Demonic Embrace - Rank 3/3
Increases your total Stamina by 10%.
Dark Arts - Rank 3/3
Reduces the cast time of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 0.75 sec, increases the damage done by your Felguard's Legion Strike by 15%, and increases the damage done by your Felhunter's Shadow Bite by 15%.
Fel Synergy - Rank 2/2
You have a 100% chance to heal your pet for 15% of the amount of spell damage done by you.
Demonic Rebirth - Rank 2/2
If your summoned demon dies, you gain the Demonic Rebirth effect reducing the cast time of your next summon demon spell by 100%. Lasts for 10 sec. This effect has a 2 min cooldown.
Demonic Aegis - Rank 2/2
Increases the amount of health generated through spells and effects granted by your Demon Armor by an additional 10%, and increases the amount of health regenerated by your Fel Armor by 100%.
Master Summoner - Rank 2/2
Reduces the casting time of your Imp, Voidwalker, Succubus, Felhunter and Felguard Summoning spells by 1 sec and the Mana cost by 100%.
Impending Doom - Rank 3/3
Increases the chance for your Bane of Doom to summon a demon by 30% when it deals damage.
Also grants your Shadow Bolt, Hand of Gul'dan, and Incinerate spells a 15% chance to reduce the cooldown of your Demon Form by 15 sec.
Imp - Instantly heals the Imp for 30% of its total health.
Voidwalker - Increases the Voidwalker's health by 20%, and its threat generated from spells and attacks by 20% for 20 sec.
Succubus - Instantly vanishes, causing the Succubus to go into an improved Invisibility state. The vanish effect removes all stuns, snares and movement impairing effects from the Succubus.
Felhunter - Dispels all magical effects from the Felhunter.
Felguard - Instantly removes all stun, snare and movement impairing effects from your Felguard and makes your Felguard immune to them for 15 sec.
Molten Core - Rank 3/3
You have a 6% chance to gain the Molten Core effect when your Immolate deals damage. The Molten Core effect empowers your next 3 Incinerate spells cast within 15 sec, increasing damage done by 18% and reduces cast time by 30%.
Hand of Gul'dan - Rank 1/1
Summons a falling meteor down upon the enemy target, dealing
1406 to 1660
Shadow damage and erupts an aura of magic within 4 yards, causing all targets within it to have a 10% increased chance to be critically hit by any Warlock demons. The aura lasts for 15 sec.
Aura of Foreboding - Rank 2/2
When your Hand of Gul'dan lands, all enemies within 4 yards will be rooted for 3 sec and stunned for the same duration if they are still within the Curse of Gul'dan aura 6 sec afterward.
Inferno - Rank 1/1
Increases the radius of your Hellfire by 10 yards, and you can now channel Hellfire while moving.
Decimation - Rank 2/2
When you Shadowbolt, Incinerate or Soul Fire a target that is at or below 25% health, the cast time of your Soul Fire spell is reduced by 40% for 10 sec.
Cremation - Rank 2/2
Increases the damage done by your Hellfire by 30%, and your Hand of Gul'dan has a 100% chance to refresh the duration of your Immolate on the target.
Demonic Pact - Rank 1/1
Increases your spell damage by 2%, and your summoned demon grants the Demonic Pact effect to all nearby friendly party and raid members.
The Demonic Pact effect increases spell power by 10%.
Metamorphosis - Rank 1/1
You transform into a Demon for 30 sec. This form increases your armor by 600%, damage by 20%, reduces the chance you'll be critically hit by melee attacks by 6% and reduces the duration of stun and snare effects by 50%. You gain some unique demon abilities in addition to your normal abilities. 3 minute cooldown.
Destruction (10 Points)
Bane - Rank 3/3
Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt, Chaos Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.5 sec.
Shadow and Flame - Rank 3/3
Increases the damage done by your Shadow Bolt and Incinerate spells by 12%, and your Shadow Bolt has a 100% chance to cause the Improved Shadow Bolt effect to the target.
The Improved Shadow Bolt effect causes the target to be vulnerable to spell damage, increasing spell critical strike chance against that target by 5% for lasts 30 sec.
Improved Immolate - Rank 2/2
Increases the damage done by your Immolate spell by 20%.
Emberstorm - Rank 2/2
Reduces the cast time of your Soul Fire by 1 sec and your Incinerate by 0.25 sec.
Glyphs
Glyph of Corruption (Prime Glyph)
Your Corruption spell has a 4% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.
