Advanced WARLOCK Guide to Parse in Ulduar - MACROS INSIDE

hey guys welcome back I want to make this video today because I've had a lot of requests recently to go through my mindset on all these fights in old war and hopefully some of these notes can give you some new ideas make you think of something new and Innovative or just increase your overall I hope you enjoy let's get straight into it the first thing I want to do is Skip right over flame Leviathan we don't care about flaming Leviathan you'll get into demo you get thrown up you do some damage whatever but I want to go straight into ignis and ignis is an interesting fight there's only a few things you can kind of do to increase your damage relatively and that is dropping uh demonic chord most people tank ignis in this fire I've seen strategies where they pull Ignus here they drag them off to the side and move them over here so say ignis is starting in this area and your raid leader culture pull timer we walk up we pop our pre-pot wild magic for demo and for reflection and then the tank whoever it may be let's use a paladin pulls the boss and slowly drags it into the water over here so you want to position yourself in a way where you don't have to do a lot of movement so if you're far like far enough range it'll slowly just move over you don't have to move maybe take a few steps forward and make sure you you drop your demonic Port here as well so you drop your demonic Port your this is pretty pretty Patchwork you fight the only thing that you need to be aware of is flame Jets which will just knock you up spontaneously and kick any school that you're casting so when he uses flame Jets this is your opportunity to if you need Mana you can life tap if you're knocked up life tap live tap on the way down during those free instant cast globals you could reapply a curse of Agony in the air if you if you need to or if your man is fine and all your insta dots are still on the boss you could use your demonic portal and instantly when you get knocked up on the way up not not when you reach the Apex like instantly when you knock up if you had the global hit your teleport and get back on the boss you can save a global or two doing that and it's really useful on just the boss in general and I think that's about it for ignis it's very very straightforward fight there's not a lot to min max there so all right razor scale razor scale is pretty straightforward uh I also am gonna go over which ads kind of count for Warcraft logs and which don't so this will help any any parses that you have and all these little ads uh they don't count at all so we can go to my Razor scale and look at the damage that I did and it's literally just razor scale that matters so the damage on the ads doesn't matter I typically volunteer to shoot the ballistas because I don't care about doing damage to the ads and someone has to do it but the only real tip I have for Razer scale is before Regis skill hits 50 or 50 you know it's the big knockback pushback or whatever so what you want to do is you want to drop your demonic Port uh and before the knockback you want to get ready to teleport but another thing that I learned recently is that if you have a paladin in your group that can Bop you or hop you sorry if you get hopped handed protection you don't get knocked back so you don't need to use your a global on teleporting anyway if you call for a paladin to hop you you can keep up uptime on the boss and then the boss moves maybe a little bit with your tank but this fight there's not a lot of optimization but the Hop can be the difference between uh Pink parse and orange parse because of those two globals because the fight is so quick all right XT now XT is a little bit more complicated than uh and some of the other fights because a lot of the mobs count towards uh said Parts you see you can see life Sparks the heart counts the scrapbox count so when you're positioning yourself typically the range are over here the melee oh this is death knight are on the left foot and then you have Sparks uh searing lights being dropped over here and gravity Bombs over here so in the beginning of the fight if you're doing hard mode you're going to be pushing the boss's heart relatively quickly I would pop my one to two minute cooldowns probably just gloves in the beginning to push it so hopefully you could skip uh the first the first tantrum which requires around like 75 health I think the boss does the first tantrum at so if you could meet that DPS check that's really nice so pop everything you have at the beginning just to get out you should be able with the Nerf you should be able to kill the heart relatively with ease and when that heart is first coming out there's gonna be the boom Bots and the Scrap Box coming off from the side uh a little bit of extra cheese will be walking over and you can see see the little ones and if you single Target the big one uh it explodes and does more damage but for for your personal damage if you're seeding the scrap Bots that's more damage when it comes to the log and if you're doing hard mode is just these two waves so the damage on these could be extra cheese to push your parse for the just either side of scrap Watts so you seed one scrap bot C2 scrap Bots C3 scrap Bots and then blow up the middle one or throw a shadow bolt into the one with a seed and those will delete very quickly and then you're