Comments on: Reader Survey – How Can we Improve Our Blog?

By: Mort

Mort — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:12:46 +0000

Frankly, I’d like more posts like this one. We give you comments, questions, concerns. You give us your feedback. I’ve been reading your posts for over a year now. I keep coming back because your blog is insightful, amusing and makes me think about all sides of a situation. This is especially true of your guild topics. A great job is done at being well-rounded, viewing all sides of the story, and keeping it entertaining. Here’s a topic for ya (if it wasn’t already done): Why does our guild have 500 members yet we can barely fish out 25 to raid?

As mentioned above, I would also like more narrated video’s from a healing perspective. Is there a better place to stand? Do I have to be healing on the go? What kind of spells are you casting and why for each encounter? Who are you healing? Reading it is one thing. Seeing it is completely different. It would help all us “visual” learners stop rolling our faces over our keyboards because we just don’t get it!

Keep the greatness flowing!

By: FPS

FPS — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:15:34 +0000

Start a dps column!

By: Volanta

Volanta — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:00:56 +0000

Well, I love the guild leadership posts–especially the ones that deal with a conflict situation and how it is managed. I read the healing columns for tips although I am not such an avid raider that I need specific fight tips. Plus I could get those elsewhere.

By: Nymai

Nymai — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:24:34 +0000

I also agree with the first poster; I read WoW blogs in order to further my knowlege of a tacitcs/strategies/theorycrafting. While guild leadership is important to some, I feel there has been a greater presence of those types of posts lately and not nearly as much ‘here’s how I heal X encounter’.

I lurk on almost specifically healing blogs for guidance from all the healing classes. Lately (the last 3 months or so) I have felt that WoM has lacked in this sort of guidance. My main is a shammy healer and I find it difficult to find quality posts on shammy-specific strategies and guidance for those of us looking to brush up on our uber healing reputation. More Lodur please!

As far as suggestions for additional columns, I feel that WoM has become tailored more towards people who have been around a long time. Which is great, I love that too as a person who’s been around for a few years at least. But it seems there’s always too few healers, and too few competant healers as well. Perhaps a column around addressing people who are new to healing or want to roll a new healer. There are so many ‘tricks’ to healing different kinds of tanks and instances. How about some ‘how to heal classic dungeons’ for the newbies in our glorious ranks? Help inspire new healers too.

By: Sound

Sound — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:35:30 +0000

More Druid stuff, please! Syd seems to be AFK as of late and it’s sad to me to never see any new posts related to our leafy goodness. There is a pretty powerful force of resto druid blogger’s out there. Amp up the Druid posts and it might be this blog we’re linking to next!
.-= Sound´s last blog ..Six months of Doom, six months of Sound. =-.

By: Alec Bruce

Alec Bruce — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:56:42 +0000

Your guys are all awesome. Obviously.
But sometimes I dont know if its a WoW blog, a MMO healing blog, or an opportunity for you guys to plug your various other projects…
A lot of the time it’s interesting, knowing more about who’s blogging and what you’re up to, WoW-wise or otherwise, is rarely not cool.
The post rate is very cool also, I always look forward to seeing a WoM mail in my inbox, its just sometimes I’m a bit like ‘This isnt really a WoM post..’.
Maybe i’m being too critical, I find the vast majority of your content interesting and relevant, especially from a healing perspective.
Yes to your views on boss tactics by the way
Keep up the good work, just remember how you come across is always going to be different in-game than through an email
Peace

By: Matticus

Matticus — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:02:38 +0000

@Orcstar: I feel ya on that one. I explore links that other bloggers link too. I intentionally put a cap on the amount of sites I link to. THere’s usually a time limit of sites on my blog roll that if they’re not updated within a certain amount of weeks, I’ll remove it and put something else in there instead. It’s about time the links get reviewed. Thanks for your suggestion and reminder!

By: Matticus

Matticus — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:36:47 +0000

@Larísa: Syd’s uh… a little busy at the moment. She’s about to gain the title of Mrs. Sydera.

By: Halora

Halora — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:42:58 +0000

There’s usually a couple of hot debates every week on the forums. There’s a good start point as to what your readers are interested in at any given time.

This last weeks I can remember a couple of topics on the priest sub-forums: Hybrid or non cookie cutter specs, Disc and holy dual specs, how to make a compatible gear set?, Gearing for mana or throughput? How haste affects your healing, etc.

By: Larísa

Larísa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:45:18 +0000

Playing a non-healer class I’m somewhat of an odd bird in this company. Probably my opinions aren’t all that interesting, but since I’m a longtime loyal reader I guess it means something.

I read Matticus for the general, opinion posts and for your personal sharing of your successes and frustrations as a guild leader. It’s interesting to follow the ups and downs of Conquest. I’m completeley uninterested in strategy guides for certain bosses. There are so many other sources for strategy, it’s a kind of content that I could as well look up at websites. I prefer posts that are commenting rather than informing if you get the difference.

I would like to see much much more of Sydera. She’s a brilliant writer. Her post about female stereotypes was one of the best I’ve read. Spank her, bribe her, do whatever you can to make her more active.
.-= Larísa´s last blog ..How limited attempts risk to make raiding more dull =-.