Well what can I say about the new design for Warlocks in World of Warcraft? They're now awesome! Each spec has its own resource in addition to Mana. Affliction has Soul Shards, something familiar with a twist. Demonology has Demonic Fury which allows quick changing between normal and Demon forms allowing you to multi dot with the unique dots available to each form. Destruction has burning embers which are a completely new addition.
In this post i'm going to discuss affliction as it has always been my ideal spec. As a foreword I'd just like to say that when I first logged into 5.0.4 I was a little overwhelmed at what I saw, most importantly where the hell was my shadowbolt that blizzard had forced me to use? After a short plough through my spell book I was even more confused all my spells had different names and where was my bane of doom? After frantically searching the screen for an answer I spied the core abilities tab. Agony, Corruption, Unstable Affliction, Malefic Grasp, Haunt and Drain Soul. What the heck is Malefic Grasp you might ask? Well it's a new shiny affliction only spell that deals damage while adding 50% of your DOTs damage on top for every tick while it's ticking. Haunt now increases your critical hit chance for its duration. Soul burn + Soul Swap applies all three dots in one hit. Demon Soul is now called Dark Soul: Misery which is an awesome buff that increases spell haste by 30% for 20 seconds (I hear a nerf bat coming, best enjoy it while we can!). Drain Soul should be used below 20% health on any opponent as it regenerates soul shards but also deals 200% damage and an additional 100% damage to your DOTs that are on the target, did anyone ask for an execute spell? 'Cause we just got an awesome one!
All in all I'm very pleased with the changes and love Warlocks have received this expansion the rotation is still complicated but simple enough to break down and learn and adapt to situations. And our output? Well I'm pleased enough with being up there on the top end of raid recount!
Well done Blizzard, you gave me a reason to love my Warlock again!
Showing posts with label warlock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warlock. Show all posts
Saturday, 8 September 2012
Friday, 7 September 2012
Why I Chose to Play A Warlock.
Let's face it, Warlocks are cool! We're not self righteous, zealous, heroic, morally strong or particularly nice. What we are is ruthlessly efficient. THE anti-hero if you would. Bare in mind that this goes against most of the point of world of warcraft, to be the heroes that saved the world. We are the reclusive wielders of the dark forces that perpetuate the fabric of Azeroth. We're not in it for hero worship, we're in it because no one enslaves the world except us! We use our abilities for self gain at the expense of others. We summon and sacrifice demons, we infuse our very soul with the darkness, we manipulate the mind instilling fear into our opponents. We care little for the elements, banishing them as we see fit, we enslave lesser demons and on top of that we throw shadow and fire at our enemies. We suck the life and soul from our enemies to empower ourselves and we sacrifice our own life force to replenish our dark magics. We are warlocks, the darkest force amongst your allies and with 5.0.4 we're back with more hurt than before.
Affliction:
Masters of inflicting damage over time, vampiric drains and all round malevolence.
Destruction:
Reckless fire slingers who just love to see things burn!
Demonology:
Master summoners of the lethal burning legion, using their dark forces against everything in our paths. And if summoning doesn't get the job done, we'll metamorphose and do it ourselves!
Welcome to the fold and experience Azeroth from a darker perspective.
This is why I chose to play a warlock, because deep down we all want to see the world burn, it's in our nature.
Affliction:
Masters of inflicting damage over time, vampiric drains and all round malevolence.
Destruction:
Reckless fire slingers who just love to see things burn!
Demonology:
Master summoners of the lethal burning legion, using their dark forces against everything in our paths. And if summoning doesn't get the job done, we'll metamorphose and do it ourselves!
Welcome to the fold and experience Azeroth from a darker perspective.
This is why I chose to play a warlock, because deep down we all want to see the world burn, it's in our nature.
Friday, 13 July 2012
Black Temple... Easy mode!
Well what can I say about Black Temple these days?
Only that it's so easy to face roll these days! For those who don't know about Black Temple, it was a level 70 endgame raid for The Burning Crusade expansion. These days it is a prime source of Transmogrification equipment and of course the infamous Warglaives of Illidian Stormrage! Of course only certain classes can weild these legendary Glaives, however just to have them sitting in your collection is enough for some people. At any rate this instance was originally designed to be tackled in either one of two modes; 10 player or 25 player. We tackled it in 25 player. But who is we you might ask?
The group I led was made up of my level 85 Undead Warlock, a level 84 Priest on healing duties, a level 85 Death Knight Tank, a level 85 Mage and a level 83 Rogue. Yup, 5 players. Back in the day we would have been slaughtered but since Cataclysm hit the servers even lowly clothies like myself can solo what was previously impossible! Though the only one who died was our healer during the second phase of the reliquary of souls encounter the raid was essentially a cakewalk! Not one Boss gave us any trouble what-so-ever, I only ever dropped below 90% health when I life tapped to gain back some mana.