Glyph of Felguard (Prime Glyph)
Increases the damage done by your Felguard's Legion Strike by 5%.
Glyph of Immolate (Prime Glyph)
Increases the periodic damage of your Immolate by 10%.
Glyph of Soul Link (Major Glyph)
Increases the percentage of damage shared via your Soul Link by an additional 5%.
Glyph of Howl of Terror (Major Glyph)
Reduces the cooldown on your Howl of Terror spell by 8 sec.
Glyph of Shadowflame (Major Glyph)
Your Shadowflame also applies a 70% movement speed slow to its victims.
Glyph of Unending Breath (Minor Glyph)
Increases the swim speed of targets affected by your Unending Breath spell by 20%.
Glyph of Curse of Exhaustion (Minor Glyph)
Increases the range of your Curse of Exhaustion spell by 5 yards.
Glyph of Drain Soul (Minor Glyph)
Your Drain Soul restores 10% of your total mana after you kill a target that yields experience or honor.
Demonology PVP Tips:
Demonology is a heavy nuke spec that relies on cast time spells. Along with dots + CoE, your main spells are Incinerate and Hand of Gul'dan. When you want to put full pressure on the target, demon form +full dots + incinerate/HoG + Felguard stun and Felstorm can drop a target pretty quickly now.
The Felguard stun is 4sec long and on a 30sec cooldown. It's great to setup a nuke or interrupt a spell with, or just forcing your opponent to use their pvp trinket. You can also stunlock a target for up to 7sec if you use it together with the effects of the area of foreboding talent.
Metamorphosis will make physical classes cry tears of blood. You literally become a god against classes relying on physical attacks. Within the 36 seconds Metamorphosis lasts you can easily survive 1v1 just standing there for it's duration.
Always stay within range of portal.
Hug hunters, when they use disengage, meta and leap after them.
Hellfire got a huge AoE, I suggest you actually test it on a dummy just to see how insane it is. No stealther can avoid this beauty.
Meta + Immolation aura on melee will cause them to rather flee than fight you, insane nuke with it, your spells and your pet.
A good tip for a 100 % stun with Hand of Gul'dan, use your pet stun 2 seconds after it's applied. This will cause 6 seconds to have passed and the aura stuns him for another 3.
Bane of Doom is really nice to put on targets you know will survive for a while, it could be a healing class or a secondary target in the battle. It deals huge damage on ticks, and often spawn an extra add for extra annoyance for the enemy.
A great way for applying your Howl of Terror on multiple targets safely, is going meta, leaping in to your enemies and then directly casting it. The enemy will never know what hit them.
Bind your pets spells to hotkeys (or click them, if that's how you do it), don't have them on auto since it will often trigger them in less effective situations.
If you are interested in a pvp specific site with forums, videos, personal training, contantly updated,
even for Cataclysm. Check out ArenaPwnage
A "How To" for the BattleGrounds (And other PvP)
Any effect mentioned that you can 'Eat' is referring
to Devour Magic, not that you should sit there and take it.
Most of this was opriginally posted on the wow
forums and it's reprinted, edited, and updated here.
GENERAL RULES OF THUMB
Be A Friend To Healers
We'll just start off with this: all healers are your friends.
I do not care if he is from a different server and has a silly name,
he is your friend. Bad people are going to try to hurt your
friend.
Be A Friend To Rogues, DKs, Warriors and Hunters
Warriors, DKs and warlocks are all highly visible classes.
Any combination of the classes can completely shut down any healer
or group of healers or just create a nice big ball of chaos that
can pull groups off of towers or return a flag.
A warlock an a hunter can kill anything.
If you see a well-geared, well-played representative of one of these classes,
you should stick by him, as he can save your behind.
Be A Friend:
Any class meshes well with your class in a BG. Any class. Backup is backup.
If you supply no backup, you cannot complain when you receive none.
You have Fear, Fear saves lives. Use Fear to save lives, and earn yourself backup.
There's 10-40 people on the other team, did you honestly think you could
do this by yourself?
Protect the flag-carrier.
Support people taking or defending critical points. Assist
the Hunter who's getting beat up by a Mage and maybe next time he will save your
life when he notices it is about to end.
Whether they do or not is entirely up to them, if you do
it, people will
probably notice. You may find yourself suddenly getting heals even
if you're pugging it. Clouds of melee that despise you may suddenly find
themselves getting bum-rushed. Any backup is good backup.
