Signing off
Two days without a post. You can probably smell it in the air. I’m burned out.
Not on the blog, exactly, but on the game. In the last two weeks, I’ve logged into the game twice. I check auctions, chat a little, log out. There’s
Two days without a post. You can probably smell it in the air. I’m burned out.
Not on the blog, exactly, but on the game. In the last two weeks, I’ve logged into the game twice. I check auctions, chat a little, log out. There’s
Twice now I’ve made requests about getting more damage prevention abilities for Shamans, and twice I’ve been castigated by commenters for ignoring Ancestral Healing. That’s the Resto talent that will proc up to 10% damage resistance
Somewhere in the depths of Blizzard’s database is information about who casts what spells and under what conditions. From that giant heap it’s a simple matter to see patterns of usage. For instance, when they noticed a disturbingly high number
In case there are any other Squarespace users out there, I thought I’d share a usage idea I just had. I figured out a way to keep my work in progress posts organized in the content management system.
First, some background. The blogging CMS
Every other Shaman-related website and forum in the world has the picture, so here’s a picture of Graham Elliot Bowles instead.
From NBC Chicago. What you aren’t seeing in this picture are the itty-bitty boyshorts he’s wearing.
Cheek Magazine, issue 5Still no word on Shaman Tier 10 armor aside from names. If it doesn’t happen soon, I’m worried that Lodur will explode. The names, oddly, are all variants on Frost Witch. Garb / Regalia / Battlegear — maybe this
Tristan “Trustyn” Johnson is a blogger and podcaster for The Elitists. There he writes and podcasts about all things Blizzard and it is home to the only Pan-Blizzard podcast besides Blizzcast to date. In World of Warcraft however, he raids
It’s been a hard night of wiping.The raid leader is griping. The main tank threw a fit, Three DPS just gquit,And the healers spent the entire night sniping.Both Paladins died in a fire.My cat chewed through my
I got tagged for the big healer survey by the nameless proprietor of HolyPaladin.net. That was several days ago, I’m afraid, and I missed it until now. Shame on me. Here goes.
What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer?
An unfederated collection of thoughts tonight…
I hate to admit it, but I’m looking forward to the new cross-realm LFG system. I know this means I’m looking forward to pugging. And that pugging was invented in the pits of hell to
Curse me for the terrible habit of losing track of interesting articles. It makes it so hard to properly cite a post. Please forgive the fuzziness in this first bit…
There was a developer interview recently for one of those John Woo-style
Shatner. Um, it’s related. He claimed to be a Shaman once. In an ad…
A quiet Sunday morning begs to be followed by a yawning, lazy afternoon. Hence, a cheapie links post. Enjoy.
First, I’d like to point your attention to
Trustyn is the brains, brawn, and occasional abusive partner of the blog and podcast called the Elitists. He raids on an elemental shaman in a top-100 raiding guild and apparently writes for this here Healing Way Blog about Elementaly stuff.
“Fun” is a nebulous concept. So difficult to pin down that some game reviewers refuse to entertain the concept when examining the merits of a game. What is fun for one, may not be for another. Our own concepts of fun change over time. And
Here’s a fun thing. NameScore promises to objectively evaluate the one constant handle we have on another player — their name — so that we can judge them. It’s probably a character flaw on my part that I prefer to run with players
Without any reports of breakages or flaws, I have decided to go public with GridStatusChainWho. Links to the addon have been redirected to WoWInterface.
I suppose it should come as no surprise that the Zam-owned WoWInterface website is about a zillion
A couple months ago I came across a blog post that made me want to revisit my Power Auras config over on Mystic Chicanery. What I learned from that article is how to make a logical AND. That enables all sorts of conditions that would otherwise just get
I started to write something about Power Auras tonight, but it turns out that the drinking is making it all come out as nonsense. Don’t blog drunk, kids! And Power Auras should come with a warning label. “Do not operate under the influence
Guinnea pigs Volunteers needed!
What it is: GridStatusChainWhoWhat it does: Provides a status in Grid to highlight units affected by your Chain Heal. The highlighting lasts for a configurable duration; the default is a little over a second.Requirements:
Tristan “Trustyn” Johnson is actually a prototype for the first wave of sentient machines, using their knowledge of science and mathematics to undermine the entire foundations of mankind. Since he is a prototype they needed to test him out
Graeme Guy nature photographyWhen the DPS turn their attention to you in the Faction Champions fight, as a healer it is your imperative to stay alive. Earth Shield yourself, Riptide yourself, and make a beeline away from the damage dealers (but still
Professor Beej asks (and then answers), Why play a healer? in a guest post on World of Matticus. I smell a meme in the making. Striking while the iron is hot, I decided I’d answer the question myself.
Unlike many in our community, I am not
There I was, innocently minding my own business, hooking up the combat log event hook in the addon I’m working on. I was struggling with it, so I switching HealingDummy on, since I knew that worked. I saw something that surprised me. HealingDummy
I have to step back from raiding for a bit. It really gets to be work, doesn’t it?
I’m not going anywhere though. I’ve got some projects afoot for Warcraft and for the site. I’ll just have to let others exact righteous justice
The language used in the description of the Restosham Tier 10 four piece set bonus has been bothering me from the beginning. I believe now I understand what it is trying to say.
When I first saw it on Matticus’ site, it looked like this:
Every patch, give or take, introduces some new element that makes it easier for players to power their way through the leveling process. The process became noticeable in Patch 2.3, which has this bullet point feature:
Faster leveling to 60
Tristan “Trustyn” Johnson is a shaved 300 lb gorilla trained from an early age to press buttons based off the outcome of some charts. Miraculously this attempt to train a gorilla to play wow has created a type of sentience in the creature
I’m not going to try wrestling my way through the test realm this time, since I did such a poor job last time. Consequently, the only information I have is what has already been reported on. But I know you come here for the unique brand of witty
I’m going to talk today not about Warcraft but about the tools I use to maintain this website. I figure a number of the readers here are or have been bloggers, and will have either A) an interest, or B) suggestions for improvements. If you’re
The time? Last night. The place? The boss? Archavon the Stone Watcher. The fearsomest beast ever to fear some.
Hypocryte: 50g to the healer with the highest DPS this fight!Me: Oh, it’s on!
Squeezing the most out of restosham