Ignis - teleport back down after flame jets for more dps time/no fall damage.

I haven't tried out the encounter yet, but... should we be able to plant a circle on top of the Flame Leviathan? As far as I have read, you have to be launched on top of it to take out his turrets. Should you need to repeat that during the encounter, I believe putting a circle on top of it would make approaching fairly trivial.

Then again, I have zero experience facing that toy.

During Flame Leviathan if you are on the ground long enough for him to become active again, you're going to die, where a DC wouldn't save you. It is much simpler for a chopper to pick you up and drag you over to a demolisher, and get relaunched on to Flame Leviathan. You take enormous amounts of damage if you're on the ground while he's active.

You misread what Soulshard was suggesting. He said put the circle on top of FL, as in where you stand when dps'ing his turrets. Then the circle hoppefully move around with FL. Then you might use it to get back up if the next catapult misses the target, or just port yourself if you are close enough and in any vehicle. I'm also curious if this will work, and will try it next time if I'm on catapult duty (demolisher passenger).

Myself I use the teleport on Auriaya to port back after fear. I just plant the circle on top of the spot where the raid stand clustered. I have also used it on Ignis and his trash as described above and on razorscale to port back after he break loose to get back on ground without falldamage. Its also possible to port out of blue fire then, just make sure there is no fire on the circle as well first.

I use on deconstructor when hit with gravity bomb teleport clear of everyone much easier. and port back to kill scraps and bombs

As far as I know, a Demonic Circle don't move if the object between your feets move/disappears. (I remember playing with this behavior with the breakable beer barrels in BRD).

You can also use it to freak the hell out of everyone before you enter the room. Send your Imp in, let him get wasted, and port behind the door to the corner of the corridor. The Iron Giant will lumber through the wall and get ~15 yards from you before he fades away

Did the same with Hodir.
Seems to work (for now) with all that kind of fights

Much valid uses, tested most of them and confirmed.


Additionally:

Things written below is tested and refered to 25-man verions only.

Ignis; Nothing new, port to the ground after flame jets.

Razorscale; Can be used for both his knockbacks, and for moving back and forth from the harpoon launchers (if you're tasked on this). Also to port very quickly away from the blue fires, or simply back and forth between the drilling machines whom spawns the mobs during the air phaces(s).

Deconstructor; Port away or back to the raid after either of his bombs placed on you. Moderatly useful for porting towards or away from his adds, though usually the normal range is good enough.

The council; as said by Krazen: Away from overloads, deathrunes, summoning runes, chain lightnings, lightning tendrils or towards the damage encrease circles. (Endless options really) Personally I tend to move my circle around a bit, the ,5 sec summon is not a terrible dps loss. Though somewhere central, or in the outskirts of your currently targeted boss works.

Kologarn; Avoiding eyebeams with the portal is indeed a good thing, mostly. But the eyebeams can tear across other players if not used with causion. I find it just as useful to put it in the vicinity of the raid, and run from the eyebeams and then port back into the raid for maximum dps.

Note: You cannot port out of his right hands grip, only back after he has tossed you away or if your raid 'killed' his hand. (Saves you falling damage).

Freya; Centralize it and port to mushrooms or closer to her 'gift tree'. Mostly useless (I'm sure someone will come up with a better use for it on this fight, but I can't... yet.)

Thorim; Some choices, if easy-mode and a slow group you might want to use it in the tunnel gauntlet for quick ports back and forth to avoid the bombs from the colossus. Can also be used in the arena before entering the tunnel and then port back down after the gauntlet to avoid falling damage.

During the hard-mode it can be lifesaving if used to avoid the arc-lightning, use with causion if slowed or frozen by sid. Can also be used to port out of blizzards, even if you should avoid these by standing close to him there are no guarantees that you won't find yourself in a blizzard at some point.

I myself find it useful to put the circle far enough from the melee for them to get hit by chain lightning, yet close enough to them to not get hit by blizzard, and right after one of the 'pillars' to avoid the arc lightning fully during panic events.

(I have not yet ever stayed in the arena during phace one, no clues of usage there).

Vezax: To avoid shadow clashes, or to port back right after them is useful. Can also be used for porting out of the saronite clouds to ensure getting back in the fight if the cloud is far away, or if you are going for the last stack before it actually one-shots you.

Yogg-saron: Either at the sanity beams, also possible to put in the start of the fight, somewhere in the room to navigate between the clouds since it gets rather crowded and mistakes can happen. It can be good to have a backup plan.

With out going into freya starts, it's a nice thing to use on hardmode to help maximize dps and get out of harms way very fast. It was a huge life saver for me.

Concur that if you can use elevation in your DC usage you can gain a huge advantage.

Wintergrasp keep defense:


I stand beside the turrets for aoe damage & port back to the stairs once their ranged players target me. I also have been used as bait to bring opponents within aoe range of the other casters on the turret battlements. Few melees can resist what appears to be a hapless squishy standing in front of the keep walls while they wait for their siege engines to come up and are being shelled by the keep turrets.


