Purple is My Favorite Color

We didn't feel like raiding last night, and so we spent the evening running heroics for badges and wintergrasp shards.  Knowing that I've been both stressed and undervalued as a Disc priest lately, K- suggested I respec Shadow for the evening.  My DPS was pretty lousy (in order to reach the hit cap, I'm wearing [...]

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/Tuesday

I think I'm going to try the Holy Nova glyph.  Although the PoH one
delivers better HPS, I just don't know if I use that spell enough to
make it worthwhile. 

I won the Robes of Mutation last night, a nice upgrade from the
Spellweave Robe.  Unbuffed I'm at 25% crit, so now it's time to start
looking for [...]

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/Monday

It's a Monday, and I come home from work on Mondays both grouchy and exhausted. It's a good thing we don't raid on Mondays. After all, K- has House to watch. But after House, we logged into our mains to run a few instances and get some Stonekeeper Shards (I want heirloom shoulders for my [...]

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Note to Self: Read the Patch Notes

So I'm playing my little level 45 shaman this morning, thinking "Damn, elemental really isn't a good leveling spec, is it?"  Mana is horrid; damage is pitiful.  Then I look at my talents:  zero spent.  And I remember that shamans had their talent points refunded in 3.0.8.  Doh.

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/back

Last night was my first time in-game for a week, having been /afk for a trip that I'm loathe to call a "vacation."
The guild ran Heroic Naxx, and I was pleased to finally get my T7 shoulders.  The best bit of the night was a whisper from the raid leader, assuring me that while I [...]

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Self-Assessment: Assessing A (Discipline) Healer

While many healers agree that healing meters are a poor judge of a healer’s performance, there needs to be some way to assess whether or not a healer is doing his or her job well, and like it or not, meters are probably the tool that’s used to do so.  As a new recruit to a raiding guild, [...]

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The Future of AOE Heals & Me

Unlike several other classes and talent trees, Khaeli will be largely
unaffected by Patch 3.0.8 (which didn't go live today, but still –
it's on everyone's minds, it seems).  I'm very much looking forward to
the fixes to Rapture, as I'm still on the low-end of the gear
requirements for my new guild, and I can use the mana [...]

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The 5 Words a Disc Priest Dreads…

"Can you go respec Holy?"

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Trinkets for Discipline Priests

At the end of last night’s raiding and heroics, I found that I had accumulated 25 badges of heroism, enough if I recalled, to purchase a trinket.  I currently have two blue trinkets — one quest reward and one instance-drop — and so I figured that the badge vendors would have a nice upgrade for me.  I was wrong.
The [...]

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New Server, New Guild, New Zone, New Loot

Kaleyen and Khaeli joined a new guild last night — Lost Twilight — and within half an hour of logging in and getting tagged, I found myself healing a Naxx-25 run.  I was thrilled to be raiding period — let alone a 25-man zone — and felt a bit sheepish to walk away from my [...]

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