Shaman

The Altitis Review

Icestone: My infamous healing elemental shaman (no dual specs with this gal) just dinged 48.  Unfortunately her being paired with Josh’s rogue means I get to level her once a month.  Right now, with Josh distracted by Warhammer 40k?  Uh…yeah. 

Tank like a girl, the series: The Death Knight

Today’s tank is another healer who has discovered the joys of tanking. An alliance shaman by night, she raids with us during the day as Lashe. Like Shiawase from last week, she is in our sister guild over on alliance side and one of their raid leaders.

Druid Cataclysm Changes

I’m about halfway through my look at the various classes that I’m interested in. I’m done the Paladin and the Hunter. Now I want to look at the Druid, Warrior, and Shaman. But really we’ve only got half the picture. The new talents are still to

Choose My Adventure: Schedule for week 4

Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on US Zangarmarsh-H.
Well there was no suspense about the vote for the last polls. Silverpine Forest and the Dungeon Finder were

Around Azeroth: This is worgbomb

Modas of <Fights Like a Girl> on Blackwater Raiders writes, "Pets these days. They think that the entire world ... of Warcraft revolves around them. We spend hours farming them up, churning through mind-numbingly dull rep quests and saving up

"What are you jebus?"

"no, that's my shaman."I'm not a fan of exploits. It has something to do with my arbitrary and self-inflicted moral sense. What is an exploit? To me, it's something vaguely defined as "not working as intended", which breaks the rules, done intentionally

Keeping perspective

It's sometimes astonishing to me how passionate World of Warcraft players can be about the game. This includes myself: I have hot-button topics that absolutely flood me with adrenaline and cause me to rant (just ask my coworkers here at WoW.com all about

Totem Talk: Leveling Enhancement 41-60

Axes, maces, lightning, fire, frost and wolves -- and best of all, Windfury. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance at

The Daily Quest: Starpony edition

Here at WoW.com we're on a Daily Quest (which we try to do every day, honest) to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following?

Raid Rx: Striving for healing parity

Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a WoW blog for all things UI-, macro- and addon-related.
Okay, so I completely

AddOn Spotlight: Priest, mage, warlock addons

Addon Spotlight focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. We'll look at everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond -- your addons folder will never be the same! This week, I cop to not knowing a thing

Thinking of a Main Change for Cataclysm?

Thinking of a Main Change for Cataclysm? is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog
Thinking of a Main Change for Cataclysm? is a post from: Aurdon's Mage Blog
So, the previews are all in.
Shamans are QQing the world over. Followed

Paladin Class Preview

The paladin preview is upon us!Short version: "Holy paladins get a new big heal and Beacon of Light will be nerfed. Retribution and Protection will get more complicated rotations since they obviously are faceroll specs. Any exact details are not available

Catacylsmic Changes

I'm going to start my Cataclysm previews articles with the Paladin. Then I'll cover some of the other classes that interest me like Druids, Hunters, Shamans, and Warriors. Then I'll end the series with a major announcement. Let's get right to it.Our 3

Choose My Adventure: Week 2 recaps

Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on US Zangarmarsh-H.
Before we get to our adventures, here is the remaining schedule for the week:
Elizabeth Harper

Spiritual Guidance: The case of shadow priests v. Blizzard

Despite Ms. Moore's best attempt at poisoning him this past weekend, Fox Van Allen triumphantly returns, spending 13% of his base mana to drop Spiritual Guidance back into Shadowform. His holy adversary's misguided attempt at sacerdoticide failed due

Paladin Cataclysm Preview and Analysis

posted by:FerarroIn World of Warcraft: Cataclysm we’ll be making several changes to class talents and abilities across the board. While this list only outlines some of our plans for the paladin class, we want to give you a look at the new high-level

Shaman Tears Taste Like Sweet Honey To My Lips

Well I’m not going to beat over the head all the mage changes, I’ll let others do that for me.  The thing I want to do is go over this new spell. Time Warp..
Grants a passive Haste effect much like Bloodlust or Heroism to party or raid

Cataclysm Paladin Preview Thoughts

New Paladin SpellsBlinding Shield (level 81): Causes damage and blinds all nearby targets. This effect might end up only damaging those facing the paladin’s shield, in a manner similar to Eadric the Pure's ability Radiance in Trial of the Champion.

Totem Talk: Restoration entering Icecrown Citadel

Want to be a sultan of swing healing? A champion of Chain Heal? Totem Talk: Restoration will show you how, brought to you by Joe Perez, otherwise known as Lodur from World of Matticus and the For The Lore podcast.
I think we can safely say

Breakfast Topic: Living it up while you can

I've been spending a lot of time with my shaman lately. Since it's my first alt since the introduction of the new dungeon finder tool, I made the decision to use it to play through a lot of the end-game content for The Burning Crusade. Utgarde Keep is

Long Live the King

We have been slowly working our way through mastering the Lich King fight. We started out with Phase 1 and got the nuances of that Phase down. Then we struggled through and mastered the transition phase. That brought us to Phase II which started out as

[Druid] Druid Cataclysm preview thoughts

By now most of you will have seen the druid cataclysm preview at WoW, and seen countless takes on it. I'll try and not rehash it all, but instead point out some interesting bits you might not have seen. This (and the emphasis) is by GC and was brought

Choose My Adventure: Schedule for week 3

Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on US Zangarmarsh-H.
The results are in and it was a nailbiter for Patent's professions. Here is how it ended up:
Warsong

Paragon's world first heroic Fall of the Lich King video

<Paragon> of EU Lightning's Blade has released the video of their world-first kill of the Lich King on 25-man heroic mode. The video itself is in three parts and includes the viewpoints of a combat rogue, restoration shaman and holy priest over

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