Thanks for making this video, its very helpful. Literally nothing on TH-cam related to affliction raiding worth watching other than yourself! record and post next weeks raid also with your thoughts and changes, you have a new sub.
The best strat for festering slime is actually get eaten, then you can freecast, it does something like 200dmg every 2sec, can easily be avoided using a nature pot or even DL is enough. You still need to face a certain way but after thats its just free
Had doubts on spending the GCD for demonic grace. However with that being said, i will be using it on some fights next raid. If i do good, ill post the vid up. If i do bad, ill just *whistle* But seriously i have been thinking about that build a lot, and will give it a proper go
@@deadnick that's awesome 1065 sheesh 🔥 I'm also wondering if shadow and flame would be better for this spec but snapping all your dots on grim proc feels reaaal good lol
@@Urteilsdrache My thoughts exactly... In my talents video i did mention that is a build i would like to try along with a 30/0/11 talent build. Can i ask how did those runes do for you damage-wise? and did casting demonic tactics every 20 secs feel cluncky since it takes up a GCD?
@@Urteilsdrache do you mean demonic grace? I love demonic grace. I don't think I could drop master channeler for demonic tactics tho especially since it procs nightfall. A few ways I like to use grace are pop it then position myself while gcd. The n UA -corruption- coa or nightfall- UA - corruption. Also try to line it up with grimoir or shadow n flame.
Unsure tbh. 1 GDC for Drain life give you 1.9k damage. Mental math says that should be more that 10% additional crit for dots and shadowbolt. But then again.... because crits are unreliable, i went for the safer option. I wouldnt mind trying Tactics for that 10% crit next lockout
does haunt need to be applied first or doing it after dots still increase the dmg? im a pvper so its a null point but havent paid attention in pve to notice which works
I would say yes based on my experience with it in WOTLK. My rotation is SB, UA, Haunt, Corr, COA... Since Haunt has a travel time, it will be applied before the first tick of UA
In SoD it actually updates dynamically, there has been alot of discussions about it in the warlock discord. It is only the healing from siphon and DL that needs to have it be applied first
@@knagen yeah I was testing in PvP last night and figured out: pop crit buff first > UA > corruption > haunt. The 2 dots first tick will hit a millisecond after the haunt does and it counts the damage buff. If they all crit its like 1500 dmg right off the jump
@@xelguard Ye, the weird part also is that they update dynamically but not from demonic grace as that one they snapshot from. It seems to be trinkets and on use items/spells that do not update dynamically. But any passive buffs or debuffs do
Full aff ist not good Your highest dmg spell still is shadowbolt, missing ruin and improved shadowbolt would be the biggest downgrade Siphon life is so weak, even having the talent + pandemic rune ist not worth casting Dark impact gives less mana than life tap The 10% more shadowdmg and drain dont make up for it
fudge nugget dreaming! lol! yoyo what is the mod showing your current sp and crit and % damage modifiers really need that to snap shot dots at best time
ill be honest, i cant recall that weakaura. i took it off a mage weakaura, but changed it to show shadow and fire Ive been meaning to look for a snapshot one myself as i do want to try EA and snapshotting corruption.
finally someone showing a dot spec lock on the raid there is like no videos on it
Thank you my man
@@deadnick yess! i have been looking for this
you just made me motivated to reroll sm/ruin from destro.
thanks for linking this wl wa package. great stuff
At 9:30 that crit cluster from dots is why I love warlock. GG my man
Would you make a guide on the rotation itself?
that would be great
Thanks for making this video, its very helpful. Literally nothing on TH-cam related to affliction raiding worth watching other than yourself! record and post next weeks raid also with your thoughts and changes, you have a new sub.
Thanks. Will be running the same talents for next raid. May or may not change runes to 'test' it out.
@@deadnick nice! I did my first affli run this week and got 95 av parse with a 99 in there so was not a bad start!
@@deadnick the main issue I have is lack of locks in guild so I'll probs be back to destro as I can't use agony
The tooltip makes it seem like Master Channeler only makes drain life heal for more -- is that correct or does it actually deal 50% more damage too?
Master Channeler re-works the entirety of Drain Life. It definitely does more damage with MC on
The best strat for festering slime is actually get eaten, then you can freecast, it does something like 200dmg every 2sec, can easily be avoided using a nature pot or even DL is enough. You still need to face a certain way but after thats its just free
I've been reading about this. Will prolly try it out. Just afraid to lose World buffs. haha
Why not demonic tactics on chest and demonic grace on legs for snapshot the dots ?
