P4 BiS ICC Guide - Affliction Warlock - Wrath Classic

hello everyone welcome to the long-awaited phase 4 Affliction best guide shout out to the people on the Warlock Discord for doing some great simming I'm gonna have a link down below that let's create a foundation for a lot of my own Summit I'll go through each slot and talk about the best plus strong Alternatives as you're building a set that can take down Pearl glitch kick at the end of the video I'm gonna go through which pieces I would gun for first in my sets I hope you learned something and if you like the video please like it below I put a lot of time into this and you liking the video makes me know you want more content enjoy all right everyone let's get straight into it first let's look at the actual sets themselves and this one here is going to be the horde set this one here is going to be the Align Set uh if you look very closely the only difference by now is a few of the gems and the bracers and this is because the 277 brainsters have 52 hit and the 10 embracers have 38 hit but they have hasten said so they seem a little bit better for Alliance because we could sacrifice that hit now going into the slots I'm gonna say right now you are not going to be replacing your togc4 piece until you get four piece of your ICC gear so get ready to look at your helmet your shoulders your gloves and your legs for a long time there is a world where you might drop Sky Weaver's robes or if you've never got Sky Weaver's robes you can use the crafted legs which are pretty solid with crate and hace as your fifth off piece it seems very similar to Sky Weavers you just have to make up the hit somewhere because the chat tier chest is a little bit less hit than Sky Weavers so that's just that to start out with and that covers your Helm piece because you're not going to be dropping your to your Helm unless you get to your home all the other Helms are irrelevant uh going into neck your current neck hopefully is whale or cry of the valkyr or maybe you're still using uh the 10-man neck from SideReel uh in terms of Alternatives there's two really good ones you can get hopefully pretty quickly and that's the 25 minute normal blood Queen shoker is Boe so there's gonna be so many gdkp's running in trade chat so these are going to flood the auction out they're gonna be a little expensive I I would predict they're like 35 40K the first week and maybe settle around 20 but we don't know yet there is a 10 man one soakly pendant which is very similar if you really need the hit there are some solid hit options like a pendant of split veins is okay obviously we want haste Amulet of style eulogy again another hit piece that you could use but blood Queens Crimson choker is the one we want on heroic this is the best snack for almost every caster and almost every healer so it's their super high competition here so I would focus on potentially getting one of the Alternatives bone Sentinels amulet is a very strong neck that not a lot of people are gunning for so if you don't want to buy it or worry about a lot of competition this is a solid alternative shoulders are pretty easy you're not going to be replacing your tear in terms of a solid off piece like maybe you don't want to go for the legs off a faster gut as the this off piece these shoulders of mercy killing are a solid one if you want to use it uh and most of the sitting that I did I couldn't really find a world where this was beating out the leg off piece so if you want to use this as your fifth piece that is an option but you're not going to be replacing tier you're going to wait until you get your 277 or your 264 or whatever the cold really matters if you're uh been pushing for a while or even doing uh 10 minutes you'll have a 258 version of jaina's Radiance to rate this intensity this is only a five eye level upgrade so it's very negligible I wouldn't worry about the cloak at all it's like maybe it's the only thing I dropped for the night and you're looking for something if you don't really want frostbinders shredded cape uh turn cloak or a great great cloak of the turn Champion is a solid piece in this tier Krit and haste is King I would always focus on items crit and haste over Spirit at this point in the game if you get enough critic dispute you can see down below here our haste is going to be as high as it could possibly it's a 1300 1400 is uh the amount where you get close to the the gcd so I would start looking at these crit pieces as it starts out scaling all the spare gear and there's so many of these pieces just have crit instead of spirit which is really good for us going towards chess you will replace Sky Weavers with tier chest you're gonna be losing a lot of hit so I would have pieces ready to supplement that hit uh robe awake nightmares what the Mages are gonna want I wouldn't really worry about this piece because it doesn't have any haste on it uh again rub the nightmare we don't really care it's literally just Sky weaver or tear if you want to use sanguine silk rubs that is an option you lose a lot of hit and you have to make it up for it somewhere uh demos are gonna be going for this wrestlers are gonna be going for this I would just focus on collecting your tier very straightforward Racers there's only two options in my opinion uh the ladies brittle bracers are really really solid and horde you're gonna have to get these to round out your hit and fold this so this is a piece that I would look for if you're doing 10 minutes every week either so bracers are super super solid so I would be happy to get these if you don't need the hit uh there's not really many other options besides that I mean that surgeon sleeps is super