Guest Posts

[Guest Post] Switching Sides – from Mage to Shaman

December 21, 2010

Gazimoff's shaman, struggling with too many totems

Thank goodness for the kindness of friends. I’ve been stretched very thin recently, what with one thing and another. My good friend Gazimoff, co-host of the Obscurecast, founder of the Mage Forums and blogger, offered to write about his experiences of trying out a shaman character from a mage’s perspective. Huzzah guest post! – Pewter I’ll let you into a secret: when I originally looked at getting into Warcraft back in 2005 I was planning on rolling a shaman. There was a group of us all planning on getting into the game together and we were all getting our...

Warrior vs Shaman: It’s Clobbering Time!

August 23, 2010

Hi everyone, my name is Sassiej from the blogs Blasting Away/Riding the Lightning and I’ll be a guest here today. Pewter made a call out on Twitter for guest posts in August and I immediately took the chance to write one. Stumbling in the realm of Elemental Shamans recently myself, I find it a great honor to write for this blog. My main enjoyment on World of Warcraft is PvP and today I would like to take you into the mind of an Arms Warrior, it’s thoughts, opinions and suggestions to Elemental Shamans that set foot in the Battlegrounds...

[Guest Post] Heroism: An Emblem of Bloodlust

June 11, 2010

So yeah, I wrote another article while Pewter takes a much deserved break from creating our awesome new guild website (seriously everyone, isn’t that the best guild website in the world? I just load up the front page and stare at it sometimes, it’s so damn pretty). This post is a bit less comedy and a bit more substance but it comes from something I omitted last time. Heroism! Bloodlust! I’ll be referring to it as Heroism from here on in because I play Alliance and that’s the term I’m familiar with. Anyways! Heroism! Look at that tooltip! Increases melee,...

[Guest Post] The Raid Leader and the Shaman: A True Story

June 5, 2010

As Pewter’s hard at work on the guild website, I thought I’d let her catch a break and write a guest post. Sure, she’s asked me before but I know I’m such an awesome writer that I didn’t want to overshadow her. I am her GM. My ingame handle is Zelcandor and I play a protection warrior and am one of the Raid Leaders of the guild. As such, I am eminently qualified to write at length about shaman. However, I’ll keep it short and try and give you all a different perspective on shaman. Let’s face it, you...

T10 Resto set bonus analysis [Guest Post]

April 17, 2010

Hey everyone! Dr.Feelgood, inveterate lich hunter and frequent customer of T10 is here pondering over the aspects of restoration spec. And today I’m going to expose the T10 set bonuses to the light of the day! The T10 set bonuses as they currently stand, are: Shaman T10 Restoration 2pc bonus Shaman T10 Restoration 4pc bonus Let’s see in the benefits they bring to the table in details. Shaman 2pcT10 bonus. Your Riptide spell grants 20% spell haste for your next spellcast within 10 sec. Basically when you cast Riptide you instantly get a buff called Rapid Currents that grants...