WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com WoW Insider http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com prods@weblogsinc.com (Weblogs, Inc. Producers) (Weblogs, Inc. Web Support) en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. View our terms of service here: http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/ Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Recap of recent healing changes]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/raid-rx-recap-of-recent-healing-changes/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/raid-rx-recap-of-recent-healing-changes/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/raid-rx-recap-of-recent-healing-changes/#comments Image Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

There's been some large changes to healing for some of the classes in recent builds. This week, we'll recap and go through the classes to see what's new. You might be interested to know that at level 89, my priest has 250k mana. Who wants to wager that 300k mana is the maximum cap at level 90? Remember with the new intellect and mana system coming in with the expansion, intellect stats no longer raise the mana pool anymore. Your mana regeneration is governed strictly by your spirit levels.

Priest

Lightwell receives a few tweaks to the healing numbers. More importantly, it now has a glyph that completely changes the functionality of the spell. Glyph of Lightspring turns Lightwell into an automatic healing ability with a catch. Lightwell will only heal players with health lower than 50%. It will only perform the check once every 5 seconds. That is a fair compromise to me. I've never been truly satisfied with Lightwell since my experience has shown me that most players never click on it when it really matters. At least this glyph helps remove control from them and I gain the knowledge of my Lightwell kicking in when it'll be needed.

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]]> druidfeaturedguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healmonkpaladinpriestraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guideshamanwow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 25 May 2012 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Dungeon Mastery: Shado-pan Monastery]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/18/dungeon-mastery-shado-pan-monastery/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/18/dungeon-mastery-shado-pan-monastery/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/18/dungeon-mastery-shado-pan-monastery/#comments Kun-Lai Summit is host to the Shado-pan Monastery. In Mists of Pandaria, you'll undoubtedly get a chance to experience and help rid the instance of Sha influence. Megan and I decided to check the place out and see what the deal is. We teamed up before when she carried me kindly tanked for me in the Stormstout Brewery. Like last time, I healed on my holy priest, Megan tanked on her druid, and we were accompanied with two hunters and an enhancement shaman. Your group needs to be at minimum level 87 in order to queue.

The video above is a little under 50 minutes long. We would've been able to move quicker if I hadn't been in combat all the time.

Yeesh. Even the Matticus needs a drink from time to time.

Gu Cloudstrike

Cloudstrike is the first boss your group will challenge. You'll run into Cloudstrike outside on a plateau just as you leave the first chamber. It's a three-phase encounter involving Cloudstrike and a flying serpent.

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]]> dungeongu-cloudstrikeinstancekun-lai-summitmaster-snowdriftmists-of-pandariamists-of-pandaria-betanormalpandasha-of-violenceshado-panshado-pan-monasterytaran-zhu (Matt Low) Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Wowhead previews Townlong Steppes]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/16/wowhead-previews-townlong-steppes/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/16/wowhead-previews-townlong-steppes/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/16/wowhead-previews-townlong-steppes/#comments Image Townlong Steppes opened up in one of the recent builds of the Mists of Pandaria beta. Normally, the Great Wall of Pandaria separates this zone from the rest of the continent, but the pandaren are investigating what's on the other side due to the attacks from the Mantids. The opposition in Townlong Steppes consists of mobs and quests for players who are 88+.

Adventurers won't find any shortage of activities in this zone.
  • Assist the Shado-Pan, who are checking out strange, jeweled camps near their garrison.
  • Fend off the mogu, who are commandeering cloud serpents in the islands north of the Temple of Niuzao.
  • Engage the yaungol and mantid alongside your pandaren allies in the Shallowstep Pass.
Head on over to Wowhead to preview the screenshots and backstory of all the different areas.
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]]> mantidmists-of-pandariamists-of-pandaria-betamogupandarenshado-pantemple-of-nieuzaotownlong-steppeswowhead-previewyaungolzone (Matt Low) Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Skill Mastery: Totemic Projection]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/skill-mastery-totemic-projection/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/skill-mastery-totemic-projection/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/skill-mastery-totemic-projection/#comments Totemic Projection, obtainable at level 45, gives you the ability to launch your currently placed totems to any location around you within 40 yards. Fairly straightforward, really easy to use. Those of you who like setting up macros may want to start planning a little about creative uses with your totems and Totemic Projection.
  • Capacitor Totem Drop this totem and count to three, then Totemically Project it toward your target. Voilà! Instant stun!
  • Earthbind Totem Perhaps best used in PvP, you can setup Earthbind to root and slow down players as they're busy running away from you, allowing you to close the gap and Chain Lightning their faces.
Those are just some of the ideas I had off the top of my head. The other talents add extra functionality to your totems. Call of the Elements lets you finish off any totem cooldowns that are active, allowing you to use them again. The catch is that the cooldown of the totem needs to be shorter than 5 minutes. Sadly, this means you cannot use your Fire Elemental Totem, Earth Elemental Totem, or Stormlash Totem back-to-back. Totem Restoration is a passive ability that lets totems respawn if they keep getting destroyed. I'd say that's useful in PvP, more than anything else.
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]]> betacall-of-the-elementscapacitor-totemearth-elemental-totemearthbind-totemfire-elemental-totemmists-of-pandariashamantotem-restorationtotemictotemic-projectiontotems (Matt Low) Fri, 11 May 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Skill Mastery: Astral Shift]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/skill-mastery-astral-shift/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/skill-mastery-astral-shift/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/skill-mastery-astral-shift/#comments One of the early shaman survival cooldowns that you can get at level 15 is called Astral Shift. It isn't flashy or super awesome or anything. But an emergency damage reducer on a 2-minute cooldown could be just what you need to stay alive and continue DPSing (or healing).

