BRD - AOE Heaven - 80k XP/Hour - 95 Gold/Hour (Post demo shout nerf)

[Hardcore Scape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntd006kPB-4

[aiedz]

Looks great man -- can you share mage/lock builds?

[Fuzzyboy]

Looks great - thanks for posting!

[nodoze]

Pretty darn amazing!

[Recap]

You make it look easy! I just hit 30 with the same team you got. But i really struggle with the aoe. Might be cuz my gear is really bad or its to early to start with aoe pulls. Tried some eye pulls in gnomer but i get destroyed every time I tried getting 6-8 mobs.. and these are the green mobs 4 lvls lower then me😂
Maybe i just need go get better gear and give it more time. But really thinking of replace the lock for another mage for more dps..

[Apatheist]

Your priest healing would be a lot more efficient if you used greater heal on the tank. Flash heals healing per mana cost is pretty poor.

[Cryptide]

Good job! Looks very clean.

If you dont mind I have a few questions/requests.

- Would you mind sharing your key macros so I can get a better understanding of how you play this setup(and hopefully learn a thing or two)?
- What do you use to show priest cast bar on your warrior?
- What frames do you have in the middle of your screen to supplement the blizzard frames?

[Hardcore Scape]

Good job! Looks very clean.

If you dont mind I have a few questions/requests.

- Would you mind sharing your key macros so I can get a better understanding of how you play this setup(and hopefully learn a thing or two)?
- What do you use to show priest cast bar on your warrior?
- What frames do you have in the middle of your screen to supplement the blizzard frames?

- the warrior just has a /startattack /cast demoshout macro that i spam all the time ( this macro is set to its own key and also shared with all the other casters AOE so when I start DPS I am only clicking 1 key for all accounts, everything else like "o shit" abilities I click since I am already clicking the heals near the abilities.

- all priest abilities are through the vfx + clique to heal setup, except for wanding which is shared with all the other casters.

- warlock has a /petattack + /cast [nochanneling] Hellfire macro shared with the mages arcane explosion keybind. He also has a single target macro which I can post later.

- mages just have arcane explosion set to the same key as warlock hellfire, as well as frost nova and cone of cold on different keys.

it could get a lot fancier with cooler macros such as frost nova into flamestrike shatter into AE spam macro but I haven't really bothered setting it up.


- priest cast bar is ELV ui on the priest, and I capture it on my warrior with VFX along with the raid frames of the priest so I can click to heal.

-the frames in the middle showing debuffs on nameplates is ELV ui

[Lyonheart]

So you are finding that spamming Demoshout is better than spamming battleshout? i have been doing one demo shout when the mobs are rounded up ..but battleshout the rest of the time. ( and i have to get one demoi+3 or 4 battleshouts off BEFORE any healing or dps..but if/when i can successfully do that.. my mages never take agro. I am nowhere near geared enough to pull the kind of packs you pull though..even when the mobs are green ( yet )

[Hardcore Scape]

So you are finding that spamming Demoshout is better than spamming battleshout? i have been doing one demo shout when the mobs are rounded up ..but battleshout the rest of the time. ( and i have to get one demoi+3 or 4 battleshouts off BEFORE any healing or dps..but if/when i can successfully do that.. my mages never take agro. I am nowhere near geared enough to pull the kind of packs you pull though..even when the mobs are green ( yet )

Based on a previous post, someone did the math on max rank demo/battle shout and for a party of 6 ( 5 accs + warlock pet) battle shout is better until the pack is 10 or more mobs. party of 5 (no warlock pet) the number changes to 8 or more demo is better.

[Mercbeast]

I'm curious how you're avoiding getting shield bashed on your priest. If I'm not mistaken, most of those dorfs shield bash, and your priest is sitting on top of them it looks like.

[Lyonheart]

Based on a previous post, someone did the math on max rank demo/battle shout and for a party of 6 ( 5 accs + warlock pet) battle shout is better until the pack is 10 or more mobs. party of 5 (no warlock pet) the number changes to 8 or more demo is better.

