Making friends in pugs

I'm sure everyone's done (or tried to do) Pit of saron "normal" once or twice. Perhaps even a bit more than once. Perhaps you've even run into the situation where suddenly players have to "leave" after having killed a boss.Most likely, that person was your tank.Most likely, your group then fell apart, and you didn't even get to try Ick or Scourgelord Tyrannus.Well, my shaman reached level 80 last week and has been gearing up quickly. (That's 8 characters at level 80, for ...

Articles tagged with: Warrior, Warlock, DeathKnight, Priest, Shaman

Shadow priest takes down solo heroic Alysrazor


Proving once again that anything is possible with creative use of game mechanics,Shantál on Al'akir (EU) has successfully soloed the heroic version of the Alysrazor encounter. I've done some soloing myself in the past, and I can say that ...

A Primer on Disc Priest Healing in Rated Battlegrounds

Last week, one of my guild’s healers had to call-out for one of our RBG nights since he had some exams to study for. As a result, we ended up PuGing in a Disc Priest who turned out to be pretty terrible. When you’re running a three-healer ...

The Last Witness to a lot of wiping

My Fail Angel is the a last witness.
And it’s tempting to keep watching.
I sometimes forget that I need to click off the fail angel to ‘die’ and I have been dying a lot. But we are now 5/8 25 man Heroic leaving piles of bones ...

Lies, damned lies, and forum posts


You may recall recently, a "blue" from "Blizzard" posted that he or she "had hopes" that "we" (warlocks) would be able to "run a quest" to "get green fire". And there was much rejoicing.  Still, when someone that officially represents "Blizzard" ...