It doesn't reduce only magic damage.

Nor does it reduce only physical damage.

It reduces any damage!

In case you feel two minutes is too long, you have some alternatives. Nature's Guardian is an effect that can kick in once every 30 seconds, which might potentially save you (although the next hit you take could be lethal). Stone Bulwark totem is another alternative that places a shield on you which refreshes and adds additional absorb amounts every five seconds after.

The theme of the level 15 shaman talents revolves around survival and damage mitigation. Raiders may lean more toward Astral Shift, but I'm using the Stone Bulwark totem for the purposes of questing and leveling.
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]]> absorbastral-shiftdamagemitigationnatures-guardianpreventionraidshamanstone-bulwark-totemtalent (Matt Low) Fri, 11 May 2012 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Mists of Pandaria Beta: New loot frames roll into view]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/mists-of-pandaria-beta-new-loot-frames-roll-into-view/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/mists-of-pandaria-beta-new-loot-frames-roll-into-view/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/10/mists-of-pandaria-beta-new-loot-frames-roll-into-view/#comments Image New loot frames! No more having to stare at your chat frames and scroll up and down to see which player won what item. Loot rolls are now condensed into a loot roll frame that appears in your screen. It lists the results of all the items that went up for grabs in the instance and who won them.

If you look at the screenshot above, you can see the roll numbers next to each player and what roll types were used. The player who won the item is listed at the top. You can expand or collapse the menu to see the list of players who rolled and what roll type they used, such as need or greed.

The only downside to this new feature is that I couldn't find a way to move the frame around. But hey, I'll take these new loot roll frames any day. What about you?
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]]> betadungeoninstanceinterfacelootloot-framemists-of-pandariaraidui (Matt Low) Thu, 10 May 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Shamanism heading into Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/06/raid-rx-shamanism-heading-into-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/06/raid-rx-shamanism-heading-into-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/06/raid-rx-shamanism-heading-into-mists-of-pandaria/#comments Image Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

After covering monks, priests, paladins, and druids, there is one class left to review: shaman. How are they going to fare entering Mists of Pandaria?

Totems ... gone!

Just kidding!

They're not really gone. They've switched to more of a utility focus now. Looking at the entire list of totems available, not a single one provides any type of stat increase. Totems that provided passive buffs like Flametongue Totem, Mana Spring Totem, and Stoneskin Totem have been removed. Healing Stream took a nerf cannon to the face, now only affecting a player now instead of whole groups.

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]]> ascendancefeaturedguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guiderestoresto-shamanshamantalenttalent-guidetalent-treewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Sun, 06 May 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Mists of Pandaria: Cleaning up the Stormstout Brewery]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/02/mists-of-pandaria-cleaning-up-the-stormstout-brewery/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/02/mists-of-pandaria-cleaning-up-the-stormstout-brewery/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/02/mists-of-pandaria-cleaning-up-the-stormstout-brewery/#comments The Stormstout Brewery opened its doors for business last week. Megan and I, both avid brewery enthusiasts, decided to pay a visit. You can find the brewery entrance in the Valley of the Four Winds. As you adventure through the valley, you'll be assisting Chen Stormstout, and your adventures will take you inside the brewery, where you have to assist him in retaking and restoring the brewery to its former glory.

Our brewery testing composition consisted of myself healing (on a priest, naturally), Megan on her druid (the tank), a balance druid, and two mages. Our character levels were all over the place, from freshly transferred 85s to level 87s.

Ook-Ook

Not exactly Donkey Kong, but Ook-Ook is a giant banana-chucking monkey. Ook-Ook has a pretty fun mechanic that enables players to jump on top of barrels and direct where they go. He has a few friends that are busy. If the barrels make contact with you, you'll explode and take some damage (Brew Explosion). Don't worry -- it's not lethal. Ook-Ook Goes Bananas at 90%, 60%, and 30% intervals. He starts throwing some bananas around; they're harmless. His attack speed goes up, and he hits a touch harder. You'll see a wave of barrels coming in, so either dodge them or jump on them.

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]]> dungeondungeon-guidedungeon-previewguidehoptallusinstancemists-of-pandariaook-ookstormstout-brewerystrategyvalley-of-the-four-windsyan-zhu (Matt Low) Wed, 02 May 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Mists of Pandaria: Priests get an optional Shadowfiend upgrade, Zoidberg approves]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/01/mists-of-pandaria-priests-get-an-optional-shadowfiend-upgrade/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/01/mists-of-pandaria-priests-get-an-optional-shadowfiend-upgrade/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/01/mists-of-pandaria-priests-get-an-optional-shadowfiend-upgrade/#comments Getting tired of your Shadowfiend, priests? After having served us faithfully over multiple expansions, your Shadowfiend will be able to be talented into an upgraded Shadowfiend. Enter the Mindbender!

The Mindbender is a floating, squid-like creature that'll leech mana off opponents just like the original Shadowfiend --not just that, but the Mindbender hits harder and you get more mana back. Mindbender can be talented into at level 45. (That spot used to be blank before.) At level 87, my little minion was doing around 12,000 damage with possible crits up to 30,000 against the raider training dummies while I was in a healing spec.

