So, I have been super busy lately with work and keeping up with our new 3 day a week raid schedule. So, for today, I thought I’d put up a retro post showing what my raiding UI looked like in Molten core back in 2005 (I blacked out the text box because apparently I was [...]
Yearly Archives: 2013
Malon’s MOP Mage Tips 5.2
Today’s guest post is by Malon of <Nightshift> on Wildhammer-EU. He has been a raiding Mage since WoW’s European launch. Hi Everyone, I’ve had some requests on Twitter (where I post as @ArcaneTactics) to collate my #MageTips series into a single document. These are various helpful hints and tricks for PvE Mages; things that will [...]
The 5.2 Mage PVE raiding survey
Now that 5.2 is here, there is a lot of angst and worry happening in the mage forum. For me to be able to go to the community managers with mage problems, I need data. I’ve done this type of thing before when I was raiding on a druid, but now that I’m raiding as [...]
Resto druid 5.2 healing guide updated
My healing guide is updated for the 5.2 patch launching today. Below are some general highlights for resto druids in 5.2. I’m also including the table of contents here, since the mouse-over menus don’t work right now. You can still click directly on the headers to see guide content. Moonkin didn’t change much in the [...]
Moonkin damage buffs on PTR build 16577
A new patch has been found by both MMO-champion and WOWhead. It looks like moonkin are getting a substantial DPS buff (9% to wrath, starfire, & Starsurge). There are also adjustments to mages (a 23% buff to frostbolt for frost mages – which addresses some of my concerns about frost mage damage for the next [...]
The plight of a stationary spec in movement-heavy encounters
Today, I’m going to talk about some of my problems with frost mages in the 5.2 MOP patch. With the Invocation talent change, my frost mage was still running OOM before the Invoker’s Energy buff faded, and so I was having to use evocation early (thus losing out on the benefit of the change they [...]