Do Not Stop Moving
A stationary target is an easy target. If you are not casting, you are moving.
Do not stand still any longer than it takes to complete the cast.
You can stand around when you're waiting to res.
His Trinket Is Probably Up
Always expect to lose your first CC. Always.
You Have Shadow Ward.
You don't need to take the full brunt of any shadow damage because you have a spell
specifically intended to soak some of it. Okay? Don't ever forget you have this
spell. Ever.
If there are priests, warlocks or unholy DKs, you should have your finger on that
button whenever you can.
Get a 2-min PVP Trinket FIRST
This is your first purchase with Honor points: spend 8k and get a level 70 blue
pvp trink with a 2-min CD. First. Before you even consider anything else,
you get that trinket. You don't need the super expensive one with 153 resil right
away, but you do need
that trinket, and you do need the one with the short CD.
It makes a massive, massive difference.
There Is No Best BG Spec
Really, there isn't. Any spec is potentially workable. Some specs have certain
advantages others lack: *Demo's Meta effectively removes physical DPS as a serious
threat for 30 seconds at a time *Affliction's instant fearbomb is devastatingly
effective and the dots are brutal *Destro's wall of burst nullifies threats before
they even know they're threats and Shadowfury is a brilliant way to snag initiative
..but to be completely honest, there is no 'best spec' for BGs.
There is personal preference and nothing else.
(That said, if you are in PVP, you should have Soul Link.)
Keep your eyes open.
Swivel your camera a lot. Keep looking
over your shoulder like you are a paranoid freak. Try to be as
aware of as many things as you can.
Warlock survival in BGs relies
entirely on keeping control, and you will lose control
if you are surprised.
If you see a rogue go stealth, assume he is
coming for you (because he probably is.)
Locate their healers
and get on them.
Locate your own healers and protect them.
At
any given moment, a stealthed druid or rogue can and will jump
on you out of nowhere.
At any given moment, Hunter shots can and
will start punching you out of nowhere.
At any given moment, you
can and will be death gripped into a pile of melee.
Look over your opposing team on the scoreboard and recognize what
COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN at any given moment, and prepare for
it.
If their team is melee-heavy, stick to a group.
If there are rogues, be ready for
a gank.
Keep your eyes open, keep moving and be prepared.
Open Lines of Clear Communication Win BGs
Unless you have a full preset, you obviously can't ever expect your whole team to
have instant communication, so /bg is just going to have to do.
Call incs with NUMBERS. Add details, such as numbers and class
on the incomming. Also add where. If it's a bunch, just say
something like "Ally zerg inc farm."
Ventrilo is
a big help with team communication. Get a microphone, too.
Recognize Your Opponents
Half your ability to seize and retain
control is your ability to visually recognize what's coming after
you.
Does the warrior have a shield?
Hunter has a dinosaur?
The Shaman's DW'ing?
Paladin with a 2h?.
DK surrounded by tiny little maggots?
If you are caught offguard, you are probably going
to die.
Know Your Terrain
Jeddia of Icecrown says:
[Pay attention to details of the terrain. Be aware of places where
an enemy can't walk directly to you (a steep hill), or where they
have to go around a bit to get to you (tower areas, bridges, etc.).
Fences are interesting things sometimes...
Also, understand where the enemy players will be rezzing. AB is a
fine example of a BG where knowing the enemies' next rezz spot can
win or lose an entire match. You tend to see your teammates going
directly for a node that will be crawling with enemies in sometime
under 30 seconds...and will ultimately lead to useless slaughter.
This wastes valuable time that you could use to defend a node or
reclaim a contested one.
In WSG, if you and your mates go rolling into the enemy FR and slaughter
8 enemies - don't grab the flag and go out past the GY... Unless
you enjoy being insta-zerged out of thin air.
The terrain in WSG is so prime for warlocks. My personal favorite
thing to do in WSG is to sit at the top of our ramp (above our zerk
hut) and weylay would-be flagrunners. You can usually get them feared
before they even realize you're there. Half the fight is finished
before they even dismount. And they spend time fighting you and hopefully
never get to the flag itself - while your team is (hopefully) getting
theirs.
Less Talk More Fight
Enough is enough. BG chat is for calling incoming, not telling some
guy from Suramar he's a scrub because he didn't heal you exactly
when you wanted to be healed.
