a big day for me personally. I’ve led a few raids myself but it was on an interim basis and with people that knew the strategies and their roles. This is going to be the first real raid I lead today. There’s a lot of …

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Unreasonable Expectations?

Conquest took its first ever raid foray into Naxx. We didn’t have enough for a full 25 yet (that comes on Monday). I took 10 players and we went into Naxx for the first time. Many of them have not seen the post Wrath Naxx before and some were delightfully surprised at the familiarity that …

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The Difference Between Recruiting On Server and Off Server

Mages. They used to be a dime a dozen. Our second highest level Mage is Stop (clocking in at a health level 4!) There’s generally two places to recruit players from: On server: This is the typical route most guilds will go through. Off server: A little tougher and a little rarer. Players that transfer …

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