Elkagorasa the Casual

While playing with my friends has me spending more of my time on my Alliance toons, I still try to find time to play and level up Elkagorasa. Last night, I found a PUG that was running a +6 Eye of Azshara. The group leader, FindMuck is another warlock and consistently did quite a bit better damage than me. Reviewing his armory page, I found that he's both 20 ilevel lower than me and isn't gemmed or enchanted at all. Top it off, he only has a single legendary item equipped and no tier gear set bonuses. On the charts, I should  have been out doing his DPS by a 100k+. Elkagorasa Findmuck realized class hall chest has tattoos. going red with fancy hat. So.. What is the difference?? I know my rotation was clunky. Agony Corruption Siphon Life Unstable Affliction Haunt Drain Soul Once I applied all my dots, I bounced around between DS and whatever was about to drop off. Usually dots 1,2,3 would all fall off about the same time. UA would drop a few seco

Hello new warlock, So you decided to boost a warlock? You have just picked a fun, but complex class to play. We have a multitude of spells that can be used and making sure they are all available is often hard to accomplish. Here is my collection of my favorite macros. The primary purpose for these macros is to reduce the overall number of buttons on my screen, plus combine similar actions together (create healthstone and use healthstone or drop portal and use portal). The basics to creating a macro. Load warcraft and logon to your exciting new warlock! In your chat window, type "/macro" and hit enter. This will open the Macro user interface.  Create a unique name that you identify with, and choose the "?" for the icon (this is what will display when on your toolbar) because the ? will change depend on the active spell.  Summon Me!  - This macro creates a single button that does double duty. Hold down a modifier key and place your warlock portal . (If

I had plans to post an image every few days leading up to today, Easter Sunday, ending with my final punchline today. Vacation happened faster than I could anticipate and spent all day last Saturday packing instead of posting. So instead of episodic, this is the entire comic. You should be able to open the first one, then simply slide to the right to get the next panel of the comic. The Summons The Meeting The Quest The Legion What?? The Agony ZZIIIIPPPPP!! The Solution Oh, this doesn't look good. The Love This doesn't look good. The Quote Go forth malefic bunnies! This comic was inspired by this quote posted November 10, 2015 by Blizzard. This blog post details changes coming to warlocks in Legion and how demonology has 'strayed' from it initial inception.

Let me explain Late last year, my daughter asked for one of the "stress relieving" coloring books. They were all the rage locally, sold everywhere including the grocery store. (Retailers, take note, if you sell coloring BOOKS, this is a great up-sell opportunity to also sell coloring PENS/MARKERS/PENCILS!!) I had fun coloring in her book, so decided to get one for myself. Sadly over the holidays, I could not find markers anywhere until late-January and didn't want to commandeer her glorious 100 color gel pen set.. With that, I finally purchased my own ZenDoodle Calming Swirls coloring book. Lots of intricate little dots, swirls, swooshes and patterns to color in. So far, I've colored about half of one page. It was then, that I realized that my color-blindness could be making this awesome pattern rather bland or ugly? "Oh that looks 'nice'" One side effect of having a giant box of markers and paper on my desk is that I started doodling. &q

The other day, Blizz linked to a spanish youtube video put out by Hols. This video detailed how to get the new booterang  "toy but not a toy" from 6.2.2. Watching the video, I notice that Hols IS WEARING GUL'DAN'S shoulders! Yeah, not the corruptor set like I substituted with, but the same model. So, I start by searching the US armory.. (can't select EU for some reason), so I searched Korean, Taiwan, China and Southeast Asia as well.. No Hols . "Change" button disabled going from US to EU. Quick Internet search, I found " WarcraftRealms.com ". This site lets me put in a few specifics, [level 100], [mage], [blood elf], ["Hols"] and it returned exactly who I wanted. Hols @ Uldum-EU Looking up his shoulders , I found they share the same model with the warlock HFC tier set . The normal version of these shoulders of these don't appear to have the spikes, but the Mythic one does! Sigh, I don't see me runn

All across Azeroth, warlocks are looking up to one of the most influential warlocks of our times, Gul'dan. His influence has been felt for several expansions and even plays a major role for the next years to come. Elkagorasa has started collecting pieces to put together a similar set. Here's where he's at so far. Nice look, but won't pass for Gul'dan. (click image for 'dressing room') Chest, Gloves and Shoulders of the  Corruptor raiment  (we actually are sporting the  T5 Warlock set ). The shoulders miss out on the wrath style glyphs on them, but definitely have the skulls on barbs going for them.  Head:  Nightsky Cowl  - which I actually like this better than the corruptor head piece.  Belt: Primal Gladiator's Cord of Prowess  - this is a PVP piece that sells for 1750 honor .  Main hand: Headmaster's Charge which is an heirloom item. Not a great coloring, but the extra skull adds nice flavor. Have to try out some cosmetic enchan

