The Daily Quest: The new Restokin druid blog
by Dan O'Halloran 
Mar 24th 2009 at 1:00PM
We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.The name Lissanna is well-known to many Druids. She has been posting quality feedback and guides on the Official Forums Druid class section for years. Now she has started her own blog, Restokin, to post her guides, analysis and opinions on the many different Druid specs. Here's a sampling of what she already has up:
- Druid Leveling Guide (alt link)
- Feral leveling
- Balance leveling
- Low level Battleground advice
- Q&A and links to additional resources
- Additional advice & What to Wear
- Bear tips: AE pulling with Hurricane
- How to heal in 3.1: Restoration PvE healing (alt link)
- Tank healing – Nourish supported by HOTs
- Tank healing – Lifebloom strategies
- AOE raid healing – Wild growth and other HOTs
- Recommended talent spec(s)
- Glyphs for tank & raid healing
- Nourish testing on the Patch 3.1 PTR
EDIT: As you can imagine, her site is getting a lot of traffic at the moment, so if you can't get through, try again in a little while. Alternative links to the Druid Leveling Guide and Resto Healing Guide are added above.
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Filed under: Druid, Fan stuff, Raiding, Guides, Talents, The Daily Quest
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Daisil Mar 24th 2009 1:08PM
very nice; but it doesn't even load.
Heilig Mar 24th 2009 1:08PM
Sure hope her blog can handle the bandwidth she's about to get slammed with.
Xerous Mar 24th 2009 1:18PM
nope..
SINisterWyvern Mar 24th 2009 1:41PM
At least all these hits will generate some funds and help towards an upgrade, lol.
Morcego Mar 24th 2009 2:28PM
We could post it on Digg and Slashdot too, to make things easier :)
Cheese Mar 24th 2009 1:10PM
what a stupid tattoo
eadipus Mar 24th 2009 1:24PM
once this loads I'll be super excited for it, just about got my resto set built so I'm nearly ready to heal.
combined with this:
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/06/shifting-perspectives-gearing-your-restoration-druid-at-80/
should be everything I need to get started.
Daisil Mar 24th 2009 1:25PM
Apparently this person who has the website doesn't realize you cannot use shared hosting with IGXEhosting and expect to pull huge numbers in bandwidth.
GO VPS or Dedicated; otherwise you are kinda SOL.
Cyanea Mar 24th 2009 1:43PM
Everyone's gotta start SOMEWHERE.
Rugus Mar 24th 2009 1:31PM
Dunno about the website (it does not even load) but the Tattoo... is just *horribly* done.
maeby Mar 24th 2009 1:39PM
someones gotta step and fill pahelia's void
Keyra Mar 24th 2009 1:45PM
ABOUT THE TATTOO:
We read your rants about this tattoo and others back in January. You don't need to repeat them again. It's old news. There's nothing more that needs to be said about it. These aren't the 'droids you're looking form. You can go about your business. Move along.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/27/swift-flight-form-in-ink/
ABOUT THE BANDWIDTH:
There is a huge surge in bandwidth at the moment due to the fact that it is being featured here on WoW Insider. In a few days, it will be back to a manageable level; therefore, there's no need to chide Lissanna about it, nor rant that the site must suck because it won't load.
WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR REGULARLY-SCHEDULED FLAME-THROWING.
PopeJamal Mar 24th 2009 2:22PM
Here's my quality feedback:
"These aren't the droids you're looking FORM!"
L2Chastise!
"You have recieved this message because the resource you have requested is not accessable by the webserver due to file permissions or other locking conditions. Please verify that you have access rights to the requested resource or that the Apache daemon has access rights to the requested resource before trying again. ""
L2Webhost!
I-man Mar 24th 2009 2:44PM
wasn't gonna comment until you told me not to.
ugly tattoo.
where's the bandwidth?
Keyra Mar 24th 2009 4:15PM
@ PopeJamal: uh-oh...RUN, EVERYONE! KEYRA MADE A TYPO!!! That's one of the harbingers of the Apocalypse, isn't it? Damn...
@ I-man: :-P
konoo Mar 24th 2009 1:59PM
Get a better host, you shouldn't be having this issue. Go with a smaller hosting firm that will help you when you have issues like this :)
Additionally I am getting 500 internal errors which are typically a suphp issue with file ownership possible the host made the site inaccessible because of the load.
For anyone who wants to see the site :
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:rZyxzL4eFWsJ:www.restokin.com/+http://restokin.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
It's slow but it works.
pinkysan Mar 24th 2009 2:04PM
next time, i hope you guys notify the ppl before you slash-dot their servers down, as much as it's good intention to promote them. ^.^
I look forward to the site when it's back up through.
Agelamer Mar 24th 2009 2:18PM
Maybe someone should send her some tips on how to properly host a website, if she truly is trying to fill phelia's boots.
Lavata Mar 24th 2009 2:40PM
So any good recommendations on a decent VPS host.
I came across RapidVPS and VPSland but don't know much about them at the moment.
This is not Lissanna, but it is my hosting account from which her blog is hosted.
nbcaffeine Mar 24th 2009 2:58PM
I use vpsland for personal things, and I haven't had any issues that they didn't promptly fix. However, if you're starting out new there, their choice of OSes are dated. The latest ubuntu offering was from 2007. You can upgrade manually, but I really liked the rapid redeployment of various OSes. What more would you expect for like $15/mo though?
Had my account there for several years after coming and going at about a dozen other places, YMMV of course.