Issue 200 special: Pooky Runs Deadmines!
What better to celebrate the 200th issue than my first ever completion of deadmines! Pook went to Westfall to farm linen/wool at a spot that Nibuca suggested. Linen dropped slowly from a couple of mobs and a lowbie turned up and as I don't think it's fair to steal lowbie kills I decided to just run Deadmines. None of my characters had ever got as far as VC due to groups wiping or high-levels running out of time. I thought VC would be a big tough guy, he's just a little human. Cookie looks just like a normal murloc. All the boss monsters dropped BoP blues that were worthless to pook, at 10s they weren't worth taking as vendor trash. Pookie finished the run with:
- ten greens for Maexyn to disenchant
- four stacks each linen/wool, bringing Maexyn's first aid up to 70, tailoring up four levels.
- two green macaws for Maevyn's pet collection.
Warlocks are OP
When Maexyn got to level 18 she visited the Warlock Trainer in Stormwind and found one of the rarer demon trainer guys (I don't think there is one of these in ironforge, he's outside in the dwarf village, a tedious run ). It turned out that her voidwalker was overdue for training in Consume Shadows (useful out-of-combat heal) and Sacrifice (exchange voidwalker for a shield buff). The odd thing about Consume Shadows is that the voidwalker stands where it is and waves it's 'arms' about for ten seconds so Maexyn has to remember not to go into combat! Haven't tried Sacrifice yet.
For herself she got to make Soul Stones. These are nice, with a Soul Stone up, if she dies she doesn't have to do a corpse run, she can ressurect herself at the point she dies. She still gets the durability hit, she loses her pet, her buffs and there is also the possibility that the place she died is swarming with monsters such that she can't resurrect without promptly dying again. If she is doomed and going to use the soul stone, best to start running.
With the next ranks of Affliction Talents Maexyn gets 15% mana back if her enemy dies with Drain Soul running. This is quite easy to do and she can:
- Pet Attack
- Immolate
- Curse of Agony
- Corruption
- Life Tap
- Drain Life
- Drain Soul
and end the fight on very nearly 100% health and mana. The Voidwalkers's health may be dented and it will need a Consume Shadows every few fights but still it is very efficient.
The Warlock can handle pairs of mobs ok. I tried using fear for a while but I'm not sure it's worth it, just DoTing both mobs up and burning them down is good enough and fear takes time to cast (during which time she is being beaten on) and starts the fear dice roll where you don't know where the feared mob will run (and they run a LONG way). The Fear tool tip says damge may break fear which is not the same as a Hunter's freezing trap where the slightest bit of doT damage WILL break it. It seems ok to DoT and Fear a mob (and vice versa). Handling three mobs is tough but I found Maexyn can handle camps much like Maezyn can: if there are four mobs in a camp, cast a DoT on a corner mob to pull and most often it and one other will come running and two can be dealt with. Just like a hunter, NEVER send the pet into a camp, PULL!
Maexyn has been grinding in Westfall and Redridge. I couldn't be bothered to tackle the Westfall murlocs again (the quest where you have to run all up and down the coast) but I found the murloc quest in Redridge much easier, using the underwater breathing spell to kill countless murlocs in the lake.
The lowbie areas seemed very busy, as if a lot of people have started new alt's. The Westfall linen grinding site was almost always occupied and it took time for Maexyn to get her quota of Defias. Maexyn got lots of group invites, one right in the middle of a big murloc fight. I don't know if people send group invites (unwhispered of course) while you are fighting just to wind you up (there was nobody nearby trying to help). One guy challenged her to a duel while she was levelling her first aid thirty levels so I just left him hanging by not pressing the button.
WTB /dnd to work with group/duel invites.
She's just one hour away from having a Succubus although that one hour is proving hard to spare.
Peter's Moblog
In Ironforge, the Demon Trainer is in the building next-door to the Warlock trainer. As you're facing the building, it's the next building to the right.
There's also a warlock/demon trainer in Rachet. From the flight point, head away from the docs, past the first building and up to the next building. You'll eventually have a couple of quests there.
Being a warlock in an instance is different from being a paladin or a hunter. I found it to be eyeopening (that said my warlock's first instance was Uldaman).