Other players will always try to break Fear as soon as possible and you will usually need all youre fears to just keep 1 player out of the fight and on the run.
The key is to keep moving away and out of his reach while you keep him feared as much as you can, youre Teleport Circle is a huge part of youre ability to stay out of their reach.

I don't claim to know alot about pvp but when I started pvp I had the exact same problem as you.

What are the caps for some of these stats?? I am 0/13/58 destro with 773 Res, 1319 Stam, 1909 BonusDmg & 20.01 Crit%, unbuffed and in full pvp(gladiator set). As a noob 80 who gruelingly leveled with a noob guild (but mostly alone since no one knew much about Wow, let alone locks), I've had to learn everything the hard way. I was told to stack as much res as possible for pvp, but there seems to be a limit as to how many Kharmaa's Grace(+20 Res) i can socket in any given set of gear. I know when i first started getting my gear, i was able to socket 2 gems in any given set, but now I can only socket one....what's up with that? Another related Q is do i really need all that res when i get more stamina? how important is it? are they related? I was also "told" that Hit and/or Haste won't make any difference in pvp....really? someone please educate a warlock at large =)

For the best chance of success in the arena, 700 resilience is the common place to start on my Battle group. Most successful warlocks I've seen on my BG are running around with 1100. Crit rate for destro you want to be in the upper 20's to mid 30's. If you opt to stack resilience there's a Kings Amber cut for resilience. you want 120 spell pen for pvp as it will cut through most racial that have the reductions you care about.

As a rule of thumb....
Hit (6%) > Resilience (700+) > Stamina > Spell Penetration (50-120) > Spellpower > Haste > Crit (25% - 35%)
The last two values are based on playstyle for myself. i much prefer haste to crit.

I'll note that the hit cap is actually 4% in pvp, but many classes/races have a 2% bonus (This is combined with an additional 4% on ret paladins leading to 10% chance to miss blood elf ret paladins).

Beyond that, you should never be socketing for defensive stats, one kharmaa's gem in a socket to pick up a bonus is probably fine, but the best way to survive in any situation is to be able to do more damage to the opponent.

As for caps, there are of course no literal caps on any stat, except hit, but I generally find anything over 900 resilience sufficient, depending on the exact team you're playing with. Spell power is of course an amazing stat and worth stacking over basically any other stat you can get, mostly due to how the item budgets work out. The conventional wisdom is to avoid splitting stats between haste and crit, either get all crit items or all haste ones. Personally I prefer haste, but there are certainly high rated warlocks using 30% crit sets.

Spell pen is of course required to beat the opposing team's resistance, so the exact amount required varies wildly depending on who you're playing. Some common numbers are: 75 for mark of the wild, 80 for mages without mage armor, 130 for paladin auras or priest shadow protection and upwards of 220+ for a mage buffed by a priest. And while applying Curse of the Elements will negate most of this, having to apply it multiple times really sucks, as well as the clutch fears on uncursed targets.

In short, get 6% hit (including talents), 130 spell pen, then stack spell power and haste or crit, depending on preference. Never socket stamina, and try hard to avoid socketing resilience.

Now the question is: Chaotic Skyflare or Trenchant Earthsiege? (Destro)

Chaotic.

ok im not great at pvp. im running a half and half gear set, pvp mixed with pve. im rocking about 6% hit. and i was kind of thinking of a build thats primary demo but almost runs the rotation of destro. coa>corruption>immolate>spam sb with fel guard out and im using glyph of meta, fel guard and life tap.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#IZ0GchkAdicsxuAoE00V

please any help would be very useful.

Demonology is generally not viable in arena now days. It is true it can take more beating and pet does OK dmg, but cast times are pretty long dmg it self is not high. You should stick with aff or destro for time being

1. Destro does not use CoA
2. Do not use Corruption unless it is going to be a long fight
3. Destro's ability to burst anything down (less now, but 4 shotting is not uncommon in the 1900-2100 bracker) cannot be matched by anything that Demo has sadly.

My suggestion to you would be to go Aff if you plan on doing anything but a wizard cleave comp for 3s and go destro if you manage to find a decent comp for 3s (Elem shaman and mage work well, a healer is typically used instead of a third dps, but this comp works well with the shaman healing in extreme situations)

As a caster with limited defensive mechanics (Teleport, HS and DC on a large cool down) Your way to minimize damage is to put the other team on defensive. Before they get to you, throw a curse of elements and an immolate up. by the time they hit you, your immolate will have registered and you should be able to use a Conflag to slow them and kite for a while, buying you some time. Now if you get a rogue or feral druid for example, be sure to set up your portal a decent distance away just in case you need to make a quick escape. Depending on how much damage you take through the initial stun, you may have to trinket the second one (in case of rogue) and throw a death coil to give you enough time to put up CoE/Immolate and conflag.