Had doubts on spending the GCD for demonic grace. However with that being said, i will be using it on some fights next raid.
If i do good, ill post the vid up. If i do bad, ill just *whistle* But seriously i have been thinking about that build a lot, and will give it a proper go
@@deadnick well again why master chaneler instead of demonic tactics ?
you forgot about the haunt in two fights or it is not used in the first boss and Eranikus?
For first boss, I err'ed and didn't change it back to haunt rune. For eranikus, it was on purpose as I wanted SBV for the adds
“Still unsure what the best strat here is”
Homie I do t think even blizzard knows what’s going on with that boss lmfao
Cant disagree with you on that one
deadnick pumping- I wonder if you're playing affliction, are you parsing against all locks or just affliction?
Parsing against all. WCLogs group every warlock as just DPS or Tank
also whats your record for UA dot tick? mine is like 570 no raid buffs so curious what you can get fully buffed up
Biggest crit was 1065 on Eranikus. But looking thru logs, it looks to like average would be low 700
@@deadnick that's awesome 1065 sheesh 🔥 I'm also wondering if shadow and flame would be better for this spec but snapping all your dots on grim proc feels reaaal good lol
Shadow and flame gives more consistency cuz dot crits also gets u the buff
Thats why iam using demonic tacts also
With it its 100% uptime
@@Urteilsdrache My thoughts exactly... In my talents video i did mention that is a build i would like to try along with a 30/0/11 talent build.
Can i ask how did those runes do for you damage-wise? and did casting demonic tactics every 20 secs feel cluncky since it takes up a GCD?
@@Urteilsdrache do you mean demonic grace? I love demonic grace. I don't think I could drop master channeler for demonic tactics tho especially since it procs nightfall. A few ways I like to use grace are pop it then position myself while gcd. The n UA -corruption- coa or nightfall- UA - corruption. Also try to line it up with grimoir or shadow n flame.
so what you think ? aff or destroy for raiding dps ?
I think Dest is still higher. but not as much as i initially thought. But as i get more gear, it would be interesting to see how big the difference it
Does master channeler add more dps rather than having 10% crit overall?
Unsure tbh. 1 GDC for Drain life give you 1.9k damage. Mental math says that should be more that 10% additional crit for dots and shadowbolt. But then again.... because crits are unreliable, i went for the safer option. I wouldnt mind trying Tactics for that 10% crit next lockout
@deadnick true shit, love your work. I've not tried fire yet I've only done felguard demo and Nf Ruin both pump pretty hard got high 90's both times
does haunt need to be applied first or doing it after dots still increase the dmg? im a pvper so its a null point but havent paid attention in pve to notice which works
I would say yes based on my experience with it in WOTLK. My rotation is SB, UA, Haunt, Corr, COA... Since Haunt has a travel time, it will be applied before the first tick of UA
In SoD it actually updates dynamically, there has been alot of discussions about it in the warlock discord. It is only the healing from siphon and DL that needs to have it be applied first
@@knagen yeah I was testing in PvP last night and figured out: pop crit buff first > UA > corruption > haunt. The 2 dots first tick will hit a millisecond after the haunt does and it counts the damage buff. If they all crit its like 1500 dmg right off the jump
@@xelguard Ye, the weird part also is that they update dynamically but not from demonic grace as that one they snapshot from. It seems to be trinkets and on use items/spells that do not update dynamically. But any passive buffs or debuffs do
tell me the name of the addon that shows the dots timer pls
read video description
Its a modded Quazii's WA. ive exported it out, after my own modding, and you can copy it in the description
Great vid! and im wondering whats ur talents with affliction?
you mean full aff build? or whats my aff talents forr NF/Ruin?
@@deadnick yes full aff build
Full aff ist not good
Your highest dmg spell still is shadowbolt, missing ruin and improved shadowbolt would be the biggest downgrade
Siphon life is so weak, even having the talent + pandemic rune ist not worth casting
Dark impact gives less mana than life tap
The 10% more shadowdmg and drain dont make up for it
@@Urteilsdrache Would agree, but if i were to try full Aff, would go 30/0/11. Ensuring i take SM and the remaining 11 pts in destruction tree
Good job ✌️
fudge nugget dreaming! lol! yoyo what is the mod showing your current sp and crit and % damage modifiers really need that to snap shot dots at best time
ill be honest, i cant recall that weakaura. i took it off a mage weakaura, but changed it to show shadow and fire
Ive been meaning to look for a snapshot one myself as i do want to try EA and snapshotting corruption.
Not really affliction but solid damage
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