super okay but we don't want that crit we want or Spirit we want we want our haste right so I would go for ladies brittle or Farm your 10 minutes until you're blue in the face next is the weapon weapon is super interesting because obviously we want blood surge I think this is one of the coolest weapons ever created so I'm gonna be gunning for this in my personal this set but as you're building up towards that there are a few strong strong options and one of those is Dying Light Dying Light this is super super good weapon because we don't know how fast you're gonna be killing Lich King so that cuts out uh Arcus great staff and blood search so you need a weapon as you're building up and Dying Light is the one that I think I'm gonna be going for obviously I would like an offhand but I think Dying Light uh because it drops off blood Queens one of the easier bosses to kill on heroic in my opinion even though it's an end Wing Boss and it'll just be easy one for one because I'm not using any hit on my weapons right now because we're using The Sword and the offhand from tlgc in terms if you want to hit weapon a rigor mortis is really really good this is a one-to-one translation if you have the dagger for a bladed to ask or whatever The Horde version is and this is just a plug and play very solid weapon drops off PP a little bit harder boss but you should be killing it faster than you think uh there's also one other weapon that I want to talk about is frozen bone Spike this is going to be the initial weapon that can drop off of marigar which is a really okay weapon but it is an upgrade over the weapons that we have from togc so you might find yourself with the surplus of these and this is really okay as you're moving forward [Music] offense there's not really a lot of options here Shadow Self spindle's the best one because it's the only crit haste one uh this is an okay 10 man one if you need hit Sundial is okay but we want that crit instead of that Spirit and the rest are kind of irrelevant I don't really think any or even worth talking about but Shadows still spindle blows all of them out of the water there's a only two ones OSU probably using sprig and you need that hit but of course impaling Spike owns Sprague you know it's got that crit Haze we're looking for and Nightmare render is super duper okay very okay like you don't want it but you know if you have a surplus you'll take it just to have instead the this one is a solid the one Ruby Claret please run your 10 minutes there's a lot of good solid 10 man gear this is a good upgrade over petrified spring as well if you just want to point and play gloves you're gonna be using tear gloves until you get to your gloves I don't think any of the other gloves are worth mentioning even as an off piece I wouldn't even bother with it I would just make my life easy and go straight for tear so the belt is one of the items that is gonna have a lot of competition the belt has basically every Caster on it and some of the healers so if you want a strong off piece as you're building up lingering illness is like a super okay alternative and not a lot of competition on it obviously we want the Hayes over the spirit we don't want the spirit but if you need to get a belt because you don't have a belt from teal you see that's all right there's a strong 10 man one basically a one for one 277 to 264. that I would rather have this over lingering Illness but the inkling illness drops off faster got and I don't know how often you'll be running your 10 bands so you might run into a surplus of these faster than you can get a cauterizing cord or Connor rice cord sorry crushing cold rain belts is obviously will be wind over everything and it's a direct upgrade over any belt that we had before so we come to our best off piece and this off piece is shared with a few glasses so it's something that I would gun for early if it drops it drops off faster I got one of the easier bosses so that should be pretty easy to pick up most of you are probably using tier right now so you need this to kind of put on all everything else or you'll have to pick up the grafted legs to put on all the other tier pieces and make your life a little bit easier so I would take a look at how many of these drop and try to get one of these early on so you have an easy transition you'll be running into a lot of hit and you might want to reassess some items that you might have lying around the donut hit on it but I still think it's good to always get an off piece especially contest it off piece early now the boots this is going to be one of the items that I'm going to be going for really early myself now look at these boot options here there's these 261 four ones from normal which are basically these and you don't want to be doing the fight on normal there's these 10 man ones crit hit there's crafter ones crit hit another crit hit you have the hit haste ones from tlgc you have the hit Ace with some steel you see they're the same thing but renamed like there's not a lot of options here for haste now if you want haste Boots These are the only option and these are also super competitive piece that a lot of glasses want so these this is probably going to be one of my top four or five items that I'm gonna be going for myself as a direct upgrade over my foot pads of icy flow or my morning widow so very very good piece there's not a lot of options here you're gonna be running into a mandatory non-haste piece if you're not using these so or you just want to use your thgc ones ring is free exalted ring Farm your rep Farm it quick do your 10 men's or your 25 minutes the eclipse effect is insane nothing to say here now your secondary ring there's