The Shadow Compendium - Warlock PlaystylesFollow

I would like to add, that you really need to be at least in the upper 30s, ideally 40 (when you can get conflagrate) to really be effective as a firemancer lock. Before that I found affliction (hunter-locks) or DOT-FEAR were so much more effective.

hm... only one correction, your DoTs doesn't get stronger if your shadowbolt crits. it only applies to non-periodic damage.
otherwise it's about right, by the looks of it, it might work in PVP, althoug, I'd dump the points in imp.Shadowbolt and put 2 of them in imp.HS
I'll make it easy for me...

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?3500022512230115512012050320123200000000000000000000000000000000

that might be a better way to do it.

Edited, Feb 22nd 2007 1:27am by aByakugan

That's correct. The DoTs benefit from the effect but don't consume it.

I'm a sm/ruin lock with 4 more points in affliction after lvling to 64, but I was thinking the other about a different build at 70 for farming. It would consist of going down to nightfall and/or siphon life in affliction and backlash in Destruction tree, just working off of procs lol I dont know i was just messing around and saw it was possible lol.

I actually run this build and it's awesome...have 17 points in Affliction giving me 2 points in nightfall and 44 points in destro, giving me Backlash and Shadow Fury. Then I basically Drain Tank with this build.

Three other things that will really boost a Dark Pact build are 1/5 Shadow Embrace, 5/5 Fel Intelect and 3/3 Demonic Aegis.


1/5 Shadow Embrace - One point here to boost your damage done with Drain Life (via Siphon Soul)

5/5 Fel Intelect - More mana for you, and your imp. It's a much bigger boost for your imp, which means more mana do dark-pact away from it.


3/3 Demonic Aegis - Seems underpowered, but try it with Fel Armor up. It will increase ALL healing effects on you by 26% (after the talent points) as well as +shadow damage by 130. That makes Siphon Life and Drain Life that much juicier.






You have to give up Shadowburn and Bane to get it, but imo it's worth it. Don't think Improved Curse of Agony is worth it, as it does negligable damage anyways. Use Curse of Shadows, It'll boost ALL of your dots by 10%. The difference more than makes up for the damage, and you'll be boosting all other shadow damage in your raid. Not too shabby.

Edited, Mar 25th 2007 3:52pm by Banatu

Hey just thought about this um think about going all the way to ruin in destruction and then goto demonic knowlage in demonlogy not only do you get + spell damage but you get an amasing crit rate and damage out put. tell me what you think.

Cool. So basically, a build like this really would have some amazing damage output with Drain Life alone?

If thats true, then the lvl 70 warlock on Destromath that I was chatting with really wasn't exaggerating that his Drain Life was hitting at around 400 a tick.


Thanks for the spell damage coefficients link. Now I just need to look for a damage calculator that would accurately factor in talent point bonuses as well as set and other random bonuses.

This is a very helpful post, although after reading I had to respec my whole warlock.

Just a quick note to the Chain Reaction build:

This is no longer possible as Seed of Corruption cannot proc from another Seed of Corruption proc. You would thus have to

a.) wait for all the Seed of Corruptions to run their course

or

b.) cast a Shadowbolt on each target.

Mana Battery Imp: This is my build pretty much.

I'm a 43 lock, I can easily drain tank 2 to 4 mobs a couple of levels higher than me (depending on their type... Mage types tend to be a PITA as are hunter types). And on top of that it’s a damn fun build for pvp. I play on a PVE server.. but enough people have pvp on that its still a lot of fun raiding their towns...

Steps to fun *town* raiding:
Step 1: eye of kilrogg from semi safe place checkout who's "gettable" in town and where they are.. Try to be a bit stealthy (stay near buildings etc..)
Step 2: Charge in load up DoT's on whatever you can, SL on everything you can click on that’s agro'd you, keep running around, try not to be hit too many times..

If you can get SL on 8 or 9 targets you'll be being healed for a hell of a lot of HP every three seconds... it wont keep you alive if they all catch you.. But it'll help keep you alive for a bit longer.

Step 3a: H.o.T and run away laughing at the sudden chaos and confusion everywhere, and hopefully at least one or two dead players who have no idea what just hit them while they were getting their weapons and armour repaired or speaking to a quest giving npc, or chatting to an inn keeper. -Move to step 5.

Step 3b: Die (this is fine, I’m usually naked anyways :) )

Step 4a: Use an SS if you have one, but wait for an opportune moment when someone with pvp walks near enough so that you can get em. It's worth the instacast to put demon armour back on most of the time as the first thing you do.

Step 4b: Run back to your corpse, try and res somewhere out of sight and agro of anything.. Depending on how good your res spot is, possibly even summon your imp back, sort yourself out and regroup, then launch yourself out again at an opportune moment.

Step 5: Repeat from step 1 until you don't find it fun any more :)

Here's another way of fear grinding before you can get darkpact:

Get a mate who can heal and is willing to spend time helping you. Do not be grouped (although this might work very well indeed for group grinding if you are both the same level).

Simply DoT everything you come across one at a time, up to a couple of levels above you. You probably need to use every DoT you have, having +Spell Dam gear is a great help as well.

Have your Succy out doing DPS, she will be attacking the last mob while you’re DoTing up the next one, I usually click for her to attack once I've finished DoTing the mob up, just before I fear them and move to the next one.

As soon as a mob is DoT'ed up, click the attack button for the succy, and then fear them. The only time you should stop moving is when you are casting immolate (you should have instacast corruption asap for most builds really.. IMO)

Lifetap constantly for mana, your healbot mate heals you constantly, and if necessary helps if something goes pear shaped, or a mob comes back and the DoT hasn’t quite finished them off, and the succy's got a new target.

The main point is that you don’t even stop to loot... Yes crazy I know..

This method works best with beasts, but can be made to work with anything.. It's just a case of how close the mobs are together. Be prepared to get plenty of adds, which is great... More adds means more targets, if things really go wrong then your heal bot and you should be able to make it out alive... if not.. the healbot can use the SS you gave them :)

For the brief time I tried this method, I was hitting over 32K exp an hour... That’s not quite as great as it sounds... It's taking up two player’s time, and you're not earning so much as a copper for it.

If a higher level mate wants to help you and they can heal though.... Why not? :D


Edited, Apr 29th 2007 5:30pm by Dagormatix

never thought imp firebolt would be useful, but now that you said that, it makes sense. being lvl 70, i've gone affliction for leveling till 60, then respec demonology for 60-70. now i'm trying to find best suit for post 70. thinking about back to affliction/destruction. but afflitction/demon looks interesting.