World of Warcraft

Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. This week, we are exploring two of the four wings in Heroic ICC. Be prepared to face some of the most challenging content the game has to offer, folks — it only gets real from here on out.
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Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week, we stress the importance of pattern recognition.

Cirocco: I enjoy a healing model based around triage, quick reactions and maximizing output. I very much doubt I’ll enjoy a healing model based around parsimoniously doling out mana and yelling at people [...]

Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. We’ve totally got this one down, right folks? You know the drill, huge army of baddies, you all by your lonesome; it’s time to show them why we don’t mess with moonkin. After all, who would want to try and [...]

Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting feral/restoration druids and those who group with them. This week, we ponder change.
Beta build 12803 dropped late Friday, and with it a number of changes to the feral and restoration specs. Some are what you’d expect after some recent forum conversations with Ghostcrawler (lead systems designer), and others [...]

Blizzard snuck in another beta build last night, and it was more than a little exciting for the balance druid side of the world. Although I wouldn’t say that druids or balance in particular were the “primary” focus of this build, as paladins have been in the past few builds while Blizzard fixes the new [...]

Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. This week, we are delving back into the world of betacraft as we examine what is that is making the balance rotation tick, how there might be some flaws in it, and what might patch everything back together.
Greetings and salutations, [...]

Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting feral/restoration druids and those who group with them. This week, we equivocate on the best means of filling a bottomless pit.
Beta build 12759 dropped early Saturday morning, and with it the introduction of mastery and quite a few changes to the feral and restoration specs. I think Blizzard [...]

Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. Itemization in Cataclysm is changing, and this week we’ll be talking about how you can prepare yourself for the oncoming storm.
I’ve talked quite a bit about various changes that are happening with balance druids in the coming expansion: the Eclipse [...]