moving into the pure hard mode if there's pumblers up just put up uh like UA and Corruption and Agony and Washington they have a lot of hell so the agony is kind of worth it there but every time the Searing light is coming during hard mode and spawns an ad I throw up a UA and a corruption onto it because a it has to die very quickly and B that damage adds up relatively quickly as well so just throw up like the MIT me dots I I throw up Agony but people tell me that's not worth it because they don't last that long but sometimes the GPS aren't focusing it at all but I know they need to die and if you have the ceiling light during a tantrum it's really bad so try to multi-dot as best you can between the life spark and the boss that's that's the goal here and that's about it for XT because it's just life spark Boss Life spark Boss Life spark boss and uh it dies so this is a real test of your multi-dotting skills if you get like Gravity Bomb you'll have to run over here drop the gravity bomb and just pour it back instantly and if you have searing light you have to come over here drop your ceiling light run back so a lot of moving around a lot of multi-dotting a lot of positioning but there's the ads are the key to getting a good XT Barse uh every single time all right moving on to assembly line now assembly of iron Your Parts really really depends on your Tech now I'm assuming you're doing this hard mode and your tank will have to position the second guy in a way or you can overlap Runes of power that Runes of power are little blue circles on the floor which gives you 50 increased damage and there's moments when your tank is tanking like if your tank is tanking it on the edge where it's slightly knotted in the middle I can still hit it and your tank is tanking it and that's the Rune Master will drop another root of power and it'll slightly ever so slightly overlap just like that and if you stand in between that you'll get a moment where they will be stacked together and you'll get 100 increased damage on your on your abilities and what you want to do is you need to snapshot that corruption onto steelbreaker and the current Target and maintain that steel breaker corruption the rest of the fight this is after the little guy is dead so you want to snapshot that 100 damage corruption on these two and that is the only way you can get a 99 on this fight I did this on my main warlock a little while ago I don't even think I got a 99 I only got a 97 and you could see when I I went I went like I I went all in here and I look at the corruption damage I did a million damage to seal breaker skidder also snapshotted I think I dropped my infernal as well and it's it's very hard to parse this fight and get like an orange or higher right now because people are very Adept at snapshotting their corruption here but the goal is that let's just start let's just start from the beginning to end uh you you walk in you life tap repot uh I do wild Magic you could do what you want as demo or Affliction and walk in and you just kill kill the little guy it's not no big deal you can kick kick him if you can and keep up your dots run to the Rune when it gets dropped for the first time and then once the first guy's dead then you just have the Rune master and the big guy and hopefully you could get us any any moment where you find two runes that can overlap you put up your corruption and then you hold you hold you maintain on seal breaker your corruption you hold until he drops the Rune again he dies and then you put in everything you have in the seal break you drop your infernal everything it's it's the the race the very fun race uh as demo I would drop my meta in the first Rune of power because usually it's up at the end for the First on steel breaker during that second Rune of power when you're going up at the end and that's uh about it uh assembly if I just pretty straightforward you're mid-maxing your time with your cooldowns in the rules of power and you should have uh good parse Cola guard now this fight is pretty pretty weird I've seen a lot of different ways doing the fight I've seen people that just like see the body the entire time with like UA on the arms but what I like to do is that as Affliction I'll just drop my port somewhere in the back move in and I'll just multi-dot all the arms the entire fight and you can do that effectively with focus focus dot macros which I could add in at the end of the video just put them in the description and focus dot macros are nice I sometimes just tab because there's just these three targets once the rubble's dead so I'll put up hot UA Agony corruption in the beginning make sure Shadow bolts on the on the main body and the arm and I'll put up UA corruption Agony UA corruption Agony once those shadowable debuffs are up and it'll maintain corruption on these two while killing this that dies then you just need to maintain dots on two of them maintain delet pump Shadow bolts into the body maintain dots and then eventually this will respawn put your full dots in go nuts again on this one while maintaining dots on these two this dies this is really low this dies and then the body just falls apart I mean it's a very straightforward fight but it's a real test of your multi-dot management and you just have to look at the timers on each of them like I see UA expiring on the left arm while we're bursting down the right arm for