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July 2008
- TED: You a One Buttock Player? And a Goodbye to Priestly Endeavors
- Today’s Drama Advisory Level: High
- Your Warcraft Identity vs Your Blog Identity
- 2 Things: LF Rogue and More Horde Read Matticus than Alliance
- WARNING: Beta Scams Prevalent
- A Note on Joining Guilds on a PvP Server
- Looking for PvP Elemental Shaman Videos
- An Open Letter of Support to the Bear
- Dear Matt, What Should I Look for in Joining a Guild?
June 2008
- Illi-down: Joy and Disappointment
- When MIA Happens to YOU
- WWI Priest Panel Quick Hits and Reactions
- 6 Principles of a Successful Raiding Guild: A Teaser
- Would You be Interested in an all Healer Community?
- Prayer of Healing to Affect the Raid?
- A Quick Look at the Bangle of Endless Blessings
- Two Tanking Kalecgos
- 13 Things Every WoW Player Should Know How to Do
- New Spiritual Guidance
- Matt vs Monique: Confessions from a Current ‘Core Raider
- Introducing the Drama Advisory System
- Summer Fun!
- Rez Me First!
- I Hate Unannounced MIA’s
- LF Free Agent Resto Druid
- Renew Your Interest in WoW
- Outsourcing Your Raid Instance: Pros and Cons
- This Is What Happens When Matticus Leaves Wyn In Charge…
- Bonus: More Matt and Wyn for Your Friday
- 20 + 2 Questions with Auzara (Chick GM)
- You Did WHAT?!?
- Everyone Needs More Wyn in Their Life
- Breaking the 2000 Heals Per Second Barrier
- The World is Not Ready
- How to Successfully Pick up a GM
- Addon: Instant Health is Pants Crappingly Awesome
- The Voice Behind the Pen: Matt’s Podcasts Available for Download
- Wyn’s UI - Part Four (The Macro Problem)
- Saturday Random Thoughts
- Matticus LIVE!!
- Wyn’s UI - Part Three (Boss in Action)
- Dear Matt, I Have a Huntard Problem
- 20 Questions with Breana
- Note to Officers: Your Raiders Want to Raid
- Wyn’s UI - Part Two (Trash)
- Matticus to Appear on Twisted Nether Podcast
- Wyn’s UI - Part One
- Owned by Tree Form
- An Open Letter to WoW Bloggers
- The ABC’s of Raid Healing - the Evens
- Mattie’s Got a New Pair of Pants
- WI: An Introduction to the Art of War (Part 1)
May 2008
- Epic Gemming Fail
- Woopra: Not Your Mom’s Google Analytics
- Mind Control in BG’s Forcing Opposing Players to "Lose" Out on Tokens
- Why I Always Care About The Meters
- Why I Stopped Caring About Healing Meters
- Obligatory Female-Perspective Post or Introducing Wynthea
- Going All In on the Crystal Spire of Karabor
- 4 Smart Studying Lessons to Help Get an A in Your Raid
- Be back later
- Council Down, Crosshairs on Illidan
- Speechless
- 6 Upcoming Blogs to Add to Your Reader
- Is it Time to Quit Raiding? 16 Questions to Find the Answer
- Great Debates: Your Love of Your Guild vs Your Love for Yourself
- Lessons in Relationships: Between the Raid Leader and the Raid
- The Pulse: Definitions of an Epic Encounter
- Mother Shahraz Down, Crosshairs on Illidari Council
- 20 Questions with Ratshag
- Gamespy: Wrath of the Lich King New Info and Reaction
- WoW Bloggers to Follow on Twitter
- WoW Insider: 30 If Statements Priests Adhere To
- Improv Healing on the Fly (and Anything Else for that Matter)
- Dear DPS Classes: You’re Hurting Us
- Tango Down: Reliquary of Souls
- 9 Traditional WoW Blog Posts (with Examples)
- Trying to Avoid Burnout Again
- Bloodboil Down and Notes
- 20 Things I Know at Level 70 that I Didn’t Know at Level 1
April 2008
- Guildmate Circumvents Guild Leader, Goes Straight to Blizz GM’s
- Liveblogging the Non-White Temple
- 44 Resources for the New Guild Leader
- 5 Raid Saving Lessons From Dr House
- WoW Insider: 3 Priest Specs no Raid Should Leave Shattrath Without
- 11 Excuses: How to Tell the Real Life Professions of Your Healers
- There’s a Storm in my Brain
- Open Discussion: How Do You Improve Players Without Coming out as an Arrogant Jerk?
