How to....

Do hardmodes like Epiphany.

Most likely everyone have either tried or cleared Grand Crusader. This is how we do stuff in Epiphany.

Raiding as Meta/Demo part 1

As I have mentioned I`m the demolock in our guild, my own choice ofcourse. Now for all aspiring warlock out there, this is not a specc in which you will own damage meteres. If you do there are two posibilites:

Lack of Title

Couldnt think about anything, still cant think, brain is just there but not really. It feels like I`m still asleep but dreaming that I woke up, got dressed and went to work. That would suck....

Gear and stuff

If you read on Elitist or The Warlock Den you`ll get the general idea what to focus on and how to play. Last post I wrote about this subject and my perspective is changed abit seens then. Demonology specc is quite usefull to the raid, when taking into account DPS for other casters and your own survivability.

I stole the banner and other stuff

Banner taken from my guild

Yes we are still 9 asshats and 1 mighty 'nome. Aim for tonight was getting Heroic Crusader Coliseum down or atleast as much as we could. The normal CC is easy mode once you have the tactics under controle. Heroic is a diffrent ballpark, basicly the damage output is higher, there`s a timer to beat and you cant have casualties. You only have 50 attempts on all fights so there are limits.

I r back

Yesterday brought us the last boss in that pesky instance. I dont even know what it`s called yet. I switch between Collesuem(spelling), AC and Colliseum(Spelling) but anywhos, I R BACK. Casting shit and producing even more shit, my Shadow bolts where all over the place. Probably kinda why i did not deliver the DPS, but as earlier posts, I choose my Meta specc. With me was Mr. Emoguard, who I might add has done a splendid job latly and my transform into evol DEMON. Titter "the mighty" tot brings spellpowers to casters and 5% crit to spells, can I get a "AMEN", Halleluja brother...

The Few, The Proud

Not the Marines, but the Mighty Titter and 9 other asshats from Epiphany.

Thursday last week, we came, we saw, we conquered. Lord Jaraxxus was the main focus and he went down on the first try... Dispelling, healing and general wreaking havoc was needed and down the demon went. Titter wants to be able to make a summoning portal of that size and Titter knows he can controle a demon of that size. The 'nome lock that summoned Lord Jaraxxus got killed by him. Titter was crying from the failure. 'nome locks are more powerfull then that!

Anyways, we had more time then expected, so we went for Ulduar and hardmodes. Turned out to be a good night for hardmodes. Flame Levithan with 4 towers took us about 1 hour. XT went down on the first try. Crazy Cat Lady achivment took 3 tries, Hodir went down with 30 seconds to spare. Thorim got 1 shotted and the rest of the evning went into Freya +3. We used about 1 hour and down she went.

Tonight we`ll go for Mimiron and getting that sucker down. Dont think it will cause us to much trouble and the we`ll have 1 hour with Algalon. Titter is so gonna send him back to where ever he came from. Titter is gonna make him run crying like a little b....!

Something unusual

Last night General Vezax got served by Epiphany.

25 asshats went into an extended raid last night. Last week we cleared most of Ulduar but had 2 keepers left. Thorim has caused pain before and has not been an encounter we`ve one shotted, last night we did though. Things went good enough and 5-6 deaths didnt cause to much trouble.

Hodir is a breeze and we simply nuked the bugger down.

As raidleader I decided we should try some crowd control on packs before the General, didnt work to well. So we ended up just tanking the lot and AoE'ing them down.

The General fight is simple, interrupt spell, spread out, pump out as much DPS as you can. It took us 4 tries and down he went. We had 3 melee on interrupt rotation and quite some laughs when one of our shammies couldnt figure out how to make the ^ over the i. Stupid shamans...... Anyways, if melee fails on interrupts to many times it`s a wipe, simple as that. If range doesnt stay spread, it`s a wipe.

From a warlock perspective the fight is like this. If you use normal rotation you`ll be out of mana quickly, I tried first with full destro and the dps was utterly crap. Lack of shadow crash residue didnt help. So I went Meta/destro specc, and having the Emo guard pushed my dps quite alot.

When you find yourself in the black residue, blow CD you have and nuke as hard as you can, haste buff, mana reduction on spells and increased damage will help.

As for the rest I kept CoD up the whole time, lifetap glyph active and wanded alot.

It defently requires experience to pump out max dps on this fight and it`s a melee friendly fight.

We got an hour on Yoggi aswell, hitting phase 2 everytime but failing big time there. On sunday we`ll have 3 hours of yogg tries and I think we`ll get that fucker down.

Last night Tittertot went to visit the death god... Big deal.

First off we one shotted mr.Mimiron, easy job for pr0 people. And Titter didnt die a singel time, I`m getting the hang on this living thing it seems.

Then we went to see the General, nast bugger. Having bear tank(Healz lolz) made it easy, on the third try he went down. Tittertot was experiencing some mana issues, must say thats not fun. We can thank higher powers that my emoguard can atleast run in straight lines and hit things.

The black stuff that comes after Shadow Crashes, made Titter Jizz in his pants. What Titter did not like was sharing this with a female 'nome. Black = Warlock thing, not mage thing......

The death god is one ugly mofo, I meen he looks like a fish(as the picture shows) Now we failed time after time, we got to phase 2 every time xept for one. But killing tentacles is seriuz buiznz. We even got to see phase 3 a couple of times, but we where doomed.

Titter: What`s wrong with us?
Creator: Well, you guys suck.
Titter: Haha, very mature, dickhead!
Creator: Well, it`s true!
Titter: I hate you, see you after next wipe though.

In the end we had to admit failure and went to shoot down a dragon and some flamy iron giant.

Titter had to go destro on the death god. Almost died a couple of times in phase 1, Titter simply doesnt like destro anymore. To much pewpew = dead 'nome.


