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.
[If anyone else wants to post class guides on here from things they're picking up in Karazhan and would like to share with the guild, drop me a message on the forum and we can sort it out :)]
Well we visited Karazhan last night and it was my first time. It quickly became clear that I have to work for a living now; no more just standing at the back and healing. I have crowd control duties now, as the place is crawling with undead. I’ve never really used the shackle undead spell before, so had to get learning very quickly. I’d already setup a macro (which I’ll come back to later), which was a big help once I got going.
What I learnt as we went along is that I can’t wait for the shackle to break and then reshackle, as then chaos ensues! So every 10 seconds or so, once the tanks were topped up and with renews ticking I’d quickly reshackle my mob to prevent it from breaking. Seemed to work ok for the most part doing it that way - the macro helped a lot with that as well. I picked up the following macro, which cleverly means that once I have shackled something, I can keep the tank targetted, and repressing the shackle macro button will reshackle, without taking my target away from the tank. Very handy.
/clearfocus [modifier:alt][target=focus,dead][target=focus,help][target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus]Shackle Undead
Egotistical Priest has a great post all about shackle undead which is well worth a read, for priests and non-priests alike. The Ego version of the macro is slightly different but I think does pretty much the same thing, I may have to try it out later:
/clearfocus [modifier:shift]
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
Ego’s note to other classes is also worth a mention:
If we have been assigned a mob to shackle, please do not break the shackle. Do not hit, stun, AOE near, or even spit on its foot (assuming it has a foot). We?ve got this one covered. If we miscalculate and shackle breaks early, remember that we have no way of knowing WHEN it will break. It could break one second into being shackled. One thing we can promise is that if shackle breaks early and we’re not in the middle of a heal, we’ll be reshackling that mob as quickly as we can. Don’t touch it, and for the love of all that is holy, do not DoT it. If you cast a DoT on my shackled mob, I will be quite wroth with you.
Also I mostly forgot to take screenshots, but here’s one below that I managed to grab of our intrepid adventurers (click for larger version).
A guide to mage macros was posted on our forum courtesy of guildee BobTheWorm. It looks pretty handy to me, so I’ve taken the liberty of reprinting here. There’s also a Mage Macro section at WoW-Wiki that is worth checking out. Enjoy:
#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast Counterspell
Kind of obvious what it does, but for those who have never used macros before, it will stop whatever spell you’re currently casting and cast counterspell. Very useful for pvp.
#showtooltip Pyroblast
/cast Presence of Mind
/stopcasting
/cast Arcane Power
/stopcasting
/use Vengeance of the Illidari
/stopcasting
/cast Pyroblast
Hehe, the IWIN macro 
While standing still pressing the macro button once will do everything and cast your pyroblast (virtually instantly). If you are moving you will need to press the button twice to cast your pyroblast.
An alternative is to replace the “/use Vengeance of the Illidari” line with “/use 13″ or “/use 14″. Can include either/both of these lines here depending on which trinket slot you want to activate.
#showtooltip Polymorph
/cast [modifier:shift, target=focus] Polymorph; Polymorph
/focus [nomodifier:alt]
It was very hard to get a nice precise macro to do exactly what I wanted here, but I believe I finally found it, and it works well! Quite simply it will sheep whoever you cast it on. And if you want to resheep the same mob press whatever the modifier is when you cast it. ie. in this case hold shift while you press the button. This also works if you have it on a hot-key. The modifier can be changed to “ctrl” or “alt” if prefered. This means that you won’t have to retarget the sheeped mob to resheep him making life that little bit easier.
#showtooltip Slow Fall
/dismount [mounted]
/cast Slow Fall
Not entirely sure if this is already built into the game now after the last patch, but it is quite useful. This macro allows you to feather (and hence slow-fall) even when mounted… It has saved my life a couple of times! And as a little trick, if you run jump off a big cliff on your mount and use this, you’ll float along at the same speed as when mounted. So in Arathi Basin you can run and jump off the Lumber Camp hill and land at the Blacksmith flag for a nice aerial assult!
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
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:
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 
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