Shannox POV Affliction Warlock 10M

[frshovinstuf]

Got shannox down tonight, thought some people might want to see a warlock POV. Yes I know I clipped some dots here and there, and dps could of been a little better, but not bad for patch day Anyway hope this can help some guilds/warlocks.

FR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmjKI...&feature=feedu

[Afflictrick]

What addon are you using for the dot timers with the upward bars? Also, song list? Thanks

[frshovinstuf]

What addon are you using for the dot timers with the upward bars? Also, song list? Thanks

Buttontimers to track my dots. Bar on the right is my target, left is my focus target.

kay picked out the music.. but i believe it's "Lost in Vegas", by Two Steps from Hell... or atleast that's what he put in the vid

[randa]

This fight is multidoting heaven and tailor made for affliction, so i wanted to know what addon do you use for boss frames on the right, does your addon allow you to mouseover those frames and place dots on them with mouseover macros. By looking at those i see that corruption and ua often fall of dogs.

I am greatly interested in finding this kind of an addon, that will make grid like interface of boss frames and allow us to apply dots on those frames just like resto druids use grid to apply hots on players frames, is something like this even possible?

[soulcrusher]

nice UI, whats the purple timer bar on top of your action bars? looks a bit like Js hunter bar.

[frshovinstuf]

This fight is multidoting heaven and tailor made for affliction, so i wanted to know what addon do you use for boss frames on the right, does your addon allow you to mouseover those frames and place dots on them with mouseover macros. By looking at those i see that corruption and ua often fall of dogs.

I am greatly interested in finding this kind of an addon, that will make grid like interface of boss frames and allow us to apply dots on those frames just like resto druids use grid to apply hots on players frames, is something like this even possible?

Those are boss frame created by BigWigs. I haven't tried using mouseovers with them before, and I'm not sure that you can. I use my target/focus target with buttontimers, and my tidy plates helps me keep track of dots on 3+ targets.

I do know that you can use mouse over's with the unit frames which I am using shadowed unit frames for, however that would only display target/focus target/etc. I also have experience using mouseovers with gladius in arena. But I'll give it a try tomorrow with the bigwigs bars.

And ya not my best showing with dots falling off quite often, but we found many instances where dmg needed to be focused quickly to help with the dogs, and I wanted to be very sure of my movement to avoid dmg and comply with the mechanics. I will hone my skills for the next time ;D




---------- Post added 2011-06-29 at 07:24 AM ----------

nice UI, whats the purple timer bar on top of your action bars? looks a bit like Js hunter bar.

That addon is Sexycooldown, which is a great addon for any class that would like that type of visual representation of CD's. I probably find it more useful on my priest or warrior, but it's a great indicator of everything from your rotation cd's to longer term cd's.

[soulcrusher]

great stuff frshovinstuf ive been meaning to revamp my old warlocks ui for some time, feel quite inspired having seen yours, thanks for the input

[Deleted]

Great video, cheers for posting. Loving the UI btw

[frshovinstuf]

Thanks so much! more to come
FR

[Maeno]

Hey FR did you have any problems breaking rage face's focus target attack as affliction in 10 man? Our raid set up probably wasn't the best. For ranged we had an Spriest, hunter and me a warlock. The hunter out of the three of us has the easiest time breaking his attack. But if it gets onto the hunter then its a high chance that we are going to wipe. Destro can get the right crit with conflag. But playing as aff in that fight seems like a death sentence for our group. Shadow bolt mostly crits for around 28k. 31k is the peak.

We should probably bring an arcane mage.

[Angelic]

Oh dear, where is the game?

[Belmorn]

Very nice looking UI.
I would personally remove abilities like shadowbite from that bar because you arent going to track it over and it just prevents you from seeing cooldowns that matter.

I killed it earlier tonight in 25 and with the constant moving of the dogs I had a really hard time dotting all.
I often ended up just BoD on one dog and properly dotting 2 targets including the 3/3 shadow embrace which can be a pain when one dog jumps ot the other side of the room.