Pretty cool facelift for the little guy! It'll be an interesting choice between Mindbender, Archangel, and From Darkness, Comes Light.

Too bad we can't give these pets names. I'd name mine Zoidberg.
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]]> discdisciplineholylevel-45manamindbenderminionmist-of-pandaria-betamists-of-pandariapetpriestshadowshadowfiendtalent (Matt Low) Tue, 01 May 2012 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: The outlook for holy paladins in Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/27/raid-rx-the-outlook-for-holy-paladins-in-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/27/raid-rx-the-outlook-for-holy-paladins-in-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/27/raid-rx-the-outlook-for-holy-paladins-in-mists-of-pandaria/#comments Image Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

You know, after reading through and playing around with a holy paladin on the Mists of Pandaria beta, it looks like paladins didn't get a ton groundbreaking class changes. In a way, though, that's a good thing! You still get to keep the same style of play, except you have a few new spells and abilities to really augment your healing even further. You don't even have to learn any new playstyles.

If you're an awesome healer now, then you should have no problems moving into the next expansion at all. The additional AoE helpers are a bonus. Even though Holy Radiance is awesome, it'd be nice to have a few other AoE healing spells for a change.

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]]> featuredguidehealinghealing-guideholyhow-to-healintellectmists-of-pandariapaladinplateraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Video: Mists of Pandaria Pet Battles]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/25/video-mists-of-pandaria-pet-battles-any/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/25/video-mists-of-pandaria-pet-battles-any/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/25/video-mists-of-pandaria-pet-battles-any/#comments Pet Battles are now available after the most recent patch update to the Mists of Pandaria beta. We've seen a few pet additions lately. Let's dive in, shall we?

The pet pane has been updated. Selecting the different pets shows you aspects like types and different abilities. Many of your pets won't have a full list of abilities yet. Naturally, your pets will start off at level 1, and as you enter engagements, they'll gain levels and gain access to stronger abilities. It's important to use the creature type that will give you an advantage over your opponent.

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]]> baby-blizzard-bearbattlebetamagic-lampmists-of-pandariapandaren-monkpetpet-battlesvideo (Matt Low) Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: An overview of druids in Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/18/raid-rx-an-overview-of-druids-in-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/18/raid-rx-an-overview-of-druids-in-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/18/raid-rx-an-overview-of-druids-in-mists-of-pandaria/#comments Image Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Last week, we covered some of the more notable monk abilities along with the expected playstyle. Recently, the level cap on beta has been raised to level 87, allowing every class access to their new level 87 spell. Much of the talk this week on the major sites and blogs is about Symbiosis. We touched on it several times, but now we get to take a closer look at it in further detail.

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]]> classclass-changesfeaturedguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healmists-of-pandariaraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guiderestorestorationspellstalentswow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The unspoken etiquette of world boss encounters]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/the-unspoken-etiquette-of-world-boss-encounters/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/the-unspoken-etiquette-of-world-boss-encounters/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/the-unspoken-etiquette-of-world-boss-encounters/#comments Image World bosses are returning in Mists of Pandaria!

You know, my uncle, the legendary General Commandicus Brutallicus, told me stories of veteran players staying up at various odd hours of the day to challenge the emerald dragons, Lord Kazzak, and others. Even though I was but a young priest at the time, he told me that going after them was a hoot and experience in itself, especially if your home was on a PvP realm.

There was an unspoken etiquette among raid leaders who went after world bosses. Since world bosses are making a comeback, I wanted to share them.
  • You can't call dibs. The first group that arrives, is buffed, and ready gets to pull the boss first. No exceptions. You can't just stroll in there and call dibs when your entire raid group wasn't there or ready yet. Heck, you can't even physically contest the boss even if you did get there first. Back in my day, anyone who cried about seeing the boss first and losing out was generally laughed at.
  • You take turns. There was an unspoken level of respect between the top raiding guilds. Despite the hatred and the fierce competition, we never interfered with attempts that were already progress. To do so brought dishonor to the guild and would cause you to be blacklisted from the realm. In an era when realm and faction transfer never existed, it was a big deal -- not to mention, if you opened fire on one group, they would come back and wipe your attempts. This would go on back and forth before everyone got tired, but no one would give. Yes, which leads me to the next rule ...
  • Bring two raid groups. You had one raid group which would tackle the main boss. The second raid group was there to provide cover and to engage or otherwise tie up any hostile players who wanted to wipe your raid. These tended to be the PvP contingents within the various guilds. They were the players who didn't raid but spent all day grinding Alterac Valley for Grand Marshall and all that. This second group of players would hide behind a mountain or a tree or something and wait for instructions from the primary raid leader before engaging anyone.
  • Majority guild receives first picks on loot. This is more of a courtesy than anything else. If a raid group consisted primarily of a raiding group and it was demonstrable that they did most of the heavy lifting, they had the right to select one item they wanted out of the loot drops before opening the rest to free roll. However, since the loot method is going to change, this rule is no longer relevant.

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]]> etiquettegalleonmists-of-pandariaraidraid-bossraidingrulesworld-boss (Matt Low) Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Patch 4.3.4 patch notes, new customer support changes live]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/patch-4-3-4-patch-notes-new-customer-support-changes-live/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/patch-4-3-4-patch-notes-new-customer-support-changes-live/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/patch-4-3-4-patch-notes-new-customer-support-changes-live/#comments A minor patch for World of Warcraft was deployed this morning. There are no gameplay changes, and this isn't the patch with the world events leading into Mists of Pandaria. The changes introduced in this patch are designed to streamline the ticket submission UI.

