Filed under: Priest, Instances, Leveling, (Priest) Spiritual Guidance

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is now Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of PlusHeal, a new healing community for all restorative classes. For the next few weeks (unless it’s something game breaking), Matt will do his best to guide you through the Priest leveling process!

By now, you’ll have learned most of the spells you’ll be using at end game. If you’ve been crafty, you might have been able to land instance runs to hone your abilities as a healer (or DPS if you’re of the Shadow sort). I won’t focus as much on spells here on out although I will list anything significant on the way to 60. Instead, I’ll explore the various zones and instances that you can (and should) do.

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King

We have a few more questions about the passenger mounts today, but a lot of Mammoth-related questions are repeats of ones we’ve answered previously. So if you still have a question about them after today, I recommend checking the last few editions of Ask a Beta Tester to see if it’s been answered already. Now, let’s get started with Iceman‘s question…

Are the flying passenger mounts? Ground mounts are lovely and all, but once everyone takes to the skies will they become useless to everyone with cold weather flying?

I haven’t seen any flying passenger mounts yet. Whether the passenger ground mounts are ‘useless’ or not with Cold Weather Flying is really up to the individual. You can still use it in the old world, you can still use the Mammoth’s vendors. There are also places like Lake Wintergrasp where flying is turned off permanently so you don’t ‘cheat’ and skip over all of the fighting to get from Point A to Point B. You and a bunch of your friends charging people down in a huge Mammoth is sweet.

If you don’t care about any of that stuff though, yeah it could be seen as useless. It’s an optional purchase, though. You don’t need to spend the money if you don’t want to do so.

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast topics, Instances, Raiding, Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King

Ever since the whole 10-man/25-raiding split for Wrath was announced, there’s been murmurs of fear from many raiders that the large scale raid will become a thing of the past, as people decide that they can see content just fine in 10-man groups. I noticed the subject come up again today over on Lume the Mad’s blog (not to be confused with the awesomer Lum the Mad’s blog): A guild on Proudmoore, Renaissance, has decided to scale back to 10 man raiding for Wrath of the Lich King. They have why, but Lume opines a bit on why: easier bosses, less hassle herding 10 people than 25 people, and stuff such as that.

The reminder of the debate actually sort of got me thinking in a less controversial vein. I myself scaled back my game a bit from original WoW to the Burning Crusade expansion. In the original game, I was a relatively dedicated raider. Not the most uber, and probably still more casual than most, but I did regularly participate in 40-mans and tried to bring my consumables and my resist gear and be on time most nights.

However, with Burning Crusade, I decided to retire from the raid game. I felt I was just spending too much time farming stuff to raid, I had more real world obligations to deal with, and I felt that spending 2-3 hours in Ahn’Qiraj or Blackwing Lair 2-3 days a week just wasn’t how I wanted to spend my playtime. So, come BC, I decided to stick to 10-mans. Not that there were many, but I figured Karazhan would be about the pinnacle of my game for BC, and that was just fine.

So, anyway, here’s my question: Are you or your guild planning to scale back your game for Wrath? Are you dropping 25-mans for 10-mans? Retiring from Arena play? Dropping out of raiding altogether? What reasons have made you decide to try a new slower paced playstyle in Northrend?

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Continue reading Around Azeroth: Stop dragon my heart around

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Filed under: Humor, Comics

Sunday is the day to catch up on your homework, chores, Brewfest hangover, and the week’s worth of WoW-related web comics. Because I cannot help you with your homework for ethical reasons, and I’m allergic to your chores, I compiled a comic list for you instead!

Humor

• Call of Duty: World at War-Craft from Action Trip.
• Save the Mammoth Calves from Dark Legacy Comics.
• Secret Alt from Monkey Punchers.
• Undermob from NoObz.
• Ding! cautions that perhaps players should reconsider the placement of certain buttons.

Humor with a plot-line

• Hares and Heroines from Flintlocke vs. The Horde.
• The latest from LFG.
• Noobcow and the First Quest Giver for Reals from Manic Graffiti.
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Zul’Farrak from Road to BlizzCon.
• Latest from Sluggy Freelance.
• They Finally Meet Their Match from Teh Gladiators.

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