PigtailsOfDoom the Eccentric wrote:
I'd really recommend leveling up First Aid as a lock as well. After you're done killing mobs and you're low on mana, just lifetap 'till you're almost dead and bandage yourself. It really helps minimize downtime.
I still do this regularly at 80.
In nearly all purples, dailies, farming, and questing are easy kills - 2/3 casts (depending on crits) = dead mob. So I just kill until mana is down to 15-20%, lifetap a few times, slap a bandage on and keep rolling. Even in heroics if the healer is having mana issues I'll do this between pulls so they don't have to worry about topping me off from my lifetaps.
'Course if you roll affliction it's a non-issue as you can engage a mob at 50% hp and be back at 100% by the time they die. It's too bad the dps seems to be about half of my destro build =(
And to the OP, I just worked my way down the Affliction tree until haunt. After that I would suggest fel synergy and working your way towards the improved armor. I never really found "a leveling build" though.
Edited, Oct 20th 2009 12:48pm by Pantherfern