The Warlocks Den - WoW Warlock Discussions

Our hard work has finally paid off.


We got our drakes... and our sanity back.




The current content has been an uphill climb for Encore. T7 bored a lot of our players, so we've had to do a lot of recruiting. Mainly though, it was the attitude and lack of motivation that hampered our progress from day one. From people expecting one-shots after one-shots, to inconsistent...

This past week was perhaps our most successful week in this current content. We were able to knock out Firefighter on Tuesday and 1 Light yesterday, which basically leaves Freya+3, which is probably the hardest out of all of the "harder" hard modes (used to be Firefighter but they made it a whole lot easier recently). Regardless, this leaves us 1 hard mode away from getting that amazing Ironbound drake. I still remember back before Ulduar when I first saw the skins for those.. it looked...

After getting hard mode Vezax down on Thursday, we started working on hard mode Yogg, and I'm still debating on which spec to go. The obvious choice is of course affliction. The phase 3 burn makes DS channeling so effective that it's clear why 90% of the top parses are affliction. However, I'm still inclined to go deep destro due to a couple reasons.

Last night, I went affliction due to the realization that corrupters had to be controlled by the outside group in order to effectively...

Tonight we were able to do Flame Leviathan with 4 towers up. At first some of us were hesitant to spend time on it since we wanted to focus on Freya with 2 elders up and Vezax hard mode. But apparently they fixed some bugs (most importantly the bike thing) and nerfed the encounter by lowering the health of Freya adds and increasing vehicle dps.

Surprisingly, it only took us 3 tries to beat it. It's either the encounter is now too easy, or the time we've put in the 10-man version of...

Between multiple projects in real life and progression raiding through hard mode encounters, I've forgotten all about my blog. I've sorely missed re-evaluating my WoW experience from a different perspective. Well, let's do a little catching up..

Ulduar is a lot of fun. Most of the hard modes are so daunting at first, but when you finally get the kill, it's a very good feeling. Almost as good as killing Sunwell bosses... almost.

Thorim hard mode was the first hard mode...