actually a few options now ring Raptor descent is another one of those items that a lot of classes share and Superbus but there are very good Alternatives if you're looking for a hit Hub valineer's other Signet is very solid because you know hit a socket so if you need the hit or want to hit option I would pick this up I wouldn't pick up loot because of the but memory of malgos is another one that I would eye and potentially pick up because this is a direct upgrade over conductive seal so really a few ring options but we get a free one so getting another one I don't think should be that high of a priority there's also this Cerise coiled ring which is the same thing as ring rapid Ascent but from 10 men so run your 10 minutes this is a good ring that I will try to be collecting from 10 man early on now let's run into trinkets now there is no contest that these two are the best ones phylactery and just watch four notches especially because we've been using Flair forever and Flair procs off of nothing sometimes you get like a minute and a half without a flare proc and it's awful and these two proc pretty early and pretty often so we want these obviously but we're not exactly gonna get so heroic potentially a week one we will get raw face down week one but let's explore some of the other options and I think one of the best options is never melting Ice Crystal which you can get when the week of release the Tuesday you could the dungeons will open you could start farming this and everybody should try to farm this on their Affliction log every day Unless somehow you get both these to speak one so this is an extra 920 crit on your corruption through the entire fight so long fights like like naragar we could roll the entire time Lady Death whisper uh rock face Fester God those fights where you can just roll your Chrome to the entire time this is going to be better than scale you're going to want to use this when fights where your corruption is going to be dropping and there's like transition phases perhaps I don't know maybe synergosa I don't exactly know that but just you're using a fight as an example maybe it's not better because you're dropping but having the option to have that much crit on your corruption throughout the fight is really good so I would pick one of these up quickly another one Merlin Spyglass if you're if you don't have a flare you'll be able to farm flare but if you don't want Flair because you're like I hate the proc this is an okay trinket I would use this if I did not have a flare and I only had a scale or something so keep an eye out for this in 10 minutes drops off if I think gunship maybe but it's one of the earlier bosses and it should be pretty easy to grab there's not that many Trinkets and I think those are the ones that are relevant I guess the only other one would be the badge one this one if you really need a lot of Hit the issue is this is way too much hit and it's gonna throw your you're you're gonna throw your gear off a little bit without my chip but the spell power pack is solid on demand you know you can't really complain about that otherwise you'll be sticking with what you got from last face skill and flare so I just want to talk about those trinkets now now that we talked about that I want to talk about which items I would go for first and I'm gonna go from left to right and I think the most important items not even close most DPS is gonna be your trinkets now phylactery and some Sims is swimming 450 DPS that's not a small amount of damage it is really good that's much for an object around 250 300 very good I would get it next would be weapons your weapon upgrades and your shrinking upgrades will always be your biggest now the thing is past that I don't think you have to worry about tear since tears locked behind Frost badges if you do all your Frost badge stuff the first week I think you can get maybe 90 badges more or less so I would be not worried about tokens for tier because you're gated behind Frost Badges and you can get them in 10 man the normal ones so don't really worry about tier immediately you have other things to worry about do not worry about the back you have togc back you are fine do not worry about your bracers there's a very strong 10 minute alternative to this even if you're horde and then you can just gem unveiled instead somewhere if you're really really missing that hit ring there are a few strong Alternatives I wouldn't worry about my ring either so in order of operation we are going to go trinket then weapon and then we are going to go for these two items are probably the most important slash most contested that I would go for beyond that I would go for the belt and then after that it doesn't really matter I don't think the wand matters that much but these these two items are going to be extremely contested and there's not a lot of alternatives for us because this is our best off piece you could buy a 264 neck or you can get it on 10 man so this is not a huge deal either it is a neck but I think these two pieces are very large and I think that's about it that covers everything I'm going to add some rules of thumb in the comments below talking about never break your four piece until you have four piece for ICC uh always crit haste over his spirit and I'll do a trinket order as well and that's about it for now hey guys thanks for making it to the end of the video this took a long time to put together and I'm always open to answering any questions or accepting any criticism uh on my Discord below if you like what you saw please 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Length: 17min 16sec (1036 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 26 2023