Patch 4.3.4 notes
  • A new Submit Bug button has been added. Clicking this option will open a report dialog box, along with basic instructions on what to include in your bug report.
  • A new Submit Suggestion button has been added. Clicking this option will open a text dialog box, along with a description of what to include in your suggestion.
  • The Report Lag button has been removed.
  • The Report Abuse button is now called Report Player.
    • The Report Player function offers four categories: Spamming, Language, Name, and Cheating.
    • Reporting a player for Cheating now opens a text window in which a description of the occurrence can be written.
    • Reporting a Name opens a window with three categories: Player Name, Guild Name, and Arena Team Name. There is also a text field for optional information.
    • Report Player now includes text and visual instructions for how to submit a report.
  • Right-clicking a character's portrait now offers additional reporting options.


If you're having problems patching your client to 4.3.4 and you're using the 64-bit client, you'll need to follow some additional instructions, which we've included past the cut below.

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]]> 4.3.4customer-supportnew-customer-support-optionspatchpatch-4.3.4patch-notes (Matt Low) Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Mistweaver Monk 101]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/09/raid-rx-mistweaver-monk-101/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/09/raid-rx-mistweaver-monk-101/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/09/raid-rx-mistweaver-monk-101/#comments Image Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Ghostcrawler introduced the monk in detail to us back during BlizzCon 2011. We didn't have as many details available to us until we entered the beta stage of the game. This week, I want to introduce you to the different aspects of healing monks.

The mistweaver monk is a stance-based class that has two forms of energy at their disposal: mana and chi.
  • Stance of the Wise Serpent Healing stance that replaces your energy resource bar and turns it into mana and converts your spirit rating into spell and melee hit rating. Abilities that would have cost energy now cost mana.
  • Stance of the Fierce Tiger Increases your damage done by 20% and allows access to a different set of offensive abilities.
When healing, you'll mostly be in the Stance of the Wise Serpent.

In terms of equipment, monks can use axes, staves, maces, fists, swords, and polearms. Your preferred weapons will mostly be staves or maces (although that may change as more items are revealed). For armor, you'll have access to leather and you'll get the 5% intellect from Leather Specialization. Like the other healing classes, your mana regeneration is going to rely on spirit.

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]]> chifeaturedguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healmistweavermonkraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Priest thoughts and the 100k mana club]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/03/raid-rx-priest-thoughts-and-the-100k-mana-club/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/03/raid-rx-priest-thoughts-and-the-100k-mana-club/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/03/raid-rx-priest-thoughts-and-the-100k-mana-club/#comments
Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Welcome to the 100k mana club! As you may have heard, healer mana is being normalized across the board so that everyone has 100,000 mana. We heard about this change way back around November. After getting into the second wave of beta invites for Mists of Pandaria, one of the first things I did after setting my keybinds and messing around with my spec was to head straight for dungeon queues.

Waiting 18 minutes as a healer? C'mon, guys! Throw me a bone here!

I'm going to write about two vastly different experiences. Like many other healing priests, I decided to run two different healing specs, discipline and holy. Leveling as a healer isn't going to be that bad when your Holy Fires and Smites are hitting for 40,000 crits.

My eyes were slowly getting crossed between looking at my mana bar on the top left to the center of my screen where I place my party frames. That's before I realized I could poke around in the settings and get mana bars to show up within the frames.

Way to go, default UI!

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]]> (Matt Low) Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Another 100,000 Mists of Pandaria beta invites arriving tonight]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/31/another-100-000-mists-of-pandaria-beta-invites-arriving-tonight/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/31/another-100-000-mists-of-pandaria-beta-invites-arriving-tonight/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/31/another-100-000-mists-of-pandaria-beta-invites-arriving-tonight/#comments Blizzard's developers are like monks. They are on a roll today! Earlier this evening, they fired out 100,000 beta invites after last night's set of 100,000 invites. Several minutes ago, Bashiok announced that yet another 100,000 invites have just been sent out.

We heard you like invites so we put an invite in your invite so you can beta while you beta.

This is a short but sweet update that we're sending an additional 100,000 invites out tonight, for a total of 200,000 Mists of Pandaria invites being sent out today. Again, it will take a while for the invites to process so we recommend keeping an eye on your games list through Battle.net Account Management, as we expect invites to continue going out into the wee hours of the night and into tomorrow.

For more information on the invite process as a whole, please refer back to today's earlier announcement.


Keep an eye on your Battle.net Account Management and be wary of any email scams!

Good luck on your invites!
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]]> BashiokBeta-InvitesInvitesmistsMists-Betamists-of-pandariamists-of-pandaria-betaMoP-Beta (Matt Low) Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:58:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Mists of Pandaria healing changes]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/26/raid-rx-mists-of-pandaria-healing-changes/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/26/raid-rx-mists-of-pandaria-healing-changes/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/26/raid-rx-mists-of-pandaria-healing-changes/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

You'll notice that there are a ton of new glyphs that have been added for all the classes. That list is by no means exhaustive. I also noticed some slight changes in the way certain spells work. I can assure you it won't be anything too drastic, but these changes are enough to keep you interested and wondering. This week, I'll be rounding up what we know healers will be getting, as well as any other notable modifications.

New for druids

Cenarion Ward appears to be a Prayer of Mending-like spell without the subsequent charges. Good spell to open with before an engagement. Won't have to pre-HoT as much. Just remember to pre-Ward.

