02-14-2013, 04:03 PM
On writing a Priest blog:
I thought about this some more and decided against it. It sounds elitist as all hell and I'm sorry about that, but my perspective on World of Warcraft in a US top 30 25-man guild is so radically skewed off of what is more "normal" for most players of the game that such a blog would have two problems:
1) I don't think, even if I tried, that I could write at a fully understandable level to a more casual player, and
2) It may attract more elitist players to the site and change its dynamic
Even at a basic level, there are so few 25-man guilds left in the game compared to the whopping majority (something like 90%, right) of 10-man guilds. Advice given on how to gear and play for 25-man healing is very different for 10-man and what I'd write would naturally only apply to those 10% of raiders to start with. I've told other Priest players on more than one occasion not to simply copy what I'm doing on my Armory because I'm geared and spec'ed for heroic 25-man raiding. It doesn't always apply the same way to 10-man raiding, never mind LFR vs Normal vs Heroic modes.
Sites like Icy Veins and HowToPriest are great resources already. Heck, I use Icy Veins all the time for my alts just to get a basic idea of "glyph this, talent that, use these abilities and win."
(01-17-2013, 05:59 PM)Tal Wrote: I think you should do it. Frequently the big blogs either take for granted that a reader understands the mechanics of the class that they're discussing and then talks over the heads of their readers, or they load up their posts with complicated math then fail to create that crucial TL,DR conclusion.
I thought about this some more and decided against it. It sounds elitist as all hell and I'm sorry about that, but my perspective on World of Warcraft in a US top 30 25-man guild is so radically skewed off of what is more "normal" for most players of the game that such a blog would have two problems:
1) I don't think, even if I tried, that I could write at a fully understandable level to a more casual player, and
2) It may attract more elitist players to the site and change its dynamic
Even at a basic level, there are so few 25-man guilds left in the game compared to the whopping majority (something like 90%, right) of 10-man guilds. Advice given on how to gear and play for 25-man healing is very different for 10-man and what I'd write would naturally only apply to those 10% of raiders to start with. I've told other Priest players on more than one occasion not to simply copy what I'm doing on my Armory because I'm geared and spec'ed for heroic 25-man raiding. It doesn't always apply the same way to 10-man raiding, never mind LFR vs Normal vs Heroic modes.
Sites like Icy Veins and HowToPriest are great resources already. Heck, I use Icy Veins all the time for my alts just to get a basic idea of "glyph this, talent that, use these abilities and win."
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