Kim Holmes

has played Warcraft and other Blizzard games longer than she can remember. Previously, she worked on Windwalker guides for Wowhead and Elitist Jerks. She raids as Vengeance Demon Hunter and Brewmaster on Hyjal (US) (and as Brewmaster in previous tiers) and is the founder of the Peak of Serenity Discord server.

WoW

Kim HolmesSeptember 14, 2015
10

Zen Meditation: Controlling the crowds

You’ve pulled this encounter for the upteenth time now. Each time, it seems like the adds just absolutely get out of control – and not just adds, but tempers are…
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StarCraft

Kim HolmesAugust 31, 2015
10

StarCraft Hydralisk makes appearance at Otakuthon 2015

The balmy Québec weather hardly kept back crowds at this year’s Otakuthon — and in fact, many of the various Sailor Scouts, ninjas, Hydralisks, and other heroes and villains…
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WoW

Kim HolmesAugust 10, 2015
9

Zen Meditation: Fortifying Brew compared to other tanks’ cooldowns

Originally, I had wanted to focus today on Brewmaster cooldowns in general. However, Fortifying Brew itself is a monster of a cooldown and so today, that’s what we’re talking…
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News

Kim HolmesJuly 27, 2015
5

Zen Meditation: Demistifying Hellfire Citadel trinkets

At this point in Hellfire Citadel, many Mistweavers may find that they have a pretty decent amount of options in trinkets. Especially when taking into consideration Sacred Draenic Incense,…
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Hearthstone

Kim HolmesJuly 24, 2015
36

ESL leads initiative to ban performance enhancing drugs

ESL has announced they will be leading an initiative to ban performance enhancing drugs from competition. This initiative will include skin tests for competitors to test for certain banned…
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WoW

Kim HolmesJuly 13, 2015
17

Zen Meditation: How Blizzard curbs raiding Windwalker Monks

In many sports, handicapping is a commonly used term to place a certain team or person at a slightly greater disadvantage from the other team or person. In horse…
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News

Kim HolmesJune 30, 2015
3

Zen Meditation: Monk tier 18 class trinkets and set bonuses

Well, patch 6.2 has been here for a week now! Most of you have probably already dived into the content, and this is great — especially if one raids,…
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Discussion

Kim HolmesJune 24, 2015
81

Breakfast topic: Your role in World of Warcraft

Setting classes aside, there are four roles World of Warcraft: tank, healer, melee DPS, and ranged DPS. As a raider, I have been in all of these roles at one…
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WoW

Kim HolmesJune 12, 2015
90

Group content and community betterment

Let’s just get one thing very honest and straight here: vote kicks have not helped fix the community or group content. It is simply too difficult to actually vote…
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Heroes of the Storm

Kim HolmesJune 10, 2015
46

Heroes of the Storm community improvements proposed

In an interview with Kotaku, Heroes of the Storm Executive Producer Chris Sigaty and Blizzard Technical Director Alan Dabiri sat down and discussed a few methods that should help…
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