News From the Front

A few quick things going on and some upcoming topics:

• Raids for my guld start tomorrow, I'll finally be able to give some firsthand reports on Cata raids.
• I'm trying out a new Telluric Currents spec. I'll let you know how it goes.
• I leveld my poor neglected hunter to 81 and worked on his Engi/Skinng
• Engineering is awesome... like really awesome... Loot-A-Rang anyone?
• The stomach flu is not fun.

I really have high hopes for the new Telluric currents spec. I'll be trying out a full TC spec and a basic resto spec with TC thrown in. I'll be posting my thoughts on hunters after ol Itad gets to 85. I'm reallying enjoying the leveling so far. Raid reports should be coming in regularly now. We go for Magmaw tomorrow and have high hopes for success.

Shammy Healing Love

While dealing with a virulent plague running through my fever wracked body I realized that I hadn't posted about the buffs we got so here goes:

Hooray! We get some hotfix love. The big news was Purification went from a 10% buff to a 25% buff. That's tasty. The not so big news is that blizz acknowledged that our cooldowns pretty much suck and need some work. So what cooldowns do we need?

I'd like to see them give Spirit Link a go. It was such a cool beta concept and it might even make up for the lackluster Spirit Walker's Grace. Maybe some kind of healing typhoon would be in order a big "oh snap" button to bathe the raid in watery goodness.

Shammy Heroic Healin'

""See this Finger?"
"Sir no Sir"
"That's right! Damn trogg bit it off in Grim Batol!"

Hit the break for some heroic healing advice from a battle scarred and bloody resto shaman.

Patch 4.0.6 and the Resto Shaman

Some things changed for us in this last patch so here's a quick breakdown of what affects us and why it matters.

Help Me Help You!

Having run a resto shaman for several years now I thought I'd write a little article about things that help us to help you. Each healer in wow is different and there are a few things you can do to help us keep your butt alive.

Hints to Help your Healer Heart you!

Your healers have a tough and thankless job. They stand in the back, have strokes over spike damage and try to hold back their nausea when the oom train comes a callin' all so you can get the glory of killing something. Be grateful whelps! Well okay maybe I went a bit far there but there are a few things you can do to make your healer's life easier and keep them from ragequitting.

Kick the Healer!

It's time for my first real post about WoW and it's going to be a bit of a rant. Many of us know the pains of healing. Since WoW's inception healing has been a rather boring, thankless job. I can't really speak for vanilla, because I played a hunter then, but throughout BC and Wrath we pretty much stood around watching  and refilling health bars. We took pride in being able to keep an entire raid at near max health throughout encounters. Well these days are no more and, despite it seeming like we have lost some of our punch, I am glad to see them go.