Originally Posted by tristantio
...in all likelihood the warlock's channeled mana drain will be dispelled after the first tick...
... since your warlock is UA spec he could simply land the UA on the target you want to mana drain, then have the viper sting applied afterwards. Against druids they'll still be able to remove only the poison, but a paladin may or may not dispel UA when trying to get off the viper sting, and take a nice chunk of damage as a result.
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I agree and should have added this to my post, a key competent of the mana burn strat is to have the warlock put up UA on all targets you're draining mana from.
That way viper sting & mana drain are very risky to cleanse / dispel. If UA is the only dot, the chances of getting it instead are high. Alternatively if you put up other dots you can lower the chance the mana drain/viper sting is removed, but this seems worse to spend extra mana to put them up when you know they're focused on just dispelling them (maybe use low rank dots?).