We have some plans in mind for the next major patch, and I appreciate the players that have given us feedback now and in beta. We made a lot of changes for locks in Lich King. I'm sorry we couldn't get to more changes but we will. Our opinion is never going to be that a class is "done." WoW just isn't like that.
Source: Ghostcrawler in Lol@GC
Now that the Xmas Craziness is over, time to get back into the flow of things. To assist with that, let's kick off this weeks blog roll!
Gearing Up for Raiding...Again by Warpy
when you reach level 80, you still don’t want to be carried by your guild. Many of us had pretty good gear by the end of the Burning Crusade, but as you level, your gear gets worse, because every point of crit, hit, and haste rating on your gear does less for your actual performance in a raid. Your chance to hit and crit and the reduction in cast time from haste will go down with every level unless you improve your gear. [Continue Reading...]
+Hit depressionby Beniko
Beniko made it to level 77 over the holidays. At level 76 (I think) he went with a group of guidies to Halls of Lightning. This was the first time he was facing bosses in the level 79-80 range. His current +hit rating is a measly 159. You can imagine what happened... It's one thing to read about how important it is to reach the hit cap. It's quite another to experience it yourself. It is so frustrating when you have to recast a DoT two, three or four times before it sticks. [Continue Reading...]
Hit gear, when to stop, and epics.by Emmcee
So i blew a ton of gold on enchants and gems for my new gear, all because I was pressured by my guild master to gem and enchant them, so yeah I listened to him and 1.5kgold later I see myself poor. On the + side I'm now 4 hit away from being hit capped with talents, and Currently at 1.8k spell power with Fel armor. [Continue Reading...]
The Wrath of the... Felguard???by Cormanthor
I am Cormanthor of Gnomeregan, the warlock formerly known as Aralinus of Emerald Dream. I had a tough life growing up in such a rough neighborhood. I knew the ways of affliction, and once or twice dabbled in demonology. None of this prepared me for how tough the gangs were in my "hood". I would get pwned for wearing the wrong colors, regardless of where I was hanging out. Someone wearing red would roll up, yell something about "squishy!", and I'd start hugging dirt. [Continue Reading...]
You can't handle the Afflic rotations!by Silbuns
Yesterday, my raid leader sent me a nice tell. "Have you ever considered respeccing?"
I glommed on pretty fast that what he meant was, "Hey, your DPS in the 10-mans kind of sucked."
It's true, and it's not just out gearing (I missed several raids due to not having electricity for 11 days). It's not just the BM hunter in our guild who regular bursts 10k DPS. It's not misses, either - I'm soft hit capped with talents and a couple of draenei, shadow priests, and druids standing by. I am just not pulling the kind of numbers I should from Haunt/Ruin. [Continue Reading...]
Remember, the Warlocks Den is always looking for Warlock bloggers! If you have not yet started your blog, now is a great time as the blogging system recently received some upgrades! Read about them here: Blog system updated
I was given the final Frenzyheart Dailies quest tonight and am happy to report that section is now complete! Time to switch over to Oracles - let the fur fly!
Obviously post #1 is my post and as such doesn't count, hence the second roll. Below is the winning entry... do we think someone has a bit of an issue with Death Knights?
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Originally Posted by Swoop
I believe there are a lot of orphans in Orgrimmar and Stormwind who are being spoiled far too often! I have a lot of coal to hand out to them! Teach them what it's really like in the world.
Whenever snow flakes fall upon the heads of Deathknights, they will be afflicted with the "Slush" debuff, which reduces run speed by 50%, and causes their offensive spells to randomly backfire and affect them. (Enjoy Northrend now you unholy monsters!)
And finally, there will be a rain of cake in all major cities once per day. Each different type of cake will provide a buff specific for a class. Players must loot the cake from the ground, and they are limited to one cake each. (We must promote healthy eating habits!)
Runner Up
The good people over at Razor will be choosing their favourite entry to receive a runner up prize consisting of: 1 x Razer Attitude T-Shirt as well as 1 x Blizzard Authenticator* They are currently making that very hard decision and I am glad it's not me having to do it! There are quite a few fantastic entries! I will let you all know once they have chosen the winner...