Wild Mushroom: Bloom! Hope you love 'shrooms, since you'll be gaining the use of these in addition to your Balance friends. Anticipate a moment where big AoE healing is needed, and plant 'shrooms. Detonate after raid group takes a hit, and relish in the healing spores that explode.

Regrowth can be glyphed to remove the HoT component. Benefit? 40% increased chance of a critical heal. I guess you can configure a HoT-based class to switch to a non-HoT direction.

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]]> disciplinedruidfeaturedglyphsguidehealinghealing-guideholyhow-to-heallightwellmists-of-pandariamonkpaladinpriestraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guiderestshamanwow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Beta Testing 101: How to stream your beta sessions]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/25/beta-testing-101-how-to-stream-your-beta-sessions/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/25/beta-testing-101-how-to-stream-your-beta-sessions/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/25/beta-testing-101-how-to-stream-your-beta-sessions/#comments I've recently gotten into livestreaming. If you visit my channel on Own3d, you can see some hilarious and heart-wrenching wipes that I've recorded in heroic Dragon Soul. If you're into League of Legends, you can see a few games there (900 ELO bracket, represent)! I'm making an effort to stream our raiding attempts and narrating as I go. Did you know WoW Insider has a livestream page over at Twitch? (Subscribe to that, too!)

Today, I'll go over some of the tools and techniques for streaming so that your viewers can watch a polished live stream of you and your activities. I believe the best live streams are of players who are both entertaining and educational. I like watching different player perspectives so that you can see what's going on from their angle and gaining an understanding of what they go through.

I highly recommend using Xsplit as the program to stream with. You don't have to buy any licensing, but it's not a bad idea to invest for the additional audio quality if streaming is an activity you think you'll get into.

Once you have the program downloaded and configured, the next step is to settle on a streaming service. The two biggest ones out there are Own3d and Twitch. Either service will work. Both services have a revenue stream program making it possible to make a money on the side based on the amount of viewers your stream gets.

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]]> betabeta-testing-101livestreammists-of-pandariaown3dstreamstreamingtwitch (Matt Low) Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Mists of Pandaria: Monk talents revealed]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/24/mists-of-pandaria-monk-talents-revealed-any/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/24/mists-of-pandaria-monk-talents-revealed-any/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/24/mists-of-pandaria-monk-talents-revealed-any/#comments Our friends over at WoWHead have compiled a working talent calculator with the monk talents. While one talent is missing (and is defined as "mystery talent"), it seems Blizzard is well on its way to finalizing the list of talents.

Level 15 (Affects Roll)
Level 30 (Affects Chi)

Level 45 (Affects crowd control)

Level 60 (Affects personal movement)

Level 75 (Affects survival)

Level 90 (Damage and healing abilities)

While the talent list isn't set in stone, it's nice to at least have an idea of what types of spells and talents monks can choose. Now that the information is out, which talents do you plan on taking for your monk? Any guesses as to what the Mystery Talent might be?
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]]> chimists-of-pandariamonkrolltalenttalent-calculatortalent-tree (Matt Low) Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Yor'sahj healing on hard mode]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/09/raid-rx-yorsahj-healing-on-hard-mode/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/09/raid-rx-yorsahj-healing-on-hard-mode/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/09/raid-rx-yorsahj-healing-on-hard-mode/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Did you manage to knock out heroic mode Hagara? Wondering where to go next? The summoner of ooze, Yor'sahj should be next on your list. Perhaps the biggest change in heroic is the extra ooze that spawns that your raid needs to deal with. This means Yor'sahj has more abilities with which to assault your raid. This encounter doesn't exactly have a set script, since Yor'sahj cycles through different slime combinations.

For healing setups, I strongly advise bringing in no more than six healers. Healers will want to configure their UIs so that they can view Deep Corruption debuffs on their raid frames. All in all, Yor'sahj hinges heavily on the ability of your raid to react to the different combinations.

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]]> dragon soulDragonSoulfeaturedguidehard modeHardModehealinghealing-guideheroic modeHeroicModehow-to-healraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healingyorsahj (Matt Low) Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: How to heal Hagara on heroic mode]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/05/raid-rx-how-to-heal-hagara-on-heroic-mode/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/05/raid-rx-how-to-heal-hagara-on-heroic-mode/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/05/raid-rx-how-to-heal-hagara-on-heroic-mode/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

For most guilds, the next step after taking down heroic Mor'chok is either Hagara or Yor'sahj. I'd say both are similar around overall difficulty level but stress different raid aspects. You're coordinating movement and position heavily in an encounter like Hagara, whereas with Yor'sahj, straight-up brute force is all that's required to do the job.

I'll break down each major phase with some of the approaches that can be used to handle the different mechanics and outline anything that's considered critical for healers to know. The 10% buff should make these bosses much more accessible now.

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]]> (Matt Low) Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Mists of Pandaria healing additions, changes, and thoughts]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/raid-rx-mists-of-pandaria-healing-additions-changes-and-thoug/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/raid-rx-mists-of-pandaria-healing-additions-changes-and-thoug/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/raid-rx-mists-of-pandaria-healing-additions-changes-and-thoug/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Were you excited about the latest changes that were made to the Mists of Pandaria talent calculator that was introduced last week? Some earth shattering changes all around but who do you think won out? Let's examine!

