A Healer’s Most Important Skill

  It amazes me to no end how many healers still have trouble grasping this concept. It’s not so much about covering as many people as possible. Nor is it about conserving your mana and knowing when to regenerate. Moving around and avoiding fires is a good skill but not quite the most important skill. …

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Matt Answers Your Questions

As surprising as this may sound, I don’t often get a lot of email. Most of them can be easily answered with a few lines and a link. Some of them require much more detailed responses and get turned into posts. The emails that deserve more than a few lines and don’t require posts, I’ll …

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Flame Leviathan Thoughts

Yeah there’s going to be a buttload of spoilers here. You probably don’t want to read any further than this. Tuesday afternoon, Blizzard announced the new PTR boss testing schedules for the week. Flame Leviathan (Normal) would be open from 4 PM onwards. But it looks like someone was trigger happy and they decided to …

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33 Raid Healing UIs

As healers, we are all unified by our singular dedication to our craft: Restoring life. But this is where our similarities end. Some of us like to click. Others rely on keys. Players prefer being overloaded with information. Minimalists prefer more “white space”. From Plusheal, I’ve gathered a collection of diverse raiding UIs that healers …

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Matt’s Hodir Impressions

First, check out this awesome video by Siha. Some great teaser footage regarding the Hodir encounter. You can see me around the 22 second mark. I’m running away to the bottom right corner of the screen. Great choice of music, to boot! To all the players who said Blizzard didn’t know how to create challenging …

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