We're generally happy with locks for PvE too. I think the rotations are more interesting than they were in BC and it's nice to see Affliction up there with Destro. Demo is probably still too low, but see below.
As I've suggested before, there are a few things we are looking at on the PvE side of locks:
1) Get shards into a place that is more interesting and less of a hassle. We have two models we're considering. One is very cool, but a huge change to gameplay, which might mean it has to wait. The other is more of a quick fix that we'd do until we can implement the very cool model.
2) Simplify Affliction's rotation a little bit. This might involve making dots last a more uniform duration (so you didn't feel that external mods were mandatory) or just reducing the number of spells you're expected to cast.
3) Locks are still built a lot around damage over time, but a lot of fights just aren't lasting a long time. This might mean locks needs some more options for quick damage, or the problem might fix itself in Ulduar.
4) We're a lot happier with demons in LK, but we still have some work to do. The Voidwalker, Succubus and maybe the short-term demons aren't quite there yet. Improving demons should also help kick Demonology up a notch.
5) There are a couple of awkward places in the talent trees still.
Note that I am only talking PvE here. Some of these changes will help PvP too, but some of the lock problems in PvP will require different solutions too.
Here's hoping that there is a new system built from scratch. A system where you have a few shard icons that slowly regenerate after being consumed would be neat.
Dailies Guide...
I've been updating the WotLK Dailies Guide here and there as I am given new Frenzyheart Dailies, however as they are random, the delay lies with Blizzard.
I've split the Icecrown section as I work on that at the same time. Unfortunately for Alliance, you guys are going to have to be really patient as of course I am Horde. I will try my best to update them with information I can resource, however it takes longer when I can not do them first hand.
Speaking of Guides...
Rutiene has submitted a new guide! Analyzing WWS For Affliction Warlocks! After initially writting it up for their guild, they have submitted here to share with you all - Huzzah! It includes very simple WWS analysis tips, with basic benchmarks you should look for, to advanced combat log filtering.
If anybody has any questions, or has suggestions for improvement, Rutiene would be happy to hear them all.
On Monday the 5th of January, at 10am Australian time (AEST), I will be doing the /random for the 'Santa for a Day' competition. This translates into 7pm server time, or 6pm New York Time. For those wanting to do a time conversion, you can use this time converter. Just select 'Australia/Melbourne' as the starting location and punch in 10am.
I have a character on the US server Zuluhed (PvP), which I will be using to do the /random. If you would like to be there when I do it, feel free to make a character on this realm. Character name is Haydies since Akasha was taken, and I am a Blood Elf sitting in the big round room in the starting area - literally where you come in.
I will be taking a screenshot and posting it with the results of course. Good luck to everyone who posted!
Some new features have been added to the blog system today:
Blog Customization - users may customize the colours and background images used on their blogs to further personalise it.
Group Blogs - users may allow other users to post to their blog.
Sidebar Blocks - users may select which sidebar blocks they wish to display, as well as create custom blocks. These blocks can be rearranged by drag and drop.
Custom Pages - users may create custom pages to be displayed in their blog. This might be handy for creating character bio's, history etc.
Private Entries - users may set specific entries to be private while leaving their blog open.
All of these, and more, are handled via the Blog Control Panel. If you've not yet created your blog, why not get started? Blogs can be about anything you want to write about, such as:
Funny, witty, personal blogs
Factual write-ups and theorycrafting
Commentary on big changes
Comics
Anything!
So long as it's not full of profanity (some leeway is given as they are a personal form of expression) and are well written which means capital letters, punctuation and correct grammar, and a little bit of formatting, you're pretty much set. I don't try to restrict or mould member blogs. As an example of a great blog, have a look over Warpy's work: Need more DPS or Kiralyn's blog series...
Note: Not every blog has to be about something Warlock! You can write about other classes, PvP, Raiding, Instancing, Arenas, Collectable Pets, anything! These are just blogs written by Warlocks for Warlocks to read. Write about ANY topic you want!
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Some small updates dome to the What's the Hit cap Mr. Wolf? guide today. Added the items members listed, fixed a link or two and pruned some replies that no longer apply.
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