By the way:
First complains, least skilled. No exceptions. The first person
to say "you guys all suck" when you are losing
is the worst player on your team. No exceptions.
FIGHT DIRTY
These people want to kill you.
You are a warlock. They
all hate you.
They are going to go out of their way to harm you as deeply and as
earnestly as they can, and then they are going to /spit and /lol
at your corpse, because everybody hates warlocks.
They hate fear, they despise dots, your felhunter is a rage magnet
and deathcoil once made the entire wow population cry floods of bitter tears for over
a year.
If you have it, there is no reason not to use it.
If it will score a kill or a prevent a warrior from teabagging your corpse, do
it.
Cooldowns come back up.
Fear is your single greatest weapon.
Warlock Fear is the arguably the single best pvp CC in this game. Ranged cast,
long duration, zero cooldown, permits damage.
Find your fear's damage cap and ride it.
Don't follow a fear with a nuke, you're going to break your fear; what is wrong with
you??
Keep in mind that PVP CC's are kept in check through diminishing returns (DR)
- your first fear can last as long as 10 seconds, your second only 5.
Third fear lasts 2.5 seconds and then you cannot fear him again for 15
seconds. Howl of Terror is a Fear, so even though it only lasts 8 seconds, your
second, single-target Fear is only going to be 5 seconds, tops.
Fear and seduce share DR.
Deathcoil does not.
Improved Fear Happens When The Fear Breaks.
Nightmare happens after the trinket. Unless he can shrug slow effects, Imp
Fear guarantees five seconds of a slowed target.
KITE.
Hit melee with your dots and then RUN AWAY. Stun them, slow them, fear them, load
up the dots and then RUN... AWAY. Keep out of Melee range. Keep OUT of Melee range.
DEATH POD COMES FROM THE SKY
You already knew this, but your Infernal is a cheap reagent and a 20 minute
CD, he does respectable damage when he comes down, and accompanies it with
2-second AoE stun.
He has a strong melee attack and a constant aoe fire aura.
He's also a fifteen-foot tall rock monster covered in bright green flames.
He is immune to fire, non-paladin fear and stuns, he has a hearty healthbar
and decent armor and, again, he is fifteen feet tall.
Infernal is a chaos engine. He stomps around in your enemy's faces and almost
completely obstructs their view, screwing with their manual targeting, and his
fire aura drags stealth out of hiding, plus you can (and immediately should) Soul
Link him.
You drop him on tons of enemies. Zergs, turtles, wherever there are a lot of
red names is exactly where you should drop him and if you can swing it, the absolute best time
to drop him is – and this really cannot be stressed enough – when your enemies
do not know you are there.
SURPRISE! ROCKMONSTER!
Paladins can chew him up and spit him out and of course enemy Warlocks can
banish him, so be ready for this. Also keep in mind that if an entire Zerg
focuses on him, they're going to shred him.
But then again, he's only going to last 60 seconds anyway. If they took
the time to kill him, you have successfully wasted their time.
Trees Are Asking For It
When a Druid is a tree, he is saying "please, if it's not too much trouble,
could you banish me repeatedly and then fear me until the DR on banish wears
off? I'd be ever so grateful."
Do it.
If You are A Tailor, You Can Make Nets.
Why don't you have a hundred of these in your bags, right now?
It is a three-second immobilization that will save your life against
CloS'ed rogues, Berzerking warriors and shelled/lichborned DKs.
Nets stop flag carriers. They stop people from riding past you on horseback.
They stop people from running towards you or away from you. Nobody ever expects
it. Sometimes people blow their trinket to get out of it.
They last three seconds and have a 2min cd.
If you are a tailor, you can make them.
Tracer Bullets Point Both Ways
Heorlic of Bleeding Hollow says:
There is a distinction between spells that give away your location, and
spells that don't.
For example, as Horde, you start off in EotS by rushing MT. You're by yourself,
because it takes everyone else 30 seconds to finish capping FR, and to figure out
where you're going. Meanwhile, you've looped around behind MT, and standing in a
ditch, fully dotting EVERY ALLY THERE.
(I run as affliction) Cast UA, CoA, Corruption....next target. Fear if you want,
and are close enough. These spells have no animation that indicate the direction
from where they came. With spells like Haunt and Shadow Bolt, they will know which
direction you are, and it won't take them long to find you. Spells like Drain Life
are terrible if they don't know where you are.
