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Meta spec
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asakawa
basically meta should be used on cooldown to maximise it's usefulness unless you have a burn phase encounter in which case you ought to make sure you have meta for when it's needed.
you do want to cast DoTs during meta to get the bonus applied to them and this especially applies to CoD so if you can get meta to link up with CoD cooldowns then all the better. ideally you would pop meta then all DoTs allowing you to recast most DoTs at some point during the buff.
the other point is immolation aura. immolation aura makes meta specs very strong and the whole spec becomes much weaker in fights where getting into melee range for IA use is impossible.
so, you have all these things which will be done in ideal situations and many of them can conflict.
i suppose that the priority for these points would be something like:
use on cooldown EVERY cooldown if you can
use IA
cast coD
cast DoTs
spam nukes
the other points about meta is that you don't want any buffed time to be wasted so make sure you LT before popping it so you have plenty of mana. also drop your teleport circle and run into melee range before popping meta so you can IA immediately.
save other cooldowns like trinkets and potions for meta.
Post by
ballagarba
Honestly, I think meta is a bit tricky. You need to compromise between keeping as much uptime of it as possible and time it with different phases of fights and keep it cool and wait a few seconds if you know bloodlust/heroism is around the corner and stuff like that.
asakawa summed everything up pretty good though.
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asakawa
tricky is absolutely right. some people think it's an easy spec but it is by far the most complicated if you want to play it well. the soul fire change eases things a little but it's still very difficult.
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asakawa
get better healers.
mp5 is NOT a warlock stat and the mana from wisdom or mojo flasks will be a BIG DPS loss. you can help your healers by life tapping early and often rather then waiting to hit zero mana and tapping all your health away but it's not hard for them to heal your taps (a single renew or rejuve covers all your tapping needs).
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asakawa
your glyphs are correct. QD beats meta on paper and in practice. meta worked on paper but was really difficult to make it worth it so it's good to have a better alternative.
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