Purification potions are great for the Kalecgos fight if the dispellers are distracted and you are in danger of the curse killing you. It doesn't heal or increasedps, but if you have the gear for sunwell, you should be able to pop cooldowns on the demon and assuming heals stay up to par, easily down the two.

I believe [Purification Potion] has an 83% resist rate since the dispel it casts is level 57. Can anyone confirm with data?

You can indeed. It works when you leave Terokkar, too. -5% rage/energy cost is actually a pretty significant buff, really.

I tested Mangletooth's buffs on my alt shaman earlier today. I don't know if they persist into instances but they certainly do not vanish upon leaving the Barrens. Assuming that Razorhide persists into instances, a 25% armor buff would be tremendous.

EDIT: OP updated as well.

I didn't see this one mentioned yet, but rogues can use vanish to mitigate large predictable damage spikes. You essentially time the vanish so that it goes off the exact second the damage would hit you, and due to the coding changes made to vanish circa 1.10 (to fix vanish not working under all conditions) it now ignores all effects done to the rogue for approximately half a second after the vanish goes off.

I use this fairly regularly on most fights where there is a predictable high damage attack. For example I use it to mitigate Prince Malchezaar's shadow nova when cloak is on cooldown. I've also used it on the charged arcane explosion effect from the arcane golems in TK, as well as mitigating damage from another player's Solarian bomb.

I've only tested it recently with damage effects, but a while ago (pre-2.0) it was working on all effects (death coil for example would neither do damage nor horrify the rogue if it hit right as vanish went off).

For those of you summoning infernals, be a bit cautious on Archimode, as an airburst can knock you far enough away that the enslave breaks. I was already a fair bit away because of a fear, but as the re-enslave wont last the full 5 minutes anymore it's something to watch.

Another warlock pet trick I use is the new effects added to the Imp, Voidwalker, and Succubus in BC. Fire shield adds 30 fire resistance, although like most resistance buffs this doesn't stack with other buffs and is mostly useless except for solo. The Voidwalker had 10% miss chance added onto its aoe taunt. I used it on Vexallus the other day while soaking flares, although it seems it should work on a raid boss, I just haven't had the chance to test it myself. It's also nice in pvp to use it right before saccing the Voidwalker for a shield as a bit more mitigation against melee. And the Succubus' soothing kiss had 5% less physical damage added to it, much like shadow embrace.

And after seeing someone mention the mobs in BRS that you could control for the fire resistance buff that stacks I remembered there was an arcane one as well. In one of the first two cauldron fields in WPL there is a small group of Scarlet Crusade guys fighting the Scourge. Mind controlling one lets you cast a +80 resistance buff that lasts an hour and stacked with other resistance buffs last I checked.

As of 2.4.1 [Wail of the Banshee] still worked on Illidan. Has anyone tried this recently? Seems to be a decent alternative to the [Bag of Marbles] due to the fact that it can be farmed.

Same, I was saving it hoping to get into Naxx before BC to use against Kel Thuzad but that never happpend. Now I am saving my [Light of Elune] for the same reason. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

[Night Dragon's Breath] are a useful farmable consumable, on the healthstone cooldown. Won't help mages since mana gems also use this cooldown, but they're good for any other mana user.

Although they are not strictly superior to [Luminous Bluetail], these fish are painfully tedious to farm, by comparison.

You can also pick up [Lei of Lilies], if you check the ah regularly it should pop up every once in a while for like 100g. The [Lily Root] it makes is superior to [Night Dragon's Breath] and [Luminous Bluetail], and you dont have to farm. Of course there is a cooldown of one hour, but its not that often in a raid that I find myself so desperate for mana that Im willing to use a HS cd, still its nice to have on your bar just in case.


Also, a druid tip for that little bit extra: Cenarion Raiment 3-piece setbonus keeps working after you swap back to normal gear (except for yourself for some weird reason). The 4 extra dmg even gets the bonus from Brambles, for a whopping total of 54 dmg on Thorns. Best thing about it is the 15min duration of course, meaning it stays on even on long fights with slow pullers. If you have a Outfitter type addon, you can make a very simple macro that looks like this:

/cast [combat] Thorns
/stopmacro [combat]
/wear Thornsset
/cast Thorns
/in 1 /unwear Thornsset

The limited number of Corrupted Night Dragon spawns in Felwood make farming [Night Dragon's Breath] a little tedious, but you probably don't need a lot of them.

When tested after fishing up [Luminous Bluetail] on the Isle of Quel'Danas, I found it shared the same cooldown as potions, making them an inferior choice if potions are available.

Priest/Paladin:
In emergency situations when healers are running out of mana, if a priest's shadowfiend cooldown is up, applying a paladin's blessing of might greatly increases the mana regen provided by a shadowfiend.

I confirmed this tonight, [Luminous Bluetail] now share the healthstone cooldown instead. This makes them much more practical. Thanks for the update.

Shadowfiend's mana return is tied to its absolute damage, which is a function of it's own attack power, which is a function of the priest's spell damage. I'm wondering what sort of odd things can give it a further boost. Timing it to coincide with the beginning of a bloodlust/heroism, for one. Expose Armor, clicky trinkets, a well-timed Spirit Tap proc with Spiritual Guidance (easier in WLK, and with Dark Spirit as well), Strength of Earth Totem. Possibly even a group swap to an Enh shaman/feral druid/DPS warrior with battle shout. Probably not worth it unless a melee is dead, but it's stuff to keep in mind if you really want to maximize shadowfiend.

Just remember that you can pick a plant twice after cleansing it. You clean the plant, pick its Breaths, and if you come back about 25 minutes later, it will respawn still cleansed. So you pick it a second time, and it should respawn corrupted another 25 minutes later.

I usually do the following:

• Fly to the Southern fly path, get a [Cenarion Beacon] and some [Cenarion Plant Salve].
• Fly to the northern fly path, cleanse the plant at (42.5; 13.8).
• Get on my mount, cleanse the plant at (50.6; 30.5).
• Go back to the satyre spot at (42.5; 13.8). Farm them for 25 minutes, to get [Corrupted Soul Shard] and [Demonic Rune].
• 25 minutes later, pick the two plants a second time.

This should get you enough Runes and Breaths for a full night going all-out on Brutallus.

For the ones that don't understand coordinates: here's a map.

I've chain-picked a plant three or four times in a row before. As long as you are fairly prompt in returning to it when the 25-minute cooldown is up, it will continue to be clean.

Sometimes the node will despawn completely; this happens on a random timer regardless of whether it's harvested or not. When it returns from that, it will always be corrupted again.

Also, each harvested node is worth 3-7 pieces of [Night Dragon's Breath]. So, assuming three of the four nodes are up, you'll average 15 pieces per circuit. Does anyone have some more accurate data for the drop rate of the [Luminous Bluetail]? According to wowhead, it's very low.

[Vial of The Sunwell] supposedly heals for 2,000 when used, but if you're specced to increase all heals by 10%, the trinket heals for 2,200. It does not benefit from other healing increasing abilities.

OP is updated. These are some great tips, keep it coming.

Only works for the priest talent and possibly the crit talent for paladins. It doesn't work for druids or shamans because their heals are nature and not holy.

Does not work for Paladin. Our +12% (Healing Light talent) is specifically to Flash of Light and Holy Light, not Holy spells or healing in general. And since it costs 0 mana, a crit heal (for 3000) refunds 60% of 0

Holy Power - Spell - World of Warcraft I meant that talent.
Very hard to test if it does though.

From my experience with it (not a ton, but a fair amount) it does take your holy spell crit chance.