It's finally over! Despite all my ranting and complaining, scheming and whining, I have managed to complete the DPS silver proving grounds. This time I invested $30 and purchased Wondershare's video editor , so the graphics quality is a ton better than the free Windows Movie Maker.  The ah-ha moment for me was remembering that the Felhunter / Observer also had an interrupt. This allowed me to still run as destruction (not having to relearn demo) and have an instant cast, non-targeted interrupt. There's one typo in the video, that I am not sure I'll fix. At 6:03 , I say, "move to 3", when it should say, "move to 6". Round 1: ( 0:12 ) Cast Havoc on slayer, and focus down the guardian. Round 2: ( 0:41 ) Cast rain of fire on vermin, then focus down slayer. Round 3: ( 1:22 ) Move to 3 o'clock, cast havoc on amber weaver in center, focus down far slayer, then move to close slayer. When done (if time) setup portal facing center. Round 4

Trying my hand at video recording, I captured my latest run at doing the proving grounds. I am now regularly reaching fight 8:8. The 'ah-ha' moment was realizing that the Felhound and/or Observer have an interrupt. Here is my 200dpi (yeah, it stinks badly) video of my last run, with notes for those who are still working at it. I'll record it again tonight (actually sort of excited about this) and hopefully work out all the bugs for that last fight.. As Grumpy Elf said, it's all about placement..

As I sulk here in my tears, still not successfully completed with the silver proving grounds, I have started to wonder is it me? I mean, there are numerous complaints on the various forums of people that can't seem to break this through barrier. This simple  little thing, has prevented me from moving on to bigger and brighter, dare I say it, legendary things. QQ The idea of the proving grounds is to replicate a raid environment to test how well you can deal with it. By passing a silver proving grounds, you should have proven ideally be a decent DPS. I should be able to be picked up by a pug for a normal raid and not wipe the group. As a DPSing member of a raid group, my responsibilities are: Damage Dealing :  DPS   - The role of DPS is to kill the monsters. This may sound simplistic, but it takes skill and know-how to dish out powerful damage without overwhelming the group's tank and causing the monsters to attack you.(source wowwiki ) Kill the target(s) . The tan

Last night, I had enough, I've been reading , and reading about Demo being OP and how the PTR was nerfing everything about it. OK, I need some OP right now. First off, rebuild bars.. Off to IcyVeins . New talents, new rotation.. Second AskMRRobot to optimize my gearing. Swapped out 2 items.. Trying out the rotation on the training dummies in my garrison, I thought I had it down rather well. Queue for proving grounds, realize I don't remember the build as well as I had thought. What's the AOE? Oh yeah hellfire/immolation aura.. What's the interrupt? Same as destro, but doesn't the felguard have something as well??  Today I found (silver starts at 2:26 ):  Some basics that Anxeity pointed out..  Wild Imps, place them near one of the adds. Short cast travel time.  Hand of Gul'dan is an dot, and can easily take out one of the mobs.  Healer heals lowest health. Hit vermin for 90% health and let him heal it.. if need be Felguard has axe thr

Not so bad.. Ok, I have to admit, I've given the proving grounds a bit of a hard time. Last night, I decided to give our relationship a second try and it wasn't so bad. Really!? Last night, I was consistently making it to wave 5 or 6. A couple times, I saw the last fight. Worst off, I know what I am doing wrong. Moving way too much on this last fight. I think I need to stun the closest amber weaver, let far amber weaver encase the healer. So I can focus down the healer while he's disabled. Due to my short term memory, I've started making notes of what to do. Primarily I want the positioning, so that I am not running between the two locations, mid fight. I think of it as a giant clock, with marks at the quarter hour with the 'front' edge is at 6 o'clock. Right off, I have put up my portal from 6 to 3 and parked my doomlord at the 9. Havoc lizard (right) focus fire down guardian.  Rain of fire on varmints, focus down lizard, fire and brimstone to

Why can't I favorite my Warlock mounts? I can favorite my tailoring mount. I can favorite my horde scorpion mount. I can favorite just about every other mount in my stable.. but not my FAVORITE MOUNT!

Elkagorasa has reached a point in his gearing, that I think Heroics are in order. I've ran a number of normal dungeons and gotten a number of gear items. According to the armory, he's at a 607 gear score equipped with 613 looted (or in bags). The proving grounds, introduced back in MoP, are a series of 8 fights in increasing difficulty that are supposed to test your raid worthiness. The start with basic single target fights (do you know the class rotation) in bronze, with multi-target aoe fights and cc requirements (stop the healer!) in silver. Basically DPS down all illusionary npcs, before the timer runs out. In Warlords they were implemented as a bar to pass before entrance. Heroic Garrison Quest. The Tavern in my garrison is only adding to the frustration with all the heroic quests that keep popping up. "Go get this item from UBRS" but it forgets to tell you that it only shows on Heroic. (Note skull in quest log for heroic dungeons quests). My frustrati

Maximum Molten Core One of WoW’s classic 40-player dungeons, Molten Core, will be available in Raid Finder during the anniversary period for level 100 players. Making it through the underground gauntlet and defeating Ragnaros will reward players with a Core Hound mount and a Warlords of Draenor Raid Finder–quality helm (100% guaranteed!). For a walkthrough of the dungeon as it stands today, check out our  Revisiting Heroism’s Past – Molten Core  guide. I hadn't really thought about it before, but I may not be able to even do this. This will require me to reach 100; 10 levels between release 11/13 and before the end of the anniversary party on 1/6/2015. 54 days. The last week, I've only been able to log about 45 minutes leveling up my druid. I am not sure I'll be able to level up my warlock in 7 weeeks!! I'll work on it as a core-hound mount sounds CRAZY! 

