What might Mists of Pandaria mean for healing?

Mists of Pandaria is something of a scary thought for the future of many healers. The introduction of another class that is capable of tanking, DPSing and healing marks a potential destabilizing factor. While it is scary, it is also exciting to a lot of players. Shaking things up isn’t always a bad thing, and it has the potential to introduce some very different playstyles. The most important question, though, is what the addition of another healing class could potentially mean for how the other healing classes play and are balanced.

The introduction of the monk class has the potential to trigger a series of changes that could wind up being seen across all of the healing classes — that is, depending on the reception it receives. These changes are things that some healers might not have considered or further expanding of particular mechanics that are already in game. With that said, it’s time for a bit of speculation!

An active healing model

The first potential change — and it’s a major one — is the introduction of the active healing model. What is an active healing model? Well, I touched on this a little bit before, but ultimately, an active healing model is one that forces the healer to do something other than target a player frame and cast a spell. So if it breaks away from the whack-a-mole healing of our forefathers, chances are it’s classified as active healing.

Right up front, you’ll see that a healing monk will be doing a lot of running or rolling around. As it was described previously, the healing monk will dodge out of combat to place healing totems or wards or what have you, and then dive back into combat to deal damage and trigger the healing effect if they want to melee. If ranged is more their style, there will be an option to deal damage from afar as well and still heal. It’s pure hybrid healing like no other. You deal damage to heal, and you have to pay extra attention to your environment, player health and the boss you’re facing.

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5 Eastern Kingdoms getaways for vacationing roleplayers

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. In World of Warcraft, that player is you! Each week, Anne Stickney brings you All the World’s a Stage with helpful hints, tips and tricks on the art of roleplay in WoW.

The Eastern Kingdoms is rife with conflict, whether it’s the battles in Gilneas, the uprising of the trolls in Zul’Aman and Zul’Gurub, or the plague-ridden shores of what used to be Southshore. Much like Kalimdor, the shattered lands are riddled with the continued brawling between Alliance and Horde. But you can still find a few spots here and there to get away from it all — the dwarves of Dun Morogh have the right idea about it, like the one pictured above. Sometimes, you want to forget about the battles and just take a day off and go sledding.

Kalimdor may be riddled with conflict, but there are still some beautiful places for characters to get away and take a vacation, as we saw last week. Quiet locations in the Eastern Kingdoms may be a little harder to find, but there are still quite a few places where a character can take a welcome breather from the endless struggles of war.
. Flower-strewn Gilneas arbor

Gilneas may be in the middle of a back-and-forth struggle between the Gilnean citizens and the Forsaken, but there’s still beauty to be found in the gloomy hills. The flower-strewn arbor shown above may not be the best vacation spot in the world, but it’s deserted and suitable for guild gatherings and events — or heck, even a wedding, for that matter! The nearby hills are strewn with worgen, but since Gilneas is a leveling zone for new characters, they’re all low level and don’t really pose any immediate danger. There are plenty of benches for seating, and the path is strewn with flowers, an odd little moment of beauty in an otherwise bleak zone.

The arbor is located in Gilneas at coordinates 83,57, atop an otherwise deserted hill just northeast of Tempest’s Reach. There are no NPCs of either faction nearby, so both Horde and Alliance characters can feel free to gather here without worry. If your character isn’t able to fly, there are no worries about that either — the area is easily reached on foot or on mount. Again, there are low-level worgen patrolling the area below the arbor, so characters that are extremely low level might want an escort, but it shouldn’t pose a problem to level 85 roleplayers at all.

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Feral fighting in End Time

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat, bear, restoration and balance druids. Welcome to our feral cat edition, brought to you by Chase Hasbrouck, aka Alaron of The Fluid Druid blog. Let the face clawing begin! 

So there I was, just minding my own business and trying to get the smoke out of my gear (being a flaming kitty is cool and all, but the dry cleaning costs are incredibly expensive), when one of those bronze dragons showed up. She looked human, but I can smell dragon a mile away (which incidentally has not helped much, being as the things seem to be around every corner these days -- I thought dragons were rare, mystical creatures?).