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]]> guidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Can healing be diversified further?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/11/raid-rx-can-healing-be-diversified-further/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/11/raid-rx-can-healing-be-diversified-further/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/11/raid-rx-can-healing-be-diversified-further/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street (lead developer) published a developer blog post a few days ago and shared thoughts about roles within the game. DPS classes tend to have multiple specs that can be switched to in order to provide a different set of damage spells and utilities. Some of the examples cited included warlocks and rogues, since they're straight DPS classes. Would it be possible to hypothesize and think about single-role healing classes with varied specs? While I don't think it is unheard of, I can already think about the different logistical and gameplay difficulties that are going to come with it.

For DPSers, you have that role divided between those players in the ranged group and those belonging to the melee. With healing, you're limited with just being purely at range. There isn't a classified melee-only healer (and we don't know entirely how the monk will play out).

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]]> classdesigndiscussionfeaturedguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healmists-of-pandariaraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guiderolespecwow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Healing heroic Morchok]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/05/raid-rx-healing-heroic-morchok/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/05/raid-rx-healing-heroic-morchok/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/05/raid-rx-healing-heroic-morchok/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

The recent nerf to Dragon Soul with the release of patch 4.3.2 means more players are now within striking distance of Morchok on heroic modes. He's a boss that serves as an execution check for your raiding group more than anything else. If your raid group mastered the art of healing through him on normal, then it should have no problem doing it again on heroic.

Just be prepared to do it twice.

The biggest hard mode change is that Morchok clones himself. His clone has the exact same abilities as Morchok prime, except the timing will be off. Your raid will be splitting in two and pulling the two bosses away from each other. You can envision the fight as two pseudo 10-man groups fighting (or two 5-mans, if you're in a 10-man raiding group).

Come into the raid with six to seven healers, if you're a 25-man raiding group. Actually, I'd consider bringing seven if it's the very first time. For 10-man, it is not uncommon for groups to bring in up to four healers for the first time. You'll need them, due to the amount of damage being dished out to the raid. Ideally, try to insist that when your raid leader splits the raid into two groups, the players will show up in your raid frames in different groups. Having all of the players in group 1 and 2 on one side with groups 3 and 4 on the other can be beneficial. The side that is tanking Morchok is the one that could benefit from the extra healer, as it seems more damage is done on that side.

I strongly recommend bringing in tanks with their four-piece bonuses, because they will be an incredible asset.

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Time to take a break from trying to be an awesome healer. It just feels much easier to be the best at being the bottom of the barrel. Without any concerns, you can simply play however you like with no fear. There are multiple steps on the road to being an excellent healer for your raiding guild. As you might expect, the same applies to being the worst healer.

Note: You shouldn't actually do any of these, as they're the exact opposite of the way you should be playing. I would like to add that I've seen parts of this list in action throughout the years in my experiences.

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"Wipe it!" my raid leader bellows. I whip off my headset in disgust and sink back in my chair, burying my face in my trembling hands and tuning out the usual post-wipe Mumble drivel. After collecting myself, I pull up any logs and try to figure out what happened. Could I have done anything to change the outcome? In most cases, the answer is a yes. There is always something that any single player could have done differently in the moments leading up to a fateful wipe.

Last week's column about pushing healing performance seemed to have struck a chord with several readers. I wanted to take a moment and examine some of the commenters' approaches to rankings, meters and healing logs.

If you want to play at a higher level than you are now, you must start with your mind. Blaming other players because you are being outplayed is not going to help you get any better.

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]]> (Matt Low) Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Start ranking on healing without even trying]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/13/raid-rx-start-ranking-on-healing-without-even-trying/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/13/raid-rx-start-ranking-on-healing-without-even-trying/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/13/raid-rx-start-ranking-on-healing-without-even-trying/#comments
Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

It was a Thursday night. For the past few weeks, I've done Ultraxion as shadow for additional DPS time. I'm usually the swing player who can spec into both healing and DPS. Mind you, I'm not the great at shadow. This time around, we were using five healers on Ultraxion because our other regular healer wasn't able to make it that day. On 25-man, Ultraxion has six healing crystal buffs. Using five healers meant that one of the crystals would not be in use. I opened up with red crystal before sneaking the blue crystal later. I think this was the second or third time I've actually healed Ultraxion.

Alas, I was not able to catch our resident holy paladin, who aced me on the meters again. One of these days, I will catch him. I don't have a clue how. Circle of Healing and Prayer of Mending used on cooldown while dropping Prayer of Healing nukes every chance. I'm even waiting until the last possible second on Hour of Twilight before triggering the phase out (which is very dangerous, mind you, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have the dexterity and reflexes of a hockey goalie).

It wasn't until well after the raid that I noticed we used only four healers on that encounter. Looks like our other priest didn't get the memo and stayed shadow the entire time.

Eventually, your raiding group will reach a stage where you can simply heal full tilt. You can take shortcuts and bigger risks that lead to additional payoffs (like quicker raids and personal satisfaction from ranking, for example).

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Are you going through your healing rotation properly?

No question has raised my wrath more than that. The idea of a healing rotation is my ultimate pet peeve. I once had a ret paladin ask me what my healing rotation was. Not even his bubble could protect him from my stony glare that penetrated his monitor.

Healing is all about a priority system. It's about who needs what healing spell when. So as you're progressing through all the normal and heroic modes that Dragon Soul has to offer, learn to cultivate smarter healing habits. Find out what you need to focus on. Figure out what crappy habits you need to break.

