The Lords of Nordrassil

Ego Priest has a great post on ‘tiered healing’ which can also be thought of as triage for healers. Deciding who to heal when and with which heal is most of the challenge and fun of healing for me: Ego gives a great overview of how to approach this both for 5 mans and then in a raid as the group moves into Karazhan. Worth a read for everyone else too – it explains those moments when you don’t get a heal for instance.

The Hit rating stat affects your chance to hit or miss on a particular attack. When soloing this isn’t so much of an issue, but against raid bosses the effect becomes significant (as bosses are considered level 73) and increasing +hit can significantly improve DPS.

There is a level of +hit at which you no longer miss and stacking +hit beyond this point is a waste. Handily, Blessing of Kings have a breakdown of class specific levels of +hit to aim for, whilst taking the effects of talents into effect.

I’ve been reading the World of Warcraft Blog by WoWGrrl. She has plenty of interesting articles covering things as varied from helping your tank maintain aggro to fishing. The article that grabbed my attention was this one about keeping your account secure from the world full of nasty people who want it.

This article is gives good advice that should be followed to protect your important data even if you don’t have a WoW account. The only part I wouldn’t necessarily agree with is the use of Firefox (I run Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera browsers). Although there are security holes in Internet Explorer, Mozilla isn’t completely without its vulnerabilities either. Opera claims to be the most secure browser, but no browser guarantees you complete safety.

Have fun, but keep safe.

Multi-mob tanking is an essential skill for effective tanking, acting as crowd control for 2 or 3 mobs and stopping them from squishing the clothies! It also seems to be topical, as there are a couple of recent excellent blog posts on the subject.

Karthis at Teeth and Claws (who I’ve linked twice now and I really need to add them to the blog-roll) has a post about multi-tanking macros for feral druids.

Meanwhile, Tank Hard has tips for warriors tanking 2 or 3 mobs in his primer for multi-tanking for Warriors

V’Ming Chew has an interesting article on building an arena team at WoW-Insider.

He focuses on class composition, particularly examining the class representation of the most successful arena teams and also a breakdown of four traits needed to be competitive in arena: damage, heals, control and durability. In 2v2 particularly, durability is important (so Wise & I setting up a 2v2 mage / priest team might not be the best plan ). He then examines the group compositions of 3v3 and 5v5 teams. Well worth a read for arena fans, especially as it has pretty pictures

BigRedKitty writes what is probably the WoW Hunter Blog. It’s the first class specific blog I followed and despite not actually having a hunter, I’ve found myself hooked with his guides to advanced hunter strategy, theory-craft, beast-mastery, tales of Kara progress and the occasional lighter note, which offer insight and entertaining writing.

Topics covered include:

• Misdirection pulling
• Chain trapping
• Multi-shot in instances
• Why hunters should pull (and how)
• Pet guides
• and BRK’s favourite topic: Why beastmastery rules

All in all, its a class specific blog that’s well worth a read, and may yet convince me to roll a hunter.

BM spec of course