REQ: How to do ZF as a warlock (boosting)

[Vyndree]

My warlock guildy ran my lowbies through ZF yesterday. She just siphon life'd everything and threw in some SoC's when she could get the cast off. My job was to take out the healing totems from range. It was fun watching her lifetap and her health continue to climb.

[Skuggomann]

Id go for this:

1. void walker aggros loads

2. SoC liek a madman

3. Shadowfury or whatever its called (the aoe stunn ting) so they dont all go 4 you until the seeds have blown uppppp

[Dor]

does anyone really ae zf? i mean like sm where you pull the whole instance? I pull half of zf with np with my pally, but those damn heal totems screw me up... more or less i just pull em and walk the grp around til they die now keeping them away from thier totems

using a 70 prot pally any better ideas/methods?

[Majestic_Clown]

I took my 4 level 39 Shammies after mega boosting through SM cath with my prot spec pally, needless to say it was a complete disaster.
I might take a level 63 warlock in there and have a go

[Ðeceased]

shweet I'm trying this as soon as i get back on wow

[Dor]

think having a macro on the shammies targeting the healing totems would help maj?

[Majestic_Clown]

yeah will give that ago thanks,

[Dor]

tried it.. just too many totems to drop when you pull 40 - 50 mobs guess ill have to stick with 10 or so mobs and work from that just seems like a big letdown after sm pulls/xp

[Ðeceased]

roight! so I messed around in SM cath yesterday with my warlock to see how effective it was using him
I have probably the crappiest gear out there atm so this was going to be interesting from the start.. 420 spelldamage around 6.5k mana and 7.5k hp.
I pretty much dinged him 70 and then left him whilst i did other stuff

at first I tried the VW thing, sent him round the courtyard collecting all the mobs, seems to work quite well tbh. SOC 3 times and 90% of the mobs die
moved up to the fountain same again, altho sometimes i had to cut the pulls short due to low hp on my VW :S
When i got the the room however my VW died cos i was being silly and i forgot to go shard farming before going through SM.
So i whipped out my imp and wanted to see what i could do without a pet.

I started by attacking small clusters of mobs with SoC and then moving on to the boss once i had cleared it all..
this was taking too long tho .. so i decided to try taking on larger groups
needless to say after a few wipes trying to go for too much I got the SM catch (inside the cathedral itself) down to 2 pulls with a 60% success rate.
I have now respected destruction, and should now be able to benefit a lot from shadowfury to aid me with this pull. (range might be a problem tho)
I can see it being very easy with a VW tho
For instances where mobs are more spread out I would suggest the 'old dot em up' technique. Affliction all the way here
Dot mania
One final point to using SoC on a warlock, for this kind of grinding regardless of instance. take off some of you spelldamage gear.. I know this sounds rly rly silly, but bear with me

SoC triggers after a certain amount of damage has been caused to your target. taking off spelldamage gear allows you to cast more SoCs before the first one goes off, which means you should be able to get a bigger BOOM! effect when they go off. I am not 100% sure on this but as I understand it ur spelldamage added to each SoC hit is reduced by a factor depending on the number of mobs/players hit by it, thus reducing your spelldamage should not affect the overall damage you caused (much )

[Bradster]

As the topic reads.
My team dinged 35 and I decided to try ZF out, but I can't see how it's efficient if your a warlock (or any non-aoe class).

Could someone that have done this give tips?

Thx

This is how I did it, Edit link won't work but works off my site. http://www.bradster.net/wow.htm


Not sure how warlocks have changed, haven't played since last July. But I thought ZF was pretty smooth. Also that place outside the hinterlands (troll area) is nice for farming groups of players while you grind.