Affliction in raid
- Ruthe
- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min read
This week was affliction week. The guild started raiding again after a christmas break. I was very worried since I don't have a spec that I'm good at atm. So I used the week to get better at affliction, upgraded my items with valor, spammed torghast, bought a wow token and made legendaries. I now have a ST legendary and an AOE legendary. Before the raid I used 30 mins or so at target dummies to train my single target rotation and opener. It turned out that I was not able to reliably keep up the buff for the ST legendary, so I ended up raiding with the AOE legendary. If I can't do it on a dummy, I sure will not do it in a raid.
The first few bosses went ok. When the fights got more chaotic, I struggled a bit. But we wiped a few times on each boss, and I got better for every try. There were often some extra mobs or balls or something that made the AOE legendary work, to be able to funnel more damage into the boss. But when we came to the pure single target fights, I did really bad. On the guardian fight, my dps was very low, and I felt really carried. I think I might have to learn demonology or something to be any value on that fight. I don't need to be the best dps, but I don't have fun if I feel carried. I did end up with two green, and 5 blue parses. Happy with that.
The next day I tested out stuff in the raid finder Sylvanas fight. It was perfect because we wiped a lot, so I got a lot of data. To my big suprise I did much higher dps as affliction than demo. That is actually good since I have invested much more time learning the spec. I also tested destruction. Still my least favorite of the warlock specs. So I performed best with affliction, then with destro (with some padding on the adds), and demo came last.
Ulveblomst finally got to max archivist reputation. That grind was way too long.
The feeling that I'm left with now is kind of strange. I have fulfilled the goals I set, and feel that I am not super motivated to play more right now. I feel that Ruthe is ready for 9.2, and it would probably be best to just take a break and wait for that, and start the patch with more motivation when it hits. But who knows when 9.2 actually releases. It could be months from now.
Goals:
Choose a spec for the next tier (done) (currently chosen: affliction, but can still change)
Get max kyrian renown on Blomst (done)
Get max necro renown on Ruthe (done)
Get max rep for archivist codex (done)
Ruthe status
Specs
Main: Affliction
Off-spec: Demonology (for pure ST)
Off-off-spec: Destruction (for low dungeons where stuff dies too fast)
Ilvl: 241-2
Legendaries:
Malefic wrath 249 (affliction ST)
Satchel 262 (affliction anything else than ST)
Wilfred (for destro and demo)
Synergy 235 (old legendary)
Covenants at maximum:
Night fae
Necrolords (predictions say that necrolords might be the best affliction ST covenant in 9.2)
Ulveblomst status
Specs
Main: Currently resto, but moving towards feral
Off-spec: Feral
Off-off-spec: Guardian (when doing high elites and stuff)
Off-off-off-spec: Balance (not sure I will continue to play this)
Ilvl: 247ish
Legendaries:
Lots of stuff...
Covenants at maximum
Night fae
Venthyr
Kyrian
Ruthe as affliction
18+ Halls (pug)
18+ Halls (pug)
19 Sanguine
18 Spires
Tarragrue heroic
Eye heroic
The nine heroic
Remnant heroic
Soulrender heroic (progress for Ruthe)
Painsmith heroic (progress for Ruthe)
Fatescribe heroic (progress for Ruthe)
some wipes on Sylvanas raid finder
Ruthe as destruction
Sylvanas raid finder
Ruthe as demo
Some wipes on Sylvanas raid finder
Ulveblomst as resto
18 halls. Had the wrong covenant and no conduits. Got hit by 1000 statues. Was a terrible run that did not deserve a screenshot.
Did a new painting. But after some research, I found out that fanart is actually illegal. Even though most companies does not care as long as you don't earn money from it. So this will probably be my last one.
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