Monthly Archives: August 2010

Spoilers: Learning from Cataclysm Quests

By Lissanna | Published: August 13, 2010

Warning: This post is somewhat spoiler-filled, due to describing quests in Cataclysm. One of the things that happens when people start raiding is that they have to learn situational awareness (being able to move at the right time & pay attention to your surroundings). One of the Deepholm quests helps teach situational awareness. During this [...]

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Cata: Seeing the forest for the trees

By Lissanna | Published: August 10, 2010

Resto druids on the forums seem to be having problems looking at the bigger picture of how restoration healing will work in Cataclysm. Most of that is because resto druids have such HUGE changes coming that it is hard to really put together what the bigger picture will be for resto druids in Cataclysm, and [...]

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What happens when I take a day off

By Lissanna | Published: August 9, 2010

So, I attend most of my guild’s raids, both our 10-man and our 25-man raids. I hate taking nights off of raids, and I even raided on my birthday just to be able to not miss a raid. However, one of my friends recently graduated with her PhD from grad school, and was moving with [...]

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Cata: Reforging caster armor

By Lissanna | Published: August 6, 2010

So, I got to play with reforging some yesterday on the Beta server. There are a couple things I want to point out. First, it takes 40% of stat A, and turns it into an equal amount of stat B. So, if I had 92 hit rating on an item, it turned into 56 HIT [...]

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Cata: Suggestions for a better resto raid healing toolset

By Lissanna | Published: August 2, 2010

With my last post, I outlined some mana cost & class balance problems associated with our raid healing toolset. However, with how sensitive a lot of resto druids are about their ability to heal in Cataclysm, I wanted to have a slightly more positive suggestion post to spend a little more time talking about ways [...]

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Cataclysm feedback: AOE healing class balance

By Lissanna | Published: August 1, 2010

While it is still a little early to talk about overall class balance, I would like to take some time to talk about mana costs of AOE (multi-target) healing spells for the various classes. Disclaimer: When reading this post, DO NOT use it as an excuse to cry about the sky falling, as the sky [...]

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