One Druid, Many Worlds

New Raid Healing column

Matticus of the healer mega-blog World of Matticus and the new healer forums PlusHeal has restarted the Healer Raiding advice column on WoW Insider, Raid Rx. Check out the first column Are you ready to be healer leader? For more Druid Raiding goodness, check out his Healing Assignments for Resto Druids article.

Moar math for trees

Like healing? Like math? Then you’re going to love Raaff’s article on the formulas behind Int, Spi and Mana Regen for Resto Druids on his blog Druid Heal!

Is Polar tank gear good for all bosses?

Crafted Polar gear is considered must-have for new level 80 bear tanks for its outstanding Stamina values, but is it good for every Wrath boss? Jacemora explores the gear’s effectiveness fight by fight.

Alternate Resto Tree builds

Though I’ve posted the most popular Resto Tree spec in my sidebar, many players are experimenting with other specs as well. Raine of Orbital Bombardment looks at alternate healing builds and their effectiveness.

The future of Mana Regen

Phaelia of Resto4Life explores Ghostcrawler’s recent comment about mana regeneration being too easy in the game and what she hopes is done about it.

Stealthing to Northrend Elders

The aptly named Stealth Runs blog summarizes a forums thread on stealthing to the Northrend instance Elders. He also notes that you can borrow someone’s cleared instance id to get to hard to reach Elders like the one in Heroic Gundrak.

More feral raiding reports

Kalon at ThinkTank has been exploring the OT role of playing both cat and bear in a raid. In part three he reports on the results of his latest run.

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Resto Druid Glyphs

Phaelia from Resto4Life has been bombarded with the question "what glyphs should Tree Druids use?" Instead of composing yet another lengthy answer, she went the XKCD route and made a flow chart that answers all your Resto Glyph questions. Even if you aren’t specced for healing this is not to be missed.

Swiftmend Recommendation

J at Casual WoW explains why Swiftmend is one of the best Druid direct heals in the game (especially in combination with Glyph of Swiftmend.)

Dreamstate Resto Build Report

Althura of OneHotNelf continues her Dreamstate Resto build experiment and reports back on her latest Naxx run. So far she feels it outperforms the more popular 11/0/60 standard raid Druid Resto build.

Moonkin 2v2 Strategy

Macbook of Moonkin.info dipped his toe into 2v2 Arenas with his Resto Shammy friend and came back with tips on how to win.

Feral Druid’s Guide To Soloing Onyxia

The Vendor Trash blog has a guide to soloing Onyxia for feral Druids. It’s straightforward and can help you get the Onyxia’s Lair Achievement on your way to the Classic Raider Achievement. What’s even better is that there is no lengthy attunement quest anymore.

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