I've run healers oom healing themselves doing this, since they didn't know where
the damage was coming from. My favorite place is in the many ditches/cliffs in EotS,
though there are several bushes in WSG and other BG's that work quite well.
Be careful about dotting up classes with pets (DK, Hunters, Warlocks), as if their
pet is on Defensive, that will give your location away.
TELEPORT
Jeddia of Icecrown says:Demonic Circle - This spell, while shunned by PvE'ers as "utterly
useless" is
one of the single greatest things to happen to PvP warlocks since Kate
Beckinsale came over the other night - naked. Oh wait, that was a dream.
Regardless, our teleport is awesome when properly utilized.
In world PvP, I put it in a tree if I can. Or up on monuments, statues, walls, etc.
In AB, the mine roof, farm house, LM anywhere slightly hidden, bs house (if only
we could still get on the roof!). Also, you can do really constructive things like:
Place it on the road above the mine. Then jump off, cast an insta dot on someone
below and teleport back up before you're outta range of it.
In WSG, it's obviously fantastic in the forts. Top floor or 2nd floor, and you got
yourself a recipe for serious enemy aggravation. They'll figure it out eventually
(or you'll get shredded by a couple of pissed off hunter pets), but it's fun while
it lasts.
In Eye of the Storm, I put mine behind the towers, not in them. First
they'll look inside, then they'll be confused and look around more. But by that time
you are nearly healed and recovering from your giggling fit and can let the violence
ensue.
Elizander of Bonechewer says:
Here's a quick and cheap trick with regards to melee and elevation.
If you're on a relatively low cliff (one you can jump off) just toss
Demonic Circle on it when melee is after you. Jump off. Melee follows.
Teleport back up. Melee dumbfounded. Works great on the bridge in arena
and works great in EotS (tower edges), SotA (run into a turret area),
and many other areas. Let them enjoy a nice 5-10 second stroll while
3-5 dots are ticking on them.
If they are DK, do not gloat on the edge of the cliff. You will get Deathgripped.
:P
NOTORIOUS D.P.S.
ROGUE
If his cooldowns are
up and yours are down, you will probably die.
Trinket the first stun immediately, or wait for Kidney Shot - looks
like a pink fist - and then instant CC - that is Shadowfury, Howl
of Terror, Felguard Smash, and get the hell away from him. It is
acceptable to trinket the first stun, but you need to follow it
with instant CC, right away
Do not blow trinket on a sap
or you will be stunned again almost immediately and probably die.
If you have instant HoT, blow it as soon as you've trinketed and immediately
Fear - to catch him if he trinkets out of the HoT. DC or shadowfury if
you don't. Teleport away if you have a pad in reach, too.
Get distance.
If he is in melee range he's going to do something terrible to
you.
CloS is four seconds. Count three and
cast fear if you have distance, count four and deathcoil if you don't.
CoEx helps a lot, and so do Nets. Run
away. Watch
for the buff to fall of and put your dots back on. If you cannot get
away, you will probably die.
He Is Going To ...
Pop out of nowhere and stunlock you into oblivion.
If your trinket is down, you will probably die.
Use CloS and
vanish to retake initiative. If your trinket and aoe stuns
or fears are down, you probably die.
Blind you. It will break
as soon as anything hurts you, sometimes you do not have that
long. If your trinket is down, you will probably die.
Sap you.
GET OFF YOUR HORSE. DO NOT TRINKET.
Kick/Gouge/Arcane Torrent (Blood Elf) you to interrupt
your casting or garrote you to silence.
Devour Magic Eats: Absolutely
nothing.
You will probably die.
HUNTER
First step is to see them FIRST. If he
catches you unawares he can completely shut you down. If you can,
get in close and fearbomb or shadowfury to fear or deathcoil to
fear or FG/Meta intercept to fear.
You'll notice 'fear' is a key
ingredient to success. If permitted to maneuver, Hunters are very
well equipped to control a fight against a caster until you die
from it.
Also note that some hunters can become completely immune to all CC,
if him and his pet suddenly become huge and red, stop fearing. Drain
Life might save you, death coil won't.
He Is Going To ...
FD (Feign Death,) clearing
him as your target. Be ready to manually retarget him.
Screw
you up with traps. If you see him crouch for half a second,
he just dropped a trap. Do yourself a favor and don't walk
there.
Pick you apart from range. Try to close the gap,
but if you can, try to fear him. He is very well-equipped
to annihilate you before you can get close enough to fearbomb,
so watch
yourself.
