Senin, 31 Agustus 2009

WoW Guide: How to activate Ulduar's hard modes

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You may have heard that a number of guilds have cleared Ulduar to Yogg-Saron already, which to me is perfectly fine. I like to think that a lot of good, properly-coordinated guilds will kill Yoggy this week, and the Blues agree with me. Of course, this week's Yoggy kills were on the easiest possible difficulty, so world first or not, it doesn't mean a whole lot in terms of fame and fortune.

This is the beauty of Ulduar -- if you want prestige (and the best gear), you have to earn it by flexing your raiding muscle and beating encounters on their respective hard modes. If you don't have the chops or the time for the highest difficulty content, then you can still beat the instance and see every encounter.

But, of course, you want those 239-level items.

So you should probably read after the jump and find out how to activate each boss' hard mode, yeah?


Flame Leviathan: Speak to the Lore Keeper of Norgannon first and select his gossip option, then speak to Brann. Leave one to four large colored towers up to have Flame Leviathan's HP, damage, and abilities scale. Four towers up is the hardest mode.

Ignis the Furnace Master: Ignis has no hard mode.

Razorscale: Razorscale has no hard mode.

XT-002 Deconstructor: When his heart becomes exposed, destroy it. This is a DPS race. When the heart is destroyed, XT-002 gains 50% more HP and does 30% more damage. Destroying the heart also heals him to 100%.

Iron Council: This encounter scales depending on what order you kill the NPCs. The NPCs will gain new abilities and do more damage depending on who's left up with them. Leaving the dwarf up last is considered the easiest, followed by the vrykul for medium mode, and the giant being the last add is considered the hardest.

Kologarn: Kologarn has no hard mode, though it's significantly harder anyway if you kill both of his arms.

Auriaya: Auriaya has no hard mode, so far as I'm aware.

Hodir: Hodir's hard mode is simply a DPS race. Kill him before three minutes are up to get both Rare Caches of Hodir; kill him before six minutes are up to get just one. He enrages at nine minutes.

Thorim: Battling through the Arena and engaging Thorim within 3 minutes causes Sif not to despawn and assist Thorim in the fight. Sif cannot be targeted and will nuke the raid.

Freya: Just like Sartharion -- leave her Keepers (up to three) up during the fight. She gains new abilities for each Keeper -- just like Sartharion.

Mimiron: Have someone sneak behind him and hit the Big Red Button. Pressing it activates an 8-minute enrage timer and increases the health and damage done by the vehicles in the encounter by 25%.

General Vezax: Don't use the Saronite Vapors to regain mana. If no member of your raid makes use of the Saronite Vapors, then after 8 Saronite Shards are dropped, the Saronite Animus will spawn. It's got 8 million health on heroic and applies a debuff to the raid that increases shadow damage taken by 10% every 2 seconds. Kill it and kill General Vezax for your hard mode reward.

Yogg-Saron: During the fight, if you've defeated any of the Watchers (Hodir, Thorim, Freya, Mimiron) before engaging Yogg-Saron, then they'll assist you in the fight, but only if you've talked to them outside their hall before you engage Yoggy. Don't activate one to four Watchers for scaling loot. The meta achievement requires you leave one or fewer Watchers up.

Algalon: Algalon has no hard mode -- he IS hard mode.

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25 Awesome Warlock Tricks

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Warlocks have a lot of tricks, and while they might not always require much skill to play (talking about SL/SL mostly), there's always things which separate skilled players over casual ones.
Perhaps you know all of this already, perhaps you don't. But it's always good to have an open mind and a few uncommon tactics so you can adapt to almost any situation.
I'm like Athene of the warlocks, giving away free tips. Read on to find out what hides in the warlock's trick bag!

1. I'll get this out of the way: use macros. There's plenty of them to be found, and a good place to start is my Useful warlock macros post.

2. I'll get this out of the way also since it's related to one of my previous posts. Get the Felguard Legionnaire. Enslave Demon is not completely useless - you can check this topic to see a list of cool demons which can be enslaved.

3. In PvP, always buff yourself with Detect Invisibility and Unending Breath. It's 2 more magic effects, meaning it might take 1 more priest's dispel or shaman purge to get your Fel Armor off of you. And those pesky Arcane Shot spamming huntards need to spam even more!

4. In PvE, you can break Fear on mobs by casting Curse of Recklesness (CoR) on them - it won't do much threat nor waste much mana, and the attack power bonus is negligible. When the mob is coming back at you, just throw another curse and he will run in fear again without the need to recast it.

5. If you send your pet to attack a rogue (or druid), even if he stealths the pet will attack him and break his stealth.

6. If you're using Succubus to CC in instances, pull with Searing Pain (or Soul Fire) for max threat. This is especially important for heroic instances: if your succy gets attacked it will probably get one shotted; if the mob goes after you it will give your pet enough time to reseduce the mob.

7. You can keep players in combat in arenas by sending your pet after them - they won't be able to drink. Also, if you didn't know, Star's Tears is the only drink you can use in arenas. Buy a stack, you never know.

8. You can banish druids in Tree of Life.

9. Always have your Felhunter's Paranoia buff on. There's no reason not to, and a lot of invisible reasons why you should.

10. You can summon yourself with Ritual of Summoning. Helps also if you get stuck behind objects in instances (happened to me in Shadow Labs on first boss when he feared).

11. You can Devour paladin's Hammer of Justice. Obvious, but often overlooked.

12. Spend 1 talent point in Shadow Embrace (affliction) if you can - it's one more magic debuff on your target - one more cleanse/dispel.

