This is a guest post from WoW Comedian Wistoovern, the same mind that brought us the Automated Healing Line and WoW, What If…! So you’ve bested the agents of Deathwing, and you eagerly await your turn to destroy the citadel of fire, but what do you do in the meantime? Well, you write poetry about … [Read more of this article]

Welcome to Episode 10 of The Matticast. This week Borsk, Matt, Vik, and Brian, discuss: – The Hows and Whys of the Battle Rez. – Raid Scheduling – The Performance Oriented Raid Don’t forget you can send us your questions or topic or tweet us with the hashtag #matticast Subscribe to the show: iTunes | RSS   Podcast: Play in new window … [Read more of this article]

Welcome to Episode 6 of The Matticast. This week Matt, Borsk, Kat, and Brian discuss: How to deal with raiders not pulling their weight, from both a leader and non-leader perspective. Listener Topic: The State of Druids & Shaman or The Reason Why What Paragon Does Shouldn’t Matter. Don’t forget you can send us your questions or topic, and … [Read more of this article]

Following the recent world first heroic Sinestra kill by Paragon, players have been pouring over their logs determining their raid composition and the numbers necessary to succeed in such an encounter. One thing of note is that the raid Paragon took was assembled without any shaman of any spec or flavor. This has caused a … [Read more of this article]

This week on episode 5 of The Matticast, Lodur joins the crew as we sit down to discuss random encounter mechanics such as the drakes on Halfus, healers getting the blame, more Paragon Druid/Shaman drama, and the challenging life of a raider. [Read more of this article]

Each week on Matticast we will be featuring a topic driven by our audience. You can submit your comments on this post, or e-mail us with your thoughts. You can even send us an audio clip (mp3 format please). This is your chance to have your say on what we discuss on World of Matticus. Also don’t … [Read more of this article]

Zarhym just dropped a bomb for us raiders. With Rebirth being restored to a 10 minute timer and Soulstone creation at 15 minutes, the devs have decided to add an additional limit. You can only use 1 Rebirth or 1 Soulstone per attempt on 10 player raids and any 3 combinations for 25. The design … [Read more of this article]

Not quite sure where to go or what to read? Feeling overwhelmed? Yeah, I feel the same way too. Don’t worry though. I’ve got all the healing related stuff right here for you to brush up on. Next few weeks will be exciting with all the new systems. Druids Lissanna’s restoration healing guide (Restokin) Keeva’s … [Read more of this article]

Just wanted to post a quick reminder of the dispel changes. Every healing class has the capability to remove harmful magic effects from friendly targets. You may have to talent into it somewhere, but it is possible. In encounters going forward, any highly important buffs that need to be removed will come in the form … [Read more of this article]

In my recent Priest changes announcement post, Kivassha posed some excellent questions that I wanted to share. Comment edited for length Hi Matticus In my mind disc priests are topping up absorbing the damage on Tanks, almost like druid heals are for raid, helping with spike damage until the big chain heals (shammy) and POH … [Read more of this article]