Wintergrasp keep offense:

Fly in on top of the battlements before the battle starts, drop a circle on the wall in between outer turrets. This allows you to move in and take out the inner wall turrets (as well as the corner tower turrets) and still have a reset-able escape route should you be discovered & perused by opponents.

I kind of like it as plain distraction as well sometimes. Some melee think they're smart by waiting at the portal because they think you're going to port right away. If you don't it can give you a few precious seconds of survival or casttime.

I have a couple of quick questions I was hoping someone has the answer to on the Thorim fight. There's the lightning ball thing that one shots anyone standing on the ledge or in the tunnel after Thorim jumps down, but I don't know the exact mechanics of it. Can you set down your teleport circle on top of the ledge and jump down, teleporting back up after the ledge has been cleared of lightning? What I mean is "does that lightning thing go once and then stop or does it pulse every x seconds?"

Also, is it even possible to teleport back up due to range? I'd try it myself (and will try it Tuesday if nobody has answered) but I'm saved to both 10 and 25 man this week.

The lightning ball is a post-wipe mechanic, but there is a lightning field there the entire time in phase 2 and pulses every second, and in fact if your pet somehow fails to make the jump then you'll see it take constant damage and die about 30 seconds into the phase.

I was told by a guildie tonight that when rooted on freya he could port, you're still rooted but it's handy to get out quick during a detonating lasher phase or seeds from phase 2.

Battle Grounds

an unlikely roll for a warlock but take the roll of guarding the flag with FG out. set your retreat portal to higher ground out of view and the opposing team comes in to crush you thinking they'll just bypass your FG, SHAZZAM! they're left in a pit to duke it out with your FG while you rain curses down upon them from afar. even better if you have doomguard

Its a terrain bug, make sure you plant your portal on a flat area of the room. I usually stand to the right of General and there is a broken piece of the ground there I put my portal right in front of that and have never had an issue there. I've had the same issues in other places.

edit: typ0s

Last night was the first time I experienced this bug. Make sure after your drop your portal before the pull that you test it to work from your groups location.

I don't know how this can be useful (probably can't), but when you drink an underbelly elixir and turn into a wasp, you can still summon your demonic portal, even while flying. So you can summon the portal high in the sky in an unsupported location, and teleport up to it. You fall.

My uses for Demonic Circle: Teleport:

Ulduar

Ignis: I put a circle on the ground away from the tank to avoid scorches. After Ignis uses Flame Jets I teleport down to immediately continue dpsing. No waiting for rise/fall.

XT-002: I drop a portal in the back and away from the raid. If I get light bomb or gravity bomb I can quickly teleport out of range of the raid to avoid putting extra pressure on the healers.

Iron Council: I randomly place a circle on the ground where I first stop to dps. I use it to teleport out of a green rune, and minimize damage taken by it.

Kologarn: I place the circle outside his room on top of the staircases. While dpsing I stand near the back of the room. If/when he casts his eye beam ability at me I can safely teleport outside of the room, and keep any other raid members from getting hit by it.

Hodir: The only time I have found this extremely useful on Hodir is when I am really far away from the ice pile on flash freeze, if my randomly placed circle is in a lucky spot, I can dps longer than teleport to make it onto the mound in time.

Thorim: Use it to avoid the electrical charges from the wall. Although there is enough time that running/strafing should not be an issue.

Mimiron: While attempting to learn this fight, during phase one I would put my portal outside of the room. Since I am typically in the top two to three on threat, once the tank died I was able to teleport out of the room, causing Mimiron to follow me, and this would reset the boss. This allowed the raid to get more attempts in quicker because we only had to rez and rebuff the tank. (Saved some money too) Once you get phase one down, phase two he can shoot anywhere outside the room so that becomes pretty useless. Although you can reloacate your portal to avoid missiles or his "Spinning up" ability.

Vezax: For this fight I usually put my portal back near a wall away from where the raid would typically be. This was so I can teleport away from the raid when acquiring "The Mark of the Faceless", or to avoid any close proximity shadow crashes.

Yogg: Although my guild hasn't downed him yet (terrible at phase three), the only real use for this that I was able to find would be to teleport away from clouds that were closing in from both sides. Just be weary that you do not teleport into another cloud.

XT-002: We tank him on the left hand side to avoid two trash piles from spawning adds. In 10 man hard mode, I put my teleport circle against the southern wall and when I got gravity bomb I'd teleport to it and drop the void zone along the edge where nobody can get to it pretty much even if they're trying to die.

Iron Council: I put my circle outside the door to reset the fight in case of a tank death from lag.

Thorim: Never use it on this fight because I stand near the tunnel entrance and never have to move.

Mimiron: P2: Since his "spinning up" skill always goes clockwise, I just put the portal 10-15yds to my right and teleport over the beam of bullets. Someone pointed out that this can kill an imp though. I've also used the reset trick here.

Place it AFTER combat. Placing it before combat renders it useless.