AFF GO BOOM! 💣 || Affliction Warlock to KSH 

The potions on the ground during the Gorak Tul fight are used to burn the bodies of the adds he spawns to prevent them from resurrecting, if memory serves. You walk over one, it gives you an extra action button, and you target the ground where the adds are piled or something like that. Probably only matters on particularly high keys or with particularly low-geared groups.

Fun fact for ranged: In Black Rook Hold 2nd boss, if you get the eye beam mechanic, you can just spam jump in place and you won't take damage as you take damage per second and jumping allows you to spend less than one second standing in the eye beam. Not really ground-breaking but it makes it easier to have space to move for affixes like Storming or something.

You see, what you do with the fel beam on 2nd boss in Black Rook Hold is you show your melee some love by drawing a cute little heart around them.. with each beam It's always really nice to see you improve from one episode to the next as the challenge progresses. That's probably one of my favourite parts of these challenge series. Hope you guys have a lovely Christmas and enjoy some time off in the coming week!

Loving this series. Super fun to see you start from scratch and build your way up. Your perspective is super relatable as well -- I love seeing how you overcome the challenges and hurdles along the way.

If you press Fel Domination just before the key goes in, it resets its cooldown and you keep the buff when the key countdown starts, so you can quickly summon your pet and have Fel Domination ready.

Your videos are lovely lol. Thank you for creating them. I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel!

That shaman wasn't toxic until you responded to an innocent, helpful question with a needlessly passive-aggressive comment. He literally asked if you needed the item -- all you had to do was say "yes."

I just discovered your channel and I have to say I love this format of video. I feel compelled to watch the whole thing and I’m eager for the next episode. Bravo.

I just stumbled upon your videos, and man it's relaxing and fun to watch this! good job :D

Im not gunna lie this makes me wanna play retail but then you really run into your own hang ups haha I wish I could put them aside but you make it all look so easy, you seem so talented

Yes, that trinket is bis for single target on ele shaman, the lfr version beats a max ilvl branch. You were indeed being pretty toxic and ignorant to argue with someone over what their bis was. Them being willing to sell it to you doesn't mean they wouldn't have used it.

hunter is the same. i have to summon my pet at the start of every.single.key.for.fucking.years.

looked through comments abit, but couldn't find anyone else sayinf this. When you get abit more comfortable you can start using your curses (of tongues, exhaustion and weakness) Curse of tongues in particular is VERY strong on some bosses and mobs especially if you amplify curse before it giving your group alot more time to kick. It works on all mobs that have interuptable casts. Hope this helps and keep it up! ^^

That trinket is good for everyone, even at low ilvl.

Some tips: 1. Never SoC without Unstable Affliction on the target 2. Prioritize UA, Vile Taint and Soul Rot over SoC spam, you can spam when the setup is done 3. Try to sync more your Vile Taint and Soul Rot cds.

Just a quick possible tip for Waycrest, since you mentioned you may visit this place often. On the Lady boss stay as far away from the Lady as possible. Her "dance" mechanic supposedly targets 3 closest to her people (I did that today on my priest and it seemed to work, but maybe I was just lucky).

I had a 480 warrior join a normal Fyrakk kill. Rageheart dropped and he won the roll, yelled that he was selling it for 50k, and left. I wasn't tanking, but it sure leaves a bad taste, especially for the tanks, to see that happen. I just wish we'd go back to personal loot over rolling for non-guild runs.

On Demonology, you can use Eye of Kilrogg before the keystone is activated and you will keep your pet, if the pet is summoned beforehand ofc. Does this not work for Destro and Affli, cause i´m not sure, haven´t played both of these specs in M+. If it does, there´s your tip :D

Whos that cheeky aff lock who aoed small adds on gauntlet in Throne of the tides and then complained about 17 stacks?)

Simplicity in messages lol “you need that trinket?” Is all I say. It’s either answer with a trade window or a “sorry yeah”

another great vid mate.. i love to eat and watch this

Demon hunter this week doesn’t feel as good, the thrill is gone.