- 10 Answers for the Clueless 2.4 Raiding Holy Priest
- 3 Reasons Why I Pick Blackened Sporefish over Golden Fish sticks
- My WoW Insider Column Debuts Today
- Finish this Sentence
- Random Thoughts for Thursday
- Clicker or Keyboarder? [New Poll]
- Secret’s Out - Matticus a Part of WoW Insider
- Brooding Over Bloodboil
- 6 Ways to Stay Inspired in Your Guild by Dr Randy Pausch
- Matt’s Mailbag: Aldor or Scryer? Hunter for Priest?
- Guild Link Love
- 20 Questions with Anna
- GM’s: Do You Give Second Chances?
- Bruce Almighty 2
- To Each Our Own
- Great news, Good news, Bad news
- Quick Hiatus
- A Response to Tobold: Another Guild Recruitment Perspective
- Cosmo Challenge: Your Responses
- Ask Matticus: Should I Leave my Guild?
- 6 Reasons Why I Haven’t Killed Archimonde Yet
- BREAKING: Introducing the iRaid
March 2008
- 8 Non-WoW Related Blogs You Should Read
- 8 Great Rules to Follow for Forming Your Pickup Raid
- Sunday Linkfest
- 5 Barriers of a Raid Healer - Part 5: Healing Against Your Will
- 20 Questions with Fimlys
- To All New Guilds Entering Hyjal
- Going Priestly in Patch 2.4: Things Adam Holisky of WoW Insider Forgot to Mention
- How to: Add WoW Icons in Your Chat
- 2.4 Quick Hits
- Now There’s a Real LFM Message
- 5 Things Jack Bauer Taught Me About Raiding
- My Content Is Your Content
- The Ego Has Landed
- Addon: Don’t Be a Friend, be a Shaman Friend!
- Weekly Digest: New Loot, Handling Raid Hangover, 20 Questions with… Matticus?
- One Step Closer to the Blogroll Answer
- 5 Barriers of a Raid Healer - Part 4: Overconfidence
- 20 Questions with Matticus
- Dealing With Raid Hangover in 3 Easy Steps
- Chamber of Guilds - Mar 29: How To Get Players to Turn Down the Suck
- Matt’s Secret for WoW Blogging Inspiration: Cosmo
- The Carnage Voice Environment
- Are we Wasting Time?
- Oh right. Warsong.
- 5 Barriers of a Raid Healer - Part 3: Tunnel Vision
- 20 Questions with Temerity-Jane
- Black Temple Fun - The Supremus Lottery Game
- Kind Words
- My All Star Healing Team
- And You Thought Your Guild Had Drama
- Extreme Makeover - Matt’s UI: Part 2 (Addons that I use)
- The Matticus Hypothesis
- Get a Bear Mount: 10 Tips on Beating the Zul’Aman Timer
- Prayers Were Answered
- Weekly Digest: Gorefiend in the Crosshairs, WPDesigner, and Criticism
- Tobold Interviews a Gold Seller
- 5 Barriers of a Raid Healer - Part 2: Criticism
- WP Bloggers: Get Into WPDesigner’s $5 Themes Club for Free
- 20 Questions with Nightravyn
- Phaelia wrote me a letter
- Extreme Makeover - Matt’s UI: Part 1
- 20 Characteristics of a Mature Guild Member
- Raiding is Hardly Hardcore
- At Least it was a Win
- Liveblogging the Raid
- 5 Barriers of a Raid Healer - Part 1: Indecision
- Hitting the Big Time
February 2008
- No Kara Key? No Worries!
- Professor Layton: My Anti-WoW
- Who is "That Guy" and How Do You Deal With Him?
- 7+2 Healing Haikus - Keep Your Tanks Alive Through the Power of Poetry
- Weekly Digest: 4 New Bosses Down, Healers Lie, and the BA Podcast
- 20 Questions with Siha
- High Warlord Naj’entus and Azgalor Taken Down
- Step by step: Dishing out Pain as a Priest
- Which Raiding Aspect of 2.4 are you Looking Forward To? [NEW POLL]
- No More WordPress for Me
- Healers Spill: White Lies we Tell Tanks All the Time
- Weekly Digest: Worst Change in 2.4, SSC Mistakes, and GQuitting Properly
- 20 Questions with Galadria
- PTR Report: Mixing Healing and DPS Items
- More Upgrades and a Plea for Recruits
- Leaving the Guild the Right Way
- Raiding Horror Stories and the Opportunity it Brings
- Top Comments this Week: DPS CC, Heal Organizer, and Fitness Tips for WoW
- Silly SSC Mistakes
- How Fast can you Kill Curator?
