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The Abyssal Maw: Den of Mystery and Doom
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Post by
AWildmann
One thing I have always been curious about is the drain life tick amount. I've done the Alysrazor fight several times now and even with the humongous amount of haste I've never seen a fourth tick (re-casting DL and having that extended tick doesn't count). Is it possible to have it?
Post by
Metalfenrir
I believe that the way drain life works, is that haste only decreases the channel time, there will never be a fourth tick added.
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446836
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Post by
AWildmann
Oh well, its cool, I only use it during demon soul anyway.
Post by
Rekijan
It is still a dps loss to do it during demon soul, asa simmed it once for me when I wondered about using dl during demon soul.
Post by
asakawa
If you're at a point on Alys where haste is high enough to be increasing channel ticks then you should be using DS anyway.
The rule I've been following is 10+ stacks and use BoA and DS.
Post by
Rekijan
Even before you get under 25%?
Post by
asakawa
Definitely (assuming we're talking about flying?)
SB very quickly gets quicker than a GCD and DS just gets better and better.
The other big tip is to get all your buffs and debuffs up before "alysra's razor" falls off and start a fresh channel of DS just before it drops. Then don't interrupt that DS channel for anything (even Haunt refresh). Leave it ticking for a massive number very quickly as nothing you could do would be better than those ticks.
Post by
AWildmann
One thing I usually try doing too, is along with refreshing DS before the alysra's razor goes off, is also refreshing it before the 50%. This way your Drain Soul is gonna tick high as crazy while the rest of the raid still attacks her on normal damage output :)
Just watch out for threat, I've noticed 2 times that I ended up wiping my group with this, because the tanks weren't expecting that, so either warn them or hope they taunt right away :P
@Rekijan
DL still sucks even during Demon Soul? :(
Crap, I've had so much fun switching to it only during it, that sucks royally :/
Post by
asakawa
Get your tanks to expect it then ^_^
My tanks love the threat lead they get by taunting from me.
IIRC, it doesn't completely suck but it's not "optimal". If you're enjoying it then I very much doubt you're killing your output by doing it.
Post by
Rekijan
Well saying DL sucks even during DS might be a bit harsh, but its still a dps loss no matter how you look at it. Probably only a few %.
Lol at 666 rep points btw (at point of writing this)(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##>:)
Post by
Interest
Well saying DL sucks even during DS might be a bit harsh, but its still a dps loss no matter how you look at it. Probably only a few %.
Lol at 666 rep points btw (at point of writing this)
Just 666 rep? =P
Post by
Raleandris
Well saying DL sucks even during DS might be a bit harsh, but its still a dps loss no matter how you look at it. Probably only a few %.
Lol at 666 rep points btw (at point of writing this)
Just 666 rep? =P
Some of us don't have 63k posts ;)
Post by
asakawa
You don't get any rep at all for forum activity.
(And /frown at rep-peen-ing Interest)
Post by
AWildmann
I've been wondering about something on the legendary quest staff.
The other warlock on my raid said that if I want to I can go ahead of him on the queue for the staff, since he mostly uses and enjoys Demo, the first phases of the staff are going to be a downgrade to his current weapons, so I'm now in the quest to get the branch from firelands.
Though, since we've killed shannox on this week already, if I get the remaining items from the other bosses, do I get to keep them until the next reset? Or do they vanish after logging out or something like that?
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446836
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Post by
Interest
You don't get any rep at all for forum activity.
(And /frown at rep-peen-ing Interest)
Imo there should be rep gains from thread views. (Similar to the way guides work. Also maybe stickies should give rep?)
Post by
AWildmann
Hmm I think I'll get my items this sunday and finish them by tuesday when we can do Shannox again.
Post by
abulurd
Wewt, my raid group finally downed normal rags. Onto hardmodes!
So sad we couldn't down it prenerf, but it is what it is.
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