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Home Archives for addonsLodur March 31, 2011 11 Comments Lodur’s Addon Spotlight: GTFO GTFO is the best addon you’re probably not using right now. GTFO stands for exactly what it sounds like, “Get The F$%# Out”. Simply put, the addon gives you an audio alert whenever you are standing in something that is causing you harm. Why is this a good thing? Well, right now there are a lot of area effect boss damage abilities that still can hit you even if you are “in the clear”. Take for example Valiona, both in Grim Batol and Bastion of Twilight. The dragon has a frontal cone breath that causes massive amounts of damage if you sit in the fire. Many times I’ve been outside of the visible effect, yet still took the damage as if standing in it, didn’t notice at first and became so much Dwarven BBQ (I can admit when I fail :]). After installing the addon though, this just isn’t a problem anymore. It plays a subtle, yet noticeable, tone to indicate that I’m standing in bad.
Filed Under: All Stories Tagged: add-ons, addon, addons, GTFO	Mimetir October 30, 2010 5 Comments Special Delivery: Roundup Of The Best WoW Posts Of The Week Last week I started a mostly regular Saturday feature whereby I do My Thing for you guys here at WoM. No,that’s not putting on a light display shooting lazers from my eyes. Embarrassingly I’ve generally switched raiding mains as it is and am considering switching again (shh, don’t tell Matt), so lazers are much removed at present. But what I do do is gather the best posts from around the WoW blogosphere and deliver them straight to my readers at my website, MMO Melting Pot. And that’s what I’m doing on a Saturday: rounding up the best posts I’ve read during the week, with a focus on the posts about healing, leading or raiding so that they’re just the right cup of tea for WoM readers.
Filed Under: All Stories, Featured, News and Opinion Tagged: addons, healing, holy priest, MMO leader, MMO Melting Pot	Matticus October 12, 2010 9 Comments Healing Roundups and We Got Our Drakes! Not quite sure where to go or what to read? Feeling overwhelmed? Yeah, I feel the same way too. Don’t worry though. I’ve got all the healing related stuff right here for you to brush up on. Next few weeks will be exciting with all the new systems.
Crap. There goes our holy paladin. Wait, that’s three healers! I barked out for an immediate use of defensive cooldowns. Barkskin and other such skills were used while the DPS desperately muscled to get us free as quickly as possible (and to their credit, they did). After something like 25+ attempts over the past few weeks, we were able to secure our drakes. Only took us something like 5 sets of Vile Spirits. Did it with 3 Boomkins. That helped immensely. Still recruiting for Cataclysm. May not have any immediate openings now, but if you’re looking for a raiding guild, look me up. Filed Under: All Stories, News and Opinion, Patch Notes Tagged: addons, augment, disc, discipline, Druid, gems, healing, holy, Paladin, patch, patch-401, Priest Discussion, resto, restoration, Shaman Subjects, vile-spirits	Lodur May 21, 2010 37 Comments A Fond Farewell to AVR/AVRE I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now. In patch 3.3.5 Blizzard intends to intentionally break AVR/AVRE. It is not the first time that something like this has happened, but it does strike me as a bit odd as to the reasoning behind it.
Filed Under: All Stories, Featured, Gaming and Society, Mods & UI design, News and Opinion Tagged: addon, addons, boss mods, mod, ui mods	Matticus January 18, 2010 23 Comments Ranking Players with Elitist Group I hesitated a bit when writing this post largely because I know how the community feels when it comes to “scoring” players. No one wants to be condensed to just a number or a value. At the same time, the idea of a player’s gearscore has evolved to into another concept where a players capability and potential can be scored. Why rate players at all?
Filed Under: All Stories, Featured, Guild Topics, News and Opinion Tagged: addons, eg, elitist-group, gearscore, icecrown, Player, raiding, ranking, rating	Lodur June 15, 2009 10 Comments Timing is Everything! You know the old saying timing is everything right? Well it’s very true for healing. Bad timing can cause a dead tank, or a wiped raid. Management of global cooldowns, spell cooldowns and compensating for lag can make all the difference in the world between a bad healer a so-so healer or a good healer. So, how can we deal with these as healer? Well there are a couple mods that I’ve found quite useful for dealing with this.
Filed Under: All Stories, Featured, PvE Healing Tagged: addon, addons, cooldowns, healing, Latency, Mods, PvE Healing, raiding	Matticus April 14, 2009 26 Comments Suggested Healing Priest Specs, Glyphs, and Addons for 3.1 Not sure how to spec or glyph for 3.1? Here are my suggestions. Feel free to modify accordingly. WoW Insider has a great roundup to everything 3.1 related.
