You Know You've Done It

/farewell....for now

I'm leaving tomorrow for at least a 10 day absence, so I leave you with this to ponder until I return....locks are op:

Personally I think that the only class that can consistently beat a lock is a Rouge. Even then, the rouge has to have quite a bit of skill... I've heard it can take weeks of working on technique starting on n00b locks that are easy to beat, but help you to learn. It must suck.
I've also heard that if you're an engineer it helps, cause you can blast them with your blasting charges, but that's annoying to skill up in and isn't very helpful against high-level locks. Lower-level ones may be caught off guard by the bombs though and fly every which way.
The final strategy tends to not work in high-level locks either, as they employ complex strategies to not be so easily cracked, but you can use a Skeleton key if you have your Blacksmithing up.

Anyone else think we need to make some other way to open doors and chests? If you made it a Mage it'd be easy to get past... even a Spriest would be better!

/endirony

2.3

It is upon us.

I have enough honor points to buy the Season 1 Spellblade, and I will have plenty of points for an OMGpwnzor!!!1one1!! horned helm (with WINGS) when Season 3 starts.

I may be MIA for a while on the blog as I am preparing for a 10 day absence from work (and the country for part of it) but when I return, I will resume this essential work of non-fiction literature.

Insta-Corruption...Trainable?

I like it. You?

Newbie Guide to Farming Lower Level Instances, Part One

For those of you who have seen Hobbs's videos on how to farm shards in lower level instances, you know that paladins rock. You should also know, however, that we locks rock as well, and in addition to trade skills and daily quests, shard farming can earn you a lot of cash per hour in WoW.

There are some basic differences between a paladin or a mage and warlock mass-pull farming. Pallies want you to hit them and get inside their AoE aura. Mages want you to get close so they can freeze you to the ground or AoE you and your NPC buddies to death. But for a lock in a mass pull situation, having the mobs get close to you can be deadly. You'll learn this from ugly experience: low level mobs have spell interrupts and lockdowns that will get through your resistances and kill you if you don't have a parachute.

The key, then, is to get out your voidwalker and turn the autocast off of its Suffering ability. Suffering is an AoE, highly effective taunt effect. You must not use it until you are done gathering the mobs for your pull. Once you've got them all, you punch Suffering to make sure the mobs stay on the voidwalker, and then rapidly pepper 3-5 mobs with Seed of Corruption.

Timing is important, as slowness in casting the Seeds will cause them to pop out of synch, and you will either break the taunt or cause the mobs to run away in fear, and in a mass pull situation, if either of these happen, you are screwed in an instance.

Try it out. Let me know how it goes. Scarlet Monastery is a good place to practice.

Revised Revised Action Plan

Thanks to a reassuring reply on the boards, I have a much better, much more exciting plan for the start of Season 3.

We do not have to have a certain rating to buy shoulders and weapons from previous seasons, so I am in no danger of missing out on Season 2 shoulders. That means (and this makes me so happy) that instead of saving up for a hood and blowing the full current-season-point cost of a set of shoulders that would become old news, I can instead continue saving for my awesome horned hood that gives you periodic wings -- OMG -- with great stats, and pick up my shoulders at a reduced price a few weeks later.

And, I will also be able to replace -- with honor points!!! -- my Continuum Blade with the Season 1 Gladiator's Spellblade. I am very, very excited about the first day I'm back in town during Season 3.

Cloistered

I went back to SM last night with a friend to help run his warlock alt (yay!)through SM Library and SM Cathedral. The library didn't really give it up for us, although pulling it in 4 pulls plus boss was fun. It was so fun, in fact, that I got cocky and we died once in each of the two Cathedral runs.

It's okay though, because on the second run, he got Whitemane's Chapeau...that wonderful hat that took me a month to grab when I was coming up as a new lock. Grats, dood...you look like an evil caster of pimpness.

I spend so much time in SM that I might as well start wearing the tabard I snagged a while back and ask Mograine for my own cell.

...And Knowing is Half the Battle

Season 2.3 starts on November 20th. (via WoW Insider)

Revised action plan: get Arena shoulders next week, then save up any points I can accumulate for a small head start on next season's gear. I will have to do a LOT of honor farming between now and the 20th to get ready to get the new season's honor gear.

Man...I need 60k more honor to max out before the 20th. That means....60,000 points / 13 days = 4615 per day. That's a tall order for every single day...ugh...

Time to get to work!

Ogre Chicks Dig Me

Exalted with Ogri'la = friends with benefits.

Also, once I get the mats for a new rod, I can get more pew pew.

The Heat is On

My patch downloader just pulled down a 222 MB patch. Does this mean 2.3 is almost here?!

OMG I still need Season 2 Arena gear!

I need around 375 points each week for the next two weeks to get my Arena hood (easy?), and then 3-4 weeks to get my shoulders. After that, I won't care about Season 3's arrival...but I'm worried it will get here before I'm ready.

My wishlist-with-the-clock-running:

• 70,000 more honor points
• Merciless Gladiator's Felweave Cowl
• Merciless Gladiator's Felweave Amice
• Crystal Orb of Enlightenment or Jewel of Infinite Possibilities
• 4,700 more gold

Let's do this!

Bugs and Demons

Blizz is listening to the warlock community's complaints about pet scaling with gear. Let 'em have it, people.