Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, ZA or Sunwell Plateau, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, we’re heading to Sapphiron and Kel’Thuzad to visit a few old friends, complete Naxxramas, and wonder to ourselves why everyone on [...]
Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, ZA or Sunwell Plateau, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, we unwisely decide to give the column to Allison “Oops, I forgot my frost resist” Robert. Not that you actually need [...]
Happy New Year, everyone! It’s 2009, and this marks our first post of the year! I specifically locked everyone else out of the WoW Insider HQ so I would have the honor of writing it. Not before I asked them an important question, though. What were their New Year’s resolutions for 2009? No, no, not [...]
“Ask a Beta Tester” took a short break during patch 3.02 madness, but we’re back!
DM7000 asks…
What happened with the glyphs that turned (Druids) into a polar bear or a lynx?
This is a question I asked constantly in the beta for about a week. As much as I was excited about the talent changes and new [...]
Ah, the glyph section. This is where things start to get a little hairy, because the bulk of arguing about the right balance DPS rotation hinges a lot on the glyphs you’ve got equipped and the type of fight you’re doing. But first, some of what I think are going to be less important glyphs [...]
New talents available in the Balance tree:
Genesis: This will affect three Balance spells (Insect Swarm, Moonfire, and Starfall), but it’s another prime candidate for a restokin, as most of a Restoration Druid’s healing power still lies in HoT’s. The vast majority of your firepower as a moonkin is still going to come from a rotation [...]
Every Tuesday, or possibly Thursday when the writer realizes that nobody writing about moonkin DPS on the internet agrees with each other, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week Allison Robert, having Hibernated John Patricelli and run away as fast as her laser-chicken legs will carry her, examines [...]