Category Archives: Patches

The plight of a stationary spec in movement-heavy encounters

By Lissanna | Published: February 9, 2013

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 [...]

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Patch 5.2 resto druid buff update

By Lissanna | Published: January 16, 2013

Restoration druids are getting a pair of buffs in 5.2 that should help your overall healing. Lets take a look at what hit the PTR today. 10% overall healing buff First, there is a “new” passive called “naturalist”. This is a straight 10% buff to all your healing spells. This helps off-set the fact that [...]

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Patching in the New Year

By Lissanna | Published: January 1, 2013

Happy New Year everyone! The 2o12 year was very exciting, with the release of the Mists of Pandaria expansion! The start of the new year will soon bring us a new PTR patch with new content and fixes. Lets take a look at what is currently on the table for druids in 5.2: Cyclone was [...]

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15 Minutes of Fame and some druid news

By Lissanna | Published: December 2, 2012

Hi everyone! I have a few things to cover today. First, I was featured on WOW Insider’s 15 minutes of fame blog series. You should read the article about my experiences with WOW, my real life research, and more! There are a couple of other things for druids I’d like to cover, as well, since [...]

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LFR: Raiding with friends

By Lissanna | Published: November 2, 2012

I have a confession. I actually enjoy the Looking for Raid content. While I don’t have a lot of time to play, I prefer running LFR over 5-mans to get my valor points.  However, I usually will only run LFR when I’m running with other guild members and friends. When we can get 5 to [...]

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All the friends on my farm

By Lissanna | Published: October 21, 2012

In my yard, we grew a pumpkin vine, and from that vine, we harvested one runty pumpkin. It isn’t much wider than a post-it note, and since it grew side-ways,  it has to lay on its side because it doesn’t have a flat bottom like all the store-bought pumpkins. Today, we’re going to talk about [...]

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