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A tale of two twonks

Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in Dungeons, Healing, Rants | 5 Comments »

It's been nearly a month. Random dungeons are still the flavour of the month. And, for the most part, they're highly enjoyable. I've mostly stopped running random dungeons with Namthe now, except once daily to get my emblems of Frost. On ...

Namthe’s catalogue of fail, Druziraa’s catalogue of success

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in General, Healing, Rants | 2 Comments »

In pugging, there seem to be two different archetypes of group - really good, and really bad. In my quest over the past few days to isolate the still-elusive Black Heart on Namthe, and to find lots of gear upgrades ...

Be careful what you wish for

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Healing | 4 Comments »

As has been the custom for a while now, I've beeen spending the occasional hour on my druid healing heroics, doing the odd 10-man Naxx and so on. I noticed something, though - once I got above about 1500 spell ...

Tunnel Vision

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Healing | No Comments »

One of the first things that I was good at, way back in my pre-warrior days, was learning not to stand in fire. Or poison clouds. Or any other sort of AoE effect that did Bad Things to my health. ...

The Importance of Being Earnest

Sunday, June 14th, 2009 Posted in Healing | No Comments »

The World of Warcraft is many-faceted. It's easy to forget what the world is like outside the confines of my raiding guild - that there are many players of varied skills and social abilities. And, as I took my first steps ...

Joining the Clique

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, General, Healing | 2 Comments »

Despite its title, this isn't just a post about healing. Tanks, don't skip this one over... There comes a point in every character's leveling career whereby instance levelling begins to get ever-more difficult. Not because the instances are too hard (they ...

A Professional Professional?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in General, Healing | 1 Comment »

For the first time in approximately forever, I find myself missing a raid because I had to stay in the office late. And while I'm disappointed with that (especially as my girlfriend is sitting close by healing on that self-same ...

Timber!

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Dungeons, Healing | 4 Comments »

So, what are my initial thoughts on healing as a resto druid? Having spent some time yesterday, as promised, healing my way through instances rather than facing the quest grind, I specced tree and put on my very best (read: ...