Remember when we had to take out our rulers and measure the perfect distance to stand by the Boss to perfect the timing on our Soulfire/Shadowbolt weaving so that when Shadowbolt lands it would proc Decimation for us just in time for Soulfire?
Well, of course that has been changed already, now Decimation gives us Nine Seconds of Soulfires with 40% reduced cast times.
I had misunderstood this ability for about a week until I realized something: I can continue to cast Soulfires under Decimation. Meaning that when a Soulfire lands on a mob, the Decimation effect does not disappear like in the good old days, it's a flat Nine Seconds of Firy Fun!
It was something completely new to Truny: Attack a fresh mob with a starter spell Corruption and then Soulfire (!!) instead of Shadowbolt! And not just ONE Soulfire, sometimes there's time for multiple!
Usually it takes me a wasted cast of Shadowbolt to realize that Decimation has procced so I usually have just over 7 Seconds to Soulfire Spam! Still, with a decent amount of haste, this means that Soulfires under the Decimation effect take about 1.8 to 1.9 seconds to cast which means FOUR Soulfires are available to blast at ANYTHING!
The most likely situation is that mobs are going to be dropping really fast once one is under 35%, so your first Soulfire is most likely to refresh Decimation, and you can switch targets and burn down a second mob by throwing your free Soulfires. If you are lucky, your last Soulfire and the damage from your other party members would have weakened that mob to under 35% and Decimation would be in consistent effect. Feel free to throw in some corruptions to Molten Coreicize your Soulfires as well!
Note 1*: I only find this useful and possible in the Icecrown 5-mans where the trash waves have a high enough HP to NOT die within three seconds. I tend to have a consistent Decimation effect after it has been triggered. However, Warlocks partying with newer groups may be able to do this in the ilvl200 Heroic dungeons just to get a feel of Soulfire chaining.
Note 2*: For the ilvl200 Dungeons, throwing out a bunch of Seed of Corruptions and topping it off with a Rain of Fire (optional) is still Truny's preferred choice of satisfyingly explosive AoE!
Truny the Warlock
Showing posts with label Soulfire. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Like a Moth to a Flame
I am on a mission. This involves (some heavy touching yeah -sorry Lady Gaga) getting Truny the Warlock to become my best geared character!
I did the quest to get the very nice Quel'delar Lens of the Mind sword for her this weekend, sporting at 657 spellpower this sword is just awesomeness upgrade from Seethe. Poor Seethe, I spent so much time bitching about it not dropping, abandon the game and come back and upgrade it away. Sigh oh well, I've never actually SEEN the Sunwell so standing in the middle of it was kinda cool!
So before setting foot into Ice Crown Citadel Truny would like to be fairly upgraded in most of her equipment slots. I know it isn't necessary but I just like to be "appropriate" by Kluptomania standards.
Her Offhand Item is the Heroic Emblem Ward of the Violet Citadel. Since Shrivelled Heart is so accessible Truny has been running H HoR every day for a chance to get it, and also her belt and shoes are T8 equivalent, that's a no no gotta get it up to T9 at least.
ANYWAYS, yesterday in Halls of Reflection during one of the spirit waves I was dutifully corrupting and shadowbolting and decimating to my (shrivelled) heart's content when I guess what happened was every single positive buff and proc were active and one of my Soulfire's landed a 31.8k Crit!
I didn't have time to screenshot it since it just popped out of nowhere, and seeing 20k+ crits were so happenstance anyways I didn't have the same "OMG" reaction to these huge numbers anymore. I still remember when 4k was a BIG deal! (It still is!)
That's Crazy Sauce! I am thinking it must have been one of the mobs which I accidentally put Curse of Elements onto when I was about to hit my Soulfire button (they are beside each other in 5 man dungeons) and Molten Core, Lightweave Embroidery, Now is the Time, all procced and crit at the max possible amount?
I shall try to reproduce this again since Truny is in the limelight of playtime until all her upgrades are achieved RAWR.
Truny the WHOA
I did the quest to get the very nice Quel'delar Lens of the Mind sword for her this weekend, sporting at 657 spellpower this sword is just awesomeness upgrade from Seethe. Poor Seethe, I spent so much time bitching about it not dropping, abandon the game and come back and upgrade it away. Sigh oh well, I've never actually SEEN the Sunwell so standing in the middle of it was kinda cool!
So before setting foot into Ice Crown Citadel Truny would like to be fairly upgraded in most of her equipment slots. I know it isn't necessary but I just like to be "appropriate" by Kluptomania standards.
