Category Archives: 4.0.3a

Heroic 5′s teach raid movement mechanics

By Lissanna | Published: December 26, 2010

So, with Cataclysm now upon us, many people have been running heroics and raid dungeons. One of the things that has become obvious is that we have returned to the days of “GOOTROF” (“Get out of the Rain of Fire”). The punishment for not moving in a lot of fights is not just a drain [...]

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If resto druids get to see our armor…

By Lissanna | Published: December 19, 2010

Can they at least make the armor not buggy? Okay, so today I just have a short update on a couple of things. At this point, my druid has been able to start running heroics. I’ve mostly run stuff as DPS, but I’ve solo-healed a couple of heroic bosses. I haven’t been able to run [...]

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Healing Dungeons at level 85

By Lissanna | Published: December 12, 2010

So, the forums are full of healer tears over having to re-learn how to heal in Cataclysm. To make things worse, we went from being superheroes (in our high-end raid gear from WotLK) to being total scrubs in blues & greens. So, lets take a look at what is going wrong for many of my [...]

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gearing up for 85 raids

By Lissanna | Published: November 30, 2010

So, for raiding at level 85, you really should be wearing at least an average of ilevel 346 gear, which is the Heroic 5-man gear.You can get gear from the same item level (or better) from additional sources: crafting professions (including Archeology!), bought with Justice Points from vendors in Stormwind or Org, and reputation rewards [...]

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Leveling & healing guide updates for 4.0.3a

By Lissanna | Published: November 23, 2010

I have my 4.0.3a guides released and ready for when the servers come up this afternoon/evening. The leveling guide was completely revamped (again!). The new Leveling Guide table of contents now lists 9 pages: Three pages for Feral Cat leveling: Talent page, Ability/rotation page, and Gearing/glyph page. Three pages for Balance/moonkin leveling: Talent page, Ability/rotation [...]

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Troll & worgen form color charts

By Lissanna | Published: November 20, 2010

So, part of getting ready for Cataclysm’s arrival is getting ready for all the new druids who will be leveling up over the next few months. I have some updates planned for my leveling guide that I’ll be unveiling whenever 4.0.3a hits the servers. I also added a new set of pages to my site [...]

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