Someone has already commented that fel dom CD gets reset on key start. But also, if you start a key with an active pet it gets removed and you have to cast it again. But if you sac it, that is a BUFF that does not get removed on keystart. TLDR, sac it before and forget about it.

I got some brain dmg when i saw my name in healing details at tindral :))

Nooooo the 99 roll swooping in! 😢

M+ is always fel hunter, don't let anyone else tell you different and raid i always use imp, let the pallys do the interrupts 🤣. Pre SS someone before a key u get a free one if you do, dont always help but has 100% saved a brick in the past so its worth doing it, theres an addon to remind you if you keep forgetting.

Aff go Afflac . . the car insurance? haha Great Episode again!

Excellent format! Keep it up, I like that you are taking this challenge and making it a story for us. Looking forward to more story!

Hey! Affliction is one of my favorites. Just fyi, you can cast fel domination before the key starts then quickly summon pet when key goes in, and still have fel domination off cd for another summon that way.

Im a simple man. I see an afflic warlock in my keys (or anyone from ragnaros,quelthalas or azralon) i leave.

I love your UI. Do you have a video on it or some links? Is it ElvUI that you modified?

Fun fact for Rezan shadowmeld cancels it on EVERYONE not just if youre the one being pursuited

I looted the fire trinket from Tyndral. Watch me, a demolock, making my way to the packs and fire that shit up x'). It is ridiculous lmao !

Probably won’t see this, but you can use fel domination before the key pops and it’ll still be active when the key starts, but it’ll be off CD already; allowing you to insta summon as well as still be able to quickly resuming in case you die quickly. For a nice defensives you can Dark Pact into mortal coil, or you can soulburn into healthstone. Yes, fel Hunter is what you sacrifice for M+, in raids you can do voidwalker for the extra defensive

on the pet thing: when ur about to start a key, you can channel eye of kil'rogg while its going off and you already have a pet active it will keep it active as the dungeon starts.

Loving the series so far!

Hey! Second boss in BrH you can just stand in one spot and jump and miss every tick of the damage! That way you don't spread the fire everywhere and it becomes way more manageable!

Soulstone cast in Atal'Dazar went off but you soulstoned yourself. :) Happens, keep pushing dude!

New sub love your editing :D

I am an affliction main. 2.7k rio. I will tell you the opener on aoe because watching this is burning my eyes lol. UA > Haunt > Vile > Soul Rot > SoC Single Target: UA > Haunt > Corruption > Siphon Life > Vile > Soul Rot > Drain Til 3 Stacks > MF - Then maintain dots whilst MF. If you have Crescendo talented (You should have) you may get procs which will boost your damage by a mile. Don't take darkglare, its not worth it.

One thing I’m noticing is you’re saying you’re getting boosted and you can’t keep up on damage but you’re not saying they’re ilvl compared to yours. They could be 460 and you 450. That’s a decent difference. From one lock player to another.

if you use fel ddomination right before the key is started you have the reduced summon when you need to summon after key has started and the cd on fel domination is reset. = free fel domination

The same thing happened to me yesterday. Killed fyrakk heroic yesterday. The mace dropped and someone got it and was whispering everyone they could have it for 150k gold...

I suck at wow and barely play it, but this is so entertaining to watch

Has anyone apart from me realized that the evoker that took the trinket with a 99 also took a curio with a 98? That guy was using all the luck from 2023 in one single day xdd

@Dillisan in m+ you should usually sacrafice the felhunter for an interupt. If you dont need an interupt, like in some raid bosses, then you wa t to sacrafice the voidwalker, as it gives you a nice defensive ability that increases your hp.

Trinkets are very specific in certain fights. Once you upgrade an LFR one it isn’t that much worse than a heroic one.