Onto the drops. Out of the whole instance I only walked away with a Transmog Staff, a blue BOE, which is now sitting pretty on the Auction House, and a fistful of cloth. Others were more fortunate with Token Drops for armour sets and the like but I paid little attention to anything that wasn't what I was after. Although dissapointing from a RNG point of view, my point of view being that it hates me, I enjoyed reliving what used to be my favourite Raid even if it was somewhat like having turned on 'GOD MODE'!
I'll more thank likely revisit again in an attempt to collect some more Token Drops, however I probably won't hold my breath as even something like 'Foul Gift of the Demon Lord' trinket with a 25-30% drop rate still remains elusive to me, the one time I've seen it drop on this character it was needed on by a mage and a priest who only wanted it for his offspec. Needless to say, I lost out. :: Fist to Sky :: Why RNG? Why?
This evening I'll be doing my second run of Battle for Mount Hyjal, as I really want a transmog sword off of Archimonde. The sword in question is the Tempest of Chaos and it matches the Tier 5 raid set perfectly! Tier 5 just happens to be my favourite Warlock set i've seen so far. Although i'm rather fond of the Tier 2 PVP set which looks pretty much the same with a recolour. I've not started collecting the T5 peices yet and am thinking i'll probably buy the Honor set instead as it will cost only around 4500 honor points, and about 650 Justice Points for the extras like the belt. May be less time consuming than farming tokens from old raids thanks for the weekly lock out.
Wish me luck in obtaining my Tempest of Chaos!
Only that it's so easy to face roll these days! For those who don't know about Black Temple, it was a level 70 endgame raid for The Burning Crusade expansion. These days it is a prime source of Transmogrification equipment and of course the infamous Warglaives of Illidian Stormrage! Of course only certain classes can weild these legendary Glaives, however just to have them sitting in your collection is enough for some people. At any rate this instance was originally designed to be tackled in either one of two modes; 10 player or 25 player. We tackled it in 25 player. But who is we you might ask?
The group I led was made up of my level 85 Undead Warlock, a level 84 Priest on healing duties, a level 85 Death Knight Tank, a level 85 Mage and a level 83 Rogue. Yup, 5 players. Back in the day we would have been slaughtered but since Cataclysm hit the servers even lowly clothies like myself can solo what was previously impossible! Though the only one who died was our healer during the second phase of the reliquary of souls encounter the raid was essentially a cakewalk! Not one Boss gave us any trouble what-so-ever, I only ever dropped below 90% health when I life tapped to gain back some mana.
Onto the drops. Out of the whole instance I only walked away with a Transmog Staff, a blue BOE, which is now sitting pretty on the Auction House, and a fistful of cloth. Others were more fortunate with Token Drops for armour sets and the like but I paid little attention to anything that wasn't what I was after. Although dissapointing from a RNG point of view, my point of view being that it hates me, I enjoyed reliving what used to be my favourite Raid even if it was somewhat like having turned on 'GOD MODE'!
I'll more thank likely revisit again in an attempt to collect some more Token Drops, however I probably won't hold my breath as even something like 'Foul Gift of the Demon Lord' trinket with a 25-30% drop rate still remains elusive to me, the one time I've seen it drop on this character it was needed on by a mage and a priest who only wanted it for his offspec. Needless to say, I lost out. :: Fist to Sky :: Why RNG? Why?
This evening I'll be doing my second run of Battle for Mount Hyjal, as I really want a transmog sword off of Archimonde. The sword in question is the Tempest of Chaos and it matches the Tier 5 raid set perfectly! Tier 5 just happens to be my favourite Warlock set i've seen so far. Although i'm rather fond of the Tier 2 PVP set which looks pretty much the same with a recolour. I've not started collecting the T5 peices yet and am thinking i'll probably buy the Honor set instead as it will cost only around 4500 honor points, and about 650 Justice Points for the extras like the belt. May be less time consuming than farming tokens from old raids thanks for the weekly lock out.
Wish me luck in obtaining my Tempest of Chaos!
Saturday, 7 July 2012
Affliction Guide
*edit: this is now obsolete with patch 5.0.4*
So, I thought i'd post up a guide to playing affliction warlock in World of Warcraft! It's my favoured build out of the three available!
Affliction currently reigns highest in DPS over bothe Demonology (by around 2%) and Destruction (by around 5-7%) Which is why I am aiming my first guide at this spec. After all it is my favoured spec. There are several popular builds however the one I feel most effective is a 32/3/6 build however the most popular build is a 31/7/3 build.