Coincidentally, Mike Gray wrote about the DPS side of spell priorities just the other day. He goes into great detail about the history of the DPS rotation and what developers were witnessing from the players. With healing, though, no real rotation exists. It's all about priorities. Two types of priorities exist: spell choices and healing targets. For players who are just getting started with healing, let me go into further detail about each type.

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]]> featuredguidehealinghealing-guidehealing-rotationhow-to-healpriorityraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guiderotationwow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Top healing moments of 2011]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/30/raid-rx-top-healing-moments-of-2011/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/30/raid-rx-top-healing-moments-of-2011/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/30/raid-rx-top-healing-moments-of-2011/#comments
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This was a fun year for me as a healer. Granted, I had to learn how to heal again, but I do enjoy this expansion's model of healing (although a part of me does miss The Burning Crusade a little when all I had to do was pound Circle of Healing repeatedly). There were many memorable moments that I experienced during raids, and there are others that affected many more of us.

Announcing the monk Undoubtedly the best news for healers this year is this. BlizzCon 2011 unveiled a ton of news and announcements. The biggest one for healers was that there would be a new healing class for players. You guessed it, I guessed it, and I'm pretty sure half the world guessed and hoped for a monk class. These leather-wearing bears are set to help heal in the upcoming challenges that Mists of Pandaria will be throwing our way. While we don't have a complete look on the full range of abilities that monks can do, we do know that they rely heavily on mobility to get their spells out.

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]]> chimaeronfeaturedguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healmists-of-pandariamonkraidraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Healing the Spine and Madness of Deathwing]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/23/raid-rx-healing-the-spine-and-madness-of-deathwing/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/23/raid-rx-healing-the-spine-and-madness-of-deathwing/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/23/raid-rx-healing-the-spine-and-madness-of-deathwing/#comments
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This is it. This is the final encounter of the expansion. Everything you've ever worked for and fought through has led to this point. This is the moment you get to help rid the world of Deathwing. First, we need to ground this oversized lizard. Immediately after the conclusion of the gunship (part two), you'll be parachuting onto Deathwing's back. We'll go over the different obstacles and what you and your healers need to do to get over the proverbial raid hump. (To the raiders who do 10-mans, you'll have to adjust the numbers a bit. I'm not as well versed on 10s, so you'll have to bear with me as I draw up assistance for the 25-man version.)

To attack the Spine of Deathwing, we need to peel off those metal plates on Deathwing's back so that we can really weaken him further. Our healing goal here is to ensure that our tanks live. Apparently, Deathwing has all sorts of little defenses that he'll use to try to shake us off; there are several threats on this fight that healers need to be aware of. You're on an extremely narrow field of battle here, so movement's going to be really limited.

What did you expect, though? You're fighting on the back of a former dragon aspect.

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]]> deathwingdragon soulDragonSoulhealerhealingLeap Of Faithpriestworld of warcraftWorldOfWarcraft (Matt Low) Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Healing Ultraxion and Warmaster Blackhorn]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/16/raid-rx-healing-ultraxion-and-warmaster-blackhorn/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/16/raid-rx-healing-ultraxion-and-warmaster-blackhorn/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/16/raid-rx-healing-ultraxion-and-warmaster-blackhorn/#comments
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In every expansion, there's always been at least one raid boss that's really defined healers. In this expansion, we had Chimaeron back in Blackwing Descent. We've got another one in Ultraxion over in the new Dragon Soul raid in patch 4.3. This guy is a (literal) beast. After that, we get another crack on the next gunship encounter.

Setting up to heal Ultraxion

When you're setting up for Ultraxion, there are a few things you need to do. Decide on the number of healers you wish to use. I would highly recommend opening with five healers. The DPS requirements on normal encounter can be a challenge to match.

The next step is to figure out your buffs. There are three different healing buffs you can get. On 10-man, you get one type of crystal; on 25-man, you get two sets.
  • Gift of Life This comes from Alexstrasza. It'll be the first set of crystals that spawn. These should be handed out to priests or druids.
  • Essence of Dreams The green buff from Ysera duplicates your direct healing done and distributes it to the rest of the raid. I've found this to be extremely powerful for restoration shaman.
  • Source of Magic The last buff you'll get is my personal favorite. Reducing mana costs by 75% and increasing spell haste by 100% is really juicy especially for priests and paladins.

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]]> featuredguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: How to heal Yor'sahj and Hagara]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/09/raid-rx-how-to-heal-yorsahj-and-hagara/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/09/raid-rx-how-to-heal-yorsahj-and-hagara/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/09/raid-rx-how-to-heal-yorsahj-and-hagara/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Ready for a trip back into the Eye of Eternity? Oh, don't worry, you'll get your chance to reminisce. This week, we're going to look at the next two bosses within the Dragon Soul raid instance. Some movement will be required -- hope you have your running shoes equipped. Last thing you want happen is to complain to your raid leader that your feet are in pain.

Yor'sahj is one of the bosses that some raid groups may have some difficulty with. I know that green and red slimes up can be the hardest combination to deal with. We'll go over how to handle those. ... Could always ask Greatfather Winter for a hand! I'm sure he'd be happy to help with some brand new raid loot.

