A Druid’s Reaction to the Wild Growth / Circle of Healing Nerf

Those of you who keep up with upcoming patch notes and blue posts on the official WoW forums have probably known for quite some time–ever since before Wrath’s release in fact–that both Wild Growth and Circle of Healing were living in the shadow of the nerf bat. A 6-second cooldown has been threatened for both …

Read more

The Off Armour Problem

This is a guest post from friend and bodyguard Cassio I’m Cassio, I’ve been playing a rogue on Ner’zhul for the better part of three years so my area of expertise is something different then the writers here. I’m a damage guy. I run numbers to figure out how to squeeze another one or two …

Read more

Does Your Raiding Guild Need Premium WWS?

Many raiding guilds are aware of what WWS (WoW Web Stats) is and what a tool it can be to troubleshoot and improve member performance. In a nut shell, it takes your combat log and translates it into meaningful data (if you know how to use it). The WWS client runs locally off your computer …

Read more

Guild Goals: Deciding Between Normal Raids and Heroic Raids

A number of guilds are beginning to have their members approach level 80. Now they’re stuck at a cross roads. Do I raid 10s or 25s? Setting a raid to Normal difficulty allows only 10 players to enter. Toggling it to Heroic allows 25. First question GMs need to answer is what kind of raiding …

Read more

Is Trade Chat a Good Avenue for Guild Prospects?

I don’t get a lot of email. But the ones I do get are often insightful questions. Heh, sometimes I have to respond to the reader and tell them that an email response wouldn’t do their email justice. The next best thing is to convert their question and topic into a blog post so I …

Read more