Life in Group 5 – A Resto Shaman Blog
A resto shaman perspective on raiding


 
 

 
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Paradigm Shifts of Cataclysm: Healer Edition

It was an expansion that “changed the face of Azeroth”, that gave life where there was previously none and snuffed some out, while also altering entire landscapes. But, in addition to the geographical changes enacted as par...
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The Art of Abusing Healing Meters

I make no secret of it, and have, in fact, talked about the topic in multiple posts, in comments on other bloggers’ sites and even in the whopping two podcasts I’ve participated in—I am a meter junkie. Ever since the earl...
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Tier 13 and Resto Shaman: Our Final Chance at Parity (Part I)

If anyone had any doubt in their mind about Blizzard’s commitment to speeding up patch releases, I think it has been firmly extinguished with the flood of PTR data hitting WoW websites in the last month. In conjunction with t...
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Resto Shaman Lessons from Tier 12

In a way much different than its predecessors, Tier 12 was not so much a race to the finish line as much as it was a trial of endurance and determination. But after a whopping 461 attempts, spanning 7 weeks, and summed up in a ...
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The Quick 4.1 Survival Guide for Resto Shaman

After much ado and months of prep, it appears that the much-awaited Patch 4.1 will be going live as of today’s maintenance. Soon, we’ll all be enjoying a little bit of a class refresher, some nice Resto Shaman tweaks, and t...
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A Look at Vixsin’s Healing Logs

Over the past year, I’ve authored a couple posts about how to evaluate combat logs, what to look for, and what to focus on. And second to those emails about gearing, one of the most frequent types of requests that I get from ...
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