DKs will annihilate you if you can't
keep out of their reach. Unfortunately, he's really good
at getting you into his reach, and we have limited
ways to stop it from happening.
Nets are amazingly useful when they
throw up anti-magic shell or lichborne, otherwise do everything you
can to keep them feared and slowed and as far away as you
can.
Kite like it is your job to do so and you are
being paid very well to do it.
Silence them.
A spell-locked Death Knight is a worthless Death Knight for three
seconds, silence robs them of their ability to hurt you..
Save DC or fearbomb for the deathgrip.
Army of the Dead has Avoidance now,
but SoC on them is still hitting everything around them.
If you see
Bone Armor, throw up Shadow ward.
Their “Death Coil” is pretty strong and they'll want to hit you with
it while you're kiting.
If they lose their DC to your shadow ward, they have just wasted a
large portion of Runic Power.
They have way high melee burst, high
health and multiple damage mitigation cds. If
he outgears you, you're going
to die.
He Is Going To:
Silence you. Eat it.
Chain you. Eat it.
Slow you. Eat them.
Deathgrip you. Save your defensive
CDs for it.
Anti-Magic Shell. Net him and run.
Lichborne. Net
him and run.
Interrupt you.
Mark of Blood you. It heals him
when you damage him. Eat it.
Anti-Magic Field. Fear him out
of it.
Devour Magic eats: Chains of Ice, Strangulate,
Mark of Blood.
WARRIOR
Times change, specs alter, but there
will always be at least
one Warrior spec that shreds Warlocks. They are
the epitome of toe-to-toe combat and you are wearing magic
toilet paper.
Do not stand and fight, run away. Kite
him for everything you're worth. He has no
ability to remove any of your DoTs, he has limited damage mitigation
cds, what he has is weaponry that is larger
than you are.
He's got two charge effects, one give him rage, the other
has a 3-second stun, once he closes the gap he's going
to hamstring you. The hamstring is worth trinking out
of.
Fear has very limited use on a Warrior, as all of them can shrug
fear and become immune to it at least once, and he's going to
use that CD against you, because he knows you
are going to Fear him.
That effect is gone after about ten seconds, though, and
all of those abilities have CDs, and those CDs will not
always be up.
Deathcoil and CoEx, Shadowfury and Seduce, Deathcoil and Intercept.
Keep him at
reach and kite him around with your
dots ticking away.
All warriors can interrupt.
If you see:
One 2h weapon: He is probably Arms,
and can Mortal Strike for enormous damage that
will cut your healing in half. As of 3.1, this was the most
common Warrior spec. With 4.0, it remains to be seen. He gets
a free MS or Slam crit after his charge, and he can Bladestorm,
during which he will spin for constant AoE weapon damage and
be completely impossible to CC at all. Run
or teleport from Bladestorm.
Two
2h weapons: He's Fury.
Keep as many dots on him as
you can and DC after his
Intercept – if you DC
before the intercept, he'll be right
back in your face as
soon as your one useful defensive measure
against him wears off.
A shield: Prot warriors
are bloody lethal.
They have no less than three stuns, ridiculously
high health and Spell
Reflect. Spell Reflect has a very distinctive
graphic – when you
see It, STOP CASTING unless
you really wanted
to see what your deathcoil
feels like.
It only lasts for 5
seconds, wait it out,
or bounce Devour Magic
or Spell Lock off of
it.
Prot has the least defense against Fear. Prot Warriors can Charge while in combat. Devour Magic Eats: Prot Warrior silence, “Gag Order”.
RETADIN
The paladin with the 2h is Ret and he
comes with massive Holy burst and strong spells that specifically
affect demons. If he is targetting your demon, fear him or you
lose the demon.
He can fear your demon.
He
can self-heal (and sometimes actually will), has no less than
two stuns and a total invincibility bubble, as well as myriad CD
self-buffs that will dramatically increase
how badly he can hurt you.
You can eat all his stuns. He
is going to rely on his ability to stun you so he can blow a
few CDs and knock your brains out. Don't let him do this.
Using Devour Magic on pally stuns is absolutely key, eat
one, trinket the next and he suddenly has nothing but his
bubble.
Spell Lock is worth
blowing on them, it removes a lot of their ability to hurt
you.
Outside of his bubble, he can't be immune to fear at
all,
so fear him. Repeatedly.