13. Use your felhunter to dispel Unstable Affliction on you - he won't take damage.

14. Banishing a warlock's pet will get rid of his Soul Link.

15. Get Boar's Speed.

16. You can cast curses on mages - some of them are retarded (sorry but it's true).

17. Spam Rank 1 Corruption to get that paladin OOM faster! Also spam it when the rogue pops Cloak of Shadows - it might stick on him and break his vanish.

16. Cast Siphon Life on hunter's pet - free healing ftw. Also, you can either cast Curse of Weakness to reduce it's melee damage, or Corruption (rank 1 is fine) for Nightfall procs if you specced.

17. If you have Dark Pact: when buffing up in raids, get your imp out of phase shift - tell your priests and paladins to buff him with spirit/mp5.

18. You can carry 3 healthstones of the same rank, if they are from 3 different warlocks, depending on how many talent points they put into Improved Healthstone. Also, you can make different ranks of healthstones for yourself in arenas, which is useful if the fight lasts a bit. Note: all healthstones share the same cooldown.

19. In arenas, summon Voidwalker first. About 12 seconds before the match starts, start summoning Felhunter/Felguard - spam Sacrifice and you should get the shield after about 5 seconds. If you have talent points in Master Summoner, it's a bit tricky - you can still get the shield, but it's really hard if you have latency above 300. Start casting about 8 seconds before the match then. This way, you should have the shield for the first 25 seconds of the match.

20. If you're low on health, use lower ranks of Life Tap.

21. If you're facing a wipe in instance, Life Tap to low hp and use Hellfire. You will kill yourself, but won't loose any durability.

22. You can cast Curse of Tongue's on mage's Water Elemental. If you're banishing the Elemental, try to Spell Lock the mage first (maybe also Fear if you're sure he won't break it instantly) so you don't get Counterspelled. You can also CoT + Siphon Life + Corruption to kill the pet.

23. If you see a warrior pop Spell Reflect, cast Curse of Recklesness. Congratulations, you're now immune to fear! You can also cast Siphon Life - it will heal basically heal you a bit due to Fel Armor bonus.

24. Hellfire triggers Prayer of Mending - if you're on full health, life tap and use Rank 1 Hellfire.

25. Recast Fel Armor on yourself before using bandages or Cannibalize.

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Ultimate WoW Guide Review 2009 - Is Dugi's Ultimate World of Warcraft Guide As Good As All the Hype?

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A lot of people have asked me if Dugi's latest version of his Ultimate World of Warcraft Guide actually stacks up to the hype. Well I've been a big fan of Dugi's for some time, so now that I've given his latest version a test run I thought I'd present an Ultimate WoW Guide Review to let you know what I think of his guide and it's new improvements.

So What Do You Get In Dugi's Ultimate WoW Guide?

Ultimate WoW Beginners Guide.

Interestingly, this is such a small part of his whole system, and yet this alone is better value than many other guides out there. If you're not a total beginner you might be tempted to skip this but personally I'd suggest going through it anyway as it's an excellent way to 'fill in any gaps' that you may have.

You get a full understanding of all the foundational and fundamental concepts and components of WoW that you'll need to progress to higher levels of the game.

Ultimate Horde and Alliance Leveling Guides.

Ok, now onto the juicy stuff and this is where he has made his most significant improvements. Firstly it is updated to level you right up to level 80 fast. Best of all is that Dugi's guide teaches fast leveling by questing so you will save a load of gold. You also get a comprehensive Talent and Gear Guide for all classes including the new Death Knight class.

Ultimate Gold Guide.

This guide includes video tutorials, one of which shows how Dugi makes 400g in only 20 minutes, now that's impressive! You learn many strategies for gold farming. I now regularly make 200 - 400g per hour using these techniques and sometimes even more than 500g per hour.

Ultimate Professions Guide.

Very comprehensive Professions Guide covering all primary and secondary professions. Dugi teaches the fastest and cheapest way for each profession to level up to 450.

Ultimate PVP Strategy Guide.

Do you love PvP action? If you're like me, you were hooked after your first victory. The PvP Strategy Guide teaches you step by step strategies to beat any class, no matter what class your character is. It comes with a complete Macro Guide as well which is a must for superior PvP combat.

Loads of Extras.

Dugi's package includes hours of video tutorials and audios, extra articles and a very active and helpful forum.

In-Game Leveling Guide Addon.

The In-Game Addon is what I really love most about the levelling guide in Dugi's new version. Somewhat complicated and cumbersom addons from the last version have been replaced with a greatly improved, much more effective automated in-game guide. It needs no installation and works on both MAC's and PC's.

It gives you vital information when you need it, from right within in the game. For example which quest is best to do next, the best way to get to it, the wisest way to spend your talent points, and lots more.

The Verdict

This is absolutely the most complete and thorough WoW guide package around. There are others who teach hacking and cheating which can leave your account at risk, but you'll find none of that here. Dugi's strategies are real, proven, legitimate techniques that really work and really give you the results you're wanting. All with a full money back guarantee which is nice. Dugi's Ultimate WoW Guide get's 5 stars and 2 thumbs up from me.

Brett Ganning is a keen gamer and World of Warcraft addict since 2006. Brett has written many articles, guides and reviews on all things related to WoW.

You can see the full and complete review of Dugi's latest Ultimate WoW Guide at http://wowbestguides.com/ultimate-wow-guide-review.php and many other articles, guides and reviews at http://wowbestguides.com

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