Dang it..i knew that..old age and short memory lol.. So for me ( no lock yet ) and my small packs.. what I'm doing is best. Got it thanks!

[Hardcore Scape]

I'm curious how you're avoiding getting shield bashed on your priest. If I'm not mistaken, most of those dorfs shield bash, and your priest is sitting on top of them it looks like.

I noticed my healer was sometimes being stopped from healing when I would start DPS right away on small pulls where my casters could handle being hit, but never when I build up threat on the warrior first he never gets stopped. I have no idea why it changes.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I noticed my healer was sometimes being stopped from healing when I would start DPS right away on small pulls where my casters could handle being hit, but never when I build up threat on the warrior first he never gets stopped. I have no idea why it changes.
I saw the same thing with the guardians/etc. that do that in RFK. Sometimes they'd bash my shammy, most of the time not. Sometimes, they'd bash one of my warriors. Was odd.

[smk]

I noticed my healer was sometimes being stopped from healing when I would start DPS right away on small pulls where my casters could handle being hit, but never when I build up threat on the warrior first he never gets stopped. I have no idea why it changes.

I am curious, i have 3 mages sitting at 22-25, is it really vital to have the warlock as part of the team?

[Mercbeast]

If a caster is in range of being interrupted when their interrupt comes off CD, they will turn and interrupt. I'm going to guess that it's just luck of the draw, since all your DPS is also caster based, the shield bashers have a 1/4 chance of getting the healer.

[Hardcore Scape]

I am curious, i have 3 mages sitting at 22-25, is it really vital to have the warlock as part of the team?

3 mages work fine and possibly even better, I just like having a variety for when I hit 60 + utility of warlock summons (for example I am summoning my guild to duke hydraxis atm) + eye of killrog pulls + soulstone. There Might even be way better builds that use the demon tree for improved sacrifice to regain a lot of the lost HP from hellfire. I just personally don't want to end up with a bunch of mages once I hit 60, although that might be best for farming gold like this.

[Sheiken]

3 mages work fine and possibly even better, I just like having a variety for when I hit 60 + utility of warlock summons (for example I am summoning my guild to duke hydraxis atm) + eye of killrog pulls + soulstone. There Might even be way better builds that use the demon tree for improved sacrifice to regain a lot of the lost HP from hellfire. I just personally don't want to end up with a bunch of mages once I hit 60, although that might be best for farming gold like this.

Please share your mages build? I am running same setup as you but with 3 mages instead of the lock. I did the talents a bit wrong and want to go more arcane as I only do aoe farming anyways except the bosses. I am thinking frost down to shatter and then rest arcane? frost nova into Cone of Cold into AE spam seems really bursty and good.

Are you having issues positioning your mages so that the Cone of Colds hit the mobs everytime? Cool videos keep it going! :)

[pinki104]

Do you have improved demo shout?

[Apatheist]

Here's an idea. Super fast XP and these mobs respawn constantly. Though you're not gaining any gold/drops.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whFHLNlroow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX7dY4_w2Jg



Please share your mages build?

The most important talent points you can take on a mage (for boxing purposes) are the first two points in arcane subtlety. Straight 40% reduced threat on arcane explosion for two points is huge.

[nodoze]

Here's an idea. Super fast XP and these mobs respawn constantly. Though you're not gaining any gold/drops.

...Heads up that there is a note in the youtube comments for one of the videos that this has been hotfixed but that could just be someone trolling.

If it is still out there do you think that is something a melee cleave team could also leverage (maybe to a lesser extent but still beneficial)?

[Apatheist]

With melee you'd have to enter the room and just do laps around chain pulling and LoSing with your healers. Should be doable but much slower xp/h.

I'm not sure it's really worthwhile either way. If I'm going to grind I want gold as well as XP. There are many chances in BRD to get item drops like warden staff or freezing band that will sell for a bunch of gold. It's an interesting idea maybe for boosting alts though.

[Vise]

I've been doing emp runs on my crew yesterday and today. ZERO exp for torch mobs. Kinda lame was hoping to farm it too :(

[Peregrine]

Blizzard nerfed it 2 days ago!