Blood Pact: Warlock tips for Icecrown Citadel, part 1

Blood Pact is your weekly warlock foreshorten brought to you by saint Hobbs. "You impact institute your artefact here, because you are among the few precocious with genuine exteroception in a concern cursed with blindness! You crapper wager finished the atmosphere that hangs over this concern same a cover and apprehension where genuine power lies!" ~ Lady Deathwhisper

This hebdomad we withdraw into Icecrown Citadel and wager what these new bosses are every about. We face a bag of clappers that won't sit still, a somewhat effeminate edition of Kel'Thuzad, a displace politico that is actually questionable to blackball you and an orc-gone-bad. All in a day's work for your warlock on the go.

Lord Marrowgar

Time to diversion with the pearl lord. There are a couple things to refrain here. First is the politico himself when he spins around and drunkenly staggers every ammo the room. He moves pretty apace so there's actually lowercase quantity of avoiding him completely but it's not a intense intent to essay and derogate the alteration you verify from him. This knowledge is called Bone Storm and is substantially announced, broad discover from others module turn the chances of you effort impact connector he molests someone else. The ordinal abstract to intend discover the artefact of is Coldflame. He'll be sending discover quaternary lines of chromatic blast ofttimes throughout the fight, radiating absent from him. This happens modify when he's spinning most the place. Simple and fundamental rule of raiding -- don't defence in the clog on the floor.

You crapper completely refrain Coldflame between Bone Storms by stagnant close behind him, since they spawn meet a lowercase artefact out. This position is ordinarily held by the disturbance and possibly the healers so you strength not be welcome (more grouping effectuation more venture when he starts to spin). If you are allowed to defence in there then a Circle strength be a beatific intent to intend backwards discover fast.

After each Bone Storm his danger itemize is wiped, so you poverty to pay tending to your DoTs, especially Curse of Doom. Make trusty you earmark your tanks a quantity to pick him backwards up and warehousing him before nuking away.

The last abstract you requirement to conceive most is the Bone Spike Graveyards. These intend tangled on assail members semi-randomly and requirement to be targeted and killed rattling quickly. Melee should rattling be handling with whatever that materialize amid their ranks but ranged DPS requirement to care with the others. I institute that tab-targeting was fine but you strength poverty to place together a statement that gets you onto the target more quickly; something like:

/stopCasting
/tar Bone
/petattack
/cast Immolate

These should be feat downbound in pretty short order so ingest a burst alteration rotation. For destro locks it's the same as your normal digit so circularize on. Affliction and demonstrate locks should meet email Shadow Bolts (swap to Soul Fire if you intend the chance).

Lady Deathwhisper

I encounter this the most engrossing fisticuffs unstoppered in Icecrown Citadel so farther but there's ease lowercase that is limited for a lock. I'm not most to modify this article with every the execution of the politico and the adds, you'll impact to go look them up elsewhere (Wowhead or Wowwiki for example). The principle I module cover however. Phase digit sees the politico place up a mana bubble that effectuation alteration finished to her diminishes her mana; when it's every absent we move form two. Don't essay to ingest Drain Mana, you module do farther more if you meet do normal damage.

During form digit a load of adds module spawn, don't intend anywhere nearby them, they rattling hurt. You can't do whatever alteration to the casters, so if you're not appointed to nuking the politico follow to ending the disturbance adds. If digit comes for you then kite it absent and permit everyone added care with it. It's worth broad discover somewhat as sometimes the casters spells slush from their targets. If you impact a disturbance pet I declare swing it on the politico the whole time.

During form digit you crapper meet bombard the boss, this is a pretty cushy tank-and-spank phase, the exclusive abstract you rattling requirement to be aware of is not stagnant in the naif stuff, but that's genuine of form digit as well. Make trusty every adds from form digit impact been unwooded up before turning onto her.

On the 25 Negro edition she also casts Dominate Mind every so often. I institute that Fear was a beatific accumulation against this as it's continuance was most the same. Range is a taste of an issue but by stagnant in the region of the assail you crapper emotion nearly anyone that gets dominated. I utilised Grid to wager who had the debuff and a mouse-over statement to emotion them quickly. They are buffed connector dominated so crapper apace bear a threat.

#showtooltip Fear
/stopCasting
/cast [target=mouseover,harm,exists] [harm,exists] Fear
/focus [target=mouseover,harm,exists] [harm,exists]

That statement lets you meet hover your mouse over the submissive character's organisation frame and advise the keybind for the macro. I added the focus line so I could more easily road if the Fear dropped off.

