Emberstorm

Thoughts on the MoP destruction warlock

As I mentioned in my last post I’m now in the MoP beta. I almost instantly jumped in to my warlock and tried out the new destruction (only pausing to log into my pre-made 85 monk because it transferred faster) and all its now fanciness. So now its time to lay on some commentary and analysis now that I’ve had a chance to actually play around with it. Read more »

Mists beta!

Posted by velidra on April 5, 2012 No comments

A quick post before much else,

I’ve gotten my beta invite now, so I look to you, my readers, what are your pressing warlock questions that you want to see answered?

GC Y U MAKE ME SAD (of warlock tanking)

Posted by velidra on March 27, 2012 No comments

To preface this post, this is a reply to GCs post, that can be found here, but I can’t reply on the forums because I don’t have beta access (yet (This makes me sad)) But onwards!

For context, I’ve quoted the post below, followed by my response. And now there’s a follow up post. So I’ll go ahead and follow up below my original piece. Read more »

My reaction to green fire (finally)

Posted by velidra on March 25, 2012 No comments

Warlock tanks?

Posted by velidra on March 23, 2012 No comments

So when the MoP beta hit, and people started data mining, people found a lot of new glyphs. One of these new glyphs caught my eye.

Glyph of Demon Hunting

Is that what I think it is? Tools for demo warlocks to… tank? The shock! The horror! The excitement!

Mists of pandaria glyphs

Posted by velidra on March 22, 2012 No comments

Going through the new glyphs in the beta I noticed a trend. A lot of the glyphs I saw, for both healing and DPS, had major down sides, or didn’t provide a direct throughput increase. For example the PW:S glyph now instead of providing a 20% bonus heal instead converts 20% of the bubble into a heal.

I’m actually excited by this.
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Bets on the final ember name…

Posted by velidra on March 11, 2012 No comments

My bets on unstable

Dragon soul, nerfs, class balance and encounter design

Posted by velidra on January 25, 2012 No comments

Coming up within the next week or two are a set of 5% nerfs to dragon soul, both normal and heroic (but not LFR as far as I know).

Why are these nerfs coming? I think its important to understand why, so we can first of all not rage at it, and second so we can give some feed back about it. I think the reason for these nerfs is primarily 2 fold