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Published on July 31, 2008 by Phaelia
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Last week’s Community Spotlight with highlighted articles got such a great reception that I think it’s something I’ll try to continue. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the gems I’ve set aside for you (they’re 11 +Healing, 5 Spirit)!

Recommended Reading

Another fantastic set of posts to educate, entertain, and edify you!

    Staff of the Golden Salamander by Orsolya Berecz
    Staff of the Golden Salamander
    by Orsolya Berecz
  • Best Looking Druid Set from Horns of YAOWN
    Horns gives further evidence of his secret love affair with Druids with his poll of what the best-looking set of Druid armor is. I won’t spoil the surprise of who the winner is, but I must express disappointment that Nordrassil didn’t fare better than it did.
  • Nature’s Swiftness (for Shamans) from Anna of Too Many Annas
    Ever notice how all the races who can play Shamans have funny feet? Hmm. Anyway, in this article Anna explores and encourages the use of Nature’s Swiftness for Shamans.
  • So What are You Wearing? from Runycat of Unbearably HoT
    This week Runy writes about the advantages and best methods of optimizing multiple gear sets with an eye toward maximizing DPS and threat for Ferals. And with that post title, she’s sure to double your entendre!
  • The End Heal of Lifebloom Generates No Threat from Lume the Mad
    A must read for Restoration Druids, this article details controlled tests he performed to determine that the end heal of Lifebloom generates no threat whatsoever, either for its caster or its recipient. This article is preceded by Lume’s also useful Threat Mechanics post.
  • Druids Dance with So Little Provocation from a Scary Bear
    So true. I know the first thing I did when speccing into Restokin last night was to /dance /dance /dance the night away. And then I Moonfire-spammed a squirrel.
  • No More Salvation? What to Do! from Rollin’ Horde
    Learn about the new threat mechanic that will replace the Paladin’s Blessing of Salvation in Wrath of the Lich King!

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To celebrate her blog’s 100,000th visitor, Megan from Out of Mana decided to give away an autographed PvP-themed T-Shirt to the lucky winner. She had some great ideas and, in thanks for letting her sell the design myself, I offered to execute my favorite: Arena Pole Dancer. Here’s a preview of the shirt, both front and back (not to scale):

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This shirt is now available within the Resto4Life Tree-Shirts store, albeit without the “Out of Mana” design on the back because printing two designs on a shirt increases the shirt price significantly. I prefer this design on red, yellow, brown, white, or even black shirts, but free color selection is enabled for all of them. You can read more about the T-Shirt winners (all four of them) at Megan’s post #100,000 Winnars, Shapeshifted Indeed.

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And here are some new or newly-discovered additions to the blogosphere!

    Emerald Dream by Orsolya Berecz
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  • Grumble ‘N’ Autumn
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  • Hoofed Hybrid
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  • An Old Druid’s New Druid
    The Alliance welcomes a Tauren-become-Night Elf Druid who enjoys raiding casually and apparently enjoys Druids enough to roll a second.
  • Secret Agent Cat
    Tigerfeet writes an entertaining and cleverly-themed Feral blog. They’ve give her a Mangle and taken away her Mane.
  • ThinkTank
    This blog explores the role of tanking from the perspective of multiple tanking classes. There seems to be a plethora of great Feral-related articles, though!
  • Unpack Your Adjectives
    You did pack your adjectives, right? After all, you never know when you’re going to need words like: Feral, Wry, and PvP-oriented. In fact, those words would come in handy if asked to describe this blog!

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This week’s Featured Artwork comes from Orsolya Berecz.  Be sure to check out all of her great work at her DeviantART gallery under username ShakSaag. (Wow, can you tell I listened to NPR on the way into work this morning?)

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  • Gravatar Runycat

    Thanks for the link and for the rest of those great reads!

    10:51 am on 7/31/08
  • Gravatar Horns

    Thanks for yet another link, and agree on Nordrassil :(

    11:45 am on 7/31/08
  • Gravatar Yggdrasil

    Oddly, I picked tier 1. Nordrassil would have been the winner for color scheme, but I have never cared for the shoulders or the helm design. I like the t4 better in appearance for both of those, but the color scheme is so terrible. I was surprised that t3 did so well…I honestly prefer the Moonglade set that stole the model, and the only part of that I like at all is the helm and shoulders model, but the color scheme on t3 is atrocious.

    12:08 pm on 7/31/08
  • Gravatar Tigerfeet

    Thanks so much for that list! (and the plug) lots of good new reading for me to check out too! :D

    Tigerfeets last blog post..BREAKING NEWS!

    1:29 pm on 7/31/08
  • Gravatar Kal

    Aw. Thanks for the pimpage. It’s a real honor coming from you. :)

    Kals last blog post..[Druid] Tanking the Flames of Azzinoth, finale

    1:42 pm on 7/31/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @Runy: NP – grats again! ;-)

    @Horns: You’re welcome! Great taste!

    @Yggdrasil: I never could get over the fact that Wildheart had dead birds on its shoulders — or the fact that after more than 70 UBRS runs, my Wildheart tunic never dropped. That is until TBC. =/

    @Tigerfeet: You’re welcome! Love the new blog. =)

    @Kal: I’m glad to help – keep up the great work!

    12:10 am on 8/1/08

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The Sprout(ed) Seed (80)

David
Congratulations! Cute baby!

Tsuki
I’m so late that little Colin ain’t swimming on his mini-shirt anymore by now. And Mr. Phae and the classic “drooling daddy” face, priceless. Grats Phae and family!

Rayvis
First I want to say congratulations on your new baby boy, albeit a little late. As a Druid myself, formerly Resto even, I found this to be pretty awesome. I had my first child in October, also a boy. He just happens to have the exact same onesie that you’re little boy is wearing in the video. It’s my favorite outfit of his because I am my son’s superhero! As a side note, I hope you’re enjoying your new seed. They grow like weeds though and you start wondering...

Snowmaidn
I certainly never looked that good when I sprouted my seedlings. Thanks for all the great advice on this site. Things have changed a lot over the years and 60 was the highest you could go when I last played before this year. I got back into the game again about 6 months ago after taking a 4 year break when I was pregnant with my daughter.
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Gammenon
Wow, a wife interested in MMO’s and Marvel?! Mr. Phae is one fortunate man. Regards
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Kenan
@Terrorpaw: This information is vastly outdated. Notice that the article indicates patch 3.0.8 while the current version is 3.3. The amount of haste needed for resto druids to reach 1 second GCD has been shuffled considerably. I’ve been poking around on this site and I find it likely that much of the information here might be outdated.

Terrorpaw
Not to distract from your information, but this is confuddling to me. Everyone on the druid forums just touts that with CF and GOTEM you should see 735 haste on your character sheet? Are they just dead wrong?

Ck
This is actually really useful – thanks for this! Is it still current and user friendly? I somehow managed to get up to 740 Haste without trying, and even with scrapping all haste enchants and gems – I am still languishing on 723 :(
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I’ve been using this addon since I started playing some over a year now. I can’t imagine wow without it since. To swap bags you can right click the one you wish to free up and select ‘filter’. Then drag all the stuff into another bag. Also you could just swap a bag from inventory to your bank still full of stuff.
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