Guide to Healing, Leading, and Progressing in WoW Raids
Every story, article, column, piece, and so forth on World of Matticus ever published.
Due to Chinese New Year festivities, I’ve had to run on a reduced schedule today. Therefore, the only piece I could get up was non WoW related! Those of you that have just started blogging and are wondering how to promote your blog won’t have to look any further!
If you ever get to experience the pain of Mount Hyjal, just make sure you follow this very important rule:
Go to the bathroom BEFORE engaging trash.
Oh, and I forgot to include this awesome screenshot:
Yes, we killed Anetheron. We’re sitting at 2/5 Hyjal.
Phat loots? You bet!
Archbishop’s Slippers
Bastion of Light
I picked me up a pair of slippers to replace my Boots of the Long Road.
I’ve got a problem that I’m hoping an players in MH or BT can address.
It mainly concerns the epic gems from those places.
How does a Guild handle epic gems like that? We were considering using DKP and bidding but all that would do is determine the order in who gets what gems. Obviously we want the epic gems to get slotted into the T6 stuff. We maximize our performance by putting epic gems and such in there. So we were debating setting up a mail order kind of deal where if a player wanted some gems, all he’d have to do is send a request in (verbal or otherwise), what gem, what cut, and what item he was going to install it on. Only 1 gem per order.
I don’t think our brass have decided on an adequate way of distribution yet. We’re trying to employ a bit of common sense as well since these ARE just gems. Several months from now, we’ll probably have more gems then we know what to do with.
Ideas? =)
We killed Kael on Sunday, yay! After the reset, we were able to kill him again which proves that we are now able to put Kael down on farm. After that, the special forces of Carnage decided to run into Mount Hyjal and help out Jaina. One wipe at around wave 7 before laying the smackdown on Rage Winterchill. Our healers had a tough time healing frostbolts and we’re currently working on methods to counteract it.
For those that might be perplexed, Winterchill fires a frostbolt at a random player during the raid which impacts them ~4500+ damage and freezes them in place. Following that, there is a DoT applied to that player for 2500 per second.
Current solutions
Here’s some advice for players who employ DKP bidding in their loot distribution.
I found this lesson out the hard way the other night. I had the option to bid on a Verdant Sphere which gives you the option of picking an epic neckpiece of your choice. During round 1, I placed a bid for 35. It was revealed the highest was 45. During round 2, I placed a bid for 55 thinking that no one would go for it that high. Unfortunately, I lost the item to a Warlock who placed a bid for 56. I guess I’ll need to do some more research and find me a neckpiece other then Lord Sanguinaar’s Claim.
On the PvP front, my Shaman has acquired the Vengeful Gladiator’s Mail Armor! That now brings me up to 2/5 S2 Resto and 3/5 Elemental. My goal is to become an Elemental Shaman in PvP. That seems to be what people want most these days. I’ve been thinking about what to socket them with. I’ll most likely lean towards the Honor gems.
I’ve decided to participate with a service called EntreCard. If you notice on the right side above my poll, there is a rectangular image. This service allows WoW bloggers to drop their business cards on to other blogs thereby getting traffic and raising awareness. As mentioned by TJ in her excellent summarization, the system is dominated by blogs that make money by telling other people how to make money blogging, there is no reason that it cannot be leveraged by the WoW blogging community. Why? Because you are able to approve or deny rights to blogs that wish to publicize on your blog. As such, I’m limiting blogs that show up under EntreCard to other WoW bloggers or gaming related blogs that have decided to use this service.
Here are the posts from this week:
This week I had a chance to sit down with Kestrel of Kestrel’s Aerie.
Past columns I have written that still hold true to this day.
Patch Notes have been strategically leaked by various Blizzard reps. Here’s a few community takes and responses to them.
Banana Shoulders – Siha is a Guild Leader and a Holy Paladin. We’ve had a lot of conversations on the AIM Blogazeroth chatroom. She’s also a mac enthusiast!
Matt likes: The Jewelcrafting Quick Reference Sheet. I even printed out a copy. Unfortunately, since I use a laser printer it’s in black and white.
I added another part to my WoW blogging bible. It concerns some introspection on your part about who you are and why you want to blog. If you’re tempted about starting a blog for WoW or even for anything else, check it out first before committing yourself.
There’s even a little bit there about me and my motives for my blog. If you’ve ever wondered why I started this blog, now you know =).