Today 10 asshats will venture into the new raid thingy. Gonna be fun to see what kind of chaos mr.titter'nome can bring.

Theorycrafting

Last night I spent some time reading up on Warlocks and PvE.


- Talent speccs
- Stat values
- Damage rotation

Now I wonder who these people are, I`ve got some knowledge but damn. These people have made shit that would take me quite some time to learn. Page up and page down with numbers, speccs, supposed dps and when and what to cast.

I know Warlock is a hard class to play cause there can be alot to pay attention to.

So what do I personally get from all this shit? Close to nothing, will it be helpfull to the casual player running about? Not likely.

What can 'nome do for you then? Probably help a little. Get addons that do the following;

- Keep track on DoT's and proccs
In my little head having things center screen helps alot. That's where my main focus is. I use(will post link) a addon that allows me to put icons up for the buffs I want. These are large and show time left on the spell.

- Castbar addon
I simply use Quartz here. It allows me to cast a spell quicker due to server latency. It`s for me a yellow bar with red in the end. The more red, the higher the latency. Once the bar reaches the red, I can start to cast my other spell. This will increase caster dps by alot.

My other tip is simply this, dont cut DoT's. Let DoT's run their full duration before you cast a new one. Take Immolate, this is a cast dot. So when Immolate has less duration then casttime, fire it up. If you are running Destro specc or some hybrid, incin and CB will do less damage if the immolate DoT is gone. After all, we`re trying to maximise DPS.

What curses to use. Curse of Doom is my favourit, 1 cast, 1 minut duration. To quote another lock "Fire and forget". I currently use Corruption as my second DoT but I try to cast this while running, it`s not heavy damage for destro locks atleast.

You also have curses that benifits the raid. Curse of Weakness, Curse of Elements and Curse of Tounges. All can be used to benifit the raid, but only CoE will increase your own dps.

When it comes to speccs, you basicly specc what you like :) If you find yourself in a hard core guild, you`ll probably have no benifit from this guide, so bugger of.

As I`ve mentioned earlier, I`m currently Meta/Demo specc. This is a utility specc for my guild and my raid. I give 5% crit to mobs I pewpew with Shadow Bolt and 10% of my Spellpower is given to other casters in the raid. I like this specc because it does decent damage, I`m no threath to the tank and I give healthy buffs to casters.

Now I`m tired of giving out tips, this is not what I want to do, but after having a heavy shot contest with the creator I lost the bet :(

Creator: Let's have a competition
Titter: Hmmmmmm
Creator: CAM AN! /chicken
Titter: Ok ya wanker, bring it on
3 bottles of tequila later
Creator: PUSSY!
Titter: Shad ap!

That`s the last thing I remember. It was a legendary night though, I got Divine Intervention a little later and we went out and I had the creator as wingman. 'NUFF said

Oh yes, I did it!

Last night Titter topped the charts (Pictures to come), think I ended up with a solid 14 deaths and runner up with only 10(lol)

Sad thing though, Tittertots didnt die from angry mobs :( Just crappy AoE damage all over the place. Titter`s mad but is gonna make hell come to Azeroth next raid.

Titter went for a respecc aswell last night, only to please healers and other ranged dps. This is part of my "5 Steps to getting healers place you as focus target" plan. Titter went and specced heavy demo with Emoguard and Turn into a black demon. One word EVOL.

The only thing that bugged Titters was the fact that the emoguard is kinda stupid, borderline retarded. Can you say retarded or should Titter be political correct and say "Mentally challenged", think we`ll stick with retarded. But why you say? He couldnt make the jump from Thorims place down into the arena! Even huntards can make that jump. So Titter needed to have a little chat with mr. Emo himself.

Titter: Sup emo?
Emo: Sup 'nome
Titter: Why the F=)&¤ cant you jump down?
Emo: 'Fraid of hights!
Titter: huh?
Emo: Yup, 'fraid of hights
Titter: Stupid %¤#!"¤& !¤&¤#!"& ¤#%/%&#/(

And so it went for 5 minuts. Titters gonna have to replace Emoguard, wonder if Chuck Norris can be tamed....

Ulduar Hard Modes

This week the pink haired 'nome has ventured into Ulduar with 9 and 24 other asshats to wreak havoc to the inhabitants there.

Tittertot climbed into a chopper and drow around like a mad man without purpose and like the good 'nome he is died several times due to heroic attempts. With fire and lightning all over the place, the 'nome finally met his creator while the rest fought and defeatet the tank.

Moving on to XT and his tantrums and evol spells the heart went down quickly enough, but as sure as the sun is hot, 'nome dies from spark. The creator granted him a ressurection but yet again, Titter bites the friggin dust. 9 other asshats finish the fight.

Iron council was up next and blue circle + no omen = some very bad shit for pink haired nomes. The only usefull thing 'nome did this fights was giving a soulstone to the main tank and thus saving the day. Yet again, 9 asshats saves the day with little 'nome having some drinks with the creator. The creator was less then happy with my performance and demanded I get something called Omen. I in turn blame the tank for not keeping things away from the almighty Titter.

Hodir posed some troubles, but in the end he went down. This magical device called omen actually helped Titter in his conquest and not once did Hodir run towards me in rage.

This is from sundays Ulduar 25, killed Freya and Thorim and wiped some on Mimiron. The Pink haired 'nome feels the tanks arnt doing their job. Protecting the friggin pink haired 'nome, but the question should be what the consequenses should be......

There`s no doubt there`ll be some sort vengance.

Anyways Tittertot is more or less happy with the week. Next week will bring more hellish plots from my side as I plan my revenge on the tanks...

Until then, might flowers bloom and people stay pink. PEACE!