The Builds:
32/3/6: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/tool/talent-calculator#Vc00!hkhajVkVT!Y!P!bXThjn
This is my favoured build, it swaps out the support for Drain Life in favour of beefing up Shadow Bolt as the filler. Drain Life is no longer as viable as a filler as Shadow Bolt. Glyphs as shown, there are however no DPS increases for minor Glyphs so feel free to choose as you wish.
31/7/3: http://http//www.wowhead.com/talent#IrGroGsMcdhrZc
This build omits the AOE spell Seed of Corruption's soulburn empowerment. This I feel is to great a DPS loss when taking into account that all enemies recieve the Corruption DoT and suffer the explosion of Seed of Corruption, then as if that's not enough, your Soulshard is refunded upon successful detonation. Glyphs are however given the same priority as in my prefered spec.
The Affliction Stat Priority:
Stat priorities are as follows:
Intellect ; Hit ; Haste ; Crit ; Mastery.
Intellect is by far the most important stat for Warlocks as it also doubles as Spellpower. Hit should be stacked until you have it capped (17% hit 1742 hit rating). Haste is the next priority which allows more ticks based on several thresholds (ex. Corruption benefits at these thresholds 1 extra tick at 8.3% 21 Haste Rating / 2 extra ticks at 25% 1993 haste rating). Crit allows your spells to hit for critical strikes, and so is better than mastery. Mastery is one of those stats that although is useful, there isn't enough of it on gear to fully take advantage yet. However perhaps soon mastery will come into its own and the increase to damage will outweigh other stats, for now it is at the bottom end of the table.
The Rotation:
Priority of Spells:
Curse of Elements
Corruption
Bane Of Doom
Haunt
Unstable Affliction
Soul Fire
Demonsoul
Shadow bolt
Opening Salvo should consist of Shadow Bolt ; Haunt ; Unstable Affliction ; Corruption ; Bane of Doom ; Soulburn + Soul Fire ; Shadow Bolt. Then follow the above priority.
AoE:
Select a main target to Soulburn ; Seed of Corruption as this afflicts all nearby targets with corruption. Then continue to dot your main target, select a secondary target in which to soulswap from main target and exhale onto your new target afflicting both with the dots (assuming you took my advice to glyph Soul Swap)
Cooldowns:
Single target use Doomguard.
Multi target use Infernal.
Remember that they only target enemies with active banes on them, so pop this cooldown after popping your bane.
Gems:
Meta Slot: Burning Shadowspirit Diamond
Red Slot : Brilliant Inferno Ruby (Item)
Blue Slot: Veiled Demonseye
Yellow Slot: Reckless Ember Topaz
Prismatic: Brilliant Inferno Ruby (Item)
Consumable Buffs:
Flask: [Flask of the Draconic Mind] or a [Cauldron of Battle]
Food: [Severed Sagefish Head] or [Seafood Magnifique Feast]
I've decided to omit enchants for this guide as there is a wealth of information around the web for enchanting equipment.
Feedback:
Feedback is welcome. Discussion is welcome. Trolling is not. If you dispute with my findings feel free to comment and offer an explaination.
So, I thought i'd post up a guide to playing affliction warlock in World of Warcraft! It's my favoured build out of the three available!
Affliction currently reigns highest in DPS over bothe Demonology (by around 2%) and Destruction (by around 5-7%) Which is why I am aiming my first guide at this spec. After all it is my favoured spec. There are several popular builds however the one I feel most effective is a 32/3/6 build however the most popular build is a 31/7/3 build.
The Builds:
32/3/6: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/tool/talent-calculator#Vc00!hkhajVkVT!Y!P!bXThjn
This is my favoured build, it swaps out the support for Drain Life in favour of beefing up Shadow Bolt as the filler. Drain Life is no longer as viable as a filler as Shadow Bolt. Glyphs as shown, there are however no DPS increases for minor Glyphs so feel free to choose as you wish.
31/7/3: http://http//www.wowhead.com/talent#IrGroGsMcdhrZc
This build omits the AOE spell Seed of Corruption's soulburn empowerment. This I feel is to great a DPS loss when taking into account that all enemies recieve the Corruption DoT and suffer the explosion of Seed of Corruption, then as if that's not enough, your Soulshard is refunded upon successful detonation. Glyphs are however given the same priority as in my prefered spec.
The Affliction Stat Priority:
Stat priorities are as follows:
Intellect ; Hit ; Haste ; Crit ; Mastery.
