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The Light and How to Swing It: Tips to become an all-star healer

Every Sunday, Chase Christian of The Light and How to Swing It invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. This week, we examine what separates the good paladins from the great paladins, and how to get yourself into the second category. Over the course of the past week, I’ve been in Stratholme, power-leveling a few lowbies in my guild.


WoW Lore and Rubber Bands

In which Anna makes an analogy to describe WoW Lore. There’s a lot of information out there about WoW Lore


Leveling a DK: An Introduction to Power Leveling Concepts

Heya guys!! So I recently made a post illustrating the core concepts and decisions you need to approach when leveling a DK. And that in turn has generated some interest in the Power Leveling aspect of DK’s


Drama Mamas: Suicide threats

Dodge the drama and become that player everyone wants in their group with the Drama Mamas . Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are real-life mamas and experienced WoW players — and j ust as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of checkout lane next to the candy, neither do we want you to become known as That Guy on your server


Leveling a DK: An Introduction to basic concepts.

Heya guys!! So one of the biggest things about leveling any toon in WoW is “What spec do I use?” Believe it or not, it is one of the most common questions out there. So lets dip into this question briefly?


Global Agenda 1.2 is Live

Prime those weapons because GA 1.2 is live and there are a number of new features added with this latest patch from Hi-Res Studios. New items and features in this patch include: 4v4 ARENA QUEUE: The 4v4 Arena Queue is for pre-made teams of four players, and offers two new maps built specifically for 4v4 combat


Social Differences in Raiding

The following occurred as I was talking with a friend about raiding and how there’s a difficult balance between doing necessary content and content people want to do. It’s a balance of needs, wants and social structure that’s much different than just playing the game by yourself. (1:41:43 AM) Paradox : It’s a game.


The Light and How to Swing It: Healing Valithria Dreamwalker

Every Sunday, Chase Christian of The Light and How to Swing It invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization.


Patch 3.3.3 PTR: Ruby Sanctum and Echo Isles music

Celestial steeds and more toys aren’t the only new things coming in patch 3.3.3! With the new content also comes a variety of new music. Accompanying the trolls in Operation Echo Isles will be an epic score tailored to the event, whether the calm before combat, the thick of the battle, or the climax of the fight, the music will get you in the mood for the voodoo


Totem Talk: Leveling as restoration

Want to be a sultan of swing healing? A champion of Chain Heal? Totem Talk : Restoration will show you how.


Off the beaten path

Tobold the tauren shaman is up to level 10, and now has 64 gold.


Breakfast Topic: What won’t you do?

I just plain won’t kill critters. It’s a bit of a superstition that I developed after a beloved pet (a rabbit) died in real life shortly after I’d killed a rabbit in game.


03/04 In-Game Fixes, Blue posts

Recent In-Game Fixes – March 2010 – 3/4 Some of these changes have been around for a while apparently, during the latest PTR update I saw Blood Nova getting a 16 sec cooldown and the duration of Emerald Vigor was increased from 35 to 40 seconds. Instability ’s duration has been reduced from 8 to 5 seconds


I think the RNG is trying to tell me something

A short story, in three acts. Act 1: When I first leveled Annorah, the RNG tried to tell me something. I’d leveled her as elemental, and was happily an elemental shaman, until one day in Karazhan I realized I had a full mail healing kit and 3/4 of an enhancement set – both of which were better than my elemental gear.


Know Your Lore: The Blue Dragonflight

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe.


Mastery bonus in Cataclysm to encourage proper gear choices

I’m sure you’ve heard this one before. Cloth gear drops in an instance, and the leather or mail wearing caster rolls Need on the item because, “it’s an upgrade”


Takes One To Know One

When you’re hitting up the Dungeon Finder and running through instances with friends and strangers alike, you sometimes come across a player who…


Breakfast Topic: Would you like some heroic with your vanilla instances?

Exciting times! On the latest Twitter Dev Chat , a fun little inquiry for old 5-mans came up: do you think we’ll get to see older instances given the heroic makeover? It’s already been confirmed that both Shadowfang Keep and Deadmines will be made heroic, mostly for their own story purposes.


PvP A Blizzard Employee

It seems that doing instances with random blues on the last PTR was so popular that Blizzard has decided to do a similar thing with this PTR! Ujumqin…


#BlizzChat Developer Chat on Twitter 2/26

This news post will be updated constantly with new questions and answers #BlizzChat Developer Chat on Twitter 2/26 Quote from: Bornakk ( Source ) Our next developer chat on Twitter is about to begin! Be sure to sign up for a Twitter account at https://twitter.com/signup and follow account @Warcraft in order to participate! Please be sure to include the hashtag #BlizzChat when submitting your questions on Twitter so that we can find it. Due to the limitations of providing complete answers within Twitter, all answers will be posted on the forums in this thread, with a link to the answers provided through Twitter. Classes Q

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