don't dot him!Follow

LOL @ the guys in my guild who were screaming over vent not to dot curator until he was at evocation. No wonder they kept wiping.... :)

No point really, just made my day hearing all our "uber raiders" yelling over vent about it and not wanting to listen when I tried to offer advice. You would think people would do some research on a fight if they have never been before.

Erm I think they were actually right m8. The thing is you have to put a an amplified CoD one minute before his evocation so it will detonate throught it and you will gain 300 percent ( i think thats the number while he is in evocations but not sure I done him long time ago ) dmg increase. Other than that I found best way to deal with the fight to focus on adds. They can spawn quite quickly if you dont have good dps to burn em donw and you whipe. THEREFORE as a lock i was not wasitng time to put the dots on Cura which does only small amount of dmg to him and dps the ads. Shadow botl followed with searing pain or Shadow burn did it. During evocation you just nuke him with shadow bolts followed with Shadowburn at the end. Cura is gear check for most guilds and if you cant put up decent dmg on ads in certain time you fail. THEREFORE you nerf the dmg on ads if you put dots on Cura while you were supposed to dmg the ads to burn em down. Got it? I know that our guild famrs Kara now easily and therefore they use different tactics for Cura becasue they can simply outdmg the ads so they dmg Cura also while is out of evocation. But i am not sure if it is the same with your guild

Considering Kara is PUG territory by this point in time, I'd say your DoTs should be the least of their concerns if they were wiping on Curator.

Heh, I remember us downing him after I DCd while tanking him. This was a long time ago, probably 6-7 months, but it was great. I lost my connection when he was at like, 30%. I came back to a downed Curator. They got lucky though, my character apparently finally disappeared only 10 seconds or so after he went down.

First thing, the word whipe really annoys me, I mean most "internet shorthand" doesn't really get to me, but this one does. The thing is, I can't really tell what word your putting an extra letter into whip or wipe.

Seriously though, most guides I read about Curator, and the tactic my guild used when downing him, was to have the Warlock keep hin DoTed. We generally don't have great burst DPS, usually, if I was casting a SB, by the time it was getting off, the thing died, if the SB hit, it only did like 1/2 the damage it could have because the thing was so close to dead. If I Searing Pain, well, that's just not good damage for someone wearing FSW, and Shadow Burn, sorry, not part of my raiding build ATM, maybe once I get the +crit for Destro it will be, but from what I've heard, it really shouldn't be used in a raid.

So let's see, I can sit there and DoT adds, where DoTs don't run thier full course. I can sit there and Shadow Bolt adds, where I'm pretty much wasting mana, or I can DoT Curator, so when he does Evocate, my DoTs are still ticking and cause a crapload of damage, not to mention, at least someone's causing some damage to him in between.

Unless its a single instant pyro every 3 mins (AP/PoM/Pyro) I hope you're mages don't actually use that spell in a raid. 5x scorch to stack the debuff, then fall into the rotation of 8x fireball, 1x scorch. You can probably get 2 extra fireballs in when you pop icy veins, sometimes more if shaman pops bloodlust. Pyroblast is a terrible dps spell.

Bolts themselves can't kill anyone, though getting aggro from an add right after can. After the first couple times of downing him, it's better to just ignore the bolt tanking and let people do whatever - whoever has DoT's throws them on him between adds.

I have a question on this topic. When curator evocate's, do your existing dots do more damage, or would you have to reapply them. Also if you apply dots at the end of the evocate, do they continue to do more damage? I would assume intuitively that this isn't the case, but I've never fought curator with my lock.

To expand on what you're saying, the debuffs/buffs on a mob take effect per tick. The +dmg that's applied to spells is taken at the moment of casting, as are any buffs on yourself that increase damage done (Power Infusion), so changes in those will not make a DoT tick for more.