"Champion," she said. "My master, Nozdormu, needs your help urgently. The list of heroes powerful enough to assist him in his time of need are few. Please come at once!"

I glanced at the list. Apparently, "few" means half the population of Azeroth. Still, I was bored.
"So," I said, wearily. "What needs killing now?"

"He does," she replied. "We must kill his future self, who is preventing us from going to the past to get the item needed to save the present."

"Right. Wait, what?" I answered, confusedly. "If he has a future self, than that means we've already succeeded, and ... fine. Just tell me where to go, before I have to think about it again."

End Time, the first of the new 5-man instances, is arguably the easiest. In order to get to not-Nozdormu, you'll have to go through two of four echoes, which are alternate future versions of today's faction leaders. There's a bit of trash, but nothing that can't be AoEed down. As such, we'll jump right to talking about the echoes, which are more interesting.
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Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poohbah of World of Matticus and a founder of Plus Heal, a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the Matticast.

This is it. This is the final encounter of the expansion. Everything you’ve ever worked for and fought through has led to this point. This is the moment you get to help rid the world of Deathwing. First, we need to ground this oversized lizard. Immediately after the conclusion of the gunship (part two), you’ll be parachuting onto Deathwing’s back. We’ll go over the different obstacles and what you and your healers need to do to get over the proverbial raid hump. (To the raiders who do 10-mans, you’ll have to adjust the numbers a bit. I’m not as well versed on 10s, so you’ll have to bear with me as I draw up assistance for the 25-man version.)

To attack the Spine of Deathwing, we need to peel off those metal plates on Deathwing’s back so that we can really weaken him further. Our healing goal here is to ensure that our tanks live. Apparently, Deathwing has all sorts of little defenses that he’ll use to try to shake us off; there are several threats on this fight that healers need to be aware of. You’re on an extremely narrow field of battle here, so movement’s going to be really limited.

What did you expect, though? You’re fighting on the back of a former dragon aspect.

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What the Raid Finder’s success means for the future of accessible content

The Raid Finder is here to stay. It’s rolled out to astonishing success, getting more people to see the encounters of the major raid of the Cataclysm expansion than we’ve seen since the days that Karazhan convinced Blizzard that 10-man raiding was an option worth exploring. With Blizzard explicitly intending to move forward with the Raid Finder so that every future raid will have a RF difficulty option, a few things are likely to develop.

When we consider the Raid Finder as a tool, we have to consider it both as a tool for the players (us) and as a tool for the designers, a means for them to deal with a persistent and somewhat untenable issue with the raiding game — a ton of work goes into raid design, and statistically speaking, almost no one ever sees it. People who got to see Kel’Thuzad at level 60, Illidan or Kil’Jaeden at 70, or even Arthas at level 80 are in the minority. Thanks to the Raid Finder, Deathwing may be the most accessible big bad any expansion’s ever had. Looking forward, a few broad strokes may be discerned about the Raid Finder and where it will drive the game.

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Balance druid guide to Dragon Soul, part 1

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Balance news comes at you every Friday — learn how to master the forces of nature, and know what it means to be a giant laser turkey! Send questions, comments, or requests to  @murmursofadruid.

Overall, the first four bosses of Dragon Soul are a fun lot that focus more on your ability to raid overall and less on your specific capabilities. There is a solid chunk of movement in them, so you should be prepare to deal with that. Practicing how to drop Mushrooms while on the move is a huge asset in this raiding tier. Styling this week’s advice after McCurley’s 5-second strats, I’ll briefly detail the encounter and any tricks that you should know about heading into the game. Keep it simple, after all.

Morchok

Morchok should be tanked relatively where he stands. After each Blood phase, the tank can just pick him up where ever he happens to end up. No real positioning is needed unless you start to wander too far to the sides.
The raid team should all be grouped up within 25 yards of the boss as often as possible.
A dedicated group of ranged DPS should run out to every crystal that spawns. You need seven players for this in 25-man.
Run and head behind spikes once they’ve spawned, positioning yourself either between two spikes or just at the side of one so that you can continue to DPS.

