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4.1 – What are us Druids Likely to See?

February 25th, 2011 No comments

Well from the notes, not much really. There has been a lot of talk about a Druid Cooldown to pull us (and our blue chain healing friends) inline with other classes like priests and pallies. Even a blue post saying; We agree with the sentiment among some players that Restoration druids and Restoration shaman are [...]

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User Interface Updates – A Little Insight into the Process

February 24th, 2011 1 comment

It has been a long time since I’ve really reworked my UI, overall I have been happy with it and it’s been working for me. My one gripe with my setup was my unit frames for player/target/focus etc were below my direct eyeline while raiding. While this didn’t cause too many issues it did mean [...]

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Leading a Guild From Afar

February 2nd, 2011 2 comments

As some of you know Im soon off to the US for another stint for a project. As much as Id love to be able to focus on games and other RL stuff, reality is very different. It got me thinking about what the best way to handle this when leading a guild. For me [...]

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An Addon that will help your Raid Leaders

January 26th, 2011 No comments

I dont know if this is a common issue for other officers/raid leaders but ensuring raiders come prepared to raids in an ongoing issue for our guild. To assist with this I have built an addon that is installed by the raid and points them in the right direction The addon is called Ayr. Designed [...]

Very useful Raid Leading / Strat Tool

January 20th, 2011 3 comments

Someone on my guild forums found this tool and I thought I’d post about it, I have already used it for my 2 strats that went up today, it’s called Boss Blueprint and it allows you to drop Raid Markets, Role Icons , movement arrows and area highlights to an existing encounter BluePrint You can [...]

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BWD – Atramedes

January 20th, 2011 No comments

Atramedes is a poor soul, blinded and unable to see the annoying pipsqueekes pocking it with swords and other nasties! This fight is split into 2 phase that repeat until the boss is squished or you adventurers are. The fight also utilises the new “Alternate Power Bar” implemented in 4.0.1 to represent “Sound” (Why blizzard [...]

Feelings on OOM Form and the Basic Resto Healing Style Changes

December 18th, 2010 3 comments

Not Enough Mana See what I did there with the title? Clever aye? Well for us “trees” this has probably been the most obvious and painful change; we are no longer running around with wind flowing through our branches, we are no longer the easy stacking point (“stack on the bloody tree! how hard is [...]

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Latest Hotfixes – Hmmm I seee

December 17th, 2010 No comments

So new patch is in with a few changes of note; It is no longer possible to waste a Soulstone by attempting to use it on a dead target. The player will receive an Invalid Target error message at the completion of their channel. In a future patch, we intend this functionality to work correctly, [...]

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So Cataclysm Is Here – Upy’s View of the (NEW) World

December 17th, 2010 No comments

A little late, but better late than never I guess Catalcysm has been a breath of fresh are for a number of reasons. My highlights so far would be; Guild Enhancements – The simple concept of Guild Achievements, Reputation and Experience has really encouraged guilds to work towards common goals (and rewards). It’s great to [...]

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Cataclysm Buff Foods and Flasks

December 16th, 2010 1 comment

So Catalcysm has hit and I have gotten Upy to 85 and been gearing him up over the last week or so. Once thing that I find very important for everyone is knowing what buff food and flasks are available and how to farm the mats, especially with high flask prices at the moment. Obviously [...]

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