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I have run Deadmines over 30 times as a like-level priest, so I’m guessing that finally gives me the right to write a guide to healing. I will be assuming a few things about your character, skills, and interface, so read this over carefully, or your group may end up dead.

• You have ‘invested’ in at least some +healing gear.
• You are specced at least some Holy for threat reduction.
• You are not the lowest level member, or are at least level 24 if you are all like-level.
• I would highly recommend ClickHeal for easy healing and buffing of party members.

Now for the basics. The instance starts out with a bunch of squishies wandering around and miners at the walls. The casters are elites and start throwing fireballs at the biggest threat around. If you overheal, that is you. If you are too low level, that is you. Your group should be able to get through this entire area using Renews and an occassional bubble on your squishies when they start nuking.

The first boss is Rhahk’Zor and is stupid-easy. Let me make this abundantly clear right now. If your group wipes or anyone dies fighting him, you are in trouble. Kick anyone who dies or find an excuse to leave the group, because they suck. It’s possible that you do, too, for not healing them enough, but there are players out there bad enough to get killed in this fight before you have a chance to do anything. The technique on him is simple, wait until he walks closest to your door, pull him through into the mineshaft where you all are, and then take out the guys that were with him. Mana up now! There will be patrols coming along behind, with the time depending on how efficient you were at killing Rhahk’Zor.

Now it is time to start paying a little bit of attention. You will be doing a bit more Flash Heals and putting Renews on more party members. Proceed to the next doors. There are a bunch of goblins inside. Mana up and open the doors. Have a hunter (preferred) or tank with their ranged weapon pull NO MORE THAN TWO goblins at a time. You will make easy work by getting one at a time, but three at a time will likely wear you down and possibly result in a death or two. You need to be careful to stay away from accidently pulling additional goblins, but also keeping people in your line of sight (LOS) for healing. I suggest going through the doors once the pulling has moved in there and going to the right and standing in that corner with a good view of the room.

The shredder and Sneed are the next boss. The shredder has a lot of HP, but if everyone has been healed and drank up, I’ve never seen a group have a problem. Groups that make it that far know what they are doing enough to kill the shredder. A word of caution: wait until the shredder has gone up the hill and pull the other goblins before engaging the shredder. After the shredder goes down, the driver, Sneed, is pissed that you broke his machine and he is no wimp. Sometimes he is still buried in the machine, but the tank should be able to pull him out to see for the others to target if they haven’t already. Sneed will really pack a wallop, but nothing a good group can’t handle. Bubble the tank after he gets good aggro. Mana up and wait for the patrols, or at least be aware that they will be coming behind you as you proceed through the doors.

Insist from this point on that the tank gains aggro before others engage. It saves a lot of mana by only healing one or two party members. Put a Renew on the tank before engagement and leave them alone until it wears off.

The next room is a pain in the tookus, and I will continue at my next break at work.

I broke the stinking theme AGAIN!! After all that work, too. I’m getting a parse error for an extra ‘$’ on a line that doesn’t have an ‘$’ and it’s really ticking me off. So I’m switching to this theme. It’s really cool, except for the issue that it is supposed to be 3-columns. So, it will be up and down and colors all funky, but should get better all day long. When the blogroll splits into my categories and slides over from underneath the other column, you know I’m learning something.

My car is running on 3 cylinders today after a spark plug gasket blew yesterday, so it’s time to replace the whole kit. I’ll be leaving after lunch, so we’ll see how much blogging I get done.

Edit: I discovered at my parents’ house when the rain got too bad to work on the car that the site displays just fine with Firefox. The text link ad is supposed to display in the far right (3rd) column and there should be a wrapping shadow to the right of the articles. If that is the case, please leave a comment about which browser you are using. – Thanks.

Here is some of what I’ve found:

• Frostbolt posted an incredible Matrox display that should have WoW users around the globe drooling.
• Inner Fire did a site re-design that is very nice and found some guides to professions.
• Aeigelus has a personal guide for raiding as a hunter that is quite informative from his experiences through BWL and Naxx.
• I signed up for Text Link Ads today to attempt to generate enough money to pay for hosting with GoDaddy.com’s plans. This domain expires next month, and I’d like to renew and switch hosts at the same time.
• Shalkis has an interesting post in a role-playing style.

I have a lot of work today and want to incorporate some cool things I’ve seen in other templates and some additional plug-ins to try.

I had some fun now! Starting on Friday, I did an Alexa search to see where this blog ranks, because Problogger.net was mentioning its importance for gaining credibility. So, how credible is Gitr’s WoW Blog?

#3? With the first two having nothing to do with World of Warcraft? I had no idea something like Alexa would rank it that high. I’m not exactly sure what Alexa is for or who they are, but seeing that sure made my day!

Friday, I wanted to ding 35 when I got home, so that’s what I did. I went and started slaughtering centaurs again. The Gelkis clan really doesn’t like me right now. I went and did a couple of Magram Alliance quests to boot. When the profile updates, if they ever get around to clearing out the queue, you’ll see just how much they don’t tolerate my presence.

I was very pleased to find Rexxar and Misha walk right past me as I was fighing. It took a while to dawn on me that they are on my “team” now. I saw him several times this weekend, and finally decided to wave at him as he passed.

I killed Khan Dez’hepah and turned in his head and finished grinding for Centaur Ears to ding 35.

I’m starting to get a little annoyed at my gear now. I can only kill level 38s. That is just plain unnacceptable. I could get attacked by some Alliance jerk at any time. Why, just this morning I was on my way to Ghost Walker Outpost and got ganked by a 38 gnome warlock. “Hey, I thought you said you could kill 38s,” you might be thinking. Yes, NPC 38s, but not resourceful people, especially those that carry their own tanks around. This problem led me to the AH this morning to replace my current gear. Now I’m very uncontent.

Now that I’ve seen a Staff of Jordan on the server and know that it is level 35, I will not be satisfied with my dps until I have one. Now, at that price, I’d better unload the Deadly Poisons XI book I bought that still hasn’t sold. I really get antsy when I do big purchases according to Auctioneer scans, and that book is one that may end up biting me. I think I spent 40-50G for it and it was supposed to go for 145G. It lists for a 6G fee and I’ve tried 3 times. It’s down to 80G now, and still haven’t seen it on the AH since.

At 285G, the Staff of Jordan seems a bit out of reach, so I may have to settle for a Hypnotic Blade and something else for +INT or +Shadow/Spell Damage to go in my off-hand. That would make me sad… 🙁

I would like to make it perfectly clear that my comments were never intended to refer to anyone who dislikes digital guns. I have personally never owned a digital bow, and much prefer the “bang” associated with firing a digital gun into a mob of mobs.

I would like to apologize to anyone who misinterpreted my comments as negative toward those people who do not enjoy digital guns as much as me and I personally apologize to any Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, Gnome, Orc, Troll, Tauren, or Forsaken who was offended.

It is clear that Blizzard would rather talk about their Trading Card Game than the real issue of when they are going to finally release The Burning Crusade. I will continue to fight for the interests of my readers and assist in any way I can for a winning strategy in WSG.

This is taking off like wildfire:

http://digg.com/gaming_news/A_WoW_Obituary_with_the_right_reply_Picture

I have never laughed so hard at something so inappropriate. (Ed. – it is still work friendly)