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Earn Plenty Gold in an Hour

May 11th, 2010 -- Posted in Raid | Comments Off

Money is very powerful in WOW. Well-known being as among the most widely held MMORPG existing today, Wow brings players together in a fantasy world.

With money, you could accomplish all kinds of things in WOW. You can get the best items.

In the role of a World of Warcraft player, it’s very difficult to make gold. The truth is, you could use numerous hours to get a bit of gold. Would you want to earn around 300 gold every hour? That might appear hard to suppose at first but it’s possible. In fact, you can earn more golds when you reach advanced levels.

For beginners, questing is measured being best techniques. Through implementation quests, you could make gold. Actually, if you profitably finish a quest, you can acquire items as well. While questing, you ought to attempt to spend time on grinding too. That would allow you to get additional Experience along with extra gold.

It’s suggested that you realize the yellow quests firstly. In fact, 2 yellow quests are considered to become more useful than single red quest.

The bag should be measured. If it’s probable, attempt to get a larger bag in the early hours . With a bigger bag, you will never miss the chance on get items. Bigger bags provide extra area for the items.

These are a little of the methods on how to earn lots of golds in just an hour. By means of these suggestions, you could make certain that you would become a rich person in the World of Warcraft.

Are you ready to heal Icecrown?

April 1st, 2010 -- Posted in Raid | Comments Off

I’ve been able to heal Icecrown on both my priest and my shaman. I dare not set foot inside the area yet with my paladin (even though they are clearly superior healers*). Let me give you an idea of where my characters stand so far. My Priest has a little over 3000 spellpower. My shaman is sitting at around 2700. My poor paladin, the best healer class she may be, is holding up the rear with about 2300.

So how did they each do?

The priest

As expected, the priest passed with flying colors. I alternated specs a few times on different fights to see there was any struggle. Other than Deathbring Saurfang, it didn’t feel like I had a hard time healing as either spec. Discipline felt a touch more powerful to me due to the inevitable high raid damage that would come in at the tail end of the fight from the Blood Power build up. Power Word: Shield was put to great use.

The shaman

My totem dropping counterpart blasted through Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper and the Gunship battle with a bit of discomfort. I definitely had to work a bit here to keep the raid and the tanks alive. Obviously, I’m not as fluent with healing on my shaman as I am on my priest. In some cases, I have to think about who to heal and what spell to use instead of simply reacting. But that’s just a case of familiarity with the class. Sadly, I got stoned at Deathbringer Saurfang. continue reading »

Are you ready to be the healer leader?

March 8th, 2010 -- Posted in Raid | Comments Off

In the past, I didn’t become the healing lead because I was asked to. I saw the disarray of healers we had. I knew how disheveled we were as a unit. Because of my dissatisfaction, I decided to do something about it. I know some of you are thinking along the same lines. Maybe you feel there is no direction or order or structure. Perhaps your raid leaders aren’t taking it seriously or are even ignoring the healers entirely expecting them to sort things out amongst themselves.

If you don’t see anyone else doing it, take charge of it yourself. You’re going to feel overwhelmed at first. I know I did. It’s up to you to turn your ragtag group of healers into a lean, mean life-saving machine.

For the rest of this post, I want to offer you some advice and some lessons that I have learned along the way.

Be patient: When you are placed in this role, it will not be easy. It takes time. Earning respect of your peers takes time especially if you’re unfamiliar with them and vice versa.

Focus on outcomes: Why should a Paladin take orders from a Priest, right?

Technically, you’re not. As the leader, you won’t be telling your healers how to heal (unless the encounter is micro oriented).

I call this the outcome based approach.

Let me explain. The outcome based approach simply means that you state a goal. You have an end result. Communicate to your healers what needs to be done.

Example: “You, Percy the Paladin, keep this tank alive.” continue reading »

Bored of healing

February 20th, 2010 -- Posted in Raid | Comments Off

Vanilla healing

I want to emphasize how simplistic raid healing was back then. It was complicated from an assignment perspective, but if we zoomed in and approached it from a micro perspective, it was incredibly easy. For me, I would alternate between low rank Flash Heal and low rank Greater Heal. Of course, I’d always have the max ranks available just in case I needed them. Healing itself wasn’t all that great but the shock and awe of the encounters amazed me during my early raiding career. The closest feeling I had to working with other players on such a large scale would have been playing Battlefield: 1942 and deciding which bases to defend or assault.

Burning Crusade healing

It improved by leaps and bounds. However, this was the period where Circle of Healing did not have a cooldown and holy priests just dominated the raiding scene alongside shamans. In other words, 2-button healing was still prevalent but we had more options available to us. Did we ever use them as often? No, not really. One spell was able to do all the work. What was the point of having to rely on others?

Wrath healing

They got most of it right. At least, priests and druids feel fine to me. As a healing shaman, I felt I could hold my own and I had to think a few times about what my targets and the spells. Yet when I heal on my paladin, I’m just not into it. Maybe it really is just me. Maybe I’ve grown so used to having a myriad of spells to choose from that I felt stifled when trying to heal on a paladin. The point I wanted to drive home is that while additional healing spells don’t have to be further added into the game (other than the ones they were planning to add anyway), no single spell should dominate in every possible situation to the exclusion of others. Otherwise, we’re going to get the same situation as we had in Burning Crusade where Circle of Healing was just too awesome and it was the answer to everything.

If you’re curious and wish to learn more about how organizational healing has evolved, be sure to check out this piece.

Raid Rx

February 19th, 2010 -- Posted in Raid | Comments Off

I can’t seem to help feeling that something isn’t right here. What is it that really matters?

First, I don’t want to give the wrong impression that it is acceptable for a healer to gem entirely for nothing but agility and get away with healing Lich King. There must be some care taken when augmenting your character, where the gems or enchants selected actually contribute to something beneficial. For healing, that becomes any combination of throughput (spellpower or crit), speed (haste) or regeneration (intellect or spirit). Again, I don’t want to downplay the importance of stats. They are a necessity, but I want to shine a brighter spotlight on other aspects of healing.

You see, World of Warcraft is like a massive mathematical equation. If you plug in the right stats and balance, every class will reach the “perfect” combination where they have hit their peak. But there are a couple of additional variables that throw a wrench in the plan whereby it becomes difficult to be perfect on every fight. continue reading »

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