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Right about now I am starting to figure out how I want to spec my warlock. I have already tried 41 points in demonology, but I didn't like relying so much on my demon for DPS. As such I would rather spec myself to either affliction or destruction.
Right now my spec looks like this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?4502220012200110000000000000000000000000000505000510220510401200
I am wondering if I should go 31/0/30 or 30/0/31?
My question is: which would be best for raiding/instances with good DPS? Would it be keeping conflagrate or dark pact? I know some of you will answer that demonology will enhance my DPS the best, but as I explained before, demonology is not really my style of play as I don't like relying on my demon to do damage.
To spec more affliction would mean more +spell damage gear whereas more destruction would mean +crit rating/spell damage gear (DOTs dont crit).
This isn't a "destruction vs affliction" debate. This is more like "which would be more useful? dark pact or conflagrate?"
Additionally, which would be most beneficial overall for raiding/instances? Empowered Corruption or Shadow Embrace?
I would highly recommend dark pact. dark pact is a nice mana battery source. yeah, yeah, yeah, you can life tap, but dark pact is so much safer.
with how easy gold is to come by, try out dark pact and see how well it works with an imp in passive mode. then, you can respect out and see how it feels. i did that and had to respect right back to it because i missed it just that much.
with how easy gold is to come by, try out dark pact and see how well it works with an imp in passive mode. then, you can respect out and see how it feels. i did that and had to respect right back to it because i missed it just that much.
I was Demo for a while. I enjoyed the spec but I always found myself yearning to go back to affliction. I am now once again a full affliction lock and love it even more than I did the day before.
Take a look at my spec on the armory if you decide to go down a heavy affliction build.
Also dark pact just rocks. I think its one of the best talent points in the entire game. It has saved my butt so many times when the healer just can't spare a heal and its to risky to try to bandage (i.e. massive aoe damage spell or a dangerous dot put on yah). While you won't regain alot of mana, it definitely has saved my butt a couple times.
Take a look at my spec on the armory if you decide to go down a heavy affliction build.
Also dark pact just rocks. I think its one of the best talent points in the entire game. It has saved my butt so many times when the healer just can't spare a heal and its to risky to try to bandage (i.e. massive aoe damage spell or a dangerous dot put on yah). While you won't regain alot of mana, it definitely has saved my butt a couple times.
I agree, at first Dark Pact looked like a waste of time as I was a drain hunter, but I tried it and now I love it. As for emp. corr vs. shadow embrace, put one point in shadow embrace and the rest in emp. corr. The one point will put an extra shadow effect on the target, making you drain more health. Other than that, it's pretty useless.
Dark pact, especially since you'll get ruin in there, its freakin' awesome. My spec is 39/1/21 for ruin, but I could never live without dark pact again.
my question is pretty similar would get better dps AND better mana regeneration if i used this spec and sacrificed my felhunter.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?0000000000000000000002050300033040100000000505500510230510131300
or shoul i go really deep in affliction and get dark pact, not allowing me to as deep in destuction, which i love.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?0000000000000000000002050300033040100000000505500510230510131300
or shoul i go really deep in affliction and get dark pact, not allowing me to as deep in destuction, which i love.
My guild has been doing Kara and heroics for a while now, and I was also in your position a while ago, so I experimented.
I spent 2 weeks as full DM, 2 weeks as full Destro, and 2 weeks as full Affliction. Sure, when clearing trash, destro was nice. But on a boss fight, be prepared to burn some pots, before the boss is at 90%. (I dont like putting extra healing on our healers). I personally hated DM in instances, DM gave me the absolute lowest damage of any of the 3 builds. I also didn't like UA, for this reason: if you spec for UA, you get a 2 second cast dot for roughly 1k damage. A regular sb takes 2.5 seconds and hits for 2k+, and if you dont spec for UA, instead grab ruin, you'll occassionally get the 4k+ shadowbolt. I would rather cast shadowblots for 2k/4k than a dot for 1k in the same time.
This is my build.
Basically, the #1 talent I must have is Ruin. the #2 is Dark Pact, the rest sorta falls into place. I grabbed Emp Corruption and Imp CoA because theres a lot of fights where I cant stand still and toss sbs, any extra damage I can get from my dots is very welcome.
I spent 2 weeks as full DM, 2 weeks as full Destro, and 2 weeks as full Affliction. Sure, when clearing trash, destro was nice. But on a boss fight, be prepared to burn some pots, before the boss is at 90%. (I dont like putting extra healing on our healers). I personally hated DM in instances, DM gave me the absolute lowest damage of any of the 3 builds. I also didn't like UA, for this reason: if you spec for UA, you get a 2 second cast dot for roughly 1k damage. A regular sb takes 2.5 seconds and hits for 2k+, and if you dont spec for UA, instead grab ruin, you'll occassionally get the 4k+ shadowbolt. I would rather cast shadowblots for 2k/4k than a dot for 1k in the same time.
This is my build.
Basically, the #1 talent I must have is Ruin. the #2 is Dark Pact, the rest sorta falls into place. I grabbed Emp Corruption and Imp CoA because theres a lot of fights where I cant stand still and toss sbs, any extra damage I can get from my dots is very welcome.
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