In the spirit of the blogger’s challenge I laid out last Saturday, I felt it was only fair to come up with a post of a similar theme. I issued a question to the Twitterati asking them this: On what grounds have you had to turn away guild apps? Of the multiple responses I received, … [Read more of this article]
6 Ways to Reject a Guild App Without Soundin...
Girls Hate Chuck Norris: On Women and Raidin...
This article, including the title, is inspired by some of the comments on yesterday’s post from Matticus about gauging the success of raiding guilds. I thought that the issue of women and raiding, which appears on the original checklist, deserved its own post. However, I am quite aware that every time a blogger makes a … [Read more of this article]
Guardian Spirit Works on Kel’Thuzad
Derevka from Tales of a Priest asked me to issue a World of Matticus all points bulletin: 8:50 PM Derevka: word to the wise, Kelthuzzad CAN be buffed with Guardian Spirit while you are MC’d. We had 10 seconds of “OMG DONT KILL HIM!” For those of you unaware, if you kill a subject with … [Read more of this article]
8 Questions Your Guild Should Ask Itself
I have to share this. I saw an excellent post on Plusheal asking for advice about a fresh and new guild trying to find it’s legs (actually it was about how to democratically disagree, but that’s a topic for another time). One of the Plusheal acolytes, Caveat, replied with a great list of questions to … [Read more of this article]
Case Study: How Conquest’s Healers Wer...
On Saturday, I wrote a brief highlight on how not to recruit healers. The actual post was written by Ess. Reader Spinks posted a comment wondering how I recruited my healers. In truth, recruiting healers involved higher standards and scrutiny. This was only because I’m way more critical with healing. It’s difficult to explain. Maybe … [Read more of this article]
20 Answers From Matt
But for those of you that do, head over to Brigwyn’s blog. If I time it correctly, the interview should be posted (he told me 3 AM PST). I managed to sneak some time in to answer a few questions he had about myself and my work. This link should work. Here’s a preview: There … [Read more of this article]
Recruiting Healers is Like Picking Up Women ...
I don’t get as much time to check out my feedreader as much as I like. But every once in a while, when I have time, I’ll pop open Google Reader. Sometimes I’ll see a post title that catches my eye which makes me zero in on it. Ess wrote an eyebrow raising post about … [Read more of this article]
Video: Conquest’s OS3D Kill
Conquest- Three Drake – Funny bloopers R us A big round of applause to cameraman Dannamoth for capturing our first OS3D kill two weeks ago and getting it on tape. This is the first time I’ve watched this fight from a different perspective. As the Disc Priest, I usually keep my eye toward Sartharion and … [Read more of this article]
A Druid’s Response to the Upcoming Cha...
It has been a hard week to be a druid, dear friends. Not only did restoration druids miss out on any significant buffs in the most recently announced draft of class changes, but we’ve also been faced with an upcoming nerf to mana regeneration that stands to affect us more than any other class. As … [Read more of this article]
Resto Shaman: Best in Slot
Lodur here again, this time I’d like to talk a bit about the Restoration Shaman’s Best in Slot items. Syd’s post from the other day got me thinking that it would be good to toss this up for everyone to peruse. For those of you who don’t visit Plusheal often or at all there … [Read more of this article]