- Are You Kidding Me?!
- 20 Questions With Big Bear Butt
- Kaz’Rogal Knocked Out
- Poll Results: Over 50% Raid Between 5 - 15 Hours Weekly
- Healers: Simplify Your Healing Tank Targets
- Part 5: Ways to Promote Your Blog
- The Most Important Rule in Mount Hyjal
- Responding to the “I Play for Personal Advancement and Gear Argument”
- An Epic Gem Loot Problem
- Guest Post: A First Look at a Feeder Guild
- Structuring Your Casual Raiding Guild
- Weekly Digest: Kael Dead, Progression Methods, 2 Guest Posts
- 20 Questions with Kestrel
January 2008
- 6 Signs You Masturbate Too Much
- Ask Matt: Raid help?
- Things You Should Know About Blogging
- 3 Approaches to Guild Progression
- How to Get Started Blogging: Parts 1 and 3
- Gearing Your Fresh 70 Feral Druid Tank
- Guest Post: Synergies Between a Priest and a Hunter
- Finally: The Kael’Thas Death Story
- Weekly Digest: Blog Azeroth, Zul’Jin Dead, Gold Sellers on Blogs
- 20 Questions with Phaelia (Resto4Life)
- Tango Down
- Quick Tip to Mentally Calculate Stamina After Buffs
- Brazil Government Bans Counterstrike and Everquest. Could World of Warcraft Be Next?
- A Glimpse in the Mind of a Priest
- Discipline Priests Part 2: What You Said
- I Blog Azeroth. Will You?
- Bloggers: How to Deal with Gold Sellers
- Raid Juggling
- 6 Reasons Why I Will Never Pug A 25 Man Raid Again
- Beating the Mage/Rogue/Priest in 3’s arena
- New Poll: How Often Do You Raid Per Week?
- Weekly Digest: Kael Still a Douche, Hunters Saddened, and Mattcast Going Through
- What is Twitter?
- Polls are Closed and the Results Are In
- 10+3 Personalities Every Guild Leader Needs Around
- House Cleaning, Podcast Possibilities, Ret. Paladin Help
- The Chain of Progression in Raids
- Chamber of Guilds: Integration of Cliques
- Caster Weapon Swapper: An Essential Addon for Spellsurge Users
- 4 Reasons Why I Rushed to 70 and Didn’t Look Back
- Minimum Class Stat Requirements for Zul’Aman
- Tip for Shadow Priests on Kael’Thas
- New Poll: What’s Your Main?
- Reader’s Question: Should I Follow William Shatner’s footsteps?
- Discipline Priests Unveiled: What Your GM’s Won’t Tell You
- Talk About a New Look Healing Corps
- Now I can Heal in Style
- Preform Leaders Revealed: 6 Ways to Attract Players into your Organized BG Group
- Your Tank Died. Want to Know Why?
- Just For the Sake of Evidence
- Unique Equipped Doesn’t Mean 1 Per Character
- The Problem With Enchanting: Part 2 (Supply)
- 4 Tips on Priest Shackling Successfully
- How Terribly Clumsy of me…
- Setting Up Dual Ventrilos, What’s Your Client?
December 2007
- This is My Last Post
- Shadow Priests! Help!
- No One Else’s Fault But My Own
- The Problem With Enchanting: Part 1 (Demand)
- 2007 Best of World of Matticus
- A Much Needed Break
- Teen Lit on Fire By Self Acclaimed Fire Mage
- Will I Ever Get a Christmas Hat?
- WoW Struggles: The Undergeared
- Healing Tips for 25-Man Raiding: WoW Insidered, Matt Reviewed
- One Shotting Heroics: The Secret
- Carnage is LFM SSC and TK
- Why Raiding With PvP Gear Is a Bad Idea
- Be Back Soon folks, I promise
- Guest Post: Heroic Pugs are Not Heroic
- Staves vs Maces and Off hands
- How should I enchant my new staff?
- Guest Post: Musings of a Mod
- YES! I beat WoW!
- WoWosphere Weekend Warmup
- Wordpress Slowly Becoming the WoW Blogging Platform of Choice
- Guest Post: Why Do You Play WoW?
- Leaving? But You Just Got Here!
November 2007
- 5 Gaming Lessons from Matticus
- Single? Lonely? Fear Not! WoW Online Matchmaking a Reality!
