Blog entries posted in Jade's Finds

Improve yourself Healer.

Jadesea — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:26:06 +0100

Here are some links for healers to help work on improving yourself as a part of your heal team. It's more than just green bars.

From Bellwether at 4 Haelz, a post all about knowing more than just your job at healing.

From Mimetir at World of Matticus, about healing and raid leading. This is good for all healers to read because raid leading is about seeing the whole fight and making snap decisions.

From Derevka at Tales of a Priest, a post for healing t...

Raid changes in Cataclysm

Jadesea — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:29:21 +0100

I wasn't planning on writing up one on this because it seems like it's been hashed to death. But then I read this post by Cassandri at Hots & Dots. I couldn't agree more, it's pretty much exactly how I feel about the subject. Both 25mans and 10mans are hard in their own way and Blizzards designing instances to be either one is a really awful idea from a mechanics stand point. I whole heartily support the part about having multiple raids of different sizes that are unique places in o...

Cataclysm Concerns

Jadesea — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:31:52 +0100

I'm concerned about all this blue talk we hear about mechanic changes: specifically bringing back triaging to healing and CC to instances.

And I'm not the only one.

As both Karmakin amd Shintar point out that both the healing style and the approach to instances are very different right now. Green bars must remain full not only because of the "Where's the heals?" people but because in a lot of places, especially working on content that is appropriate for your gear l...

Paladin edition of the class previews

Jadesea — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:16:42 +0100

Hope these help:

Killing 'em Slowly.

Honor's Code.

Light's Fury.

Moar HPS!

I Like Bubbles.

Healing Council.

For some reason I didn't see anything from Wow.com on this, though I may have missed it.

Druid edition of class preview reactions

Jadesea — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:07:48 +0100

So I read a lot of druid blogs, mostly of the resto variety. Also for some reason their seem to be a lot more resto blogs out there then feral and moonkin combined. This'll be broken down by mechanics versus flavor (ie the Tree of Life change) and at the end I'll give a full write up of my thoughts both on the mechanics for Trees and the ToL change, feel free to skip it if you're just into the info.

Mechanics (a few of these, okay most of them, will have discussion ...

Cataclysm class previews reactions part 2

Jadesea — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:19:09 +0100

Lumping Warriors, Rogues, Mages, and Hunters together. Also I don't read many DK blogs so I don't have any reactions. Druids deserve their own post, mostly since I'm a druid and a Tree at that (you can probably already tell I've got definate feelings on those changes).

Warriors:

From Achtung Panzercow.

From Spinksville.

Wow.com

Rogues:

Daughter of Ravenholdt Manor.

Forever a Noob one and two.

Wow.com

&n...

Tree solidarity

Jadesea — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:12:30 +0100

Cataclysm preview reactions part 1

Jadesea — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:29:40 +0100

I believe this will be only the first part since it'll be a few more days (or plus one week for paladins) for more stuff to come out.

Rage reactions:

General with a warrior flavor from.

For the bears.

Dispels:

One Tree point of view.

Resto shaman point of view.

Priest point of view.

Class review Shaman:

Resto review number 1 from Healing Council.

Resto review number 2 from Flow.

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Guild Styles

Jadesea — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100

I was reading this post about a more casual style guild. It made me realize a few things some of which are summarized nicely in this post about Stopwatch guilds.

I've been in the first style guild before and that guild almost made it so I never discovered how much fun raiding can be. If you're first experiences of 25 man raiding is in a guild where people show up whenever the frick they feel like it (or people taking unexplained breaks with no care for anyone else) and you ...

Healing links

Jadesea — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:41:03 +0100

Some general healing links that can apply to all types of healers:

Great post about anticipating damage. It's from the point of view of a resto shaman but there's more in it that other healers can use like about how education can help you be better healer.

A good run down for healers with mana problems. It's broken down into very helpful sections on general stuff and specific for each class.

An analysis of which healers make the b...

Amusing things I've found in recent days

Jadesea — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:47:14 +0100

So none of these are serious or helpful - well I guess they can be helpful if you need a good laugh.

Found a wonderful review of the cutscene before the Lich Kings pulls. I totally agree, in fact I think it applies to the whole instance. The first time we came into ICC where that first trash pull starts the first RP event I didn't even realize it was going on. So okay that link is amusing but I guess I'm just a bit disappointed that none of the "RP" stuff is very immersiv...

3.3.3 reviews and stuff

Jadesea — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:48:05 +0100

Some links for the 3.3.3 stuff based on class/spec (if I find more I'll add them in an edit):

For those Moonkins out there.

Roguery goodness (if rogues are ever good...)

Mangle stuff for our Feral druids.

A quick Affliction 'lock and DK review.

Frost mages.

Elemental Shaman, though this if from a pre patch day review.

Warrior stuff, with a focus on the tanking part.

Finds for 3/22/10

Jadesea — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:07:15 +0100

First post so these are only a few from the past week; expect more catch up:

An interesting take on the concept of play style in WOW and LOTRO. I think that you can also switch between the two types of style depending on your situation. Also the whole pre expansion lull probably lends itself to more people trying out the generalist style.

A chilling writeup of how one blogger is worried about how the changes to internet access in Aust...