example and I'll re-pull-up UA on this while people are doing damage that's not my shadow bolt so we put up UA here and maybe Agony here and go like the shadow voltage here it's real real tests of your timers management and understanding how fast your abilities cast so for demo it's the same thing but with immolating corruption you just keep up emulate corruption on on things at the start of fight you move up here pop meta in between these two so you get Maximo Aura on these two and then I like to Port back because I don't like to be in close to range because if you get aggro on the rubble Rebels do not count for your logs at all so if you're aoeing the rubble it does no damage like it does it doesn't count like there's there's no there's no Rubble in the locks so be careful uh doing that I guess wasting empty damage on things that don't matter uh those can be passively cleaved if you're getting yelled out to see that those that's like the melee could take care of that I don't it's not necessary I've never touched them and it's fine so watch out for rubble and demo just maintain your dots and pump Shadow balls and try to steal decimation procs off of the arms and pump them into the body so that's about it for coal Garden moving on to Ariah Araya is pretty easy uh very straightforward they recently took away the uh the little guys the little guys the Little Guardian swarms do not count for your damage at all they do not count for your damage these sentries the four centuries that she's with start those all count as well as the feral Defender which spawns mid fight and likes to randomly pounce on you for some reason and interrupt you and kick you so that is a large piece of RNG during the fight to see what this little does and hopefully he doesn't pick you when you're having a bad day so keep an eye out for that but at the start of the fight when she's coming in she's got her four little guys uh a collection and demo I would call for a hop uh there's a very high chance that you get aggro and die demo you pre-life tap wild magic uh pop uh seeds Emma Aura everything off the rip just boom as Affliction I put corruption on one corruption on two while they're while they're coming in not while they're already in if they're already in it's kind of too late you have to start seating immediately well your train gives an icds are Brock so you just blow these up then we're in position we drop our demonic Port right there hopefully you have a shaman in your group if you have a shaman in your group that's dropping Tremor that makes things a lot better for you you have a lot more uptime on the boss so keep an eye out for that or ask for one to be moved into your group or asked to move groups or whatever it really depends on your main lead and then the only thing you have to worry about then is the feral Defender spawning once the feral Defender spawns you just throw some dots up on it uh if you get feared if you get feared uh you let's for example run all the way over here that you have your Port down you just Port back instantly and get back straight into it still stacked Ray Lewis is not going to yell at you but if you have Tremor uh still one two three maybe you go here and the fear stops you could just do a little bit more DPS on the boss because you're still kind of within range but make sure you're not greasing the Sonic Screech because it is a cone and if it needs to hit your raid to soak the damage or else a bunch of people are gonna die and everyone's gonna be pissed so that's about it for Ryan a pretty straightforward fight no hard mode uh for demo and for affliction Mr Ho dear the fusion special Mr hodir at the start of a fight there's gonna be these flash freezes up uh what we typically do is we pick one of the flash freezes I think the one all the way on the right because that's the one that drops the the fire to get the singe buff we do a 60 second pull timer and put our Dooms up here on this one and then once the Dooms are at around four seconds you can start seating uh make sure there's no bomb in your seed Mac grow like curse or serenade bomb that's not very good but you'll Target one you'll start casting seed it'll start doing damage after like four seconds so you'll get one seed two seeds three seeds and then the fight begins and that's when we got to talk more about everything so what do you look for the tank will typically drag hold you to one of the corners to bait the NPCs into that area now you're going to be starting probably over here ish seed seed seed and you have to follow the tank a little bit so just make the slightest move so you're still in range now all around you there's gonna be like icicles dropping from the ceiling icicle icicle icicle for demo and affliction just icicles falling from the ceiling and the first thing you're going to look for is a goddamn fire goddamn toasty fire you're gonna get goddamn toast near the fire and you're gonna start cranking Shadow bolts into this into this mob because you want to get the singed Stacks into 25 as fast as possible ideally before the first storm power goes out that is that is ideal if your tank is bringing hodir to the melee so the melee could go ahead and just hit hit hodu as much as they can that's really good because melee can also apply singing Buffs but not not all guilds do that so some just have the range run over to the fire but don't get too close to the