- WoW Struggles: Maintaining Reputation
- Choosing the Right Meta Gem
- Matt’s Three Stars: Week Ending November 26
- Patch 2.3.2 Coming To You
- 5 Ways to Survive Alterac Valley
- Fear Ward Sucks, says Tremor Totem
- The 12 Hour Raid
- Matt’s Three Stars: Week Ending November 16
- Blame Canada. Again. Blame Blizz. Again.
- Heroic Dungeon Daily Quests
- Free T6 for Shamans
- A Tuesday Story and Trash Blows
- It’s Here
- Making Maiden Submit
- No Money No Problem
- Minimum Class Stat Requirements for Karazhan
- I hate second guessing myself
- Pain Suppression, Meditation, Arenas and blogging
- Encouraging Raiders to Sign Up and Why
- AFK Excuses
- Matt’s Three Stars: Week Ending November 2, and some reader responses
- The Ill-fated Group 2
October 2007
- Selling instances, and GH3
- How to: Manage New Players and Loot
- My First Date with Vashj
- How To: Properly Pickup Raid
- Matt’s Three Stars: Week Ending October 26
- Thanksgiving Comes Early for Carnage
- Avoiding Burnout
- 20 year old pretends to be woman to go after 16 year old high schooler in WoW
- Raiding with an Alt character
- Not… really a nightmare?
- My Nightmare as a Priest
- Solarian down
- Matt’s Three Stars: Week Ending October 19
- Tanking and Healing Prince the easy way
- About Cooldowns
- Random GM SS Of the Week
- Zul’Aman and 2.3 Healing Weapons Analyzed
- Gearing Your Fresh 70 Hunter
- PTRs are up, going in today
- A Real Last Ditch Effort Between a Druid and a Priest
- Restoration Druids in PvP
- How to: Maximize Your Raid’s Potential with Special Teams
- Happy Thanksgiving Canadian Readers, and various minor updates
- Leotheras the Blind Down
- Introducing Another Feature Writer, and Healing in PvP
- New Computer!
- Setting your raid schedule
- You heard it here first, and finals thoughts on Loot Distribution
- For cryin’ out loud, BUFF ALREADY!
- 1% wipes are not fun
- Loot Management Week: The Ultimate Solution
September 2007
- Loot Management Week: The Council of Looting
- Blizzard wastes no time on Patch 2.3
- Loot Management Week: The Concept of DKP
- Loot Management Week: Karazhan
- Getting your Leadership skill to 375
- My desk
- My Interface
- Calling the Wipe
- Stuck between a rock and a hard place, PvP Stories
- Gearing Your Fresh 70 Resto Shaman: My Recommendations
- Fun in Gruul
- Rant: Raid Selection
- Player Consumbles
- Bags!
- Stamina, an overlooked stat for Priests?
- Now Hiring: How to Recruit Players to Your Guild
- Fathomlord no longer
- +81 Healing vs Spellsurge
- Healing a Raid: A Priestly Perspective
- Some New Loot and Players You Don’t Want to Party With
- Sweet, I got my Macbook
- The Oh $#@& Reaction
- Random Link Highlight: www.wowecon.com
- Actually, I’m not quite finished yet…
- I’m Still Alive (barely)
- Campaign Creations podcast & How to Assign Raid Healers
August 2007
- Forget 28/33, try 20/41 with Circle of Healing
- Optimize Your Raiding Time
- Play of the Week
- Matt’s on Curse, and PvP Zones: The Good and the Bad
- Gearing Your Fresh 70 Holy Priest: My Recommendations
- 5 Things about WoW (post TBC) and How I Would Fix Them
- Tidewalker down, and more Shamanisms
- Shamans and You
- Priest Efficiency vs Overall Success
- Fear Wards confirmed, and why you should never swear in trade chat
- Never Allow Loot to be Wasted
- My definition of a good Priest
- To run a guild is to run a business
- iMoved, Diablo 3, and more
- Either go big or go home!
- Ouch! A Lesson in 5v5 Arena Combat
- Keys to Success
- Carnage scores shorthanded! (Lurker down)
- Things I learned from my office (qualities, degree importance, salary)
- 11 Tips to Throwing a Good Party
July 2007
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I'm Matticus and I play a Dwarf Priest. My home is in Carnage, a raiding Guild. Every week, I log 11 hours raiding on Ner'Zuhl.
Wynthea is the Troll Priest with the best Mohawk on Nazjatar. Currently, I raid 5 nights a week, and PvP occasionally. I started working toward end-game in May 2007, and my guild is currently working through Sunwell. I've tried playing other classes, but Priests are my passion; I've found our racial spells an endless source of fun and frustration. I am extremely fond of Dwarves.... especially with Ketchup.