Too Many Annas

Warcraft and other musings by a bevy of Annas (and a few others)

Going Resto in Three-point-Oh

Posted on October 14, 2008 - Filed Under Guides, Shaman | 14 Comments

Welcome to the beginning of new things!  It’s here - patch day - the day of DOOM, or excitement… or maybe a little bit of both.  One of the first things you’ll notice when you log in today is that you have no more talents!
Ok.  The first thing you’ll notice is that your interface is [...]

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Resto Shaman vs. Azgalor - A Healing Guide

Posted on October 1, 2008 - Filed Under Guides, Healing, Shaman | Leave a Comment

This is one in a series of posts covering resto-shaman-specific information for tier4 through tier6 Burning Crusade boss fights. It will NOT be a boss kill strategy, rather a list of tips and tricks for your friendly neighborhood shaman to make these fights run a little more smoothly.
Previous guides for Karazhan, Gruul’s Lair, SSC, TK: [...]

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Resto Shaman vs. Kaz’Rogal - A Healing Guide

Posted on September 10, 2008 - Filed Under Guides, Healing, Shaman | 4 Comments

This is one in a series of posts covering resto-shaman-specific information for tier4 and tier5 Burning Crusade boss fights. It will NOT be a boss kill strategy, rather a list of tips and tricks for your friendly neighborhood shaman to make these fights run a little more smoothly.
Previous guides for Karazhan, Gruul’s Lair, SSC, TK: [...]

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Matchy Shaman isn’t Matchy

Posted on September 5, 2008 - Filed Under Shaman | 9 Comments

Getting upgrades is fun!  Unfortunately, my personal sensibilities are to be more excited when said upgrade not only *is* badass, but also *looks* badass.
As we’re progressing steadily on Archimonde, and knocking out other Hyjal-ish bosses, Annorah has picked up a few really tasty upgrades - several that are best in slot (pre Sunwell, which… well, [...]

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Resto Shaman vs. Anetheron - A Healing Guide

Posted on September 3, 2008 - Filed Under Guides, Healing, Raiding, Shaman | 2 Comments

This is one in a series of posts covering resto-shaman-specific information for tier4 and tier5 Burning Crusade boss fights. It will NOT be a boss kill strategy, rather a list of tips and tricks for your friendly neighborhood shaman to make these fights run a little more smoothly.
Previous guides for Karazhan, Gruul’s Lair, SSC, TK: [...]

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Resto Shaman vs Rage Winterchill - A Healing Guide

Posted on August 27, 2008 - Filed Under Guides, Healing, Raiding, Shaman | 5 Comments

This is one in a series of posts covering resto-shaman-specific information for tier4 and tier5 Burning Crusade boss fights. It will NOT be a boss kill strategy, rather a list of tips and tricks for your friendly neighborhood shaman to make these fights run a little more smoothly.
Previous guides for Karazhan, Gruul’s Lair, SSC, and [...]

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In Which Annorah Steps On Her Soapbox

Posted on August 21, 2008 - Filed Under Shaman | 14 Comments

Gentle Readers :
It’s Draenei.  D-R-A-E-N-E-I.
Three consonants.  Four vowels.  I realize that this word is an unusual one, as your language does not usually have dipthongs (combinations of vowels) like that.  We have, however, been in major areas of Azeroth for at least 18 months now; I do not expect immediate understanding of our language, [...]

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Ancestral Healing and You

Posted on August 12, 2008 - Filed Under Guides, Shaman | 1 Comment

Ancestral healing is a talent in the second tier of the Restoration tree for Shamans.
Ancestral Healing:
Increases your target’s armor value by 8/16/25% for 15 seconds after getting a critical effect from one of your healing spells.
The buff that is placed on your target is called Ancestral Fortitude.
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This is one of those bread-and-butter resto talents [...]

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Leveling your Shaman (part 2)

Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Guides, Shaman | 6 Comments

One of the favorite posts here at Too Many Annas continues to be the “Be a Shamanistic Genius while you Level” post about how to tackle being a beginner shaman for the very first time.  Obviously not everything was covered there (or will be here), but there are some things I can definitely add to [...]

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Nature’s Swiftness

Posted on July 30, 2008 - Filed Under Guides, Healing, Raiding, Shaman | 5 Comments

So it’s come up a couple of times recently that people notice that their raid shamans aren’t using Nature’s Swiftness as often as their druidic counterparts.
*raises hand*
Guilty as charged.
In an attempt to rectify this, and hopefully motivate myself to be less likely to “save it for an o-shit moment” (and therefore use it once in [...]

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