Intellect is by far the most important stat for Warlocks as it also doubles as Spellpower. Hit should be stacked until you have it capped (17% hit 1742 hit rating). Haste is the next priority which allows more ticks based on several thresholds (ex. Corruption benefits at these thresholds 1 extra tick at 8.3% 21 Haste Rating / 2 extra ticks at 25% 1993 haste rating). Crit allows your spells to hit for critical strikes, and so is better than mastery. Mastery is one of those stats that although is useful, there isn't enough of it on gear to fully take advantage yet. However perhaps soon mastery will come into its own and the increase to damage will outweigh other stats, for now it is at the bottom end of the table.
The Rotation:
Priority of Spells:
Curse of Elements
Corruption
Bane Of Doom
Haunt
Unstable Affliction
Soul Fire
Demonsoul
Shadow bolt
Opening Salvo should consist of Shadow Bolt ; Haunt ; Unstable Affliction ; Corruption ; Bane of Doom ; Soulburn + Soul Fire ; Shadow Bolt. Then follow the above priority.
AoE:
Select a main target to Soulburn ; Seed of Corruption as this afflicts all nearby targets with corruption. Then continue to dot your main target, select a secondary target in which to soulswap from main target and exhale onto your new target afflicting both with the dots (assuming you took my advice to glyph Soul Swap)
Cooldowns:
Single target use Doomguard.
Multi target use Infernal.
Remember that they only target enemies with active banes on them, so pop this cooldown after popping your bane.
Gems:
Meta Slot: Burning Shadowspirit Diamond
Red Slot : Brilliant Inferno Ruby (Item)
Blue Slot: Veiled Demonseye
Yellow Slot: Reckless Ember Topaz
Prismatic: Brilliant Inferno Ruby (Item)
Consumable Buffs:
Flask: [Flask of the Draconic Mind] or a [Cauldron of Battle]
Food: [Severed Sagefish Head] or [Seafood Magnifique Feast]
I've decided to omit enchants for this guide as there is a wealth of information around the web for enchanting equipment.
Feedback:
Feedback is welcome. Discussion is welcome. Trolling is not. If you dispute with my findings feel free to comment and offer an explaination.
Friday, 6 July 2012
Not just The Gathering...
Among my many other interests, I play world of warcraft. So those of you who also play may be interested in what I've been up to with my Warlock main.
I got a bit bored the other night, and decided I'd run old Burning Crusade heroics! Well, let's just put it this way, it's a gold mine! After running each dungeon solo just once, there's 16 in total, and auctioning everything I came across in the way of mats, reputation items, green gear and vendoring all the trash I have made 7500G and still counting!
That's right Goldmine!!!
It's pretty simple a concept, one I hadn't thought of as a money spinner, but it's damn right effective and was a bit more fun than farming with a gathering profession! In the course of a few hours not only had I been able to finish the achievements for those dungeons but also had enough in the way of auctions to literally flood my inbox repeatedly! So far I've sold all but circa 60 items not bad considering each dungeon yielded enough loot to fill my bags! Some dungeons were more profitable than others, an example would be shattered halls and the steam vault. But I also acquired a nice Phoenix pet from kael'thas in magister's terrace! Seriously worth a look into doing, as it's never going to hurt your wallet!
As a side note my warlock is 85 with an ilvl of 370 and running affliction spec. I use my felhunter as my pet and the best way of downing mobs is to send in the puppy and gather up a room, soulburn and seed of corruption, kite til they are dead!
Hope this gives you guys something to do during the last part of cataclysm.
Happy looting!
I got a bit bored the other night, and decided I'd run old Burning Crusade heroics! Well, let's just put it this way, it's a gold mine! After running each dungeon solo just once, there's 16 in total, and auctioning everything I came across in the way of mats, reputation items, green gear and vendoring all the trash I have made 7500G and still counting!
That's right Goldmine!!!
It's pretty simple a concept, one I hadn't thought of as a money spinner, but it's damn right effective and was a bit more fun than farming with a gathering profession! In the course of a few hours not only had I been able to finish the achievements for those dungeons but also had enough in the way of auctions to literally flood my inbox repeatedly! So far I've sold all but circa 60 items not bad considering each dungeon yielded enough loot to fill my bags! Some dungeons were more profitable than others, an example would be shattered halls and the steam vault. But I also acquired a nice Phoenix pet from kael'thas in magister's terrace! Seriously worth a look into doing, as it's never going to hurt your wallet!
As a side note my warlock is 85 with an ilvl of 370 and running affliction spec. I use my felhunter as my pet and the best way of downing mobs is to send in the puppy and gather up a room, soulburn and seed of corruption, kite til they are dead!
Hope this gives you guys something to do during the last part of cataclysm.
Happy looting!
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