BETA: New glyphs for healing Priests

The latest crop of healing Priest glyphs have finally made it onto the beta and can be purchased from everyone’s favourite oversized Tauren in the Temple of the Jade Serpent. I have to say I’m not impressed. I wish I was, I really do but they’re either massively situational (i.e. require you to be dead!), [...]

Account-wide achievements and an end to blank slates.

Some graphical glitches are creepier than the rest. Not sure whether it’s her lack of eyes or the fact that her entire body seems have been dipped in plaster of Paris. Either way, I know I’d be running in the opposite direction. Account-wide achievements seem to be semi working in the current Beta build and [...]

BETA: Spectral Guise

I want to like this ability, I really do but I’m struggling to find anything positive at all to say about it. Regardless of whether you consider it in the light of PvP or PvE it has several obvious flaws. White hits count towards the three hits. Thus fast hitting classes like rogues break you out [...]

BETA: Holy Priests two weeks in.

General Thoughts I was bit upset at the thought of losing Mindblast and Mindspike but the glyph of Atonement alongside the reduced cast time on Smite has allayed my fears a lot. The healing part of Atonement also procs our Holy Mastery and whilst in Smite Chakra we’ve got decent punch, especially for questing/grinding. Having [...]

Cherry Mana Tea: My reflex reaction on MoP so far.

I have to admit I’m rather excited by the flood of MoP information flowing out of fan sites right now. My highlights would have to include: An 11th character slot has been added. I would of course prefer it to be 12, 13 or 50 but I’ll settle for 11. The visual look of the zones. [...]

Banishing the Dispel Blues – Rough thoughts on Dispels in MoP

One of the many things being altered for the Mists of Pandaria is defensive dispelling. All the defensive dispels, (Dispel Magic, Cleanse, Purify Spirit and Nature’s Cure) now have an eight second cooldown. The tooltips have also been changed to read: (Priest’s Dispel Magic) Dispels magic on the target, removing all harmful spells from yourself [...]

On Levelling and my Love Affair with Kreug Oathbreaker

This post was inspired by two things, Tzufit’s wonderful post about Outlands as well as my own recent experiences levelling my rogue. (The italics belong to C.P Cavafy, taken from his poem Ithaka) As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, Levelling, you either love it or hate it. We [...]

The resolutions – One month in.

Well so far so good, I haven’t managed to out right break any yet. In-game The alt levelling, encouraged by the 2012 in 2012 project is coming on a pace. Much to my surprise I’ve fallen in love with what was meant as a sort of joke “lets see Gilneas” character, my Worgen Hunter. If [...]

No man is an island – so does your random battleground win/loss ratio reflect on you

No man is an island entire of itself; every man  is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; John Donne When I run out of blogs to read and twitter is quiet, I run off to the Battlenet PvP forums looking for excitement. It’s a bit like eating squeezy cheese straight from [...]

Made to be broken

Not a particularly great start to the new year, taking six days to write my first post. However there are a few mitigating circumstances. The angry Gnome bought me a box set of George RR Martin’s books and I’m finding them a bit addictive to say the least. I have to keep reading to make [...]