fires you'll put out the fire and you'll pull up singed debuff on the boss just put it up it Stacks up to 25 I recommend getting a week or the tracks uh all three of these Storm Power the the haste buff and the singe and we stack to 25 and then what are we looking for we are looking for a beam to stand on there our priorities are toasty fire to 25 maintaining that stack if their Hunter's not gonna do it you do it because you'd rather get the hard mode kill where you could get a cool staff or something then have to wipe six times because your Hunters are being hard-headed so you you keep up the fire if it's gonna fall off be the hero that the guild needs not that they deserve so keep up the stacks as number one priority say all sacks are up we find a beam of light we stand in it we do damage you could kind of hover around the sides and bathe the icicles in a way or you can use a beam but look for beams without a lot of people in it that would be ideal because if there's less people in your beam then there's less likely you have icicles and the less movement you have to do the more uptime you have that is the name of the game is uptime now Storm Power now Storm Power this buff is what determines how much damage you do on the fight you need to find this buff if you want to do lots of damage every single time it increases your crits block 135 and in conjunction with singe and the haste buff you're going to be pounding in 80k Shadow bolts uh six or seven times in a row just crank crank crank crank crank you're gonna be doing like 20K DPS it's gonna be fun it's gonna be sick everyone's gonna be like how the hell are you doing that so it's gonna pop up say you have some Rogue and your Rogue gets it and ideally your Rogue runs it out to range because range scale so hard with the Buffs in this way that these like running out to reaches like rocket booting he's just flinging the buff around and you're when you see that first Storm Power come up if you want to do damage you get there I don't know where it is you get there that that is that is the new priority is 25 sacks of singe Storm Power buff beam and once you get this buff and it only goes out to six people you get the buff you find the beam and you start blasting cranking and you call for Salve if you need it or you shatter you use your own threat reduction before you call for cooldowns never never call for cooldowns and if you call for a cooldown you say blank Paladin Salve me don't just say I need a salve No One's Gonna sell you no one no one cares everyone's in their own world you need to say I need like blank give me a salve now and if they're on it they got you but just to remember one more time singed 25. then Storm Power and then haste buff if you can actively manage getting these on the boss you will have an insane parse on hold here this is one of my favorite fights to the tier in this in this log I managed to do so I I did 19.2 K and I had really good positioning I was able to crank also for another another Pro tip you could snipe decimation on the flash freezes also need to add in here that flash freezes are more important than any of these more important than any of these you need to get the flash freezes that is extremely extremely important but this is your priority order as as a DPS like a lot of people mistake they see the beam is go for it first no this is the last priority once you have everything else once you have everything else if this isn't out yet then this moves up but this is out it goes it's a dynamic list so it's it's a lot but this is one of those fun fights of the tier for casters so keep an eye on out on that and that's that's about it for hodio right now if you have any more questions please please let me know or ask in the comments thorum so Mr thorum uh the ads literally they don't matter the ads don't matter it only counts the damage you do on the boss that's that's that's it so you gotta just do big damage on the boss and this fight is very RNG based because say your guild puts you here if you went in the tunnel and you hit the top and jump off sometimes your pet gets stuck up there so I recommend at the start of the fight while you're all in the arena drop a port wherever you're going to be hopefully your guild positions you close to the Sun and then you take your demonic port to get down faster and your pet typically follows you after you pour it so like you need to do that where you'll have to read some of your pet and there's a volition that's 10 seconds and you basically lose your damage on for the week if you kill the worm that way because not having your pet's a massive UPS laws so pour it in the beginning you get into position and you start doing your rotation and I recommend just staying into in that like blizzard spot beforehand because if you the blizzard starts happening in your area like on top of you you're just gonna have to move forward so you can just start a little bit closer and that's fine but you can't get too close or else you'll chain chain lightning and then everybody will be pissed at you but despite this very RNG based on blizzard and lightning charge if you get a lightning charges sent into your area then you're going to be moving moving moving moving moving moving moving and you're gonna have bad up time so this fight is very getting a good person it's very very RNG based but there's not much you have to look for here