“Hey, can you switch to your off-spec?”

As a priest, one has three specs that are very viable and very desirable for raiding:  Discipline, Holy, and Shadow.  While some people might’ve been able to accumulate off-spec gear over the last few months and prior to the release of the dual-spec option (seriously, don’t all paladins have a full holy set?  Damn Naxx [...]

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I Might Be Last on the Healing Meters But, Dammit, the Mages Love Me! — or Khaeli’s Guide to Power Infusion

WHAT
Power Infusion
Infuses the target with power, increasing spell casting speed by 20% and reducing the mana cost of all spells by 20%.  Lasts 15 seconds.
2 minute cooldown (lowered to 1.6 minute with 2 points in Aspiration)  Does not trigger the GCD.

HOW
I’m a big mouseover macro fan, as clicking on someone to target them, then [...]

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Using WoW Web Stats: A Very Basic How-To

When I logged into Twitter this morning, I saw that the venerable ILikeBubbles was studying the WWS reports from her 25man Naxx run.  A fellow soldier in the battle against Fail Priests, she was puzzled how a Holy Priest could have spent so much time casting Prayer of Healing and yet so little time healing [...]

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Beward the Ides of March!

Much like Caesar, some Death Knights feel they’re invulnerable and supreme, arguing that as the first “hero class” they deserve never to be nerfed or tweaked or removed from 2200+ arena teams.  I’d argue that “hero class” means merely that Death Knights start at level 55 rather than level 1, and as characters who already [...]

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Weekend Update (in Images)

Khaeli and Kaleyen finally earned their "Champion of the Wastes" titles.  Although we'd killed Malygos about a month ago, we'd never done Heroic Occulus or Heroic Halls of Stone.

As no one in the guild seemed to log in to do 25-mans this weekend, I respecced shadow.  I'm still feeling pretty unsure of my DPS, but [...]

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Still Shadow

Khaeli is still specced shadow, and I was even able to run Naxx 25 and OS 10 this weekend as DPS.  I had to put together the funkiest gear combination to get hit capped, but I don't feel I did too poorly.  Of course, when I bid on Soul of the Dead, the raid leader [...]

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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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Gearing Up Shadow

Even though I'm currently specced to heal, it's not altogether clear if I'll be Discipline or Shadow once the guild starts raiding.  My focus right now is on healing gear, but I'm also accumulating gear with +hit so I can be ready to return to the smoking purple form if need be.
Here is my list [...]

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Hit It Like You Mean It

As Khree specced as a
Resto in her 50s, I never really had to pay too much concern to "hit"
when gearing her.  As with most healers, I was far more concerned with
amassing gear with plenty of +healing and mana regen.  But when patch
3.0.2 came out and with the knowledge that I'd be switching classes to
the priest, [...]

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MF WTF

This WWS report is from our bloobie Kara run on Sunday (click for full-size).  Now granted, I'm not hit-capped on Khæli, so some misses are to be expected.  But almost 10% miss on Mind Flay?!  Huh?!

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