35 posts tagged “pve”
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.
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!!!
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.
I was able to kill my demon with some changes of my previous post (which I am editing.) I was so excited!!
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
Leo is dead and I am learning to kill my inner demon. Woot!
…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.
Now that pally fear works on more mobs …
I found this out…
You can fear a mob into the Shade of Aran’s chamber and agro him. We stared in shock as he popped through the door.
Eventually he reset.
But still….
Let the big kids handle the fearing.
Thanks.
What SSC looks like before we start ...
What it look like after we have been fishing for a while…
Husband showed up with his newly enchanted fist weapon. I don’t see any Spell Damage. I was not all that impressed. I did make the appropriate cooing noises.
Note to everyone: Jumping on the down elevator makes it go faster. Jumping on the up elevator will make it go slower. Just try it you will see what I am saying.
Then we got down to business on Lurker. Running around in circles. Dieing together. Running back. Modify stuff. Dieing again. Changing some things up. More dieing.
It goes out…
“This is the last attempt”
We have dead fish.
Way to go WM!!
A tank picked up the Mallet of the Tides. Something that we sharded also dropped. I took The Seal of Danzalar because no one else wanted it. It was going to be sharded if I didn't. It has 21 resilience rating. Which is better then the zero my current rings I use for PvP have. *grin* So there goes my slowly building DKP.
It was a pretty clean first kill.
We are so getting spoiled with all these bosses down. I did hear something that made me happy. We are going to start FARMING these new bosses. This is a relief to me because I will then not feel like I have to attend them all. I don’t need to be, no one has said that, but having a completely different group each attempt to down a boss can be a real setback.
So bring on the farming!
P.S. Wowjutsu says that WM is 5th on our server now. But as a guild we have not taken down Leo and Tidewalker. I am sure that will be true soon. *glee*
Poking around my WWS reports I was taking note of misses, how the other locks play, and what spell they are using. I finally glanced at the DPS. I honestly don’t look at my ranking. In so many fights there is movement and locks have so much utility in a fight. Solarian is a fight with adds.
Then I thought what other fight had adds? Sunday’s Kara I lock tanked Illhoof!!
I love me some Seeding.
Hydross the Unstable went down the first night.
Three new bosses down in one week! The War Machine is rolling.
Our Destro Lock (who is now Affliction) put together a video from our Al'ar Kill.
3/4 for The Eye (Right? That’s what all the real raiders say.) It was our first night to attempt High Astromancer Solarian. Just the fact that she is a Mage wearing Warlock clothes she needs to die. She obviously needs to learn to pick gear appropriate for her class.
Girdle of the Righteous Path, Worldstorm Gauntlets, Heartrazor, and Plans: Red Havoc Boots dropped on this first kill. Husband picked up the Heartrazor.
In guild Warlock news…
We have down Void Reaver a few times. I wasn’t there for the first kill but was there for the second.
The raid nights scheduled to go to The Eye we have been lacking members to fill the 25-man raid and meet class balance. There have been a few glass eating attempts on Al’ar, like after our Gruul’s/Mag’s Lair on Monday.
On our scheduled night we attempted Al’ar, the Phoenix God, again.
This was only my third attempt at seeing this fight. The first time our goal was to just make it to phase two… which we did. Last Monday was to just get another look and learn something… which we did.
Our tanks would tank dance the platforms.
Our only hunter brought the adds to the add tank.
With no ranged threat table on Al’ar for phase one we cranked it out.
Mages were assigned to take out the adds at the beginning of phase two. They died. It was a wipe.
*snicker*
Move over Mages… here come the professionals.
SEED!!
Seeding has elegance to it. Seeing the four locks seed the adds…watching them all pop at once.
*grin*
Is a lovely sight.
In phase one, I position myself between platform 1& 2 then move between 3 & 4. This allowed me to not have a Shadow Bolt cut off when Al’ar moved between the platforms.
We lost tanks. I know a few times it was LOS, but other times I was not sure.
It was messy.
It was intense.
We had a mage DC at the beginning of the forth attempt so there were only 24.
[Vent] It’s a wipe.
But he was at like 5%!!
I Shadow Bolt, CoD, Corruption, UA, Siphon Life my way through the adds and Al’ar. I didn’t even realize my comrades were falling around me.
[Vent] He is at 1%!
The begging, urging, and encouragement in the voices on vent…
On our fourth attempt of the night we downed Al’ar.
We had two tanks, a healer, a mage, and myself left for that last 5%.
[Tank] Locks FTW! Who decided to Soulstone a tank of all people?
The carnage of the raid shocked me. I was so focused, I didn’t even realize so many were down.
Our first loot drop was the Fire Crest Breastplate, Netherbane, and Gloves of the Searing Grip.
Netherbane is not bad looking on me. =)
Our Gnome tank picked up the Netherbane not because he needed it but he was not going to see loot from our first Al’ar kill sharded.
It was an intense 17 minute and 44 seconds.
After a breather, I was told to check out the wowwebstats for the kill.
I was third overall.
I almost broke the 800 dps mark!
Okay that makes it sounds like I have paid attention to that number. This was actually a first time observation.
*grin*
Now I have a benchmark to improve on.
How many Locks do you see in this picture?
Soulshard anyone?