[frshovinstuf]

Hey FR did you have any problems breaking rage face's focus target attack as affliction in 10 man? Our raid set up probably wasn't the best. For ranged we had an Spriest, hunter and me a warlock. The hunter out of the three of us has the easiest time breaking his attack. But if it gets onto the hunter then its a high chance that we are going to wipe. Destro can get the right crit with conflag. But playing as aff in that fight seems like a death sentence for our group. Shadow bolt mostly crits for around 28k. 31k is the peak.

We should probably bring an arcane mage.

Ya it was an issue for a few attempts. we kept a spriest and hunter on rageface at all times and they made sure to have mindblast/cobra shot on CD for a guaranteed 30k crit. As affy I broke a few rages (not sure if i did that many in the video or not), but destro would be better with a conflag crit. I think in that attempt our frost DK had a few clutch saves as well. Affliction is best served in that fight to balance out dmg done on dogs versus shannox, that's why i kept target switching so much. Also they just nerfed rageface's 'rage' so we should see a little more leeway in breaking it.
FR




---------- Post added 2011-07-02 at 01:27 AM ----------

Very nice looking UI.
I would personally remove abilities like shadowbite from that bar because you arent going to track it over and it just prevents you from seeing cooldowns that matter.

I killed it earlier tonight in 25 and with the constant moving of the dogs I had a really hard time dotting all.
I often ended up just BoD on one dog and properly dotting 2 targets including the 3/3 shadow embrace which can be a pain when one dog jumps ot the other side of the room.

Ty for the suggestion, since I'm planning on posting more vids I want to clean up my UI a bit more

And ya, completely sympathize with the multi dot, especially since the SS nerf. Especially with the awkward positioning.
FR

[Mookes]

I'm diggin the UI :P

[Deleted]

Hi,
Dont take this as harsh criticism, but after playing a Lock a while and studying your setup, i find these tricks have helped me out a lot. (They may not necissarily all be to your tastes)
Some general tips that for yourself and others:

KEEP YOUR SCREEN CLEAN!
-Your timing demonic circle, soulburn and shadowward in 3 places (timers, action bar, and cd bar) your timing haunt in 4 (same + the debuff duration), are they all necissary?
-Your tracking the boss health in 3 different places (Excluding your target frame)
-Consider hiding keybinds your very used to and/or dont use frequently
-Having your pet bar out, and central isn't really necissary either - how often do you need to know when he's auto attacking?
-Consider using an addon to relocate where your heal spam is on your screen, again it just helps to keep things neat and see whats happening to and around your character. (ScrollingCombatText is good at this.)
-Replace Quartz. I know Quartz bar has been a long and favoured cast bar for a while, but it doesn't calculate channeled ticks with Haste. Gnosis does. When your drainsouling theres nothing worse than missing your tick because you have to recast all the time. And recast DS when you get Eradication proc.
-You mentioned you clip DoTs, you are supposed to clip ~3secs btw

SPELLCLEAVING!:
So, fights like Shannox allow us to exploit spellcleaving to the max, in the past we've seen fights liks V&T. My recommendation is to setup what i call a 'Dual-Targetting system'.
Here we utilize the /focus command and macros to the max! Heres an example:

/cast [mod:alt, target=focus] Unstable Affliction; Unstable Affliction

Normally it will cast UA at my target. If i hold Alt whilst pressing it it will cast UA at my /focus target without tabbing or losing target etc. It can save a lot of confusion and i recommend doing it with all/most your spells. -It will require using an effect DoT tracking system on both and some practice, but i find it a much more practical solution.
On the topic of macros, get yourself a /petattack macro. Pets in Firelands are stupid and wont attack unless you tell them to, so send them in early either by clicking it or macro'ing it!

I see your using the Razer Naga, thats good! A lot of people find it best to bind their most used spells to their mouse, I myself use it to spam SB/Inc and Haunt on my mousewheel up/down to minimise the effect of ms. Freeing your Left hand to always ensure you can move quickly is crucial, and keybinding so you can dps on the run is even better.

