Category Archives: Written By Lissanna

Raiding Interface: Vanilla versus MOP

By Lissanna | Published: April 4, 2013

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 [...]

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The 5.2 Mage PVE raiding survey

By Lissanna | Published: March 6, 2013

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 [...]

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Resto druid 5.2 healing guide updated

By Lissanna | Published: March 5, 2013

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 [...]

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Moonkin damage buffs on PTR build 16577

By Lissanna | Published: February 12, 2013

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 [...]

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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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