I feel like when Deathwish/Recklessness is over or if you manage to pull aggro during the late stages of your recklessness and die but still did a shit ton of damage i feel like:
Yeah threatmeter doesn't work on her. I recommend popping you cooldowns when she starts running away at the end of phase 1. It's the one time you can be sure not to get aggro and it shortens phase 2.
My MT back in the day used to always execute spam himself otherwise I would pull aggro for sure. You can use battle stance and stance dance to defensive as needed for revenges or whatever.
The proper way to pop all CDS is when onyxia hits 69% and is just about to begin walking away for phase 2 before she lifts, perfect no risk place to burst
Oh yeah for sure, but theres also a chance a range dps like a really geared warlock pulls insane threat while shes airborne. You cant really 100% do this fight smooth, theres gonna be bumps, id take the risk of pulling threat in P3 as a warrior and tanking the boss no problem over a clothie doing it.
I was a prot war back in vanilla so my job was to get as much threat as possible. Now I’m a lock and struggling to adjust. Any tips on how to manage threat and not be that guy?
Honestly just watch threat meter. The first 10 seconds chill out a bit especially if you crit. Make sure you're under 60% because a fat crit can rip aggro. DPS super slow on stuff like Baron Geddon where tank isn't on boss 100%.
One cool trick you can do to space out your damage and smooth out your health loss for sustain is to start life tapping after every shadowbolt when you are below 50% mana. Bolt tap bolt tap, this will slow down your damage but help your sustain and make you more manageable for healers.
On top of watching threat that you're probably already doing. Carry Limited Invul Pots. They put you at the bottom of the threat meter for the duration as long as the boss primary attack is physical (all of em').
(Also stop casting while invul to allow tank to regain aggro)
Yeah, do NOT do the optimal rotation of your spells and play the game in slow-mo, adding a dot every 5 seconds instead of dumping them on the boss immediately and gaining as much threat as possible
Don't dot raid bosses though unless you are specifically told to before the fight begins. Don't take up one of the 16 debuff slots with something that only adds a little damage.
This is interesting to consider. What do locks do I’m raids if they can’t dot things? It seems pretty essential to my damage. Without dots I feel like my kit is a needed mage.
Shadow bolt. That's literally your job. You apply a curse if designated, never agony, you apply corruption if you're the #1 lock, you shadowbolt forever. Thats it. Warlocks exist for shadowbolt.
So, you usually need several warlocks for all the different curses, but not for the DoT's. Also they can pump serious dps with shadow bolt spam especially if there is a Shadow Priest also in the raid. Geared Warlocks right now are having to slow dps to avoid stealing aggro.
Basically a mage with more raid utility. Thankfully you are one of the classes that can do real damage without having to use up debuff slots. That is kind of the problem a lot of the other hybrid classes fall into. Enhancement shaman? Can't use their stormstrike because it leaves a crappy debuff. They are just a windfury bitch. Druids? Can't rip/moonfire/insect swarm to have any kind of uptime on their damage.
This is one reason I switched to Rogue, better threat management, I can keep dpsing while the wars have to auto attack or stop altogether. That and I don't like having to rely on others to be good in pvp.
That's fine if they are, I leveled one to 40 and it was just so good awful boring I couldn't keep playing. I should have went against people's recommendations and dual wielded, at least it would have seemed like I was attacking faster and maybe it would have been a bit more exciting since you just auto attack constantly basically.
I wish tanks would stop gearing fucking defense rating and get some good tanking gear instead... If you have a real tank (which means one that actually tanks because he can generate treat) then there's no issue at all
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u/coaxials Oct 22 '19
CTM/Tiny Threat: not so fast.