This morning I decided to give the Green Fire quest line another try. I believe I was approximiately i505 last time I attempted, today Elk is sporting a 535 level gear. This time was completely different. Elk was able to burn through the giant baby head in no time at all. Howl of Fear on the Lost Souls. Gateway across center to give a second avoidance of them. One interrupt of the AOE, but mostly just stayed far back. Soul Leech provided all the healing for the fight. One healthstone in my pocket, just in case.. What I hadn't considered was what came next . The scenario continues up until you fight the big boss  Kanrethad Ebonlocke . I had watched a few of the strat videos, and read some strategies, but hadn't actually thought it would continue on.. Top it off, I didn't give myself enough time to research and complete the Ebonlocke fight. A few attempts, where I managed to die on his first chaos bolt, one time I had a soulstone and revived from it, to die from a swarm

Ok, I am still stuck on Yikkan Izu . I've taken to waiting the 13 minutes for Crystal of Insanity to reset, so about only 2 attempts each night. Apply all self buffs. - Insanity, Dark Intent , Crit food Grab some arena pots if I don't have some, like  Brawler's Cunning . Summon voidwalker (or void lord). Zone in, summon major demon, typically  Doomguard , but going to try Infernal for the AOE. Cast typically boss rotation, CoE, Immolate, Conflagerate, Incinerate...  Watch for Shriek , try to interrupt with Fear , Shadowfury , Howl of Terror Best I've been able to achieve is about 25% health remaining. What happens is something like: I use up all my interrupts, get hit by the Shriek and stunned for a few seconds. During this time, I am not healing with Soul Leech , so my vw dies. VW dies, everything aggro's me and I die.  I get out of the stun quickly with Unbound Will . Resummon a new vw , only get overwhelmed with adds and die. I AOE too many

Elkagorasa was getting a little bored waiting for his turn. Esha-this, druid-that. Just left this 'lock bored and frustrated. So frustrated that when he finally got his chance at the Brawler's , he blasted the Bruce , then Vian , Goredome and Vishas all within a few seconds. The only thing slowing down Elk was the line. Fight, win, requeue, wait for 2 other players, repeat. 2 days later, Elk ran back to the fight hall late at night and found no one else there. Empty! Hey Boss, get me a fight!  Rank 2, done. Rank 3, done. Rank 4, done... The only fight that Elk had to do twice was Ixx  because he stood in front of him and his Devastating Thrust . Now he is up to Yikkan Izu . This evil bird has been the first real challenge. Sort of like the giant baby head in the Green Fire quest line, he spawn lots of adds ( 4 at a time) who do decent damage. Something I still haven't mastered on the other quest either.. This large crow thing has one annoying thing about him - add

Logged in today and found that a guild-mate needed some help. She wanted to get the drake from Sartharion 3-drake . Considering Sarth has less than 10million health for 25man, he wasn't that much of an issue for two i500+ equipped pets classes.. :) Grats on the new mount Taurohtar ! Elk actually got the achievement for it! Empowered, we went to ICC , for the skeletal drake from there. Trash, piece of cake. (funny when they miss!) Malomar, er Marrowgar, easy. Lady Deathwhisper, we didn't get Full House because we killed her too fast. The adds before her, aren't the ones to leave. Boat, nope. We couldn't destroy their boat fast enough with those little pew-pew cannons.

Ghostcrawler has released some notes on the upcoming class changes in 5.4. After all of the changes we had coming into Pandas, I suppose these are more of a level-set to make game play a bit more balanced with other classes. Fel Flame :  before and after  - more damage, no dot (aka immolate) extension. This is a bit of a frustration as I currently solely use FF for it's dot extension. It sits between Incinerate and Chaos Bolt on the button bar; allowing me to refresh the spell without the long (Immolate) cast.  Rain of Fire : before and after  - less ember regen for Destro. This is not actually going to stop destro locks from casting RoF on the single target /boss fights; just make it less effective. With Panda making RoF a non-channeled spell, why not?? Cast and forget. ( have it on button-4 of my mouse !) Harvest Life : before and after  - drain life improver. If it improves drain life enough, I'd probably go that way. I am not absolutely pleased with my soul leach hea

Ok, it wasn't really the lock, but her voidwalker. I was running around the Barrens on my disc priest hoping to finish gathering the 150 each of the supplies for the Battlefield Barrens weekly. I see down in my chat that one of the Kor'kron commanders is in battle. When I reach him, he's only in combat with a single destro lock. Of course, I start throwing my tiny smite s but that lock didn't need any help. I followed this lock over to the other commander that was up then she left. Very encouraging. This lock was heroic raid geared (i522 - 540 gear), so this may be nothing more than Elk running through a heroic dungeon. Thanks Imma____?? (I missed your name).