He can't dispel curses, so CoEx is fantastic, particularly as he
has very limited ranged ability. If you have it, put UA on him first to
dissuade him from even bothering to dispel, otherwise he's
going to strip off anything he can.
The Bubble
Yes, he is going to bubble. He's going to become briefly
immortal and by the time it wears off, he's going to be
at full health. There is nothing you can do but pray a
priest is nearby with a mass dispel and run away.
The icon for his bubble is a pinkish-yellowish shield-looking thing. You
will know exactly when his immortality will wear off,
because you can watch
the buff tick down.
When it is almost off, cast
a fear. If
you time it right, he is suddenly
feared the very moment he was able to
be feared and hey presto, you
have retaken initiative.
He is going to:
Stun you. Eat the stun.
Bubble. Run away and grudgingly
accept that he's going to be at full health before
it wears off.
Lay on Hands. There is a chance that he will suddenly
be at full health and
there is nothing you can do
to stop this from happening.
Devour Magic Eats: Absolutely
everything they do save bubbles.
MAGE
If he significantly outgears you, you
are probably going to die. This is a pure ranged dps class that is
noted for having more and faster burst
than you, as well as multiple escapes.
He is going try his best to make you explode as quickly as he can,
so you need to seize initiative immediately. He he can blink behind
you and ruin a cast, he will become invincible and shed all dots
at least once, he has possibly a silence and at least a ranged
interrupt, and, and this cannot be stressed enough, more and faster
burst than you.
What we have over them is pure mana efficiency and a much better pvp cc.
It is a lot harder for a mage to seize control of a fight than it is for
a warlock. Mages have a lot of ways to run away and several AOE movement impairments,
but they don't have deathcoil and they don't have fear.
They have a talented silence ( you can eat), a talented dizzy (you can eat), a talented
stun (you can eat), a talented slow (you can eat) and polymorph (you can eat).
For Destro, this is pure burst-on-burst with one side possessing superior cc. For
Demo and Aff, if he's well-geared or well-played, this might be a significantly rougher
and briefer fight than you might prefer.
Don't let him cast.
Oh god he's Arcane: Remember the part
about not letting them cast? Don't
let him cast.. His instant burst is really a lot of damage, if
you cannot keep him from casting at all, he is going to hurt
you. Spell Lock, seduce or stun to gain and regain initiative, and just
don't let him cast.
Mirror Image: Oh my god suddenly
there's four mages! Three of them are standing completely still
and casting at me! One of them is bouncing around spamming arcane
explodey! Only one of them has buffs!Which is the real mage?
Some mages have a fire-based knockback.
Be very careful fighting mages near cliffs.
Dispels:
All curses. You can force him to blow a GCD by hitting him
with CoT.
Devour Magic Eats: Everything.
Poly, slow, impact, frost nova, silence, scorch, everything they
can do, you can eat. Except ice block.
SHAMAN
Elemental Shamans
have a way fast nuke and a fire-based nuke
that can be glyphed and talented to crit for half of your life. Eat Flame
Shock to prevent this from happening. Expect to lose at least one spell
into a grounding totem, fear them out of their totem garden and pour on
dots.
They have only weak interrupts and no silence, what they have is a lot of
burst and a couple of fairly dangerous novelties.
Warlocks are especially strong against Ellies in all forms, but a skilled
or well-geared operator can and will surprise you.
Elemental Shamans have an AOE knockback. Be very careful fighting
an Ellie near a cliff.
Enhancement Shamans Dual Weild and will run right towards you. Deathcoil,
fear, net, hot, shadowfury, do whatever it takes to keep him from reaching
you. He has no intercept but he can roll up on you in traveling Wolf form,
and he's going to frost shock you (you can eat frost shock) or drop an Earthbind
near you to keep you from getting away.
Enh shammies are like guided missiles. When they arrive on target, they
will severely damage or destroy that target. If they do not reach their
target, they are wholly useless. Whatever you can do to keep them out of
melee range is a good thing to
do.
One large plus is that because Enh needs to physically close distances
to DPS, they often don't give themselves enough time to drop valuable
totems, such as Grounding or Tremor.
You should pay very close attention to that.
HOLY CRAP WOLVES: Yeah, they're
really annoying. You can shadowfury or HoT them if you have the
time, but mostly really run away.
All shamans can heal.
One last thing on Shamans – if he has not released yet, he might
suddenly come back to life.
Take all shaman insignias.
Devour Magic Eats: All shocks.