Things will be very busy in the World. New places to explore, new dungeons to conquer. All of us will do our best to provide the advice and guidance in the challenges ahead. Filed Under: All Stories, News and Opinion, Priest Discussion, PvE Healing Tagged: 3.1, addons, disc, discipline, empowered renew, glyph, guardian spirit, holy, lifebloom, no stock ui, nostockui, patch 3.1, penance, power word shield, Priest Discussion, rapture, scribe, serendipity, spec, talent, ulduar	Matticus March 30, 2009 22 Comments Say Hi to No Stock UI! During the summer of 2007, I started World of Matticus. In the summer of 2008, I opened the PlusHeal discussion community for healers to take part and actively contribute their ideas for other players to learn from. It is now spring of 2009. Enter No Stock UI. This will be a magazine style blog with a few notable bloggers around the community:
4 Popular Heads Up Displays Why Aesthetics are Important 6 Nifty Addons You Might Not Know About 30+ FuBar Plugins You CanÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t Live Without Where to Find Your New UI Killer Combinations: AuctionLite + Skillet + LilSparksWorks In Depth Analysis with Recount Hope youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll enjoy reading our posts as much as we loved writing them! Filed Under: All Stories, Blog, News and Opinion Tagged: addons, blog, no stock, no stock ui, nsui, UI, user interface	Matticus August 31, 2008 12 Comments Assigning Healing Strategy – Part 4: Addons to Make Raid Life Easy Welcome to the fourth in a 5 part series here on World of Matticus. For the next several weeks, I?ll be covering the rare topic of assigning raid heals. No one really wants to do it but it?s the most important job in the raid and I?ll provide a basic overview of the process and some advanced tips!
A lot more straight forward, Healing Assigner will simply spit whatever you throw in there out into raid. If someone forgets, you’ll have to hit the “Report” button to repeat their job again. Filed Under: All Stories, Mods & UI design Tagged: addons, heal-assign, heal-assigner, heal-organiser, healing-strategy, mod, raiding	Matticus January 13, 2008 12 Comments Caster Weapon Swapper: An Essential Addon for Spellsurge Users Spellsurge or 81 Healing? It’s a common question that many healers have asked themselves. Why not use both?
I can tell you I’m not the only blogger who feels this way (Speaking of which, it’s been a week and a half, where have you been?). Filed Under: Mods & UI design Tagged: 81 Healing, addons, casterweaponswapper, Spellsurge	Subscribe!
addons Archives - World of Matticus
Home Archives for addonsLodur March 31, 2011 11 Comments Lodur’s Addon Spotlight: GTFO GTFO is the best addon you’re probably not using right now. GTFO stands for exactly what it sounds like, “Get The F$%# Out”. Simply put, the addon gives you an audio alert whenever you are standing in something that is causing you harm. Why is this a good thing? Well, right now there are a lot of area effect boss damage abilities that still can hit you even if you are “in the clear”. Take for example Valiona, both in Grim Batol and Bastion of Twilight. The dragon has a frontal cone breath that causes massive amounts of damage if you sit in the fire. Many times I’ve been outside of the visible effect, yet still took the damage as if standing in it, didn’t notice at first and became so much Dwarven BBQ (I can admit when I fail :]). After installing the addon though, this just isn’t a problem anymore. It plays a subtle, yet noticeable, tone to indicate that I’m standing in bad.
Filed Under: All Stories Tagged: add-ons, addon, addons, GTFO	Mimetir October 30, 2010 5 Comments Special Delivery: Roundup Of The Best WoW Posts Of The Week Last week I started a mostly regular Saturday feature whereby I do My Thing for you guys here at WoM. No,that’s not putting on a light display shooting lazers from my eyes. Embarrassingly I’ve generally switched raiding mains as it is and am considering switching again (shh, don’t tell Matt), so lazers are much removed at present. But what I do do is gather the best posts from around the WoW blogosphere and deliver them straight to my readers at my website, MMO Melting Pot. And that’s what I’m doing on a Saturday: rounding up the best posts I’ve read during the week, with a focus on the posts about healing, leading or raiding so that they’re just the right cup of tea for WoM readers.
Filed Under: All Stories, Featured, News and Opinion Tagged: addons, healing, holy priest, MMO leader, MMO Melting Pot	Matticus October 12, 2010 9 Comments Healing Roundups and We Got Our Drakes! Not quite sure where to go or what to read? Feeling overwhelmed? Yeah, I feel the same way too. Don’t worry though. I’ve got all the healing related stuff right here for you to brush up on. Next few weeks will be exciting with all the new systems.
