hwc4hir

Hi all,

Ippocrate!

Warlock S3 Glad here, I will try to share my experience and answer your questions, maybe you find it useful.

I do not agree with you that gibbing the warrior is only possible below 1800. It is possible all the time, even versus best teams if you constantly look for good moment to do it during the fight. It does not have to be mana war in every game. Watch his cooldowns, watch his healer cooldowns and react, be flexible during the fight - it is obvious, but people say it and not really do it when it comes to arena fight.

• CoW: it is useful, I even prefer having 1/2 Improved CoW than 1/5 Suppression. All depends on situation, I use it vs war/shaman or rogue/shaman, rogue/dpriest and I am swapping it with CoA.

• vs Warrior:
  If warrior is with shaman, your healer is druid and they pop windfury/heroism/bloodlust/trinket/dw after stacking sunders on you (or even without sundering), you better start running and help your druid to keep the war cycloned/rooted (fear/dc the shaman, not allowing him to interrupt your druid's cyclones). Play with Felhunter, keep CoT on shaman, switch CoW to CoA on war, try to gib him, but wise (read below). If only mana war is possible or they kill the first pet way fast, get your Void with FD (remember that shaman is waiting with purge for your FD, so hide a bit).
  
  If warrior is with druid and pops dw, try gibbing him. Do it wise, hide behind the pillar/pull him to starting room/under the bridge, sure you will survive his dmg and be sure you have your Deathcoil ready. Use it after immolate on war while he is at ~60%-70% and finish with Incinerate, Searing pains, Drain life and hope for Nightfall proc. Your healer should help you and dps the war with you or stop his healer. You can also use your deathcoil when he tries to go back to his healer or use it on his healer - depends on situation really. If they manage to get your puppy and you are unable to summon new one without FD, get Void and there starts classic mana war. Get VST if possible.
  
  Playing very agressive always worked best for me. You also need very fast "micro management" to be effective. The truth is that phys dmg is op^2 since they have that supid armor ignore mods on items. Fear the warrior after he used his intercept on your healer.

• Did you try 5/5 Shadow Embrace + 5/5 Master Demonologist + 3/3 Demonic Resilience? This is the max mitigation to phys dmg we can have (combined with +armor items, but I would not suggest gimping your spelldmg so much). Check the first part of video from Heidiheinken: Heidiheinken - Highest Destrolock By mofogie

• Using deathcoil: use it in situations described above. There is also one more important DC usage - as a finisher / additional damage dealing spell when you try to burn someone down. On full doted opponent when you got your nightfall proc - try casting bolt, hit bolt button agian and launch dc after 2 bolts. Yay that hurts.

• Now about buff/debuff tracking. Forget about NECB. For diminishing returns use ProxDim, for their cooldowns use Afflicted and Antagonist.
  
  Oh and there is one more godly addon that will do the job for you ! - PowerAuras.
  Check how it works here: YouTube - Power Auras
  Download form here: Power Auras (continued) | World of Warcraft Addons | Curse
  
  Set it to show if the warrior has Berserk Rage, set it to show Death Wish. Now set it to show when your enemy target does NOT have Berserk Rage and when he does NOT have Death Wish. Here you go \o/
  
  I use it for showing:
  - my buffs - bloodlust, nightfall proc, power infusion, meta gem procs,
  - my buffs missing - when I do not have Fel Armor (if you meet annoying dispeller - it helps you with spamming Fel Armor during the fight arena and you win this mana fight vs dispeller).
  - their buffs - when they launch Pain Suppresion, Diving Shield, BoP, BoF, etc
  - my debuffs - wound poison, mortal strike, etc.
  Cool stuff.

I am sorry that this text was soo long Sorry for typos if any.

regards,
C4hir