Monthly Archives: March 2010

Communication is key in the wow community

By Lissanna | Published: March 20, 2010

So, Anea started a Blog Azeroth Shared topic about comments on blog posts, and whether comments make better (or worse) bloggers. Here is the question she proposed to the community: One of the things that can make us happiest as bloggers is seeing e-mails notifying us of comments on our blogs. However, if we took [...]

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So, you want to play on an RP server?

By Lissanna | Published: March 18, 2010

Back when I first started playing WoW, I started a character on a server that a group of my friends told me to: Cenarion Circle. They had already been playing the game for a week or two before I got my account, and they wanted me to come play with them (or, rather, I was [...]

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What’s a “main”? Specialists vs. Generalists

By Lissanna | Published: March 17, 2010

So, since I’ve been splitting my time between LOTRO and WOW, I’ve noticed that I have very different play-styles between the two games. In WoW, I’m a specialist: I have my main, a druid, and I spend MOST of my time & resources on that one character. I did manage to get a shaman up [...]

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Distractions: A case of the mondays

By Lissanna | Published: March 15, 2010

So, I’ve been distracted from WoW lately, and thus also distracted from blogging. One of my distractions from the game was school work done while my Undergrads (in my course & my research assistants) were all off partying it up for Spring Break. I’ve been working on organizing things for beginning to design & write [...]

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Moonkin in 3.3.3: To dot… or not to dot.

By Lissanna | Published: March 11, 2010

Okay, so now that 3.3.3 is getting closer to release, we have more details about what moonkin PvE will look like “soon.” However, this is still subject to change. One big looming question that a lot of high-end moonkin are struggling with is when to cast dots, or when to not cast them. The buffs [...]

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Should healers have to deal with mana management?

By Lissanna | Published: March 9, 2010

So, the healing forums have been having a pretty big discussion lately (over the last few weeks) about how much mana management should matter in Cataclysm, and how spell choice plays into managing mana. As someone who survived healing from the early days through now, I remember having to make more… intelligent decisions about what [...]

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