So I noticed that Veritas is the only guild on the server that has made progress in Gruuls lair, this make me a sad panda. Perhaps this is due to problems filling out raids in other guilds, I don't know but I wanted to help out by leaking some Uber Top Secret Veritas Raid Info. One of the more problematic portions of this fight hinges on that damn OP warlock, (nerf fear more imo). Here are some macros that I wrote to make the Warlock Olm tankage a three button process.

First off, for all you aspiring warlock tankers out there, get to know the fight in and out by reading up on the fight here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Gruul%27s_Lair

Here's a list of abilities you'll have on your pet action bar:
Wild Bite: 1500 - 5000 Melee Damage. Range: 10 yd. Cooldown: 10 sec. (Autocast by default) (Shared cooldown with Determination)
Determination: "Removes all negative effects from the caster." Cooldown: 10 sec. (Shared cooldown with Wild Bite)
Threaten: Produces great amount of Threat on a single Target. Range: 20 yd. Cooldown: 20 sec?

Depending on your tank situation, (we usually have two tanks and two warlocks on Olm) you may need to keep the "Wild Fel Stalker" alive to tank Olm. We typically just have Olm burn the Fel Stalker so we don't have to deal with him. If you want to have the Fel Stalker tank Olm, The Determination Spell will be your best friend.

Macro 1: For starters, right when the encounter begins I run straight at Olm and spam the crap out of this one to get aggro on the "Wild Fel Stalker" and keep him in range of the other warlock's Enslave Demon spell:

/target Wild Fel Stalker
/cast Curse of Shadow

Macro 2: Once I've tagged the Fel Stalker with CoS I'll start spamming this macro, just in case the other warlock tanking Olm gets resisted:

/target Wild Fel Stalker
/cast Enslave Demon

Macro 3: Once you have control of said Fel Stalker hit button number 3! By default he is on defensive and autocasts his "Wild Bite" ability. To keep the Fel Stalker up use "Determination" whenever it is up, this removes the death and decay dots that Olm Stacks on the Fel Hunter, which will kill it quickly if it is not removed. Threaten will typically generate enough threat to keep Olm aggroed.

/target Olm the Summoner
/click PetActionButton4 RightButton
/click PetActionButton10 LeftButton
/petattack
/cast Threaten

The "/click PetActionButton4 RightButton" toggles the autocast of Wild bite off so you can use determination.
The "/click PetActionButton10 LeftButton" sets the pet to passive so you can move him to the right location.
Once Olm is "threatened" set your pet to follow again and bring him to his corner, tank, spank, then rinse and repeat. (If you spam this button it will toggle the Wild bite autocast, hitting it only once will do the trick.)

Macro 4: If you have more than one fel hunter up, or Olm dies you'll need to kill it fast, whichever fel hunter is not currently aggroed on Olm should be sent to the mage to get nuked and disposed of.

/target Krosh
/petattack

And there you have it /ezmode. Now kill some ogres Velen <3

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Look um...

This is WoW. If you help people, how can you continue to look down on them from a lofty position, the fun in any RPG.

You're grounded from the forums missy.

Everyone is rolling horde to play Blood Elves =(

thanks for the info lit :)

Just a few more quality players and Kansas will definately be making cracks at Gruul & beyond. I'm quite happy about the drop of attunements on SSC and The Eye.

Great macros here Lit...especially for locks. Leaves out the surprise of exactly what abilities the enslaved pets have.

Though I do like to surprise our raids with things....teehee

Seriously awesome post.

TY!

Lit! L2Lock! Seriously

HKM = Drop WF totem for the rogues and GG ;)

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Look um...

This is WoW. If you help people, how can you continue to look down on them from a lofty position, the fun in any RPG.

You're grounded from the forums missy.

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what? Im not being elitist at all, these macros can make that encounter less hectic since that fel stalker can easily KO healers and wipe a raid, sorry you took that the wrong way

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what? Im not being elitist at all, these macros can make that encounter less hectic since that fel stalker can easily KO healers and wipe a raid, sorry you took that the wrong way

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He is just preparing you for the forums come July 17th.When this poor forum will be overrun with all the jaded L337 pwn'ers from other servers you will look back at that and scoff....other than that he was joking atleast thats how I see it.

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He is just preparing you for the forums come July 17th.When this poor forum will be overrun with all the jaded L337 pwn'ers from other servers you will look back at that and scoff....other than that he was joking atleast thats how I see it.

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btw....why did I quote a post DIRECTLY above mine?...I mean thats just retarded you know....wait why did I just quote MY post that is ALSO directly above this one??....its like one of those pictures of a guy holding a picture in a picture in a picture in a .....well you know.

If i wuz in kansas i'd kill mulguar, too!

Lit is a nub.

if by nub you mean awesome, then yes im a nub

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You did it twice, and one of them in the post complaining about it being retarded, FYI.

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I would NEVER quote the post above me though, thats just retarded.

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I would NEVER quote the post above me though, thats just retarded.

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Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever would I do that.

Look, one way or another these are rockin' macros, Lit. Catalyst initiated some new warlocks tonight and these macros made the HKM fight manageable. Thanks a ton!!
-Sensibleargs

How ridiculously random of you Sensi. I mean, groovy and all, but also random.

You should troll the forums more. It's great, and it makes you like a mini-celebrity ingame.