Warlocks have a HUGE disadvantage against rogues, and not too many can win against a decent player. Cloak of Shadows will screw you over, making them immune to everything you try to do for 5 seconds. Save your teleport for when he/she pops cloak because DC will almost guarunteedly miss.

Against another caster, it's about control as destro. As aff, throw a couple DoTs up and play the line of sight game. As Destro, you want to think about the outcome of every action. Do you wait for your CDs while giving them time to set up another burst cycle? do you chase after them with few cooldowns up? Once again, putting your opponent in defensive gives you the advantage, but players will not always react the way you want them to. Try to predict what your target will do, and compensate accordingly.

Regarding rogue fights, you will have problems, one thing i can suggest is laying down a portal and getting max range as you can in order to teleport and create as much distance between you and the rogue as you can. Likelyhood is he'll pop cloak while trying to burst you down so don't use deathcoil before you teleport if he pops it. Save healthstone (with demon armor up) until wound poison wears off if possible. At this point you want to load him up as either destr of afflic then control him. Fears/shadowfury/shadowflame(for the slow) utilized everything you can to keep him away from you.

If he uses prep and recloaks, try fel domination voidwalker sacrifice, you can find macros for this with a little effort or write your own.

Thats all i can suggest with my limited experience, all common sense, but somethings simple often take hours of dying to realise

Good luck.

I play my lock as destro, and it really isn't that hard for me to kill rogues (since I play one as my main).

What I do if I'm going toe to toe vs a rogue.

The easiest way to win is to have a voidwalker using consume shadows and using

/cleartarget
/targetenemy
/cast Corruption

works the same as a smashable sap macro. You'll almost always get a rogue out of stealth this way, or at least force him to blow his cloak -> vanish early. Make sure your voidwalker is on aggressive. That's the ideal situation. Then once he's used his cloak and vanish, all he has left is a trinket. As destro, you can use shadow fury, death coil, or fear to force the trink. Pick your poison =P

obviously that doesn't always work.

The rogue will usually open with cheap shot -> kidney. If he's envenom spec (which most rogues are), trinket that kidney if you have deadly poison ticking away, since you don't have to worry about being blinded. If he does blind you with deadly on you, then he's a terrible rogue and you should feel bad for losing to him. After you trinket the kidney, use your shadow fury and throw on corruption and fear him. 90% of rogues will trinket this fear. The reason you're using corruption rather than immolate, is because you have to try and put some distance between you and the rogue while he's stunned. He'll most likely cloak/vanish and reopen on you. This reopen you're going to have to eat, but if you have enough resil you should survive it. The rogue is down his cloak + vanish + trinket now. As soon as the kidney ends, throw up your death coil -> shadow fury (should be back up now). Immolate -> fear/howl of terror and finish him off. There's not much he can do now but roll over and die. If you're having trouble burstin him down, and he's closin in on you for another kidney, you still have your portal.

I realize that's an old post, but I've been looking at the same stuff, as I'm currently working up a set of pvp gear. From as far as I can tell, it really depends on what type of pvp you're doing.

For BG pvp, it doesn't seem to be nearly as important. Exlcuding non-heroic loot, your best bet is probably DFO or Phlyactery in conjuntion with whichever Battlemaster's trinket you decide you want to use. If you're not human, that changes a little bit obviously. In lieu of those two, a Muradin's Spyglass is also excellent. For Arena pvp, your spec and your gear has to compliment who you're running with. That's most likely why you see all different kinds of trinkets on the serious pvpers. The two Wintergrasp Trinkets (Flow of Knowledge, Platinum Disks) seem to be very very helpful until you start getting into higher levels of resilience from your Wrathful gear, after which their usefulness falls to the wayside.

Lastly, since the hit cap is 6% and you can get 3% from talents (which means you need approximately ~80 hit), there's no reason to take the 60 frost badge hit trinket at all. In fact, there really aren't very many Frost trinkets that are worth using. I've seen arguments made for the Corroded Skeleton Key, but I think there are better trinkets out there.

So after reading im thinking ill go with destro for pvp till i get better gear then maybe switch over to affliction. Anyhoo- ive read through and tried to find a good spec to follow but all the links i seem to click on are "not found" so... could someone link me with a good destro build for pvp?

Hey, I've had a long break from wow now, and I was wondering what the recommended haste and hit rating is in pvp atm.
for both aff. and destruction. I know it's a matter of choice too, but usually there are sort of an agreement on how much the minimum should be.

A "soft" cap for hit is 4%, "hard" cap is about 6%. I think, any number between 4% and 6% is good.
600+ haste is needed to make sure you will not sleep when outside of bloodlust/heroism.

I'm new to arena and really need some advice in the way of what addons would be the best starting point.

You will defenitely need Gladius or other addon with the same functionality to target enemies and track their health, trinket and cc durations.
It is also good to have a diminishing return addon like Gladiminish.
Also, as a lock, you need to track your debuffs and cooldowns. You can use any debuff tracking addon, but I like Power Auras for this and many other tasks.