Monthly Archives: December 2009

Glyph of rapid rejuv does NOT buff swiftmend

I’ve seen a few posts about how they think swifmend should be healing for more. However, this seems to stem from a lack of understanding of what swiftmend actually does, along with how that doesn’t interact with the glyph of rapid rejuvenation. Here is swiftmend: Consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect on a friendly target [...]

What is the difference between Moonkin & Resto loot?

Since we just got a new raid dungeon, and the stat priorities for resto druids changed, I thought I should spend some time talking about how to gear your moonkin & resto druids. The short answer is: “not really that much”. However, there are subtle differences that I’ll describe below. Regardless of how I weight [...]

Icecrown Citadel: First impressions

Conspiracy got down the first three bosses in Icecrown Citadel this week. Since we only spend 2 days on 25-mans, and Wednesday was really hard because of multiple healer DC problems, we had a slightly shorter raid week than we were expecting. I also got to go moonkin most of the time, since we had [...]

Leveling a druid: PvP from 10 to 19

So, Malchome/Lavata has been leveling up another alt. After getting one of each class to 80 (because he’s a little leveling-crazy), he decided to start up another druid. This time, he decided to supplement questing with PvP to make leveling more fun. I asked him for a short paragraph about that bracket of PvP to [...]

Blog 3.3 healing guide now updated!

This is what you have all been waiting for – The comprehensive guide on how to heal as a resto druid in patch 3.3! Here is the table of contents. What I changed… EVERYTHING! I brought the raid healing strategies up to the current version of what people are doing, based on the feedback I [...]

3.3 – new dungeon & raid tool (and more!)

Before I start posting my new healing guide, I wanted to briefly go over how you will find PUGs starting today. I ALSO wanted to point out that I talked earlier about leveling improvements for very low level players. (I start working on patch day stuff long before patch day!). The new LFG tool: I [...]