Hey bro! You can use your fel domination before the key start ;) So you can have it back, at start of the key, and the fast summon buffs remain.

warlock main here, played affli in season 2 to 2.5k rio and now demono 2.7k rio (meta slave :P) i see you improving and makes your vids fun to watch. you inspire me to also play more alts. Some advice to make affli go boom more, you got the right spec for it. (doomblossom at the bottom left of the tree) on AOE open haunt and put Unending affli on mob then go seed spam you will go boom that makes an afghanisation terrorist jealous or seed and 1x vile taint on continue booming. on singel target, your opening is good, but hold off your darkglare, you need to set up vile taint first and soul rot, after you can open darkglare. more extended dots. take my follow and keep up the nice vids :D

I raid mythic as an ele shaman and my man in LFR probably went just to get that trinket. It might actually be better than branch even with the ilvl difference since branch has fallen pretty hard in our sims and belor'relos is our bis, but it really doesnt make sense when you can get a few better trinkets from m+. Needing on augury was just troll though its not good and never has been whereas its better or bis for many other specs. Some people just like to collect trinkets even though they'll put on the same 2 and forget to swap ever again. I even passed up on a heroic augury in my vault for mythic tier this week and I don't have belor'relos.

telling an idiot he cant use mail hands on a paladin isnt being toxic....

That Throne of Tides Gauntlet hurts alot if you do not let that dot drop off. Normally my tank will pull 1st sentry with trash, than wait for 2nd to pat up to the goblins and hit them their, than last the 2 at the door. If yo uwait a few secs for that ticking dot to drop off it doesn't hurt as much as you actually might live.

Hey mate you are doing good ^^, I play aff for fun as well, the only thing you need to change in your talent is summon darkglare by tormented crescendo, It will add some difficulty to maintain your dots but it will give you free Malefic rapture when you drain so more ST dps :).

u CRed yourself with the soulstone xD the purple buff left from the minimap ^^

This video serves as the prime reason why I haven’t played affliction warlock…ever

As far as loot is concerned, in the end everyone is allowed to need on things for whatever reason. We all pay the same sub for this game. So if the shaman needs it to sell, shard, vendor or smear his boogers on the trinket... he has every right to do so. That said, it is utterly frustrating to have that happen to you and if it were up to me we'd have personal loot back in LFR yesterday.

Noice, good improvement also for the 2nd boss beam in BRH you can just jump in the same spot, until its over, not sure if intended but has worked for the last few weeks for me or you can draw some lines whichever you prefer.

You can precast fel domination before the key is put in and it won't go on cooldown but you still can use it to summon your pet faster

ALL specs can go KSH. However affliction is one of the worst specs in the game right now. It lacks a massive single target damage profile which u will not have during tyrannical weeks.

Does anyone else randomly have the Grimore of sacrafice button constantly reset without dying in m+?

Pretty cool videos to watch. Currently doing the same thing you are with a non meta character(ele shaman) definitely feeling the pain with low ilvl and no tier set

9:40 you can just jump while the beam is on you so the room is clear and you wont get hurt

Hey Dilli! I got my 460 firemage and you are doing so much better than me. I just cant get used to ranged mechanics when you get interrupted every single cast, and if you need to kick some cast it ruins your whole rotation. Vengeance dh 3k main here)

btw you can sac your pet before you activate the key. Also if you get shadows embrace on your target it will then make you seeds do more dmg to everything

was confused what to do on retail atm, since my main is 483 and guild is taking a 1week break from progging mythic cos christmas but from your last video i picked up my ilvl 370 lock and rolled affli, looks and feels super fun

Proud of you, little man

The 2nd dungeon with the flasks is actually a healer job. so the DPS can maintain their DPS on Goruk Tul.

Soul rot, vile taint, unstable affliction, spam seed aoe dmg goes crazy.😊

Do i dare saying first?

If You have your grimoir activ, You Dont need to resum pet,grimoir lasts over Start Also You can use your pet skill while pet is activ Maybe You have to Check keybind If its binded in one or the other state But with elvui never Had a issue with

use fel dom before u start the key, the effect will carry over and fel dom cd will reset

What's the add-on for timing superblooms, rifts etc.? And for showing keys done on tyr/forti under the finder? :D

Youre series motivated me to try out Tanking with a DH. Im usually a range Main an its quite fun so far 😅

Once you get your 457 neck, you can upgrade your current neck up to 457 for "'free" (no crest cost) Currently one of your biggest weaknesses rotation wise is that you need to systematically cast Soul Rot together with Vile Taint (and Vile Taint alone every 2 casts) and extend both of them with the Darkglare.

i fucking hate that people with ilvl so much higher are even allowed to roll on shit like that.