Her Offhand Item is the Heroic Emblem Ward of the Violet Citadel. Since Shrivelled Heart is so accessible Truny has been running H HoR every day for a chance to get it, and also her belt and shoes are T8 equivalent, that's a no no gotta get it up to T9 at least.
ANYWAYS, yesterday in Halls of Reflection during one of the spirit waves I was dutifully corrupting and shadowbolting and decimating to my (shrivelled) heart's content when I guess what happened was every single positive buff and proc were active and one of my Soulfire's landed a 31.8k Crit!
I didn't have time to screenshot it since it just popped out of nowhere, and seeing 20k+ crits were so happenstance anyways I didn't have the same "OMG" reaction to these huge numbers anymore. I still remember when 4k was a BIG deal! (It still is!)
That's Crazy Sauce! I am thinking it must have been one of the mobs which I accidentally put Curse of Elements onto when I was about to hit my Soulfire button (they are beside each other in 5 man dungeons) and Molten Core, Lightweave Embroidery, Now is the Time, all procced and crit at the max possible amount?
I shall try to reproduce this again since Truny is in the limelight of playtime until all her upgrades are achieved RAWR.
Truny the WHOA
Monday, February 22, 2010
Truny the Warlock Returns - Demonology
Truny has returned after an almost two month break!
From what I remember, the new changes to Demonologist Warlocks had already taken place but Truny didn't really check them out.
It's good!
A) Truny gets to use her favourite pet, the Felguard. Blagroon, the one who could dash cleave and save the squishy butts of the party!
B) Requirements for more awareness! MORE awareness! See, first we have to debuff things with our Improved Shadowbolt. Then we must make sure Corruption is always ticking since we are going to be fishing for Molten Core procs. What are those? Well Molten Core increases the damage and crit/speed for Incinerates or Soulfires. (Some may want to fire off Shadowbolts and only use Incinerate when Molten Core procs but I would rather see Incinerate).
C) Decimation. Remember when we had to go Shadow Bolt, Soulfire, Shadowbolt Soulfire. NOT ANYMORE! Now we can go Soulfire Soulfire Soulfire Soulfire and it looks something like this when you get a critting streak and various gear procs:
21,546 18,233 24,621! 9.264 (darn) 20,513 ...eep!
Remember to jump into Demon form and activate any trinkets when you see the first Decimation Proc, it's the magical buff that starts with a 9 second count. Also, remember to refresh Corruption to fish for Molten Core buffs to the Soulfires, and also to throw in a Shadowbolt to get the 5% extra crit!
This new system has a nice "Ok fuckers let's do this!" feel once you see Decimation it's all over!
Truny KABOOM!
From what I remember, the new changes to Demonologist Warlocks had already taken place but Truny didn't really check them out.
It's good!
A) Truny gets to use her favourite pet, the Felguard. Blagroon, the one who could dash cleave and save the squishy butts of the party!
B) Requirements for more awareness! MORE awareness! See, first we have to debuff things with our Improved Shadowbolt. Then we must make sure Corruption is always ticking since we are going to be fishing for Molten Core procs. What are those? Well Molten Core increases the damage and crit/speed for Incinerates or Soulfires. (Some may want to fire off Shadowbolts and only use Incinerate when Molten Core procs but I would rather see Incinerate).
C) Decimation. Remember when we had to go Shadow Bolt, Soulfire, Shadowbolt Soulfire. NOT ANYMORE! Now we can go Soulfire Soulfire Soulfire Soulfire and it looks something like this when you get a critting streak and various gear procs:
21,546 18,233 24,621! 9.264 (darn) 20,513 ...eep!
Remember to jump into Demon form and activate any trinkets when you see the first Decimation Proc, it's the magical buff that starts with a 9 second count. Also, remember to refresh Corruption to fish for Molten Core buffs to the Soulfires, and also to throw in a Shadowbolt to get the 5% extra crit!
This new system has a nice "Ok fuckers let's do this!" feel once you see Decimation it's all over!
Truny KABOOM!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Truny the Warlock - Soulfire Crits
Ahh the beloved Soulfire-critical-pictures. Truny wanted one for herself so she set-out to Heroic Nexus to set this giant stone boss aflame!
This is also my record so far, hope it will get better once I find some bracers!
Stoneman go Boom!
This is also my record so far, hope it will get better once I find some bracers!
Stoneman go Boom!
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