This trinket summons barrels with like 200 hp and when you kill them they explode for 800kish damage split between all targets. The problem is that you have to target the barrel and hit them with a ST attack/spell to make it go off. Cleave and AoE damage won’t explode them.
So here’s my question. What is the best way to kill these on demo? Should I be using my demonfire bolt procs on them? Seems like a lot of wasted damage. Should I cast shadowbolt on them? Half the time they expire before I finish casting. We have no instant casts damage that is ST, so what should I be using?
Can my felguard’s auto attack break them? Should I make a macro for him to attack it (or does someone have one that works)? I just don’t see any use for this trinket as demo (even though the potential for damage is there).
Any help or insights would be appreciated.
Personally I think that trinket is a sim trap. Yes it has good damage potential but in actual practice it’s very hard to get full benefit with it, especially as demo. If you use a slightly lower dps trinket you’ll likely get similar results once you account for the actual lost damage of not utilizing the barrels perfectly.
If you do want to use it tho, I would have your Felguard attack them. That’s probably the easiest and fastest way (assuming he can, but I believe it does work) Just a quick /petattack command and you’re good
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I second Sil where it’s just a SIM trap since it’s practical use is not very forgiving. I would could a pet attack macro for the felguard to charge it when you see it spawn if you wanted to keep it though and care about your damage.
+1 for sim bait. Get something else. Save yourself the headache.
Personally i’d ignore the Sim bait/trap posts, you just have to use it right. I built a macro and WA for this for desto and aff which allows quick toggles to pop the barrels with only using one gcd and re-targetting your previous target before the GCD is off CD.
Mine hits for 1-2m depending on crit and usually accounts for 2.5-4.5% of my damage not including the huge int stat. Note the macro changes depending if you use wither or corruption.
With corruption and wither its an instant pop, with immo on destruction its not worth using.
Macro is:
/focus
/tar Backfill Barrel
/cast Wither
/stopmacro [nodead]
/tar focus
/clear focus
Replace wither with corruption if using corruption
WA can be imported with this string:
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It is 'bait’y in sims, as it has the keg instantly detonate upon the target(s) without needing to be hit, so it over-performs by about 0.3-0.5% vs actual use [Unless this has been fixed over the last couple of days].
It’s not bad, but more of a ‘Do I really want to deal with an extra mechanic for every fight instead of just using a near-equal stat stick trinket’ situation.
If you’re still feeling like using it, something like this should work:
/tar Backfill Barrel
/petattack
/targetlasttarget
*(“/petattack [@Backfill Barrel]” has also been working)
To be fair - if you’re in this position and doing end game content then you shouldnt complain about a mechanic about having to hit a DPS increase keybind every 20 seconds.
And if you are complaining about having this extra mechanic - which to be fair is hitting a keybind every 20 seconds and you’re worried about your dps decrease (which it doesnt - it increases) ytou probably dont need to be worrying about it at all as your game play wont really effect the final outcome of the fight, just an ego loss when you dont top a meter… and lets be fair - outside of Cauldron and One Armed… you’re not topping meters.
But in saying that - if you have House of Cards - which again is an ON USE trinket, its the same time and gcd to hit the button.
Personally I now run Moxies and House of Cards because I can make it line up with my burst windows as AFF and control the procs, but im in the fortunate situation of having both.
Regardless in a month this is a non topic as most warlocks will have HoC, Moxies or Eye of Kezan through the absolute meme of dinars. Grats you all get your non well earned myth track trinkets for free.