Monthly Archives: December 2009

Patch 3.3 changes – Druid Roundup

There are lots of druid changes in 3.3 (mostly for resto & some for moonkin, only a couple for feral). First, here are the druid-related patch notes AND what they mean to you. After I teach this morning, I’m coming home and spending the rest of the day working on outlining other info you’ll need [...]

The new 3.3 Eclipse bug

As of Monday night on the PTR, there is a bug with Eclipse. ANY mod that tracks Eclipse procs by watching the combat log is broken. Why? Well, Eclipse isn’t notifying the combat log when it procs (everything else besides Eclipse seems to work fine). More specifically: Eclipse no longer firing SPELL_AURA_APPLIED As of now, [...]

Interview with A New Podcaster

So, I spent most of yesterday listening to Mike Schramm play his Rockband 2 Endless Setlist for Child’s Play Charities. As part of that event, I donated a blog interview, to make sure we could hit the $100 goal to get Mikeschramm to play on camera. It was worth it, especially since we also got [...]

Druid Healer survey results (part 2 of 2)

Okay, so part 1 described what kind of players responded to my survey & how they heal currently (more people who played both 10 & 25-man raids. Other people played mostly 10-mans, or mostly 5-mans). Most raiders responding to my survey were planning on getting into Icecrown Citadel. The most common healing style was putting [...]

Druid Healer Survey results (part 1)

I had 132 responses to my druid healer survey that I posted on the WoW druid forums. The survey & answers can be found here. I collected data from Nov 27 thru December 1st. I got a good sample of people using various playstyles, and I have enough data now to show clear trends in [...]

Eclipse buffed (again)

For all the moonkin, we got our PvE buff. Eclipse now increases damage done by Wrath by 40% (up from 30%) and the critical chance of Starfire by 40% (up from 30%) So, that set bonus we lost? We just got back in the form of a direct buff to Eclipse. For more info, see [...]