Over-thinking! Learning to enjoy the finer points of The Secret World
Overthinking a situation can often be a cardinal sin when it comes to problem solving. If one approaches a situation with a technical mindset you can often overlook the minutia within or perhaps miss...
View ArticleTips For Applying to a Guild As We Move Towards MoP
This is a repost with some slight tweaks (if something still references WotLK use your imagination!). I think it still very much applies so if this is helpful to you please take a look! With a new...
View ArticleWild Mushroom: Bloom – My shortest Post Ever
NOPE. (This post brought to you by level 90 heroic dungeon experience)
View ArticleNapkin Math – What can Soul of the Forest do for you?
Soul of the Forest is a rather interesting talent in that it offers us a multitude of options ranging from throughput to mana savings all packaged within one nice talent. There is a lot of math...
View ArticleLunchtime Napkin Math – How much mana do we really have?
In a world where we have a fixed mana supply we need to think about how much mana we have available and how much we’d like to have available. This is purely napkin math though so please don’t take it...
View ArticleOff Topic – My history of Magic: the Gathering part 1
I’m going to be going a bit off topic today because I’ve had this burning desire to talk about Magic: the gathering. I’ve been playing the game for a very long time and because there are so many...
View ArticleDealing With Our Most Precious Resource: the Perils of Separate Lockouts
Once upon a time I lived in a world where I could raid as many nights a week as I wanted. Sometimes I would be online in WoW In some form, at some hour of the evening, up to six days a week. I had...
View ArticleMagic Mushroom Buff…where are we going dude?
So where are we going with these Wild Mushrooms! …and how did we get here? It’s no secret that right now restoration druids are at the bottom of the pile. We don’t offer any significant raid cooldowns...
View ArticleWild Mushroom Usage in Throne of Thunder
I wanted to write a post based off of my experience with all twelve bosses last week during normal modes pertaining to the use of our new Wild Mushroom Bloom. There are a multitude of ways to use them...
View ArticleFeeling The Balance Burn – Heroic T15 content
I was really hoping that the druid changes would leave me feeling more empowered and to be honest for the first week of Tier 15 it did. I genuinely felt like I was getting a lot more healing done and...
View ArticleA Fresh Look at Soul of the Forest (5.2 Napkin Math Edition)
I ended up breaking my 4 piece Tier 14 set fairly early on in order to clean up my leg slot (and get spirit) but found myself still using Soul of the Forest for certain encounters. Because of this I...
View ArticleResto Druid Roundtable (My First Podcast)
This past weekend was my first ever chance to be on a podcast and it was a real treat to be invited to Team Waffle’s Resto Druid Roundtable to discuss 5.2 content and our current quality of life. We...
View ArticleDruid Forum (EU) Recap – Method
Good afternoon Druids, It’s a slow news day and things here in Boston have been hectic to say the least. But in light of the blue posters cryptic comment that changes are coming our way for druids its...
View ArticleLegendary Meta Gem – Napkin Math Edition
The Legendary quest line meta gem is incredibly powerful we all know that. I thought though that I would just lay out some quick numbers for those curious about what you’re really getting. This is all...
View ArticleWild Mushroom Usage in Heroic Throne of Thunder (5.3)
Note: Need to thoroughly spellcheck this later so be gentle if you find typos It was a week into 5.2 that I created a brief guide on how I was using wild mushrooms through all of the normal modes of...
View ArticlePreliminary Patch 5.4 Resto Druid Changes
So there’s datamined patch information that has a rather hefty list of changes for you as a restoration druid. Let’s just dig right in and go through them as well as what the ramifications will be. 1.)...
View ArticleRamblings – Saving Throw Vs. Death in MMO’s
It’s been no secret that I have been playing quite a lot of The Secret World lately especially if you’ve been monitoring my twitter feed. It is a game I have grown to appreciate despite that fact that...
View ArticleA beautiful conclusion – 13/13H Throne of Thunder /w Ra-Den Video
This tier is finally over for us killing Ra-den tonight with plenty of attempts left for the week. It’s a little anticlimactic I will admit but it is gimmicky enough as a special optional boss that it...
View ArticleShort Musing – 5.4 Healer Trinkets
I have questions regarding the cooldown-reduction (CDR) trinkets having taken a closer look at them. If the healer trinket reduces all 3 minute major raid cooldowns by 27 seconds bringing them to...
View ArticleLunchtime Musings – Battle Pets a go-go
So it was fairly recently that I decided to crawl down the rabbit hole that is World of Warcraft – Battle Pets. Having never played any of the Pokemon (or similar) types of games before I was curious...
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