Infraction for awl2010: General Idiocy

Kaubel · 10/20/08, 12:02 AM

Post: [Warlock] PVE Raiding Compendium
User: awl2010
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t34274-r...day_questions/

http://elitistjerks.com/f15/a34-forum_rules/, #8

Original Post:

Hey everyone I'm a 70 BE lock on Hellscream US and like many of you have been struggling to come up with a new (viable) warlock pve raid spec. Here are some observations and this is my first post on EJ so please comment!

Since 3.0 patch Day I specced heavy affliction having heard it was revamped and could hold its own (Warlock - Talents - Thottbot: World of Warcraft). I wasn't very pleased with the output and how UA ran out before Haunt could really get in there. I tried all variations on rotation and could not get much higher than 870.

Next I tried destruction having previously been 0/21/40 for TBC. I saw that the power of shadow destro locks had been nerfed and fire seemed the new way to go. So I tried a fire-heavy build (Warlock - Talents - Thottbot: World of Warcraft). My dps increased to about 950 but it was extremely difficult to master the rotation in my opinion. Every revolved around Immolate, I would have to be careful for when I decided to throw in a Chaosbolt. Conflagrate didnt help my threat either =/. I oomed too quickly and had to life tap far too much. My empowered imp would oom quickly and would often die from the raid environment (too squishy). Backdraft was nice but one of the 3 spells would be another immolate for the better Incincerates. I decided to try yet another spec.

After reading on EJ about the Felguard/Ruin spec I decided to give it a try in ZA. I hovered around 1.1k dps and was second on charts after the well-geared ret pally (figures). The felguard wasn't squishy at all and did a good amount of dps. With corruption then shadowbolt spam I felt right at home like when I was 0/21/40.

I am debating whether or not to try a new spec and was wondering if you guys could give some feedback on it. I'm interested in a demo/destro build like Warlock - Talents - Thottbot: World of Warcraft. I would use a succubus for the 5% shadow dmg buff from 5/5 in the Master Demonologist talent and shadowbolt spam. The point that would have gone to the felguard would get me Devastation which would up my crit by a good 5%. The crit talents in the demo tree bring it way up as well, and my crit would sit at roughly 29% with the talents. I know that I don't pick up SnF in the destro tree and it worries me a bit. Any feedback/criticism would be awesome!

thanks