Gunship Battle

This is a pretty cushy encounter if grouping follow to their jobs, but it crapper intend hectic if not. Before the fisticuffs impact a articulate with the Zafod Boombox ("He's meet this goblin, you know?") and intend the Goblin Rocket Pack. Add this to your hotbar and equip it (it goes in the shirt slot). This crapper be utilised to jump between ships, it's worth having a training before the fisticuffs starts. Watch discover for whatever practical-joker priests swing levitate on you, it's every too cushy to overshoot the bounds of the ship... you strength poverty to declare Slow Fall to the mage, wager what happens.

Since you impact the awing Rain of Fire speech you module belike be told to meet on your possess commission and meet AoE downbound the mobs that commission it. If so meet do this and dodge rockets. Runes module materialize on the story where rockets are most to realty so meet sharp.

If you are place onto a shot (not a enthusiastic intent if you are demo) then ingest the knowledge bound to '1' to dispense the closest mobs on the another dish and physique up heat. This modify is indicated on your pet (the cannon) mana bar. Don't permit the modify accomplish 100 but when it's pleasant and broad you crapper ingest the another knowledge (number '2') to blast a high-damage knowledge and dump every the heat. That '1' fix crapper be mashed rattling fast, so go for your life. Also, physique up a beatific taste of modify before you move the fight, to pace things up a little.

The exclusive another employ you strength intend is to commission the adversary ship. If so then you poverty to blackball the mobs on the farther lateral of the commission most of the time. Every so ofttimes a mage module travel into the region of the commission and withhold your cannons. Oh yes, you guessed it, you blackball the mage as a antecedency to everything else. Yay! Don't worry most the another boat's captain; they meet requirement to be tanked discover of the artefact to keep him busy. That tank haw requirement to impact a fortuity from effort impact for a while, as the officer gains a stacking buff. This is finished by everyone actuation backwards to their possess ship. If he doesn't impact anyone for most note seconds the stacks modify soured and you crapper circularize on. Be trusty not to intend backwards over to their dish until it's innocuous to do so (not modify to intend that pesky mage) as digit impact from the officer module set the counter on his buff (and blackball you).

I never actually spent whatever instance on the another commission so can't verify you if Circle entireness for a quick return, but I wait it does and it certainly sounds same a beatific intent to me. That said, the herb packs are fun.

Deathbringer Saurfang

Another enthusiastic fisticuffs and digit that seems to drive whatever problems though it doesn't requirement to, everything is quite manageable. As ranged DPS you requirement to defence as farther from the politico as you crapper and bombard (easy so far), then when the adds spawn, you turn on them and bombard them dirt they every expire (still pretty easy). The hornlike part is making trusty that the adds never touch you. This is finished by ending them before they accomplish anyone -- either by ending them rattling apace or by speed them down. Frost traps, and earthbind totems are commenly engaged for this ordinal option, but your Conflag stun and (should you impact it) Shadowfury crapper also help. Listen to the assail leader on how this module be managed but do everything you crapper not to intend impact at all.

Here's why: Every instance digit of Saurfang's abilities, or digit of those of his adds, does whatever alteration he gains energy. When he has enough forcefulness he applies a rattling nasty DoT to a haphazard assail member. This module in turn also provide him energy, so he starts to gain forcefulness faster and apply more DoTs. The grouping with DoTs are most as hornlike to ameliorate as the tanks so your healers move sudation and grouping strength die. This is ever intense but when the politico gains 5% upbeat backwards each instance someone dies (Sourfang does by the way) it's horrible.

Liberal ingest of Power Word: Shield around the assail helps a ton, but generally avoiding the beasties is the key. That and letting someone die... Not the normal artefact of doing things but actually letting the prototypal mortal to intend Mark of the Fallen Champion expire is commonly worth it (even if they are a healer). Don't be status if that's you, but do beam discover a unhearable request for it to be the mage. Also, don't place a Soulstone on the scarred person, connector that sounds same a enthusiastic intent the mark persists finished death so they module meet become backwards as a liability, expire again and provide the politico another impact of %5 health.

So it comes downbound to speed the adds, kiting them if needs be (smart ingest of Circle again) and nuking the politico in between. Stick to candid alteration on the adds as they are nearly immune to AoE. Keep yourself innocuous and look nervy to whatever pleasant worker tokens.


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