Monthly Archives: March 2009

Wowinsider crits my blog for over 9000

By Lissanna | Published: March 24, 2009

WoWinsider posted about my blog, and I went from having about 100 visits a day to KABOOM exploding server in the matter of an hour or so. (Thank you for the publicity, WoW insider! I’m at over 4,000 visitors so far today.) We’re aware of the earlier crashing problems, thank you everyone for being patient [...]

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Arena season 6 gear

By Lissanna | Published: March 24, 2009

*breathes a sigh of belief* Looks like Naked is NOT the druid Season 6 set graphic. The rest of the class’ armor sets are up on MMO-Champion. The complete set is actually kinda interesting. I’m not too picky at this point. So long as the set has a graphic, and we don’t have dead birds [...]

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PTR Update: Balance & Resto

By Lissanna | Published: March 23, 2009

According to MMO-Champion: The previously announced changes to typhoon (Adding a 3 second daze) is up on the PTR. The tree form change (the mana reduction for HOTs outside of tree form) is up, too. In addition, the moonkin 2-piece Tier 8 bonus was updated to increase the Eclipse bonus by 15% instead of 6%. [...]

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You have received RL achievement…

By Lissanna | Published: March 23, 2009

Lissanna’s player has received the achievement [Professional Master] in Real life. So, I won’t post very often about things in my personal life. However, I just finished defending my master’s thesis today (which is the middle, rather than the end, of my PhD program), and that two hours was more draining than I thought it [...]

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Bear tanking Newbie Tip: Bears can pull with hurricane

By Lissanna | Published: March 22, 2009

I spend a lot of time catering to new druid players, since I’ve been maintaining a leveling guide for the last few years. With dual-specs coming out, I’ve started thinking about how to make a tanking intro to add to my leveling guide. As a preview, I’m introducing one pulling technique, that I hardly ever [...]

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How to PvE Heal in 3.1 guide now up!

By Lissanna | Published: March 21, 2009

The second in my series of druid guides (my first being the leveling guide), I now have up my 3.1 healing guide, under “pages”. I only have the first FIVE sections finished, but I wanted to get the preview of my new guide up on this blog now, so that it’s available as a resource [...]

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