Posted on October 7th, 2008 by admin
Ready Check: Leading the fray
Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, ZA or Sunwell Plateau, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. Or motivate 24 other people to do so!
For many guilds, raiding is in a bit of a lull at the moment, with far more focus on the future rather than the present. One of the things that can keep raiding life interesting is to try out different things; play an alt, try a weird setup, revisit old content…
How about a slightly different challenge? Something that will stretch your ability to multitask, to communicate, to deal with people; it’ll try your patience but provide immeasurable rewards when that patience pays off.
No, I don’t mean running for an election. I’m talking about raid leading.
Some of you might be a dab hand at leading raids already, but there are plenty of people who’ve never given it a try. Well, now’s a great time. Why? People are looking for a bit of a change – something to make the dark days before WotLK more exciting. Sure, the incoming patch will shake
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by admin
So much for Chaos and other Warlock stories in build 9014
You might have heard that Chaos Bolt now deals Fire damage instead of the nebulous “Chaos” damage, which was actually an amalgamation of all schools of magic. On one hand, this is good news because getting Kicked or Counterspelled while casting it won’t lock Warlocks out of every spell. On the other hand, this means Fire immunities will stop it cold. This makes the spell easier to implement or work with, and further enforces the use of Fire spells for Destruction. It’s not even a Shadow and Fire version of Frostfire Bolt. It’s just… a bolt Fire that looks like Alien larvae.
Now, the coolest thing about Chaos Bolt was how it conceptually penetrated through immunities. Ghostcrawler explained that making immunities have vulnerabilities would only create a vicious cycle. Now, the spell only goes through absorption effects — which is fine, really, but makes Chaos Bolt merely another direct damage Fire spell. Is it a great 51-point talent? I don’t know. It deals pretty good damage, I’ll give it that. But I’m not sure
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