Windfury Crits & Enhance Shaman 101

Back in April 2008 I started blogging about the life and times of an enhancement shaman on my personal website. The blog was called Windfury Crits, and at the time it was the only active Enhancement blog out there. In February 2009 I moved WF Crits over to Big Hit Box, a collaborative blog focused on all things melee. After getting hired at WoW Insider for the enhancement shaman position I let BHB slide into oblivion, eventually cancelling the whole thing. Then in November 2010 I left WoW Insider because I did not have enough time to dedicate to full weekly articles. And thus I went dark on blogging about enhance for nearly 6 months, my longest break since starting in writing three years ago. Admittedly, I was a bit busy with this show you may have heard of about WoW raiders...

Here we are now in April 2011, I'm bringing it back to Bacon: the return of Windfury Crits. I'll address everything enhancement-related, even if it's just in short bursts. You can subscribe to the Windfury Crits-only thread here, but of course I recommend subscribing to the full RSS feed for everything: blog posts and videos alike.

For the inaugural post I'm going to summarize what you need (and probably already know) to get started as an enhancement shaman

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Hordrapp Guide

File this under, "time that could have been better spent."

Want to find all the combinations for Blizzard's April Fool's prank iPhone app, Hordrapp? Below is the complete list of combinations that I found, and how to get to them. Granted, it didn't take me long to do this, but still, who really needs a guide to a four-piece puzzle? What's done is done and you might as well reap the rewards.

Thanks Blizzard for the great April Fool's pranks this year. I'm really looking forward to Patch 4.1.11!

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Cataclysm LFD and You: How to Max Your JP Without Losing Your Sanity

Hello! I am Beslley, your friendly neighborhood warlock, and I pug heroics through LFD.
Now, if you've used LFD recently, you might think that I am crazy or masochistic. The answer would be both, since I rolled a warlock, but that is not pertinent to the discussion at hand.
And the discussion at hand, as the title so implies, is how to survive LFD and get your sweet, sweet justice points for pre-raid gear.

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Your Cataclysm Tank(adin)

Are you level 85 yet? Have you had your world rocked yet? If not just wait a few minutes, let it sink in.

I went back to tanking for this expansion, and things got really interesting. First of all, your health pool and everyone else’s is really big. While taking damage is still not a good idea, you have a little breathing room in terms of how much damage you can take before you die. Heck, I have seen a clothie take a couple hits from a boss and survive.

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