because it's Mo it's just standing and cranking make sure you're on top of your survival abilities Health Zone death coil Etc and once you move out during a lightning charging like charge goes off Kaboom kaboom support backed and start your rotation again but form is pretty straightforward Berea now Freya is a complicated fight and it's complicated because Freya uh all of the ads count towards your parse so how do we do more damage to Freya now her the damage on Freya before the third phase doesn't count in logs so it doesn't matter if you're keeping your dots up on her the entire fight the things that matter are the ads in each of the faces now I will go through each of the phases and talk about what I look for and what I do but I am a more teamish oriented player so I typically do more damage to things like the big tree and The Roots but if you really want a parse you have to be a huge rat about it and not really focus those things as much I would not recommend that do not do that please do the mechanics but in the timeline that we're at this is what people are doing to get high Freya parses and I'm going to talk about the ninja is over diverse spawns the mushrooms mushrooms give a damage buff you look for a free mushroom you stand under it you snapshot your corruption with a 25 extra damage and you do your normal rotation this is pretty easy there's nothing really you can cheese here if you see a tree you go kill the tree if not you just keep fighting I'm not sure many damage to the boss now when this dies the mushrooms are still here say you get the triple pack next you could snapshot a percent damage corruption on all three of these and maintain it which is more damage than just seeding them but say this isn't here I like to put my dots up on the snap Lasher haunt UA corruption and just seed the hell out of it because that's more damage you can also put UA up on the other two but these the water sphere dies very quickly and the stopwatch usually does last make sure the snap Blaster dies with the others but it's not there's not that much you could do that will change things in in this phase besides we have the mushroom up it's it's not really there's just three targets try to keep your dots upon them and then the detonators uh they are not complicated either and there's like 20 of them no there's like 10 of them I don't know why I said there's 20 of them but as Affliction I put corruption up on two of them to try to get eradication process and you just see them and hopefully he drops your Port away they're exploding you move out you get a seat or two more and then they just die and then you move on to Freya herself most people just use the river drop a port here move across move across drop little seed things Port move across and then it's pretty simple it really depends on if you get like where where your mushrooms spawn your dot management and kind of the raid positioning to determine how much of a parts you get I don't think I've had a really good Freya Parts myself like I've gotten like high 90s low 90s but it all it all comes together somehow I spend a lot of time looking for trees and Roots because that's just what I do and high damage in those is what satisfies me so we like being useful to our raid and having people thank us now Mr mimron now there's a lot of debate in this this fight now let's look at what actually counts for damage in mimron uh basically everything the assault Bots the fire Bots the I don't think that actually I don't think the junk Bots count let's double check that oh junk Bots do count so all the little ads count in this fight but let's just go over face by face real quick first phase straight forward the tank typically it takes over here to the button you're spreading out for Napalm shell you're assuming your normal rotation your tank moves around the room to the other side there's a flame torrent and there's no more fire and this you can't really optimize this first phase it's just don't die and do as much damage as you can on the body and the second phase uh people typically lust the second phase you just don't die and pump your damage into them there's not much you could do there either third phase air phase this is when the optimization can come in there's all the ads there's the fire Bots there's the junk Bots there's the bomb Bots there's the assault Bots uh as a demo I like putting my pet on the assault bot so I can keep up the want to pack for the raid same with Affliction I'll throw my fell Hound at this pet or at this because if you're tanking the head or if you're just damaging the head your pet's kind of useless I look for opportunities to put up dots on junk Bots while moving corruption for eradication or description for molten core either way and these will die a lot faster because of it and you'll take aggro off your healers which is better for the raid but this phase typically lasts pretty quickly and the damage on the ads is the difference between a high parse and semi-high parse and then also your management of the third phase the third phase there's the head the body and the legs and I've seen people put dots on the head dots on the bottom and Seed the middle and that does pretty solid damage but I like to just dot dot dot as Affliction but as demo I like to seed because we don't have as much as powerful of dots but obviously once you get like one if if one is bigger more like