World of Warcraft Update
60 again. Forkus reached 60th level this past weekend and he’s loving it. When I reached 60th lvl with my warrior Badcow, I was a bit depressed initally, the options of what to do next were limited. He can PvP or do some instances or farm, but the joy of questing and getting experience sorta faded away.
Now with Forkus, my Warlock arriving at 60 the feeling is different. He too is faced with PvP, instance running and or farming, but he does have two remaining quests he can do that can be rewarding beyond the xp thing, since, well you cant really make use of that xp after 60.
Forkus is on a journey to get his Dreadsteed, his demon horse that can be summoned like a spell. All characters get two mounts in WoW, first one is at 40, and then another at 60th lvl. For Warlocks and Paladins, that first mount at 40th lvl is free, its a spell we can cast. For all other classes, that first mount is 100 gold. The 60th lvl mount, better known as the “epic” mount since its the end all be all of mounts in the game is a mere 900 gold for players and for the Warlock and Paladin, well, we have to quest for it, and spend as much as 500 gold to obtain it.
Forkus will probably end up paying close to 300 gold for his mount, he’s crafting a way to get past a few segments of the quest with the aid of fellow warlocks.
However this past weekend both Badcow and Forkus went all out on an “everything must go” sale. Everything for sale to pay for Forkus’s mount. No Badcow doesn’t need one, why cause, his will be 900 gold and thats too much! heh.. i dunno, mainly cause as of late, Forkus is a blast to play.
Anyways, everything must go!! Both toons are on a mad dash to sell everything I can for the last remaining 150 gold needed by Forkus to complete his quest.
Forkus is also having fun with new abilties as a Warlock. Warlocks are like magicians from the old days of EQ. They can summon pets, but they are also like necromancers in that they can command the shadow powers of death and cause fear and what not. Basically Blizzard defines the Warlock as a battle mage type character. You aren’t just pure magic damage, theres Mages that do that, a warlock is pets + shadow damage + fire damage + curses + mixture of odd talents. The old talents is where we have the most fun I think.
Ensalve Demon, most people don’t like ensalve demon. Why enslave a demon when you can summon yer own and its often more powerful? Why? Cause I say, you can. For example I farm for soul shards in felwood. Felwood is a place covered with various demons. People farm there for two reasons, runecloth, felcloth or like me, shards. Lets add another reason, for fun with enslave demon. Sure i could pop my own pet, but a Hellcaller demon loves to burn things, let’s enslave him! Sure enough its easy to do, now sick him on other baddies, but first apply the curse of elements, which lowers the targets resistance to fire. Holy crap, now that Hellcaller demon pet of yours is fireballing mobs for 400–650 a hit.. thats serious argo pain inducing goodness.
But wait, you say enslave demon can break? Yes you are correct it can, but then again I’ve invested some talent points into improved enslavement so it makes for easier enslaving and increased ensalved pet abilities. In all, its a blast. I love to enslave caster demons and then select which spells the demons can cast, i hone in on what really does the best damage for the mana. The Hellcaller loves to cast rain of fire, its purty sure, but lousy for the 908 mana cost.. lets turn that off and have him just use the 90 mana point fire ball that hits for 400–700 damage! LOL.
Even better the warlock can use demonic sacrifice. I can sacrfiice my voidwalker and have it give me a 120hp health regen per tick, then use enslave demon and I still retain a demon pet and the sacrifice effect at the same time. This is godly in my opinion. I have a demon and my regen effect at the same time. I suppose the reasoning here is that enslaved demons are not premament pets so that are not effected by your summoned ones that when sacrificed give off various effects.
I can hold a standard (non infernal or doomguard) enslaved demon for close to 30mins before it eventually breaks completely and either fades away, flees or simply resists me completely and I have to kill it.
Forky’s summoned pets include the voidwalker, succubus, felhunter and imp. Thats the standard issue, and each pet is semi situational. Voids for soloing and tanking, succubus for crowd control, imp for buffage, felhunter against casters and good with resists. The warlock also gets two, fairly uncontrolable end game pets, they are the: infernal and the doomguard.
Infernal: upon casting infernal, a meteor impact on the ground forms and up comes yer huge towering ultra cool green kypronite looking infernal demon. He’s huge. By far one of the best reasons to be a warlock is to command such a beast. And as the spell goes, you have control of him for 5 mins and then he too will need to be re-enslaved again and again to control. Infernals are a blast to play with. They hit for about 150–250 and he’s wired for serious mayhem, you just feel unstoppable with these things. They cry out with huge surges of ARGGGGGH! when you send them off to fight a target. I use them like a strange game of tag football. It goes like this: sick infernal on the target, dot that target, and at 50% health send the infernal to another target and I kill off the first target, and repeat. I can clear out a whole area of mobs in just a few minutes with this rapid farming touch football like approach. I also get stares from other players as they see me engaged with not one but sometimes two, to four mobs at a time.
Got to make the most of that 5mins I say! Cause when the infernal turns on you, you WILL feel it. When you enslave a demon your enslavement effect dials down its overall potential damage by 30%, with improved enslavement its more like 20% which is huge, cause with no ensalvement effect, my 60th lvl infernal hits me for 400! Owww… So there you are, casting enslave.. enslave.. to get control of your infernal while it quickly beats the crap outa you. You can banish him for a sec and heal up and then try it again as well though, Warlocks have plenty of options but I’ve died to my share of infernals before.
The last, and real epic pet, that warlocks supposedly get is the Doom Guard. The DG, is a huge demon with cool flappy wings and he’s colorful, he looks like demon, that’s neat. Now to get him, you can either do a quest, that Forky is on currently or, you can get a DG as the slight % chance from the curse of doom spell. The curse of doom is a dreadfull spell that tags a mob and waits a minute and then causes 3200 damage in one tick! BAM! DEAD, is what usually occurs on most mobs that aren’t elite. When that BAM DEAD tick occurs there’s a slight chance a doomguard will appear, and then you have to enslave it or it will kill you, like the infernal or any other mob.
So now as a pet the doomguard hits for 350 on average, thats tasty damage and he sports all kinds of additional abilities: warstomp damage and stun, rain of fire, dispel magic, and some other effects. WoW recommends you use him at a distance. I like to get one and then send him on agressive mode into a small village and just watch the mayhem. Course unless you do any damage on the mobs hes attacking you wont get any loot. So you need to at least do some basic dots, or you can just use him for show.
Most warlocks use him for show but thats kinda dangerous really, cause that show off will end in 5 mins or less. With my points in improved enslavement I try and use the doomguard for more serious ventures, but he too, typically faster than the infernal will turn on you and I think he’s not as bad as an infernal when he turns. I can deal with a doomguard, an infernal going ape shit on me is more dangerous I think.
Fun thing is you can get doomguard anywhere you want one, just start dotting mobs with DOOM… heh, and he’ll pop eventually. Infernals are outdoor only and have a 1 hour cool down timer.
Sadly the Curse of Doom can only be used on mobs.. no players allowed. That would make for much fun to see a warrior scurring around with the Curse of Doom on them. LOL Ahhh well. Its still fun.
Lately Forkus has been on the hunt for demons. I want to enslave more of them, different types with different ablities to see what kind of fun he can find.
Ok that wraps up this update in WoW!
Dreadsteed, Infernal & Doomguard pics: here, here, and here and ya here.
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