Warlock: Simple Questions/Simple Answers - Page 75

Drison · 04/29/09, 2:40 PM

Originally Posted by exog

Sometimes when a boss in Ulduar is at the last third of his hp I just can't reapply certain dots. Yesterday it happened on Mimiron and with Corruption.

Buttontimers showed that it was not applied, and when I tried to apply it, I got the red text sayin "A more powerful spell is already active".

Anyone else experiencing this or know what causes it?

I have had this happen on Thorim too, with both Haunt and CoA.

The reason your getting this error is because blizz made it to were you can't over write a dot like corruption if you casted it during say a trinket proc because it will do more dmg then the new corruption your trying to cast that isnt under a trinket proc. With that said stop clipping your dots and this won't be a issue.

Jax883 · 04/29/09, 5:17 PM

Now that 3.1 allows an imp's fire shield to be cast raid-wide, I've been searching for a macro that allows this to happen. I've read in various forums that pet macro spells both can and cannot be done, and am looking to clear up the confusion.

I've found done a good bit of searching and have found macros on fire shielding myself, but nothing on the scale of multiple targets. I myself am fairly macro impaired, so if it IS possible, can someone direct me on creating said macro?

exog · 04/30/09, 2:01 AM

Originally Posted by Drison

The reason your getting this error is because blizz made it to were you can't over write a dot like corruption if you casted it during say a trinket proc because it will do more dmg then the new corruption your trying to cast that isnt under a trinket proc. With that said stop clipping your dots and this won't be a issue.

That would be fine, if it wasn't for the fact that my dot timers didn't show any dot. So for all i know, the dot in question was not currently applied by me.

It can of course be an error from the dot mod, but its hard to tell with so many dots on the mob.

Rev118 · 04/30/09, 5:00 AM

Hey guys im a fairly new lvl 80 lock. I was sporting Demo but made the change to Destruction when I found my DPS was waaayyyy under par and I dont like affliction much.

My gear is all blues (bar the green staff) and now 1 epic (gloves) but im not 100% convinced my gear is the only problem.

my spell stats are:
Damage: 932 (unbuffed, 1258 with Fel Armor spell)
Healing: 932
Hit Rating: 90
Crit Chance: 11.62%
haste rating: 43
Mana Regen: 271

Ive also check out a whole bunch of rotations but they have varied the avg dmg by very small amounts (usually within 200-300)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Avarius - Dreadmaul

VenomByte · 04/30/09, 6:21 AM

If your spell damage is 932 unbuffed, your gear is terrible. No matter what rotation you use, you are not going to pull very high dps. The simple answer you are looking for is that you need to sort your gear out.

Here is a gear set I compiled (pre 3.1, but that won't matter much) using entirely BoE blue gear - i.e, cheap stuff you will be able to buy from the AH. That alone will get you to 1300 spell power, which should be sufficient for you to do heroics if you have your rotation sorted. From there on, use a warlock pre-raid gear guide to see which heroics you want to get drops from, which epic drops or crafted gear you need, and so forth. I'm sure you'll find something if you do a search.

Nve · 04/30/09, 10:38 AM

I would really avoid trying to use destruction as a newly 80 warlock. The gear/stat requirements are really high to make good use of destruction, whereas they are very low for the FG/EB spec. Plus, the FG is ridiculously good at low gear levels (in relative terms).

Drison · 04/30/09, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by exog

That would be fine, if it wasn't for the fact that my dot timers didn't show any dot. So for all i know, the dot in question was not currently applied by me.

It can of course be an error from the dot mod, but its hard to tell with so many dots on the mob.

You need to get the mod updated. There was a UI change in patch 3.1 and if you don't get your mod updated your going to see everyone'd debuff.

DiamondTear · 05/01/09, 1:43 AM

Is the bonus that incinerate gets from immolate being on the target still static?

Drison · 05/01/09, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by DiamondTear

Is the bonus that incinerate gets from immolate being on the target still static?

Yes.

Eaos · 05/01/09, 12:52 PM

Is there an up-to-date version of Best in Slot lists for hit/non-hit. If so could you please point me in the right direction

Netfelix · 05/01/09, 2:34 PM

Originally Posted by Eaos

Is there an up-to-date version of Best in Slot lists for hit/non-hit. If so could you please point me in the right direction

PVE Raiding Compendium V3.1

It's not totally up to date, but, it's getting there. No one really wants to do it until the character planner site is up to date.

DiamondTear · 05/02/09, 2:21 AM

Originally Posted by Drison

Yes.

Ghostcrawler says it's not. MMO-Champion BlueTracker - Conflag Change Clarification

(This blue came up after I had asked my question)

Nve · 05/02/09, 8:34 PM

Anyone familiar with how pet mana works on Vezax? My guild's about to start our first attempts and I'm wondering if my FG can last the fight considering there's no replenishment or whatever it is he normally needs to avoid going oom.

Talimar · 05/02/09, 9:05 PM

Pets aren't affected by the vezax debuff as far as I could tell.

Drison · 05/04/09, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by DiamondTear

Ghostcrawler says it's not. MMO-Champion BlueTracker - Conflag Change Clarification

(This blue came up after I had asked my question)

I know what GC is saying but player testing has proven that it is static. This may have been a bug since the day Incinerate was given to us in BC.

GC:
Incinerate and Immolate -- There does seem to be a bug where spellpower is not getting applied correctly. We don't know at this point if this is an old or new bug. Certainly there used to be a lot of spells that didn't scale with spellpower, though we now make an attempt to make sure almost all of them do. It may matter less with the F&B change, but we'll still get it resolved.

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