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Food of Choice

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:51:59 -0700

Husband and I were swapping food stuffs the other night. I handed him the Spicy Hot Talbuk I made from the cooking daily reward. Much love from my rogue for the “I am going to kill everything in my way food.”

Hummm… would that make lock food… “I am going to kill everything I can reach 40 yards away food.” *wicked grin*

I realized I had a food preference.

Blackened Basilisk is where it is at, my #1, fills me with warm fuzzy feelings. Full stack of 20 is always on me.

Poached Bluefish is used in a pinch, if I am running low on basilisk meat.

Crunchy Serpent *shiver* for some reason I just don’t like it. Thinking about it makes my tummy turn.

They all have the same well fed buff of 23 spell damage and 20 spirit. So it is really a preference choice.

I realized I need to pick a stamina food item. I need the stamina for some boss fights and trash, particularly now that we are trying the Void Reaver hug attack (like this).

/hug

There is a lot more to choose from.

First, the food items that I disregarded:

Fisherman's Feast - 30 stamina and 20 spirit. I may get a rare Huge Spotted Feltail. It would be hard to keep this item reliably in stock.

Talbuk Steak - 20 stamina and 20 spirit. Hot spicy talbuk should be made instead.

Hot Apple Cider - 20 stamina and 20 spirit. This is holiday items dependent.

Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops 25 stamina. I had to look up what was a Chimaerok. I am not going to Feralas for food items.

We have left to choose from are:

Spicy Crawdad - 30 stamina and 20 spirit.

Blackened Sporefish 20 stamina and 8 mana every 5 sec.

Buzzard Bites - 20 stamina and 20 spirit.

Clam Bar - 20 stamina and 20 spirit.

Feltail Delight - 20 stamina and 20 spirit.

Mok'Nathal Shortribs - 20 stamina and 20 spirit.

I have always thought of spicy crawdad as tank food item. If I am going for straight stamina boost it would be the best. They are easy to get. The fishing holes are conveniently near the 72 elite elementals I farm in Terokkar Forest.

What about the sporefish’s 8 mana every 5 seconds? That would be 96 mana a minute, if a boss fight lasts about 8 minutes, it is not enough mana for two Shadow Bolts. Dark Pact is my mana pool.

Spirit is laughable in everyway for a warlock. Once, I found a level 34 warlock with spirit gear on. I immediately stripped and flogged him. Grabbed stuff out of the AH and crafted some things. Told him if I ever saw him in spirit gear again I would find a suitable monster to eat him… or I might… there are some recipes I have collected and have yet to try.

First choice will be spicy crawdad. If I run out, then blackened sporefish will be my back up.

For the stamina food choice, it looks like lock tank it shall be.

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The Truth of the Statement

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:45:24 -0700

Pulled from the comments on BBBB.

“Use your friends! They are like minions that you don’t have to micromanage.” - Kikidas

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So we are clear

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:56:30 -0700

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I Sold My Shoes

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:42:54 -0700

I vendored my Frozen Shadoweave Boots. They were good reliable boots. Wore them for almost a year. All is well though, because I just couldn't get the blood stains buffed out anymore.

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Hydra in wait

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:34:48 -0700

Go take a peek.

Go ride around.

Go get near the chest.

You get one warning…

Jump in you will be dead.

Don’t mind the hunters, warlocks, and mages standing around.

I see … 1 … 2 … 3 rogues waiting in there and a druid for good measure.

/target Horde

/hug

The Horde will help me kill you before we attack each other.

*grin*

Just so we know where we stand.

*smirk*

Yes, I get more enjoyment from killing Alliance then I do killing Horde in the Gurubashi Arena. Can you tell.

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Leo and My Demon Dead!

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:35:43 -0700

After clearing out Hydross and Lurker a few nights before we head back to Serpentshrine Cavern last night. To the boss that has still given us all kinds of trouble, the dreaded Elevator!!!

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After we resurrected our dead from this first obstacle we headed over to Leotheras the Blind.

First attempt I got the first whirlwind quite hard. With the physical damage and the bleed affect I was dead. It was the first time my position warranted ME to get my very first druid combat res.

It was a bad choice to accept it when I did.

With no Imp and barely any mana I got my first attempt of the night at my inner demon. Yea. That didn’t go very well.

So I watched as we got Leo down to 3%.

Another attempt was 2%.

Leo enraged once.

SoooooOOOOooo close so many times.

Our tanks learned positioning at the 15% mark where Leos splits into his humanoid and demon forms.

Oh here is our Gnome warrior tank positioning the demon away from the raid.

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I was able to kill my demon with some changes of my previous post (which I am editing.) I was so excited!!

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See I was dead. I died after an ill timed Shadow Bolt that left my fingers at a transition. At least my raid didn’t need to kill me. =D

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Leo is dead and I am learning to kill my inner demon. Woot!

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I Love Myself Too Much

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:07:40 -0700

…apparently

My Inner Demon and I seem to be in love.

[ID] Hydra <3

[Me] I am suppose to kill you now.

[ID] But we get along so well. You embrace your inner demon. You are a warlock to the core.

[me] *Shadow Bolt*

[ID] *resist* I am you. No one told you that I resist Shadow and Fire?

[Me] *Corruption* I was not suppose to meet you for another few days!!

[ID] *hugs and kisses* But I couldn’t wait to meet you. Ha Ha Ha

…

[Me Vent] Kill Hydra. *hangs head*

At this point I was casting Shadow Bolt and Rain of Fire on some very familiar names.

It is completely embarrassing to be a dps class who cannot get the dps done. With no problems with Hydross or Lurker. The last hour or so we take a look at Leo. We have gone twice like this and twice as full raid time to “Lets try and take Leo down.”

