Telluric Currents and You!

We had our first raid last week, Magmaw in BWD died a well deserved death, and I went into it with a 7/2/32 TC spec, While passive mana regen is a little lower the boost you can get during the exposed head phase of Magmaw is amazing.

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.

Out in the cold

Any other shamans feel a little left out in the cold by the latest patch notes? This isn't a we need buffs post but we certainly aren't balanced to perfection and the lack of tweaks to the class is a little disheartening. Resto mastery is all screwed up for starters and elemental just feels clunky as a whole as far as enhancment goes I don't really know but I'm sure it's not perfect. I'm not going to post a big rant about it... just needed to vent for a few mins. What are your thoughts on it? Do you think shamans are okay right now? What needs tweaking, buffing, nerfing or just attention in general?

Friday Fun Time: Hippies

Welcome to Friday Fun Time. There are no serious topics here. Frivolity will reign supreme! Today's topic is which class do you think is more of a hippie, Shamans or Druids?

Classy Thursdays: Levelling a Shaman Part II

Part 2 of the ongoing series for leveling an elemental/resto shaman from 80-85. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect the views and opinions of... well... anyone really. Have a good time and please keep all hands, feet, and chinticles inside the car at all times.

Classy Thursdays: Leveling a Shaman Part I

Classy Thursdays is a weekly article focusing on class issues.

Expect a heavy dose of Shaman articles mixed with some Druid, Hunter, Death Knight and sprinkle of Mage... mmm that's one classy concoction. I'll also see if I can con... I mean persuade some of my guildies and friends to write up the occasional article for whatever class they play.

This week I'm going to cover leveling as a Restoration/Elemental shaman. For those of you who want a guide on enhancement... tough cookies! I have no problem with enhancement but I know and am more comfortable with Elemental and Restoration. I decided to split this into two guides as the article was much larger than I originally anticipated.

This guide assumes you are at least familiar with Elemental and possibly Restoration. I'll be posting Elementary Elemental and Remedial Restoration guides soon and we'll cover the mechanics of each spec there. This post will cover more of how to spec, where to go and what to get on your journey from 80-85. We'll start off with...

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.