written by Rebella on June 8th, 2010 12:15
At the start of last month I posted that my laptop was back in for repairs and that was only the start of a lot of problems. I got the laptop back a week later and it hadn’t been fixed so I sent it back in for repairs, again. After another week and a bit had passed I got it back again. I didn’t really want to believe what I saw. They had fixed the fan, and broken the quick launch buttons in the process. Needless to say it was getting quite annoying and I went back to the shop to complain about the work of their repair place.
Thankfully they understood that this was getting ridiculous and put in a request with the manufacturer that I should be able to cancel the initial purchase and get my money back. After yet another week’s worth of waiting it came through. I got a full refund on my laptop. Wow. Despite all the hassle and waiting it turned out better than I could have hoped for in the end. Thumbs up to the shop as it’s not their fault the manufacturer licensed repair shop kept messing me about. The customer support I got was very good at least.
It was time to get a new laptop. Of course the one I wanted was not in stock so I had to wait yet a bit longer until I had a laptop I could use. What I now have is a lot better and can run WoW on significantly higher settings, which is great. Although in the midst of all this I am now getting ready to head over to the UK again for a while so there won’t be any updates here until I’ve gotten settled in there.
By the end of next week I hope to have a post or two ready! It’s time for more guides to healing in ICC and I’ll be working on those next week!
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written by Rebella on May 20th, 2010 13:36
Most classes find themselves healing differently if they are assigned to tank healing than if they were put on raid healing duty. There are several reasons for this, one is obviously mana management while another is healing output and efficiency. Once again this post will focus mostly on a 10 man scenario where it’s beneficial to know how to heal both the tanks and the raid, however, each section will touch upon the healing rotations you might favour in 25 man where the healing assignments are stricter.
This is meant to help understand how your co-healer works, as well as help those new to healing to get a basic understanding how their class works in regards to tank and raid healing. The abilities most commonly used by each classes have been explained in the introduction to each class, so you can use those as a reference point should you need it: discipline priest, holy priest, restoration druid, restoration shaman and holy paladin.
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Tags: disc, druid, healing, holy, opinion, paladin, priest, raid, shaman, spells
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written by Sylvaine on May 14th, 2010 13:07
Addons are useful additions to the default World of Warcraft UI that assist gameplay. Addons come in all shapes and sizes from the large boss mod type packages to the tiny addons that help you align your UI elements. This post will focus on the ones useful for healing classes, with some explanation of what each one does.
First of all, you don’t need any addons to be a good healer. I’ve played with people who play with the default UI and have kept up with people with completely customised UIs. That said, healing addons can make your time healing less frustrating by making mundane actions like buffing semi-automated or at the very least, make it easier to see situations that require your attention.
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Tags: addon, guide, healing, opinion
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written by Rebella on May 7th, 2010 11:52
Some days you play wow you feel surrounded by idiots in every PuG you go to and you ask yourself, why am I bothering? Or you’ve had a crap day and wonder if it’s even worth logging on. If you only get annoyed, end up not enjoying it when playing, what is it that keeps you coming back? It could be addiction, a lot of people suffer from it, unfortunately. It could be the lack of something else to do and the will to do something about it or it could be that you enjoy seeing yourself as better than others and need the confidence boost it might give you. There are plenty of reasons.
I personally play this game for a different reason: the people I play with who makes the experience so much better. I’ve gotten some good friends in the game, some of them I knew before I ventured into the world that is computer games and some of them I’ve gotten to know via the game. I think what happened this week proves as a good example why it’s the people that make it worth while.
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Tags: achievement, event, friends, help, lag, laptop
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written by Rebella on April 23rd, 2010 17:16
You can do more than just get your shiny gear and that is what will be discussed here. Gemming and enchanting it to the best of your ability will make the gear even better and up your stats even more. Then you can use self buffs such as food and elixirs or a flask prior to an encounter to further maximise your stats. If you are particular about your stats and want an ever further boost, particularly useful in a progression oriented guilds, you could choose professions which would benefit you most stats wise. Finally I will touch upon glyph swapping and how that can benefit you for certain encounters.
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Tags: buff, druid, enchanting, gear, gem, glyphs, healing, paladin, priest, profession, shaman
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written by Rebella on April 10th, 2010 09:52
I wasn’t really going to write anything about these previews, simply because what I’ve seen so far seems reasonable and the characters I play have had a couple of things I’ve been excited about and not really anything I’m particularly disappointed. The plan was to add an overall view towards the end of my healing series. Then they added the druid preview, the one I care the most about…
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Tags: cataclysm, druid, healing
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written by Rebella on April 8th, 2010 11:56
Jumping straight into high end raiding at level 80 might not be a good idea. First of all you are likely get laughed at trying to get into a raid the day you reach level 80 and have a mix of blue and green quality gear. Secondly you are likely to not have experience anywhere near what would be required for raid healing, but that is for another chapter of these series. Let’s concentrate on gearing up and getting ready first. There are crafted gear, emblem gear and instance drops available which are all fairly easily obtainable and should get you geared quickly. Let’s have a closer look at what is available then. But first let’s make sure our spec and abilities are good to go.
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Tags: craft, emblems, gear, healing, loot, spec
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written by Rebella on April 5th, 2010 21:26
So I’m plodding around on a lower level alt doing some quests and Sylvaine there offers to take my alt through Magister’s Terrace, which happens to be one of my favourite instances. Who would say no to some fun in a favourite instance? Well, I think I might have had I predicted the outcome…
Back in December I made a very happy post that I’d finally gotten my Swift White Hawkstrider after months of grinding for it. Before we went in I jokingly said that mount better not drop. Anybody want to guess what happened in the Magister’s Terrace run I had earlier? Yup, the mount dropped, on my baby alt’s first trip to the heroic version of the dungeon. I couldn’t believe it. After an epic roll of 7 it appeared in my bags mocking me. Thankfully, after 15 minutes of intense persuasion, Sylvaine accepted his nice new shiny mount. Grats to him. But the irony, oh the irony… sigh…
Tags: luck, mount
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written by Rebella on April 3rd, 2010 14:16
Unfortunately, if you want to heal at level 80 you have to get to that level first which can be a long and daunting process. Thankfully there have been tweaks and additions in recent patches which will help speed up the levelling. This post will look into what spec to level as once you have chosen the class you prefer, then there will be some comments about gear before it’s finished off with some tips on having fun while levelling. However, the very first thing you need to do is decide what class you want to level.
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Tags: choices, druid, heal, level, opinion, paladin, priest, shaman
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written by Sylvaine on March 28th, 2010 13:57
This is a post I thought I’d write as an insight into feral druid tanking. My main, Sylvaine, is a level 80 feral druid tank. I’ve been tanking since early-mid Burning Crusade, tanking everything up to but not including Sunwell Peninsula. Currently I am not in a raiding guild, preferring to raid current content with friends and PUGs due to not being able to commit to full time raiding. Because of this, some of what I will write will only be based on what I’ve read from various sources and researched.
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Tags: druid, feral, opinion, tank
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