Posts with tag soul-consumption

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Blood Pact for affliction, demonology, and destruction warlocks. This week, Megan O'Neill completely devours a real-life box of cookies while listing out all the ways a warlock can heal herself. Om nom nom.

Dead DPS does zero DPS. We all know that saying. I introduce to you my Princess Bride collorary to the Dead DPS rule:

Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.

Inigo Montoya: What's that?

Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

The perfect description of what happens when a mob dies in an RPG aside, Miracle Max is right: mostly dead is slightly alive, and slightly alive means you can still do more damage. Naturally -- since we are magnificent, resilient bastards instead of glass cannons -- warlocks are quite excellent at staying slightly alive.

When the new 5.0 patch flips over on Aug. 28, will you be ready with glyphs? Blizzard is recycling old glyphs instead of making new spell IDs and charring old ones. Some glyphs are staying the same, some are new, but some share IDs with old Cataclysm glyphs.

Below is our list of new or changing glyphs for warlocks. This is not a list of changing tooltips, just which glyphs you ought to have if you want to automatically have the new glyphs when the patch flips over.

Warlocks have no new glyphs but do have a lot of name switching or morphing from old abilities into the related new ability. A lot of the warlock glyph changes shift into cosmetic minors.

Glyphs that are changing into new majors:

• Chaos Bolt becomes Burning Embers
• Immolate becomes Dark Soul
• Metamorphosis becomes Demon Hunting
• Felhunter becomes Demon Training
• Lash of Pain becomes Everlasting Affliction
• Imp becomes Imp Swarm
• Corruption becomes Siphon Life
• Drain Soul becomes Soul Consumption
• Haunt becomes Soul Shards

Glyphs that are changing into new minors:

• Seduction becomes Carrion Swarm
• Soul Link becomes Crimson Banish
• Voidwalker becomes Falling Meteor
• Incinerate becomes Hand of Gul'dan
• Death Coil becomes Nightmares
• Howl of Terror becomes Subtlety
• Bane of Agony becomes Verdant Spheres

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