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back to the city when the guards kneel Storm

I remember the first time I remember the excitement of the establishment of character for an hour in Orgrimmar cruise finally remember where is a weapon shop, where is the training division, and then suddenly discovered that you can ask the guards to know an hour ago they want to know everything I remember 5 a small white town lost in the dim light to remember Mulgore vomiting sunshine and remember the long rope bridge crossing, kill the ostrich, zebra … …

remember the 1000 scrapping the Needles, the test of courage, remember to get Snow Murray root task reward wrench, the double sense of satisfaction I remember holding temperature and Domenico De Sole Marshal escorted back to the city when the guards kneel Storm, the general’s salute!

I remember buying two groups Ironforge roasted quail could not bear to eat, remember left Tiger Bangjialashi chopped Zul ‘Farrak of 100, we test four hours during the school closure floor, open floor beneath the teaching exam huge number of students to walk, step through the second floor, above a number of leaders in watching. The scenes were chopped with the 100 similar to how I remember Ironforge bridge T3 sets, holding the soldiers put the ashes messenger style

the envy of Black Dragon, remember that students must go to every year, have not seen the blood opened  tooth head, I recall that 70 Yuannian to support the person I bought a bird 1000G, friendship and the power of recall Aman’s Meng Meng Xiong my first roll, roll out 99 points, excitedly yelling, the results of a friend’s last roll, 100-point spike tragedy!

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and perhaps he was owed his daughter too much

the pharmaceutical vial, will be the turning point of the whole. “Yes, that is, medicine can be invisible, it is necessary to the preparation of this medicine needs the specter  of mushroom and sun grass, but also the proper proportion, it is difficult to refining, it is generally not seen, do not even know it exists . ”

Hold the hand of Mayor Carroll said excitedly: “I almost forget, you still a master of alchemy. This is really good the next.”Sir Carol also come to an aristocratic Shi Thanks specific protocol, and then looked at me happily. I’ll respond to them, the front bow to Sir Carol.

Sir Carol, and then at said: “The material is limited, I can only do this bottle. This is the maximum weight of Pharmacy for 10-minute stealth effect, if a person is to Simon, at the right time drink, even in the absence of sickle find, you can get out, but if you go, if two people drink is five minutes per person so that two people are at risk, you understand? ”

nodded back to the adults behind the mayor, standing obediently. She looked back at the mayor, with the eyes of some of the apology, and perhaps he was owed his daughter too much.

Sir Carol also patted my  shoulder, “Simon, look for sickle is important, but our biggest hope is that you can be safe and sound. Therefore, no matter what the outcome, you can only stay five minutes mined years, must give their left enough time to retreat. understand? “I nodded, my heart has long been a matter of fact have their own plans.

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What made this I do not own pieces

I do not want to condemn the killing of the thieves, but also in real life you do not want to speculate on the mentality, just want to tell you; easy points!

Special Note; minors  banned from World of Warcraft psychological care of minors to enter the World of Warcraft!

Really want in real time to create a harmonious society can be harmonious World of Warcraft!

New District (District 7) Alliance Night Elf Rogue great hope that you can see!
Once upon a time in the land of Azeroth, we are so happy …

But now since the stop-for-service agents to start the day … wow many players in the anxious and helpless in more than 50 days past the time when the service did not open the hard-line but now want the server stand opened in Shacheng not confused know why

Is now the most talked about harmony. Server quality problems …

I first talk about the server, right quality 1M broadband in my home since 9.30 am on the 30th of the time I should say that they are very smooth access to my account and I have not read the forums, man encountered in the case of card or do not … What made this I do not own pieces of the …

Harmony … To be honest until now have not checked the dictionary what is the meaning of harmony in the end did not quite understand but I do not understand the changed character portrait? Icon to change skills? blood into the black? This is the so-called harmonious you …

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