I really should not count that first night because two of my three SB were resisted. We went so watching the videos means more.

The only problem is that the Warlocks and Shadow Priest are having trouble with their Inner Demons. The protection warriors have their problems but with some gear switching whey are good to go.

I have about 30 seconds to put out 11-12K in damage. Yeppers. That is just 400 dps needed.

Our Raid Leader took us all out to the Barrier Hills to practice on some Ogres. With a damage meter, one by one we took down our practice “demon”. We now know all 25 raid members can do it.

I get my demon down to the last 5-15% and then we become one. It feels like I have only killed my ID 1 in 5 times. I have very little burst damage. Each time seems to be a learning experience. I know I will get it… I have the dps for it … but still. *embarrassed*

What I have learned.

1) Use Imp to help Fire Bolt your ID.

2) Stay in melee range so ID doesn’t SB you back.

3) You are going to get whacked a lot from the ID. Resulting in spell push back.

4) Shadow Bolts take too long to cast. Particularly with spell pushback and potential to out right resist.

5) Imp and yourself should have half mana at start of demon phase and watch that it doesn’t go low incase your inner demon wants to say “Hi”. Healers need to know that you are going to be life tapping periodically.

6) Only use your fastest highest dps spells.

7) Use Searing Pain as your Destruction spam. You are the only one with threat on your ID anyway so use it.

8) Shadowburn if you have it. You can get two casts in this fight. Use them.

9) Immolate does initial damage that can crit and has a DoT.

10) Use Death Coil before first Immolate. (ID is fearable.)

11) Don’t use Fear. The cast time is too long and no damage is done. Yes, 1.5 seconds is too long, you also have to add the push back time since the mob is hitting you. There is more chance the ID may get out of range of your Searing Pain, wasting that time too.

12) Use instant Howl of Terror if you have it.

13) Make sure you have your ID targeted.

This fight made me very aware of the global cooldown that Megan talks about.

My ideal would be…

Howl or Terror > Imp Attack > Shadowburn (GCD) > Curse of Agony (GCD) > Corruption (GCD) > Immolate (2 sec) > Searing Pain (1.5 sec) > Death Coil (GCD) > Shadowburn (GCD) > Searing Pain (1.5 sec) > Searing Pain (1.5 sec) *till dot needs to be reapplied*

There is … spell pushback … targeting issues … out of range issues. Everything making this a little more complicated then it sounds.

We have gotten Leo to 2% which is a faboo attempt.

We will get him down.

First, I need to figure out how NOT to have regular bonding experiences with my inner demon.

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PvP Rant

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:23:10 -0700

First I would like to start… Hydra doesn’t PvP… you want real information go here who will lead you to others…okay got that out of the way.

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So here we go…

Please STOP complaining to me about the state of level 70 Emberstorm Alliance BG.

No resilience? Then don’t come to me and complain that you lose and … yada yada the S3 Horde yada… particularly in BG chat.

Complaints mean you are not thinking strategically and calmly. Sometimes a well loss battle is just as satisfying as a win. So suck it up and reevaluate why you are here… for “fun” remember and so is everyone else.

The 2.4 Battlegear starts you on the resilience you need to PvP at level 70. It costs very little to purchase. So if bought you can have a starting PvP set for under 70G. I was finding resilience/stamina gems on my server for under 15G. Slap in some gems and get some appropriate enchants you are now good to go.

I have spent more than that on my level 19 twink pants. Cough up the gold!

If you cannot BUY gear, socket, and enchant gear for a little PvP. Go whine someplace else.

Wait… scratch that…

Go spend a queue plus the game time to farm for the gold and buy, socket, and enchant some PvP gear.

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And YOU with the Season 2 & 3 PvP gear standing next to me in EotS… ugg …. Share the knowledge. Yea I read the strategies. Yea I know where I am going. Hell if I have the confidence that the guy over there has any idea how to play. But if you tell me “group 2 goes to Fel Reaver” and I am in group 2, I will not argue. If we are guarding, explain what you are seeing, this will help me to see it next time.

Those with the PvP gear should also inspect the gear next to them. Did you tell them nicely that the 2.4 Battlegear is out? Did you tell them to stick to you? *shrug* If they don’t listen who cares, but what if they DO? What if that person is new to WoW and didn’t know the word “resilience” had anything to do with PvP or even WoW.

As for my dabbling into 2v2s…

I scraped out 217 resilience pre-2.4 PvP gear. We were able to get our 2v2 ranking above 1500 for the first time this week.

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I decided to pick up the 2.4 chest, hood, and leggings to practice what I am preaching here. My resilience increased to 303. Granted I haven’t finished socketing gems but enough to mess around in.

My spell damage dropped a lot but if I can out last the other team we do better.

Enough to not be a complete push over.

*inhale*

*exhale*

…

… …

Hydra doesn’t PvP.

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Me Sarcastic?

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:24:38 -0700

NAVAR… okay maybe most times… but not this time.

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Wonder if it is like this for them… and just so you all know I will be here, a level 1 Tauren on Cenarion Circle on Saturday, May 3, before 4:00 pm Server time. Hope to see you all there too!

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Quote

nobody@vox.com(Hydra) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:31:42 -0700

Saw someone quoting this in their signature on the forum:

Warlocks are the only class in the game that hold the mentality that if they're low on health, they should start a fight.

I do this all the time!!!

The only thing that makes me pause before a fight is if my minion is dead or not.

But group members can replace my minion. This always leads me to the thought of being able to Dark Pact the mana of the Mages, Hunters, and Pallies around me.

*dreamy eyes* I can wish.

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