Why do you heal?

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 a career healer. I have no history with other MMOs, and my time in game has been evenly split between healing and DPS. When WoW first sunk its teeth into me, it was when I rolled a Shadow Priest. I was a ninja killer; I would separate the frightened ...

Articles tagged with: Hunter, Raiding, 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 ...

What signals the end of an expansion?


Wrath of the Lich King ended on kind of a sour note for me, largely because I didn't get to participate in my guild's one and only 25-man heroic Lich King kill before Cataclysm launched. Part of the rankle was ...

Officers' Quarters: Dropping the drama totem


Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook, available from No Starch Press.
Selecting players ...

Identify the Fail


In which I realize that WoW raiding and software development have a common element.
How does this relate to raiding? Well, it has to do with learning from one’s mistakes.
In the software development world, we have ...

More Like This: Vodka vs Method Speedrun


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_488Ir0itpU
Forget arenas.
Forget rated BGs.
Give me competitive PvE raiding!
Vodka and Method, 2 of the world’s best guilds, going heads up in the Dragon Soul challenge hosted ...