Mystic Chicanery

On the post earlier today Jacob commented:
[Nib wrote] “I believe our pets share pally buffs with us”
Yes, they do. My pally is never quite sure what to put on warlocks in 5-man dungeons — about half of you seem to want Wisdom, the other half want Kings. Now you’re saying you want Might? My poor [...]

I did some quick and dirty tests with my felhunter and wanted to note them down.

Shadow Bite
Improved Felhunter

Fully talented my Felhunter should Shadow Bite every 2 seconds. The damage of that is increased by the number of shadow dots you have on the target. Shadow bite costs 3% of his base mana [...]

A while back I wrote the following:
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Thing 2: Dots, Hots and Haste
Some Hots/Dots may benefit from haste by ticking faster.

Verdict: Mixed. If your dot ticks faster it ends sooner meaning you have to recast it more. For warlocks they’re talking about doing this by having a glyph that makes your Corruption tick faster. I’m interested [...]

I stumbled across this flowchart at Righteous Defense and I thought it was brilliant and had to copy the idea for myself.

Flowchart made at flowchart.com

A lot of this is boiled down from info posted on Elitist Jerks.

Trinkets scare me. I mean they’re lovely bits of sparkle that have tasty buffs on them.. but for some reason, I have a very hard time telling if trinket A is better than trinket B. I blame the proc. For some reason the proc part of the trinket just scares me. The [...]

Quick video walking through the Affliction rotation I’m currently using on bosses.

Hi all,

Quick note: I’ve updated my pre-naxx gear list and Badge and Raid Gear list for warlocks. These now use my new scales and include Argent Tournament, Ulduar and BoC items. Enjoy.

I just want to start off by saying: I’m a bad bad blogger. I’m thrilled to death when I get email from a reader.. but unfortunately it’s taken me -way- to long to respond to this one.

A while back I got an email from Megan.

Megan wrote:
Hi there, I was reading your blog today and [...]