more HP left than the others then I would swap to that I'm a single Target with with decimation procs and make sure your poppy meta I also wouldn't Emma Aura in this phase I don't think it's worth it but Affliction I multi.all three and as demo I would see it because our dots do less damage and that makes things easier but mimrod is just optimizing the Bots and surviving and making sure you have a rocket boots for this fourth phase is really really clutch and having a decent amount of portal position where there's not much fire would also come in handy as well now I made a video about VES already so I won't talk about that long uh if you want to optimize your rotation check out my other video on how to do more damage on Des as a caster but you're just gonna optimize Shadow crash only cash and cast in The Shadow crash as either demo or Affliction you just cast in the crash and you'll do lots of damage uh you do your modified rotation until the Animus comes out although everything you have on the Animus normal rotation and Miss dies you kill that six that's about it you just have to master the modify rotation which I went over in a previous video uh for affliction you'll use drain soul to keep up corruption use UA Agony doom and for demo you'll be smashing your soul fires while keeping up dots corruption emulate and it's uh General Dez is my second favorite flight hodu is my favorite fight so uh if you have any other questions just let me know now Yak yog is weird as well uh first of all if you're not doing zero light your parse instantly counts for Less so uh that's cool but all the tentacles count the Guardians count uh I guess the damage you do on your friends when they get mind control also counts I just learned about that like right now so that's very neat you need to have Supreme uptime the entire fight on every ad possible so Guardians and the Guardians in the beginning you need to just make sure you have your dots on these as they're coming in they die very quickly it's not very fair I know but you got to maintain your dots and that'll quickly transition you into the next phase also look out for kicks as well and then in the next phase you just have to position yourself in a way where you can do damage to the crusher tentacle and the corruptor tentacles like I would position myself between these two and Dot there dot there pound shotable to that throw my pen at the other one throw out some kicks as well managing between those they die pretty quick and then the last phase I would throw up a corruption on the immortal Guardian here's some eradication procs and just pump pump into yag and honestly nothing really changes between demo or Affliction for this it's just you need to have the most uptime you possibly can to have a good parse and you also need to do zero light because the difficulty of the fight really determines what party I've seen people die immediately in thorum but they do hormone thorum and that's like a free purple parse even if they died so that's just that's just how old are works all right Mr algabong uh the things that count for algalon are the stars the Stars count for damn it damage to them living constellations don't count uh and the dark matter at the end counts so the thing about the Stars though is that if you're damaging the stars and your Hunters trying to manage the the black holes the explosions uh you're probably over your raid so you don't want to do damage to the Stars maybe later when people Master the fight you'll be able to do damage to the Stars throw up dots I saw a foji video rank one world Affliction he was putting like UA and Corruption on the Stars unless you're told that you can do that I would not do that although that will increase your damage so first thing I do is kill kill algalon and figure out your raids limitations then you can find out if you could do not to the stars do not put dots in the stars I repeat do not put odds on the Stars unless you are told you can but these dark matters in the sub 20 count uh in logs I pulled up our hunter from our algalon kill another day to show you collapsing star damage counts in the logs and for my Inferno I dropped it on the unleash Dark Matter so the Dark Matters count this fight is all about using all of your abilities to survive Shadow War at hellstone death coil Port when you're near a cosmic smash so your goal is to survive and then do damage and maintaining your Dotson rotation while doing while doing all the survival stuff like kicking with your foul Hunter on the constellations is what really separates you this fight's not really a parse fight but two parts you have to play very very greedy so once your guild is comfortable with this fight I would look towards parsing it that's about it hey guys thanks for making it this far into the video that was very long-winded and I hope it helped in some way made you think about fights in a different way maybe things that you haven't considered before but I spent a good amount of time trying to plan this out and I really want all the warlocks to succeed there's a lot of us now we're a growing family and there's no way to go but up right now so if you like what you saw Please Subscribe check me out at twitch and uh I'll think he got you next one peace

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Length: 34min 5sec (2045 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 06 2023