I’ll admit, I’ve always dismissed Body and Soul as an odd talent that had little to no use in raids. Players should be able to run out of anything dangerous on their own or with the aid of a boot speed enchant if they’re slow. As such, I’ve never really considered it at all. But … [Read more of this article]
The Body and Soul Spec
Does Communication Make Us Better Risk Taker...
My raid on Sunday night gave me pause for thought. A couple of weeks ago I talked about a few aspects to help healing and raid leading at once. Last night I realised that, of those, communication is vital. Why? Because I think healers are fragile. Even that they can be a danger to themselves. … [Read more of this article]
[VIDEO] Healing Valithria Dreamwalker
My first foray into video editing! I managed to compile the footage and stitch together some audio as well. There are enough boss strategy videos out there that explain what the overall raid needs to be doing on different encounters. My focus here was to target the individual who was healing. I’m not the perfect, … [Read more of this article]
Mixing it up a bit, musings of a mad shaman
The question was thrown out there a long time ago about how to re-invent the healing wheel so to speak. Right now the way healers work is the way they have always worked in pretty much every game I can think of (There are exceptions but they are far and few between). Healing has mostly … [Read more of this article]
Blizzard – “Let healers DPS?R...
Can you hear it? There’s a gentle hum in the ether. It’s a grinding of cogs and a rattlin’ of nuts and bolts. It’s the sound of the WoW developers thinking about us healers. Yay, they’re showing us some development love! Ah, but this time, they’re thinking about getting us to DPS. Wait, wut? I’m … [Read more of this article]
Healing: Priority, Priority, and Priority
Several weeks ago, I mentioned how much I didn’t like two-healing 10 man raids. Why? Basically because if a healer goes down, there’s utmost pressure on the other healer. A raid almost never recovers. With 3 healers, if one dies, you can still pull off a kill. And today, I’m going to write about one … [Read more of this article]
14 Things that can go Wrong and will go Wron...
She is the General Vezax to Yogg-Saron. Never has such an encounter led me to curl up in my chair and cry. The margin of error is so small and so minute (my-noot?). There are so many things that can cause failures. It contains of 6 minutes of sheer endurance before you get to the … [Read more of this article]
MS Paint: A raid leaders delight
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, MS paint is one of the greatest things a raid leader can use. Not just for making fancy diagrams or editing pictures with positioning marks, but also for the hilarity factor. Often times raiding can be quite stressful and anything you can do to add … [Read more of this article]
Healing And Leading – Chalk And Cheese...
An interesting quandary materialised at WoM headquarters last week. How do you raid lead as a new healer? Say you’re that new healer. You’ve been raid leading as a hunter for a while, now your guild needs a healer. Let’s be frank. As a healer you’re spending most of your raid time with your eyes … [Read more of this article]
A movie list for Matticus
So, this isn’t a sweeping post about movies Matt is in or can quote. This is favor I’m asking you, our readers. It has come to light that there may be a series (read a lot) of movies from the 80′s and 90′s that Matt has not seen. So Here is a quick question for … [Read more of this article]