For something to cry out when AOEing, try "take my seed!"

Use Burning Rush if you can't catch up i see you have the button and its a permanent sprint definetly recommended :)

As ranged on the 2nd boss in BRH if the beam targets you just jump up and down on the spot and it does no damage.

That healthstone, soulstone hurt my soul

on Lord and Lady you can agony the lady even when she's not there for some fat more shards

Please do research rather than just roll on w/e then proceed to qq at someone who has done the homework.

What are your m+ WeakAuras? They look very similar to the ones I use for raiding, but I can't seem to find them anywhere :/

Nice video! Loved watchin! What add-on do you use for your UI and Profile it looks so clean

Aff go plop

mostly felhunter unless an additional dispel on some boss / trash packs would be more beneficial. Can swap felhunter for Succubus on ST bosses and felhunter for imp on bosses with adds (but this is minor)

Remove the Siphon Life for the AB Corruption tbh. It's so awkward to juggle that SL in, on AoE .. and you get far more value from not having to do that tbf. Also, UA(Unstable Affliction) > Seed 1x > VT(Vile Taint) > SR(Soul Rot) > Seed spam! Watch the carnage happen and things dieing monster quick!

Btw in Throne of the Tides you should NOT use AOE abilities at the Sentry. If there is no Sentry you can aoe everything down, but if you are fighting a Sentry and you kill the Corruption mobs, each of them give you a stack of a debuff when they die which makes the AOE attack of the Sentry hit harder. So you just ignore them and ST the Sentry down first. I did that mistake as well at the beginning and it did not turn out well xD At 17:40 your group has 16 debuffs, no wonder you are all almost dying. Also the Corruptions just spawn passively, I don't think the tank can pull less there.

i love affliction, but it's a shame that affli wants haste/mastery whereas demo is all about crit/vers (and destro can survive with crit/vers), so unless I can persuade my guild to give me two gear sets, I will spend the rest of S3 as demo :

You can jump in place for the beam on the second boss.

Yo dude loving the series so far! Just wondering what addon is opening a wheel to access mount, hearthstone etc. looks very useful!

I'Ll do you one better with the LFR rolls. A few weeks ago i rolled 100 on a tset and someone else did as well. I was curious how it works out and then i just randomly got the item handed to me, while the other guy just straight up lost the coinflip. Things are rough :D Also, since I'm playing lock currently as well, you do absolutely not need to sum your pet after the key started. I just get the sacrifce buff before i even put in the key, and it stays intact. If I don't die, i got the same buff rolling in the next key too.

reasons like that is why i dislike the roll system in LFR they need to go back to the personal loot

The toxicity in m+ is just atrocious. That's why stopped pugging ages ago, I just do runs with my guildies and take one random person in the worst-case scenario. If we're going to have a pug and not looking for a big push as a guild rule we always look for off meta specs and try to help out low geared players. I remember trying to gear my rogue only through m keys during BFA, some people in wow community really need to get their heads checked.

At mouse over macros for soulstone, shadowfury will help, forget the sacrifice pet it's not worth it. Think about your personal teleport it's useful for every fight in some way but have to pre place it usually. Dark pact is just awesome.

honestly, I dont have a clue what the potion is for either, I dont think its overly important tho since ive been having groups completly ignore in on tyranical at +20s, I think its to do with adds, but the adds dont do much anyways

Balance go boom. Affliction on a mission. Affliction go tick? (because of the dots)

Dont for get this week there Black tempel TW who drop champ gear and in shatt is NPC with quest who give hero item.

This just seems salty hahaha love it

hey man, can you tell me whats the addon for the raibow cursor?

came here looking for good wow content,found retail instead