With the release of Wrath of the Lich King looming on the “soon” horizon, many players find themselves looking for ways to keep themselves busy. Here are 12 steps to ensure you’re as prepared as possible for stepping foot on the shores of Northrend. (Hint: buy warm boots)
When I first started my blog, I spent a couple of days hours Googling for “Druid blog” and “Druid warcraft blog.” At that time, I was only able to find Amanna’s Adventures in Azeroth, a great blog that directed me to a handful of other Druid blogs. At my most recent count, there are more than twenty-five Druid blogs. They’re pretty well-distributed among our different talent specs, too, with the majority being Feral, but several Restoration, and a handful of Balance.
While I don’t actively participate in the blog communities for other classes (although I devotedly read several Priest blogs), it seems like the online community of Druid bloggers has exploded. This is good and bad. On the one hand, most of the Druids who write are generous and friendly people, citing each other’s articles and information as valuable to their own visitors. On the other … that’s a LOT of blogs to keep up with! I used to spend probably an hour every day trying to visit every blog to see who had updated. But I found that once I got in the “visit, visit, visit” mode, I was less inclined to actually “read, read, read.” Which is when I discovered Google Reader, a web application that lets you collect multiple RSS-based subscriptions in one place.
Google Reader tells you how many unread posts there are for those sites you’ve elected to watch (by subscribing to their RSS feeds) and lets you browse through a simplified version of said posts. You can even organize your watched blogs into labels (I have one for each spec of Druid, one for Priests, one for “Other WoW Blogs”, and even one for my favorite web comics). This has reduced the time I spend looking for updates tremendously and lets me spend that time actually reading the work of other authors. If you’re like me and keep up with several different blogs, Google Reader can probably save you a lot of time, too.
And on that note, I won’t feel so guilty about innundating you with yet more excellent blogs, ones I’ve recently discovered myself that you may find worthy of a bookmark or RSS subscription:
- Magna’s Generic Sounding Druid Blog
Don’t let the name or less than eye-popping aesthetics fool you; this is a great blog for a couple of reasons: 1) she’s a Resto Druid whose guild is currently in Black Temple and 2) her writing is both interesting and insightful. I look forward to keeping up with this one! - Zanderfin’s WoW “Casual” Raiding
An interesting focus for a blog, Zanderfin of Bronzebeard writes of all things raid-related. And he does so in an intelligent and thoughtful manner! “Hardcore” never seemed less appealing.
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Thanks for the link, really useful, tired of checking all the blogs to find out once in a while that only one is updated.
Only problem is that I can’t use it to post comments.
Here’s a blog you should check out, it is made by a guildie and focus on his warlock, and now he decided to reroll a resto druid for a second PvP class. http://zhero-tolerance.blogspot.com/
-Muda (Europe)
Muda: I’m glad to hear that you’re going to try out Google reader! I’m sure you’ll just love it. And thank you so much for the link to your friend’s Warlock blog. I have been looking for just such a site! And he PvPs, too, which is a perspective I’m keen to learn from! Thanks again!
Thanks for the callout again Phaelia. I also use Google Reader and love it. I had experimented with Bloglines and a couple others, but GR is just so easy to use.
I’m looking forward on getting back into playing soon, so I hope to have lots of new articles for you to reference
lol, so I stumbled upon this old entry when i was surfing and clicked on the link for that Wife Aggro site . . . http://wifeagro.blogspot.com/ == hardcore porno now o_O (it redirects there at least), just thought you should know.
@Jason: Whoa. Thank you for letting me know. I’ve removed the link.