The Full Healy-Blog List

The Full Healy-Blog List: "I follow a lot of healing blogs. I mean, a lot. Big or small, I’ll add most any healing blog to my feeder to at least give it a shot. I will highlight what I think are the best posts of the week every Friday, but if you’re wondering what my resources are for making my Friday post (especially if you’re wondering if I’ve missed something), here is my full healer specific blogroll.

Of course, I have lots of non-healers I read, but if you are looking for a list of just healers in the Blogosphere, I imagine this one should be pretty exhaustive. People don’t always focus their blogs, so a lot of these blogs cover multiple specs of a certain healing class (a la Restokin).

I don’t limit my list of resources due to popularity, size of readership, or any politics. I don’t care if the writer bashed me in a post that one time, or if they are smelly and a big jerky mcjerkface. If people post something I don’t like, or I’m not interested in… well then. I just don’t read that post.

The purpose of this list is to keep me up to date with what healers are saying in the blogosphere – from the small bloggers to the big ones. I don’t care if you only have 2 subscribers, and I’m one of them. If you post something that is good, I want to know.

This is a direct list from my feed-reader. If you know of a healy blog that is not on this list, please let me know so I can add them to my personal feed-reader.


Druids

• 4 Haelz
• Cow and Bones
  
• Dreambound
• Falling Leaves and Wings
• HoTs & DoTs
• Leaf-head
• Light & Leafy
• My Name is Forrestump
• Rejuvo
• Restokin
• Swiftmend
• The View Through the Branches
• Tree Bark Jacket
• Tree Burglar
• Tree Haelz

Pallies

• A Healadin's Tear
• Blessing of Kings
• bubblespec
• Divine Plea
• Flash of Saysm
• Holy Shock
• Holypaladin.net
• I am a Paladin
• IndecentHealer
• Moar HPS!
• Non-Squishy Heals
• The Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon
• The Holy Light
• The Physician's Log
• The Suicidal Healer
• The V-Team
• (Un)holy Randomness

Priests

• An Absolutely Ordinary Priest
• BobTurkey's WoW Blog
• Desperate Prayer
  
• DiscoPriest
• Divine Aegis
• Flash Heal
  
• Healer Trek
• Holy Fire Spec
• Holy Nova
  
• Holyform
• I Like Bubbles
• 'Priest' board on PlusHeal
• OMG...Priest!
• Pain Suppression
• Penance Priest
• Priest with a Cause
• PW: Bubble
• Righteous Orbs
• Runcible Trout
• Save the Lightwell
• Shy at WoW
• Soul Warding
• Tales of a Priest
• The Angry Healers!
• The Impenitent Priest
• The Munch Land
• The Wanted Priest
• Thoughts of a Discipline Priestess
  

Shammies

• Ancestral Knowledge
• Ankh = Life
• Blueberry Totem
• Borsked
• Flow
• Healing Way (no longer updated)
• I say LOL IRL
• Kattastrophes Happen
• Life in Group 5
• ShamWoW
• Tank 2 Heals
• Totem Forest
• twenty-five boxes

Multiple Class Healing Coverage

• World of Matticus
• Sheep This
  

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Warcraft Workout: Jogging in a Virtual World

The other day I was running on the treadmill and I let my son run my character around Elwynn forest for a little while and it hit me.

What if I could rig up some way to turn my character while running on the treadmill? Then I could zoom into 1st person mode and hit autorun. I'd actually be RUNNING IN THE GAME!

I could actually see how many miles it is from Menethil Harbor to Ironforge (a run all new Night Elves were required to do back in Vanilla Wow).

I think I can rig this up with my Macbook and my new magic mouse. There are many utilities out there that will re-map right and left click to a certain function. You can even save these as a different configs for different applications. I can easily map them to the "A" and "D" keys. I can then hold my mouse in my hand while running. This could be done with any corded mouse as well but it wouldn't be near as cool.

If the plan comes to reality I will certainly re-post here with updates.

*update* DarwinRemote works perfectly in this capacity. Makes me glad to have a mac. I'll post a setup of the rig when I get it working.

Mouseover Macros

Here is a wonderful explanation of a Mouseover Macro; something all healers should know about.

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The Light and How to Swing It: Essential addons and macros for holy:

Every Sunday, Chase Christian of The Light and How to Swing It invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. This week, we examine the addons and macros that can be used to make your life easier.

Holy paladins have come a long way since our days in vanilla WoW. Back then, we were a three button class: Cleanse, Flash of Light, Holy Light. The infamous addon Decursive even did all the dispelling for us, leave the human user simply casting Flash or HL for hours on end. Seals and Judgments were for retribution and protection: we were standing 40 yards away filling up life bars. Things didn't improve much in TBC either: while Holy Shock was fun to finally use, we ended up being purely FoL bots in most raid situations.

Blizzard took a new approach to healing in Wrath, including completely revamping each existing healing tree to make sure each one was balanced, viable, and most importantly, enjoyable. Holy paladins now enjoy a complexity that is multiple times more entertaining to play than anything that we've seen in the past. However, with this added functionality comes added complexity. To help us lighten the load, we can use a few amazing addons and macros manage our 'holy 3.0' paladins; this allows us to focus on keeping people alive.
Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: Essential addons and macros for holy

To pull or not to pull... a healer's perspective.

Okay, I've been healing in this here game for years (since the beginning I suppose). I have a Druid and a Priest running heroics and a Pally waiting in the wings at 71 so I am familiar with most aspects of healing.

I mainly stick to random dungeon pickup groups. As you can guess, the latest changes have been a great benefit to me in many ways. As a casual player I rarely get time for raids. This post is applies to pickup groups as raids always have a mechanism for this type of thing.

I've come across all kinds of Tanks and all kinds of DPS. One thing I've never understood is the agreement on when to pull and when to wait. Sometimes, rarely, but every once and a while this will be agreed upon in the beginning. Some times there will be the simple "r?" in party chat, other times it's just pull, pull, pull until someone says something. Here are the 3 methods I've seen.

• An agreement before the first pull on who sets the pace of the run. This is ideal but slows things down a little bit.
• The generic "r?" in party chat. This is bad because nobody EVER waits for everyone to respond.
• Pull, pull, pull until something bad happens or someone says "Wait a sec...". This is bad because something bad usually happens before anything changes.

The other day in Utgarde Pinnacle I was running with a particularly eager DK Tank (I know, hard to believe) and he runs like two rooms ahead and charges into a large group. Now we were outgeared for this instance in general but he pulled the whole room, around 8-10 mobs. By the time I get there he was dead and the Pally DPS was next in line. I backed away and with a little luck, melded successfully. I proceeded to apologize and rez people. The first thing he says is... "Wow, that sucked... I didn't get one heal.".

My suggestion to every tank or aspiring tank is to make a quick macro. If nothing else just use it in random pickup groups. It will save the party from much grief and your healer will thank you, I promise. If nothing else it can just say "/y The tank is pulling now...". If you want to get creative you can throw in an audible emote. This makes things great for that errant healer that might be watching the television while drinking or alt-tabbed out to browse applicable loot. It gives just enough warning that when the flesh starts to fall, a greater heal or a regrowth should be right behind.

Patch Improvements

I'd just like to take the time to thank Blizzard for the drastic improvements on the quality of the last few patches. I remember not too long ago that a patch and/or maintenance meant an entire day of downtime. The last few patches and scheduled maintenance periods have gone very smooth with little, if any, unscheduled downtime.

Thanks for the quality control Blizzard. Now let's hope it becomes the norm and not the exception.