Keybinding

Gravity at Pwnwear talks about the keys he binds movement commands and spells to.  Read the Comments for the way other folks do this, then pick what seems to work best for your hands and playing style.  (I think Gravity plays a Death Knight, but at least some of the commands are universal.)
http://pwnwear.com/2009/11/06/keybinding-do-it/

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COMPARING BEAR AND CAT GEAR (FERAL DRUIDS)

A three part article discussing the differences and similarities among cat and bear form feral druids.
http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2009/01/druidthe-anti-tank-maximizing-dps-for.html

http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2009/01/druidthe-anti-tank-part-2-stats-case.html

http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/2009/01/druid-anti-tank-part-3-blowing-stuff-up.html

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Thought for the Day

The Solo MMO Player asks:  Do you play your character, or do you wear it?

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The Feral Druid Tank

Karthias looks at Nurturing Instinct as a talent to help heal his feral druid tank in cat form. Note that this is from 2008. Read the comments for more insight.
http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-on-nurturing-instinct.html

A discussion from 2007 about how a bear tank can heal without shifting out of bear form.
http://vnboards.ign.com/wow_druid_class/b22777/105202468/p1/

More about bear tanking threat rotations from Karthias from May 2009.
http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com/2009/05/bear-threat-rotations.html


A feral druid talks about how to improve as a tank.
http://feralconfessions.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/this-tank-sucks/

Loot scales for Patch 3.1 (we are currently operating under Patch 3.2).
http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com/2009/04/loot-weighting-for-31.html

Feral druid PvP tactics against various classes (from 2006!).
http://thedruidsgrove.org/wow/forums/archive/index.php/t-10803.html

Karthias posts his feral druid gear worksheet here.  It's a Google document so anyone can see it no matter what computer flavor they use.  Note the Bear Only and Cat Only pages at the bottom.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pdnkV0444wHn_grOhx1RkNg

A Karthias macro to keep from accidentally switching out of bear form.
http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com/2008/12/poison-pill-macros.html

Big Bear Butt's video guide to leveling your weapon skill as a feral druid.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/02/20/leveling-your-weapon-skill-the-video/

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Tanking from Many Angles

Discussions on tanking are popping up all over.  (This must be the topic of the week in the Blog-o-Sphere.)  The first article explains how a feral druid in bear form tanks and is a guide for those new to bear tanking.
http://www.worldofraids.com/wow-blue-tracker/eu-forums/9521444247-guide-bear-tanking-for-dummies.html

Big Red Rhino explains how a hunter tank keeps aggro, discussing things such as crowd control and resistance buffs.
http://bigredrhino.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/so-your-healer-pulls-aggro/

Last, here is a discussion of exactly what a main tank is and what their responsibilities in a raid should be.  Note that the article is really talking about raid attendance and the main tank's responsibilities.
http://avengingwrathy.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/what-is-a-main-tank/

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Sharing Raid Loot the GDKP Way

Another raid loot division system.  Basically, everyone bids gold on loot drops, high bid wins.  The gold that was bid goes into a pot that is shared out equally after the raid ends.
http://deathknight.info/2009/11/gdkp-and-you-the-other-way-to-get-loot/

Cold Comfort is not a fan.  (Neither is the Solo MMO Player.)
http://blog.cold-comfort.org/gdkp-guild-loot-system/

More critiques.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/22/the-sudden-popularity-of-gdkp/

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Guildwatch: The Grifter Edition

Wednesday's Guildwatch brings us news of Idinged who ninja'd the Onyxia mount according to report.  Guildwatch hears the thief doesn't even have the flying skill necessary.  Of course when did that ever stop someone from taking what wasn't theirs?

The Prometheans's GM has a new rule--Wear the guild tabard or you won't get loot from the raid.  Has my mother taken up playing WOW?  This sounds like the sort of rule she specialized in when I was 8.

Finally, I have to quote Guildwatch directly for this:

"...the pic above [that heads the Guildwatch column this week] is of a poor guy who piped up in a Trade channel to say that he'd purchased the Unusual Compass for a whopping 425g because the dude who sold it to him claimed it would lead him off to a Time-Lost Proto drake. In reality, all the compass does is point you in a random direction, and it's obtained randomly from the fishing quests. But hey -- you may not be able to fool all of the people all of the time, but you can almost always fool at least one person out of 425g."

Read all about this and more, plus guilds recruiting and downing instances (but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm) here.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/04/guildwatch-no-tabard-no-loot/


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Addon Basics

WOW Insider is starting a series about the basics of addons.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/04/wow-rookie-add-ons-for-rookies/

WOW Insider recommends these addons as basic and useful.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/11/wow-rookie-basic-add-ons/

Looking back at my postings, I have done more about addons than any other topic.  They obviously are important for players.  I'll update this article when WOW Insider posts more basics and try to organize my earlier posts into better order as I have time.

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Mailbox Addons: Postal

Postal allows you to manage your alts' mailboxes.  WOW Insider featured Postal in their addon column last June.
http://www.wow.com/2009/06/06/addon-spotlight-postal/

More details about what it does and does not do here.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/postal.aspx

And here.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11187-Postal.html

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You've Played Too Much WOW When...

Big Bear Butt explains how you know you have been playing too much.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/11/03/you-know-youve-played-too-much-wow-when/

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