Just when I thought I couldn’t be surprised any more…

I’ve been a bit preoccupied with real life stuff recently but when I was flicking through my feed reader, I noticed this post from Tome of the Ancient. “I don’t know if other bloggers do this, but I have a few posts that I wrote and then found lacking and they’re just sitting here collecting [...]

“Will you come and join the dance?”

The title is borrowed from Lewis Carroll Real life has hit me pretty hard the last couple of weeks, what with having to relocate for my husband’s job, looking for somewhere to live in a city I’m completely unfamiliar with as well as dealing with job interviews for myself. So when I read this post [...]

BETA: Weaving the Mist – healing from a Monk’s perspective (lv 11 to 45)

First of all, I’m not going to cover levels 1 through 10 because Tzufit has already done  a great job of doing that, which can be found here. Secondly this is going to concentrate a bit more on PvPish things because well, I’m a ganker at heart. So you rolled a Monk, reached lv 10 [...]

BETA: Thoughts on PvPing as a Healing Priest in MoP.

Disclaimers and stuff: First Beta build and everything is likely to change between now and live. Blizzard have admitted that the Priest Class still is a work in progress and things are missing/being switched around. Crowd Control Fear is back as baseline and Holy still has access to Chastise (the disorient). Our other cc options [...]

Dead as a Doornail: On World PvP

Looking back at my time in Azeroth, many of my stand-out memories involve World PvP. The ebb and flow of old school Southshore / Tarren Mill battles. Advancing one minute, running for my life pursued by a pack of deathguards, three blinking mages, two shamans and an angry warrior the next. Aoeing the deathguards and then sitting [...]

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. [...]

MoP and Resilience: It’s give with one hand, take with the other.

I read the Dev’s Watercooler post on the planned stat changes for MoP with interest, in particular the part pertaining to resilience. We are renaming this stat to “Defense (PvP)” or possibly “PvP Defense.” All players will have 30% base Defense, the same way all characters have some base Stamina. This is a good thing. [...]

E is for Emotes!

I was flicking through my blog reader yesterday, toying between the idea of replying to people or doing some actual work when I read a line of Navimie’s that caught my attention. Namely this one: “And those people in arenas who laugh at you and spit on you.  Why must you do that? “ First [...]

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 [...]

Suppressing the Pain – A look at levelling a Priest through PvP (Part 3)

Same disclaimer as the previous two parts (which can be found here and here). What this isn’t. This isn’t a guide to PvPing at 85 although some of it may be useful to Priests at 85. In fact it isn’t really a guide at all, more of a practical look at making levelling through PvP less painful. [...]