A Little Clarity

I see comments about how DS doesn’t stack with any other raid buff thrown around a lot, here most recently.  I want to clarify a small point.
Improved Divine Spirit doesn’t stack with any other spellpower increasing buff.
Non-Improved Divine Spirit is the best Spirit buff in game.
The moral of the story?  Blizz basically made Imp DS [...]

Leveling in Wrath

Since all of us are going to be leveling again with the expansion coming out, we’re all going to need to respec for leveling.  In almost all cases raid specs are not optimal for leveling.  Most of the time raid specs are cookie-cutter with very little variation because everyone needs to optimize their raid viability.   There are [...]

Warlock Demonology Leveling Spec

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m leveling a Warlock with my hubby (who is playing a Druid).  We dinged 40 last night and he respecced from Feral to Boomkin.  We’ve been using the Voidwalker for a tank and it’s not working so well any more.  Since neither of us currently has a threat dump we need [...]

Vladvin: Dr. Boom

So I was flying around Netherstorm doing some herbing and I decided to go do some experiments with Dr. Boom. I’ve never done anything with this guy… let me say, he is really cool! Perfect for testing shot rotations and specs! Here’s what I did:

I used my normal shot rotation (SW:P Rank 1 until 5 stacks of Shadow Weaving, [...]

Vladvin: Shadow Specs

Since there were many of you curious about the change in my spec, here they are.  I’d love to tell you why my DPS has gone up but I haven’t got a clue.  I’m just going to be happy that it worked
Current Spec
Old spec

Vladvin: New Spec

It amazes me what 5 talent points can do…
The other SPriest that usually raids with us has been grinding me into the dust on the damage meters.  At first I thought it was gear, but we were talking #’s the other day and we’re comparable now.  I’ve got all the Tailoring epics and he’s got [...]

Leveling Your Priest: Sidone at 25

Sidone is FINALLY at 25, so here goes!
Talents – (0/0/16)
The first 11 are the same as last time, but for a recap:

5/5 Spirit Tap
5/5 Shadow Focus
1/1 Mind Flay
2/2 Imp SW:P
2/5 Imp Mind Blast
1/2 Shadow Reach

I am now seeing mobs die before SW:P times out, I think this is largely because I’m fighting 1 and [...]

Spell Review: Psychic Scream

Psychic Scream aka Fear, if I use PS I’ll feel like I’m writing a million Post Scripts!
Tooltip – Rank 4 (as of 10/25/2007)

Cast Time: Instant
Cooldown: 30 sec
Duration: 8 secs
Mana: 189 mana

” The caster lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee for 8 sec. Damage caused may interrupt the effect.”
Mechanics [...]

Leveling Your Priest: Sidone at 20

Sidone dinged 20 last night, Yay! This series is going to record my progress leveling her to 70. She is a Dranei Priest. I’ll be perfectly honest, I don’t pick races for their racials… I pick them on looks. I have a NE Priest, my Warrior is Human (and I don’t [...]

Leveling Your Priest – The Lighter Side

Since Kirk stole my idea… just kidding, he wrote an article about talents for the leveling priest, up to level 40. I had a similar article half written, waiting for some polish when I read his this morning. This will be more of a companion piece. I’m going to give a possible talent build for [...]