9 Traditional WoW Blog Posts (with Examples)

This post is more catered towards my fellow WoW blogging colleagues who suffer from "Lack-of-Idea" syndrome. Spice up your blogging! Be interesting!

The Gear List Post

Everyone wants to know what kind of gear to strive for. But people are too inherently lazy to do the research themselves. Be a good Samaritan and create a list! More often then not, you already have a general idea of what to go for so you may as well share it. When you’re creating your list, try to apply it for something (IE, what is this list going to help me do?). I wrote my Holy Priest gearlist in mind as the easiest and cost effective (in terms of time) gear to acquire to punt you into Karazhan as soon as possible.

Examples:
Part Time DruidFresh 70 Resto Druid: Gear Cheat Sheet
World of MatticusGearing Your 70 Holy Priest: My Recommendations

The Rant Post

It’s no secret that blogs are an excellent platform in getting stuff off their chest. Used correctly, it can. The trick is to do it without swearing or insulting (much). A calmly thought out and delivered rant will have a much more powerful effect then a rant that’s literally full of air and no substance. If you’re going to rant about something, drive the point home. Be obvious about why it sucks. Feed your anger and unleash it!

Examples:
Resto4LifeBornakk: Druids Not to be "Big Green Blogs"
Lady JessNo Desire to Play… Why?

The Link Love Post

For every blog that goes down, new blogs spring up. It’s impossible to keep track of them all. In fact, I daresay there are more blogs out there then grains of sand in the Sahara desert. Most of my blog fishing comes from a critical examination of comments, inbound links, and other blogs. A big thank you to you, the curious and exploratory blogger, for finding new blogs! The typical link love post involves a (surprise surprise) link to said new blog as well as a post that they like. In case you’ve stumbled upon a plethora of kick-ass blogs, you can go for the list approach.

Bonus points if you can do it in a sonnet.

Examples:
Kestrel’s AerieBlogroll Addition: Warcraft and Other Hooha (Batgrl)
Resto4lifeCommunity Spotlight: April 24

The Strategy Guide Post

Guide posts are excellent bread and butter references. The guide can be anything from killing a boss, completing a certain quest, or levelling a profession. Do a quick look around to see what’s covered. If your idea is already taken, try to improve upon the one that you read or approach it from a different perspective.

Examples:
Too Many AnnasResto Shaman vs. Tidewalker – A Healing Guide
Banana ShouldersA Guide to Daily Quests V: Shattered Sun

The Addon Review Post

Different UI’s suit different people. Not everyone has the time or the energy to sift through entire addon databases to find out what’s cool and what’s not. The popularity of addons spread via word of mouth. Why not contribute to it?

Examples:
Girl Meets WoW6 Mods and Macros to Help You Win in Battlegrounds
Healer LFG – Essential Addons

The Question and Answer Post

Every now and then, bloggers receive an email asking for help or for their opinion on a topic. Go ahead and feature a reader email of the week or two, then open it up for your readers to chime in.

Examples:
Blessing of KingsAsk Coriel: Pursuit of Justice for a Tank?

The General List Post

Lists are fun to do and they can be used for any topic. A majority of my posts are lists because I have fun writing them. Topics could be anything from 35 Ways to Skin a Tauren to 47 Really Shiny Epics or 14 Up and Coming Bloggers to Watch.

Examples:
Healer LFG – 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Raid
Part Time DruidResto Druid: 5 Things You Should Know

The Diary Post

This is the most common type of post which details what the blogger has done recently on WoW. Ranges anywhere from guild affairs to the orgasmic "We Killed This Boss" post.

Examples:
Honor’s Code – Finish Up the Week
Mama Druid – Selenyx Has Been Busy

The How-to Post

These posts are designed to help walk people through the process of doing something. They’re often fairly detailed and have cool step-by-step screenshots of the different stages of your goal.

Examples:
Petaholics AnonymousSyncing Your WoW Stuff Across Multiple Computers
Pugnacious PriestHow to Make a Quick and Dirty Guild website Banner

Obviously, this is by no means an exhaustive list. Feel free to add your own!

Bloodboil Down and Notes

 

Bloodboil got taken down last night with relative ease on the second shot.

Loot

Staff of Immaculate Recovery – I passed the staff off to a different Priest. I only wish that he were able to play more often. But I’m sure the staff will drop again. When Archimonde dropped his, I got mine the week after we killed him again.

Shroud of Forgiveness – Nice cape for me.

Notes

  • 3 Holy Priests: One in each Bloodboil group spamming Rank 3 Prayer of Healing. At our level, it heals for about 1800 and the bloodboil damage is about 600+ /tick.
  • Inner Fire helps a lot.
  • Stack an extra healer in the 3rd bloodboil group as that group will have 2 seconds of bloodboil during the Fel Rage phase. This frees them up to help with the Fel Raged player.
  • Chain potting is a must.
  • 4 Paladins were healing the tanks.

Sunday’s going to be progression night. 6 hours of wiping on Reliquary of Souls. I’m going to see how we do and take some notes.

There’s a Storm in my Brain

As a blogger, there are going to be days when you hit a rut. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to get any ideas going and you sit there staring at a blank screen (or notepad in my case).

Luckily for you wonderful readers, I don’t succumb to such a dry spell very often. In fact, I suffer from having too many ideas. I’ve been looking around for a virtual whiteboard for a long time. Thanks to Jon, the master of the Bronze Kettle, I’ve found one!

I’m always open to ideas and thinking outside the box. The only way to thrive in the world of blogging is to continue to innovate and be creative. I don’t believe in a lack of good ideas. I believe in a lack of motivation.

But if you’re curious as to what I have planned, take a gander at my whiteboard. I usually start with a title first and expand from there. I often don’t write diary posts because I think it’s boring and I would not want to subject anyone to that. My goal is to write something where after you read every post there is something you can take away from it. Maybe it’s a lesson, or a tip, or an idea, I don’t know. If I’m giving something away for free, it may as well be of use to someone.

To all the people that have said nice things about me and my blog, remember that I’m not a saint. I’m just an ordinary priest with more ideas then time.

But you can thank me with repeat visits and spreading my blog ;).

My WoW Insider Column Debuts Today

And here it is. I got home three hours after it went live, and there’s a plethora of comments in my email. I’m too scared to read them. 13 Do’s and Don’ts of Raiding Holy Priests, GO! I already have an idea of what to write next week, but I’ve been slotted in for their Sundays from what I see here.

I’m almost too scared to read said comments. But that’s okay! Because feedback is good!

Random Thoughts for Thursday

  • Guild bank infiltrated. 80 hearts taken and many epic gems lost
  • Our bank was not the only one
  • Mages need another rank of conjured water
  • 1 healer means the difference between doing Black Temple or Mount Hyjal
  • Warlocks have something which allows them to increase healing done on them by some percentage
  • The feeling of dread is universal be it an exam the next day or a deadline to face
  • My Spiritual Guidance column is almost done and will be ready over the course of the weekend
  • I need to find more free stock photo websites
  • Freedom happens after 6 PM
  • Learning is not about regurgitating what is taught to you, it is about applying what you learn
  • Profs make more sense when you speak to them one on one than in lecture
  • How did Kael’s forces take over Quel’Danas?
  • Raiding on an empty stomach is not fun
  • Running Hyjal with 6.5 healers with the .5 being a Prot Paladin
  • Bocelli helps a lot with stress relief
  • Contemplating writing another RP post on a slightly larger scale
  • Dirty D is liveblogging tonight’s raid. Go check it out!