Is it my talent tree or my rotation or both?
My gear is also not top, a lot of things that can be optimized but I neeed someone who is very good at analysing stuff and can tell me what I am doing wrong here!
Just finished Naxx and was not really good with my damage.
I run a 30 Affi 20 Destruction Build.
And my runes are:
Pandemic, Soul Siphon, Master Channeler,Unstable Affliction, Shadow Bolt Volley, Shadow and Flame, Demonic Pact, Shadowflame, Fire,Shadow,
My rota is kinda trying to keep all curses on the main mob or boss and then spam shadowbolt. No idea if there is something I need to consider as prio or some bonus to keep up or get a free shadowbolt proc! Please be patient here and explain it if there is something important missing.
Thanks.
not gonna post in lock thread since its pretty much dead and not really much people respond there.
Thanks for your help!
shadow bolt volley is only for cleave/trash you play haunt on monotarget
and you play both lifedrain runes only if there’s another warlock in the raid to put the chaos curse
you need 2other warlock and a shadow priest to deal decent damage as warlock
Do locks seriously change the rune every encounter then or is endgame always just haunt?
Ok so two lifedrain runes are not optimal, but which one do I change and to what?
Also what about roation? What do I cast first on singletarget?
dot uptime / spam shadowbolt and yeah you need to change your rune for almost every encounter.
or just get 2 gloves to swap multi/solo
First off, you went into Naxx without Sanctified gear.
Second, you’re not using a pet?
Third, you’re using Shadow Bolt Volley instead of Haunt on a single target.
3 small changes that could help you a lot.
Start off by farming the Sanct pieces for your pre-BiS, and remember to use the correct rune.
Get Barian’s Choker, Pauper Soles, Spectral Signet and the 3 set Undead Cleansing.
Just get a second pair of gloves for trash. They dont even really have to be that good as its just trash mobs. Can even write up a macro to bind to a action button to swap them.
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Im using mostly succubuss. What else is there? My filler spells are all as a macro with pet autoattack
I think Sanctified gear is just the tip of the iceberg, I still have other issues in my build to fix and sanctified is something I can farm meanwhile with no brain.
Ok so some things were said:
Use haunt rune on hands.
Use sanctified set / items.
Use demonic tactics rune on chest, and mark of chaos rune on cloak… drain life is a dps loss and also has low cast range. Don’t use the drain life build if you are already struggling, it is for people who like challenges.
I can add some tips:
Improve your dots uptime percentage with a dot duration tracking weakaura or addon.
Don’t use the scythe of chaos sacrifice without having the free resummon proc, or only if remaining fight duration is equal or less than 20 seconds.
Get some spellpower enchants onto your gear, head and leg enchants from zul gurub are game changers. Also 16 sp on wrist, 20 shadow power on gloves help a lot and are not very expensive. Spellpower enchant on weapon is also worth the gold.
And last but not least… get one of the new shoulder “runes” available in eastern plaguelands.
“Shadowmancer” or “Malovelent” are the 2 top options for 30/0/21 talentspec.
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any addon to recommend for dot tracking ? i’m tired of tracking them all 
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Thank for the good replies so far, still I am confused how no one could provide a detailed rotation and let me say that recommending to “keep your dots/curses” up is not helping when a class has like 20 different kind of curses.
Is there no clear order what to cast first when fighting a boss?
I get it that you want the two “RUNE” dots up at all time, or do you? But what else and whats the correct prio?
my prio is haunt>shadowflames>unstable affliction>life drain (if played)>corruption>curse of agony (CoA should be first but there’s another wl in my raid doing it)
then shadowbolt as a filler
haunt and CoA(if you play chaos mark) are the best to keep up all the time
usually corruption is supposed to be higher in the rotation but i like to use it right after unstable affliction for QoL since they have kinda the same duration.
if anything you can look zockify if you need more insight
if you’re the only warlock you just go curse of recklessness > haunt >shadowflame > unstable affliction > corruption > shadow bolt
the only thing i don’t know is if it’s worth to refresh haunt everytime or is it better to wait until it fade.
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