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]]> dragon soulDragonSoulfeaturedguidehagarahealinghealing-guidehow-to-healraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healingyorsahj (Matt Low) Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Healing Morchok and Warlord Zon'ozz]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/02/healing-morchuk-and-warlord-zonozz/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/02/healing-morchuk-and-warlord-zonozz/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/02/healing-morchuk-and-warlord-zonozz/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

A new month and a new patch means new raid bosses to learn! It means new mechanics to learn, new players to work with (for some of you) and new challenges. I'm pretty sure that it's safe to say most of us were getting a little ... burned out on Firelands.

The opening bosses should present a nice warmup for the rest of the instance. We'll start with quick healing setups for Morchok and Warlord Zon'ozz. The Raid Finder iteration of these bosses shouldn't be a problem for you if you already have a history of raiding. Normal versions might present a bit of a step up.

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]]> dragon-soulfeaturedguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-heallootmorchokpatch-4.3raid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewarlord-zonozzworld-of-warcraft-patch-4.3wow-guidewow-healingwow-patchwow-patch-4.3wow-patch-4.3-newswow-patch-newswow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Checking out level 90 talents]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/25/raid-rx-checking-out-level-90-talents/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/25/raid-rx-checking-out-level-90-talents/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/25/raid-rx-checking-out-level-90-talents/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

That new Mists of Pandaria talent calculator is out. Had a chance to look through it? You might've been alarmed at the fact that several key spells appear to be missing from the list of skills and such. Not to worry, though, since Bashiok clarified that it was still under development. Anything missing is (hopefully) unintentional. A few classes are given previews of new skills trainable past level 85. The classes that don't have their stuff created yet are presumably still being worked on.

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]]> featuredguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healmists-of-pandariaraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidetalenttalent-calculatortalent-treeswow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: A new balance for intellect and spirit in Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/new-balance-for-intellect-and-spirit-in-mists-of-pand/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/new-balance-for-intellect-and-spirit-in-mists-of-pand/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/18/new-balance-for-intellect-and-spirit-in-mists-of-pand/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

One of the proposed revamps coming in Mists of Pandaria is the way intellect and spirit interact with each other in regards to healers. For the new healer, understanding the current formula for mana regen can be a little daunting. To make it really easy, let's just say that it plays off both your spirit and your intellect. However, your intellect has a gradually increasing impact on how much mana you gain back in combat situations as your gear improves.

It appears that will no longer be the case heading into the next expansion. Ghostcrawler (lead systems designer) helped shed some light on the issue in a blue post earlier in the week.

The highlights?
  • Intellect becomes a sheer throughput stat
  • Spirit controls the rate of mana regen
  • Mana pools will remain fixed

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]]> featuredghostcrawlerguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healintellectmanamana-regenmists-of-pandariaraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidespiritwow-5.0wow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Class balance and design Q&A panel looks at healing]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/11/raid-rx-class-balance-and-design-qanda-panel-looks-at-healing/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/11/raid-rx-class-balance-and-design-qanda-panel-looks-at-healing/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/11/raid-rx-class-balance-and-design-qanda-panel-looks-at-healing/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Manage to catch the class Q&A earlier this week? If not, there are some pretty interesting things going on for patch 4.3 and for Mists of Pandaria. You can either go check out the full transcript or read on for only the healing relevant ones.

Highlights include:
  • Discipline priests get a new spell.
  • Intellect won't directly increase mana pool size.
  • Restoration Druids get a castable Barkskin.

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Annnd the BlizzCon hangover continues. I think we should have two BlizzCons a year. Perhaps one out in the east (or maybe a separate one in Europe)? I think it'd be neat! But alas, I'm digressing. This week in how to maintain your healing sanity, I wanted to discuss a problem that most healers have experienced at some point in their healing careers. Ever go to bed sweating stressing about your healing? Felt particularly bad about your performance because you just kept dropping the ball? Have that sinking feeling in your stomach after a particularly bad night?

If this happens to you consistently, then you just might be suffering from worry!

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]]> anxietyfeaturedguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidestressstress-managementworrywow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Thoughts on the next expansion and healers]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/raid-rx-thoughts-on-the-next-expansion-and-healers/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/raid-rx-thoughts-on-the-next-expansion-and-healers/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/raid-rx-thoughts-on-the-next-expansion-and-healers/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

Wow, what a truly fantastic BlizzCon! Had a blast at the WoW Insider party meeting all of you. I want to take a moment to fire some shout-outs to everyone who approached me just to say hello. It's quite humbling!

With the new Mists of Pandaria expansion on the horizon, has anything really changed for healing? We didn't really experience much in terms of a philosophy change. In fact, healing itself was hardly even addressed at all. So what gives? What can we expect for healers going into 5.0? Not much, sadly, but read on anyway.

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]]> featuredguidehealinghealing-guidehow-to-healraid-guideraid-healingraiding-guidewow-guidewow-healingwow-raid-guidewow-raid-healing (Matt Low) Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raid Rx: Raid healing wish list for BlizzCon]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/14/raid-rx-raid-healing-wish-list-for-blizzcon/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/14/raid-rx-raid-healing-wish-list-for-blizzcon/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/14/raid-rx-raid-healing-wish-list-for-blizzcon/#comments Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

We are one week away from BlizzCon! I cannot wait! While most of the healing changes have already been outlined for 4.3, I'm sure there are a few things that you wish would be different. I have a list compiled myself of things that would be interesting to have or revert back to. However, you and I both know these are things that will never happen. But who cares? It's fun to think about the possibilities, at least. I'm sure there'll be other exciting announcements next week. Maybe we'll see some new healing reveals that Blizzard's planning for the next expansion.

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