GoodLuck with the rest of the Tier, and i hope this has been useful =]

M,

[frshovinstuf]

Hi,
Dont take this as harsh criticism, but after playing a Lock a while and studying your setup, i find these tricks have helped me out a lot. (They may not necissarily all be to your tastes)
Some general tips that for yourself and others:

KEEP YOUR SCREEN CLEAN!
-Your timing demonic circle, soulburn and shadowward in 3 places (timers, action bar, and cd bar) your timing haunt in 4 (same + the debuff duration), are they all necissary?
-Your tracking the boss health in 3 different places (Excluding your target frame)
-Consider hiding keybinds your very used to and/or dont use frequently
-Having your pet bar out, and central isn't really necissary either - how often do you need to know when he's auto attacking?
-Consider using an addon to relocate where your heal spam is on your screen, again it just helps to keep things neat and see whats happening to and around your character. (ScrollingCombatText is good at this.)
-Replace Quartz. I know Quartz bar has been a long and favoured cast bar for a while, but it doesn't calculate channeled ticks with Haste. Gnosis does. When your drainsouling theres nothing worse than missing your tick because you have to recast all the time. And recast DS when you get Eradication proc.
-You mentioned you clip DoTs, you are supposed to clip ~3secs btw

SPELLCLEAVING!:
So, fights like Shannox allow us to exploit spellcleaving to the max, in the past we've seen fights liks V&T. My recommendation is to setup what i call a 'Dual-Targetting system'.
Here we utilize the /focus command and macros to the max! Heres an example:

/cast [mod:alt, target=focus] Unstable Affliction; Unstable Affliction

Normally it will cast UA at my target. If i hold Alt whilst pressing it it will cast UA at my /focus target without tabbing or losing target etc. It can save a lot of confusion and i recommend doing it with all/most your spells. -It will require using an effect DoT tracking system on both and some practice, but i find it a much more practical solution.
On the topic of macros, get yourself a /petattack macro. Pets in Firelands are stupid and wont attack unless you tell them to, so send them in early either by clicking it or macro'ing it!

I see your using the Razer Naga, thats good! A lot of people find it best to bind their most used spells to their mouse, I myself use it to spam SB/Inc and Haunt on my mousewheel up/down to minimise the effect of ms. Freeing your Left hand to always ensure you can move quickly is crucial, and keybinding so you can dps on the run is even better. Some of the things you've listed I already do such as /petattack macro's

GoodLuck with the rest of the Tier, and i hope this has been useful =]

M,

Thanks alot. Taking most into consideration My quartz + buttontimers both have tick prediction though, do you find that they may be wrong? For some reason the naga switch has been easy on me for all of my characters but my caster, so i'll be making the transition soon, but I will need a better visual coordination w. timers 1st. I'll play around with it. As to clipping dots I was just referring to BoA which is the only dot you can't clip, but I should have been more specific. But again, thanks!

Ryothith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-49...&feature=feedu
Beth'tilac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i481n...&feature=feedu

If yall want to see those
FR

[Penguin FTW]

Drainsouler works wonders for that drain soul clipping business.

@ fr, holy goddamn do you need to turn off those heals >.< or at the very least move them so they don't cover your character.

[crovax3000]

Did you need to do something to bigwigs to make it announce? Mine used to, then I updated it, and nothing.

[frshovinstuf]

Drainsouler works wonders for that drain soul clipping business.

@ fr, holy goddamn do you need to turn off those heals >.< or at the very least move them so they don't cover your character.

Lol already did.. Had it turned off for some time idk why they were up

[Deleted]

Drainsouler works wonders for that drain soul clipping business.

I actually use both, Ive set Drainsouler to make a tiny beep when it ticks (V. handy). Gnosis is nice as it tracks all channels, DL and Soul Harvest aswell. Quartz doesn't calculate your haste to predicts ticks, it just assumes 0 haste. Addons like Gnosis can calculate and predict on-the-fly <3. All this just makes it that lil' bit easier to never miss a DS tick.

You should be using BoD on longer, single target fights.

Lastly, if your looking to move the boss mechanic bar (Rhyolith, also Cho etc.) then try RaidMoveMechanic.

Ps- For DBM/BigWigs look within the addons for announcements, they're usually buried somewhere in boss options.
M,