In which our heroine is googled

I have been a Bad Raider this week, with a combination of work, family, and PC issues making my attendance abysmal.  Being a Bad Raider makes me, in turn, a Bad Blogger.  Yet people seem to stumble across Shadow Weaving regardless of my raid activity, so googlers, let me answer some of your queries:
“crit discipline”
Crit [...]

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Dear Raid Leader, Please excuse Johnny from the General Vezax encounter…

The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It’s a good non-specific symptom; I’m a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you that a good phony fever is a dead lock, but, uh… you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor’s office. That’s worse [...]

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Nerf Shields, Foam Protection, and Other Misleading Blog Post Titles

Anecdote:  A couple of years ago, The Kid and I were at Toys R Us, shopping for a gift for my nephew’s first birthday.  The Kid’s a teenager now, and so the demands to visit the toy department were long ago replaced by demands to go to the video game store.  But no matter your [...]

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An (Advanced) Guide to Bad Healing

Yesterday Dueg gave you the Guide to Bad Healing.  To refresh:

Show up in good gear, so those who inspect you are fooled.
Heal priority:  DPS > tanks.
Create a no-heal list and follow it religiously.
Use one spell early and often… hell, use it exclusively .
When the going gets tough, the tough pull out the cord on their router.
Misdirect [...]

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In which our heroine goes off on a tangent before eventually returning to the main point, which is a follow-up on Ulduar debuffs and Grid

An aside:  I work in the educational technology field, and there is a bit of a war at my job right now between those with a traditional notion of marketing (the organization has the expertise and will disseminate it “top-down”) and those who wish to embrace new social media (people have the knowledge and we [...]

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More Thoughts on the General

There’s nothing quite like running back from a wipe on a raid mob to find that things have been hotfixed.  Respawns on the trash to back to General Vezax’s room stopped spawning multiple Void Beasts, and there were only four, rather than three encounters in his room.
There’s also nothing quite like defeating a mob with [...]

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News at 11

Vezax dead.

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The 6Ps vs Mp5

I’m facing a brand new encounter tonight, and although I’d contend that the success of most fights rests on the healers (no pressure, guyz!), this time it seems especially true.  And this particular fight is “hell for healers,” or so I hear. (srsly, no pressure!)
In a nutshell:  General Vezax negates mana regen. (OMG, the pressure!)
Having [...]

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It’s Not a Pony But Dammit I’ll Ride It Nonetheless

Hot off the presses:  The Penance Glyph will stay as is.
Put away the pitchforks, fellow Disc Priests. (For now…)

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Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo

THE GOOD
I won my first piece of Ulduar loot last night:  Rapture, a drop from the Iron Council.  
As I’ve written before, I have always opted for a 1H weapon plus an off-hand, but the new spellpower enchant for staffs has made staffs much more appealing.  With some quick calculations — and having just read [...]

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