[Guide] Demonology Warlock Guide For Soloing Instances

[sp00ken]

Im going to be going over the following things on how to solo instances as a demonology warlock

1) Spec
2) Buffs
3) Pet
4) Instances


So this is how you spec...

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Fairly simple spec, must have meta or this is pratically useless.

Buffs
Must have Soul Link, and your armor. If your going to be doing low level instances then I recomend demon armor. If your going to be doing higher instances then I recomend Fel Armor mainly because of the health regen

Pet

Once again if your going to be doing low level instances, you HAVE to use voidwalker because of the sacifrice ability. Instances that have alot of mobs (dire maul, stratholme, sunken temple) I would use felguard mainly because of the charge and of the demonic empowerment.

Instances

Im not going to cover all of them, but just some of the basic's...

Rfc, Vc, Wc,Sfk, Bfd, Stocks, Rfk, gnomer - You mainly are going to use void walker and pull as much as you can. Dont use pet to attack because he will 1 shot most of the mobs and you will get no loot. So you mainly have to go up to each mob and hit them with your bare hands (dagger,stave. etc.etc) Just remember to keep up void's sacrifice at all times. A simple void sacrifice and a RAIN OF FIREEEEEEE will kill these mobs. But since you have meta why not use it and go imm aura.

Sm, Rfd,Uld, ZF, Mara, St, Brd, lwbrs - Here you are going to use your felguard. Keep demon armor up and just keep pulling as much as you can until your pet cant handle it anymore. Meta then imm aura then a quick soc then rain of fire and all of the mobs will be dead I guarentee .

Dire Maul, Stratholme -Aye my favorite two instances. Believe it or not warlocks can do pretty dam good for a clothie in these two instances. Im going to start off with stratholme. You MUST have fel armor on. These guys give you a debuff which makes it so that you cant eat, or heal yourself (you can use healthstone if you really need to but fel armor helps alot). Your going to use felguard in a situation like this because of the fact that most of these guys stun (depends on what side) Just have Demonic Empowerment ready to go and your all set . Remember to keep shadow res up. As usually a meta and imm aura and a soc then rof . You might have 1 or 2 mobs that are still up just spam inncen until dead .

Ramps, Bf, SP, Ub, Mt, Ac - This may be tricky depending on how geared you are. Im basically naxx 25 geared so I cant really pull as much as I would want to be o'well. Just dont pull to much, If your ever do pull do much and your pet dies then just use Master Summoner and pray that will help. Its mainly the simple O'l meta, imm aura, Soc, Rof, (Inncc leftover mobs). You want to use felguard in this situation and use fel armor.

Unfortunately im not geared enough to do the later instances, so I guess this is the end of ma guide. Please dont yell something like REPOST, NOOB. I can assure you that this is not a repost and I'm just trying to help out any warlocks who want to have some fun. :wave:

[Gihelle]

You should have no problem soloing instances up to lv65 with any specs... speccing meta just makes it worse, actually.

With Destruction you should be able to burst everything down before they reach you, and with Affliction you should be able to drain tank the mobs and never lose health. As Demonology you can't really do either and your pet is unlikely to keep aggro off you.

[sp00ken]

demo you take them down quicker. I agree with you with affliction. I'm talking about mass pulling like pulling as much as you can. You can spec anything to do this but like I said demo takes it down quicker

[shaakz]

almost any instance up to 65+ is soloable like gihelle said.

[tooloney]

The way solo instances as demonology is very similar to you but ill add in some details, and maybe make a video when the servers come up.

First of all stock up on Swiftness Potions and bind them to a hot key.

Make a macro for meta + immolation aura and bind it to a hotkey aswell

/cast metamorphosis
/cast immolation aura

Use VW as pet and keep it on Passive. The only use for the pet for most instances lvl 10-60 is gonna be for the sacrifice.


Now the fun part: You want to run as far into the instance as you can without aggroing any mobs at all. An example is SM Cath. Run all the way to the door to the boss, and open it, then aggro the boss. Turn around and run like hell to the entrance, and pop your Switftness potion to get ahead of the mobs and then Sacrifice when you get about halfway back or farther.

When you are ready turn around, hit ur meta macro, and Rain of fire the sons of bitches.


Ill try to make a video of this, but ive been very successful all the way up to lvl 60 instances using this technique. However some instances do not work as well due to the mobs resetting, so you will have to adjust your technique accordingly.