Crap. There goes our holy paladin. Wait, that’s three healers! I barked out for an immediate use of defensive cooldowns. Barkskin and other such skills were used while the DPS desperately muscled to get us free as quickly as possible (and to their credit, they did). After something like 25+ attempts over the past few weeks, we were able to secure our drakes. Only took us something like 5 sets of Vile Spirits. Did it with 3 Boomkins. That helped immensely. Still recruiting for Cataclysm. May not have any immediate openings now, but if you’re looking for a raiding guild, look me up. Filed Under: All Stories, News and Opinion, Patch Notes Tagged: addons, augment, disc, discipline, Druid, gems, healing, holy, Paladin, patch, patch-401, Priest Discussion, resto, restoration, Shaman Subjects, vile-spirits	Lodur May 21, 2010 37 Comments A Fond Farewell to AVR/AVRE I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now. In patch 3.3.5 Blizzard intends to intentionally break AVR/AVRE. It is not the first time that something like this has happened, but it does strike me as a bit odd as to the reasoning behind it.
Filed Under: All Stories, Featured, Gaming and Society, Mods & UI design, News and Opinion Tagged: addon, addons, boss mods, mod, ui mods	Matticus January 18, 2010 23 Comments Ranking Players with Elitist Group I hesitated a bit when writing this post largely because I know how the community feels when it comes to “scoring” players. No 
one wants to be condensed to just a number or a value. At the same time, the idea of a player’s gearscore has evolved to into another concept where a players capability and potential can be scored. Why rate players at all?
Filed Under: All Stories, Featured, Guild Topics, News and Opinion Tagged: addons, eg, elitist-group, gearscore, icecrown, Player, raiding, ranking, rating	Lodur June 15, 2009 10 Comments Timing is Everything! You know the old saying timing is everything right? Well it’s very true for healing. Bad timing can cause a dead tank, or a wiped raid. Management of global cooldowns, spell cooldowns and compensating for lag can make all the difference in the world between a bad healer a so-so healer or a good healer. So, how can we deal with these as healer? Well there are a couple mods that I’ve found quite useful for dealing with this.
Filed Under: All Stories, Featured, PvE Healing Tagged: addon, addons, cooldowns, healing, Latency, Mods, PvE Healing, raiding	Matticus April 14, 2009 26 Comments Suggested Healing Priest Specs, Glyphs, and Addons for 3.1 Not sure how to spec or glyph for 3.1? Here are my suggestions. Feel free to modify accordingly. WoW Insider has a great roundup to everything 3.1 related.
Things will be very busy in the World. New places to explore, new dungeons to conquer. All of us will do our best to provide the advice and guidance in the challenges ahead. Filed Under: All Stories, News and Opinion, Priest Discussion, PvE Healing Tagged: 3.1, addons, disc, discipline, empowered renew, glyph, guardian spirit, holy, lifebloom, no stock ui, nostockui, patch 3.1, penance, power word shield, Priest Discussion, rapture, scribe, serendipity, spec, talent, ulduar	Matticus March 30, 2009 22 Comments Say Hi to No Stock UI! During the summer of 2007, I started World of Matticus. In the summer of 2008, I opened the PlusHeal discussion community for healers to take part and actively contribute their ideas for other players to learn from. It is now spring of 2009. Enter No Stock UI. This will be a magazine style blog with a few notable bloggers around the community:
4 Popular Heads Up Displays Why Aesthetics are Important 6 Nifty Addons You Might Not Know About 30+ FuBar Plugins You CanÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t Live Without Where to Find Your New UI Killer Combinations: AuctionLite + Skillet + LilSparksWorks In Depth Analysis with Recount Hope youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll enjoy reading our posts as much as we loved writing them! Filed Under: All Stories, Blog, News and Opinion Tagged: addons, blog, no stock, no stock ui, nsui, UI, user interface	Matticus August 31, 2008 12 Comments Assigning Healing Strategy – Part 4: Addons to Make Raid Life Easy Welcome to the fourth in a 5 part series here on World of Matticus. For the next several weeks, I?ll be covering the rare topic of assigning raid heals. No one really wants to do it but it?s the most important job in the raid and I?ll provide a basic overview of the process and some advanced tips!
A lot more straight forward, Healing Assigner will simply spit whatever you throw in there out into raid. If someone forgets, you’ll have to hit the “Report” button to repeat their job again. Filed Under: All Stories, Mods & UI design Tagged: addons, heal-assign, heal-assigner, heal-organiser, healing-strategy, mod, raiding	Matticus January 13, 2008 12 Comments Caster Weapon Swapper: An Essential Addon for Spellsurge Users Spellsurge or 81 Healing? It’s a common question that many healers have asked themselves. Why not use both?
I can tell you I’m not the only blogger who feels this way (Speaking of which, it’s been a week and a half, where have you been?). Filed Under: Mods & UI design Tagged: 81 Healing, addons, casterweaponswapper, Spellsurge	Subscribe!