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Undocumented change in the 3.1: Target Dummies now have souls.
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April 15th, 2009 - 22:22
LOTS of souls actually. You can fill your whole bag.
April 15th, 2009 - 23:19
Oh, believe me, I did! I went from two or three to an entire bagfull in just a few casts. It was aMAzing!
April 16th, 2009 - 04:01
Haha, i thought it was a joke when a friend told it to me yesterday!
Now i know what i will do later do get it done quick, hihi
April 16th, 2009 - 09:40
Yeah, I was lawling about this while doing some dummy testing as well. I’m not sure how I feel about it if they leave it…
First of all, dummies having souls makes no sense.
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Secondly, anything having more than one soul makes no sense.
However, they both add up to making shard farming a lot easier
April 16th, 2009 - 10:45
Granted my lock is only level 17, so forgive me if this is a noob question. I thought a soul shard was only created when the target dies? The dummy never dies…you just keep attacking it…man my brain hurts.
April 16th, 2009 - 11:37
Blue changed the Drain Soul mechanic in 3.1. It now has a chance of proccing a soul shard on every tick, rather than simply upon death.
This will be awesome for raiding warlocks! I remember when we were learning Archimonde, we were so hard up for soul shards that our dual-boxing rogue parked his Draenei warrior outside the instance portal so we could drain her on our way in after every wipe. ^.^ Granted, that was after three or four hours of deaths and no raid trash … but …
<3 the new Drain Soul!
April 16th, 2009 - 14:42
This is definitely easier than flying out to the nearest town that has high enough level mobs. Even easier with Glyph of Drain Soul =D.
April 16th, 2009 - 14:58
How often are the shards forming for you guys? For me it was kind of random…I’d do a full cast of drain soul, and sometimes I’d get 3 or 4 shards, then other times I’d get just one 1. Plus, it seemed to be happening randomly throughout the channeling. Is this how it’s working for you guys?
April 16th, 2009 - 15:59
Me too, kavika. I don’t know if anyone’s attempted to theorycraft it yet, but it feels like there’s a chance to proc on each tick (two, with Glyph of Drain Soul), and no internal cooldown.
I wasn’t counting, but it felt like a half dozen or so channels was all it took to have my 28-slot bag (I haven’t upgraded, but I raid Affliction!) filled to brimming.
April 17th, 2009 - 12:39
Wow it has a chance to proc on all ticks? I need to level my warlock…
April 20th, 2009 - 10:04
The blues have also said they’re not taking the proc away on target dummies. So yay