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November 05, 2008, 04:10 PM
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WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
The thread here is about Affliction Raiding. This will answer very common questions such as these: Should I use immolate? Should I drop any DoTs from my rotation? What is the rotation? My DPS is really bad, what am I doing wrong? How can I get better at affliction? This will be broken up into 2 posts. The first, below, dealing with DPCTs and whether or not you should cast all of your DoTs. I'll start by clarifying what DoTs should be used. The answer simply... Last edited by Fallenman; December 17, 2008 at 12:44 PM.. |
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November 10, 2008, 01:18 PM
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Re: WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
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November 16, 2008, 07:36 AM
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Xavron 80 Gnome Warlock Moon Guard US RP PvE Guild: Veritas Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 53/1/17 |
Re: WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
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November 16, 2008, 08:54 AM
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Re: WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
Awesome video. Your UI is quite busy lol  thx for the info. |
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November 16, 2008, 01:33 PM
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Re: WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
I'd recommend casting UA before Haunt since UA doesn't tick untill 3 seconds after the cast and Haunt has a cast time of 1-5 seconds. If you start with Haunt you lose approximately 3 seconds of Haunt-uptime. Casting UA before haunt decreases the lost uptime to somewhere between 0.5 seconds and 1.5 seconds depending on how close you are to the mob. |
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November 20, 2008, 10:10 PM
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besides, you want to be casting UA and immolate together, so if you cast that pair before haunt, you'll have ticks that will go off before haunt and the 2nd stack of SE is up. |
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November 21, 2008, 07:08 AM
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Talimar 80 Human Warlock Nagrand Euro PvE Guild: Imperium Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 53/0/18 |
Re: WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
there's no mention of glyphs. have you done any testing on which are best for affliction? I'm specifically undecided between siphon life and immolate glyph. |
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November 21, 2008, 08:51 AM
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Bezoar 73 Human Warlock Bronze Dragonflight Euro PvE Guild: League of Shadows Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 1/5/58 |
Re: WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
This guide is essential reading for any raiding warlock. It has made me have to seriously think of respec back to afliction. I would be interested in your comments and insights as to how Spell Damage/Haste Rating/Hit Rating figure in the dps under these circumstances. I know you gave some assumed values for the purposes of calculation, but the relative importance of each in the talent build with this rotation is what I am interested in. also any comments on suitable glyphs would be very interesting, I assume the corruption glyph would be a must? Once again thank you, the best guide on affliction raiding post WoLK that I have seen, and I have looked at a fair number to see what all the fuss was about. |
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November 21, 2008, 08:41 PM
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Re: WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
I will be co-author of a new Wrath of the Lich King raiding guide (along with Clearly) that will cover some of these things that delve more into general raiding knowledge such as glyphs, stats, etc. That said, the value of each stat will depend on how much you have of all stats. This is true no matter what spec you are. This is where you will have to do some work, but, affliction does benefit most from spell damage, and you probably can never have too much of that. ;) (after hit cap of course) |
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November 24, 2008, 03:49 PM
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trìst 80 Undead Warlock Kel'thuzad US PvP Guild: Optimus Prime Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/40/31 |
Re: WOTLK affliction raiding, how-to guide
What are affliction locks using on trash? Just shadow bolt spam? |
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November 24, 2008, 05:09 PM
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Xavron 80 Gnome Warlock Moon Guard US RP PvE Guild: Veritas Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 53/1/17 |
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Corruption -> Haunt -> Shadow Bolt -> Life Tap -> Shadow Bolt or Drain Soul (and pray for Shadow Trances) If there's 2 mobs, then I toss Corruption on both, before putting Haunt on the primary and laying into it with SBs/DS. 3+ mobs? Rain of Fire until they are only 2 mobs. Maybe DoT one with Corruption to increase my chance of a Shadow Trance proc. Even without points in Bane, I still do enough damage to be respectable on trash. My goal on trash is mostly to do a goodish amount of damage, without having to sit down and drink, and without requiring heals. |
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