DRUID
This is another class we've been strong against, although at the moment
we're only particularly strong against Moonkin and Resto.
Feral Druids can be almost as deadly as rogues. They have at least
two stuns and brutal physical DPS but lack CloS and Vanish. Feral Druids can be immune to Fear, as well as passively resistant to
Fear. If
a Feral has jumped you out of thin air and has Berzerking up, you will
probably die.
Trinket the stun and Deathcoil and then run. CoEx and nets have
limited effect, as he can shed them by turning into a bear and then charging
you and stunning you again.
Pretend the mean kitty is a cross between a warrior and a rogue, because
that's what it is.
Fight them the same way. Kite, dot, CC whenever you possibly can.
Boomkin Druids are at a disadvantage against us, our CC is better
and they can't heal in laser chicken format. Fear them and dot them or
seduce them and blow the hell out of them. If he cyclones you and tries
to time a starfire, spell lock, seduce it or have your FG intercept.
Drain Life through the sudden trees punching you in the head or HoT it
away – those trees are very strong, particularly when all three
of them are beating on you at once.
His burst is very fast and if permitted to cast freely, he will chew
through your health like it was a delicious bar of chocolate.
Like with Mages, just don't let them cast.
Boomkin have an AOE knockback. Be very careful fighting laser chickens
near cliffs. Druids in Animal forms cannot be Seduced
Dispels: All curses, sheds all snares and slows by changing shape. Devour Magic eats: All Boomkin dots, snares and stuns except Cyclone. Devour Magic does not eat any Feral dots, stuns or snares.
SPRIEST
This is another class we're strong against.
Shadow Priests in PVP, and I mean absolutely no disrespect, are kind of
like very stripped-down affliction warlocks. They have strong shadow dots
and several shadow-based nukes – one of them is an instant and it hurts
them pretty badly – and a killer channel, as well as constant health regen
through dps.
They have a silence you can eat, a procced stun you can eat, and an instant
AOE fear you can also eat. You can eat almost all of their dots and you
can eat Mind Flay right off of you.
Shadow ward, try to aim spell lock for the VE but any shadow spell will
do, be prepared to lose one fear to Fear Ward and be ready to burst through
or eat a shield. UA to prevent dispel and keep in mind that an affliction
warlock can out-drain
him.
As with any caster, your ccs are better. Keep control and keep
his casting to a minimum.
All Priests can Mind Control. If you have been MC'ed near a cliff,
he is going to try to pitch you off of it.
Dispels: All magic-based effects. Devour Magic Eats: Almost every CC, dot and buff they have.
WARLOCK
Okay, so:
Demonology: Fear the lock and banish the FG, pour on damage while
he lacks SL. Treat Meta like you treat a Tree: if he popped demon on or
near a Warlock, he is asking for it.
Destruction: Strip away Immolation and spell lock the Chaos Bolt.
Fear and CoT, be ready to be seduced.
Affliction: Shadow ward at once and as often as you can.
Ride the devour magic macro for everything it is worth, whatever your
dog eats is good.
Stop the Haunt and be ready for a lot of fears. Aff vs. Aff, traditionally,
the first one to stick a fear will win.
WHAT DO I DO ABOUT WILL OF THE FORSAKEN?
If he's undead, you're going to lose an extra fear or seduce, and there's
nothing you can do about it.
If he's an undead rogue, I feel for you, I honestly do.
Keep non-Fear/Seduce CCs handy - nets, for example, will help a lot.
==AIM FOR THE PRIEST==
Warlocks are now and have always been particularly strong against enemy
casters. Their healers are their most valuable team members by a wide,
wide margin, and because of this they absolutely need to die first.
Every time.
A good rule of thumb is that DPS will not die until there are no healers
left.
It is your job to make sure the healer dies first.
Whenever dealing with any healer, your first and last order of
business is to keep them pressured. The longer they are feared
or healing themselves, the less time they are spending healing the Ret
that is ravaging your side.
A "Win" isn't always a kill. Distracting a healer until his target dies
on him is a win, even if it costs you a res timer. Especially if the healer's
target is carrying a flag or obliterating your team.
Please remember - a healer who is healing himself is not healing the dps.
(Apart from Priest's Binding Heal, which heals the Priest and the Priest's
target. Spell lock that.)
Even if you can't kill it, if its heals are too strong, if it''s
practically immortal and omg nerf op, fear it or drain its
mana.
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