Hey.
So my warlock is currently 43 and i’ve often heard people say you should go demmo at level 50.
But won’t that remove all your self-healing and mass-pulling capabilities that you have as affli?
What benefits is there to go demmo?
Edit:
Go Felguard from 58, 50 is too soon
Well the felguard is simply kinda strong, you would see that when you play it.
Ppl always have a lot to say to others about what their choices should be but that’s just none of their business. It’s your character, your choices, you pick what you feel comfortable with and most of all, have fun with.
I levelled my lock as nothing other than destruction and ppl can go take a hike if they think they can decide how i should play. If i think my spec isn’t doing enough damage, it’s my own choice to find out what it’s so and make adjustments if i think that’s right. That’s like really strict i know, i am open to criticism but i won’t follow those blindly, i do research.
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The felguard is really strong and is good at keeping agro through high damage. It’s not necessary to respec demo though. Play what you want. I prefer affliction even if it is slightly slower.
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Just feels like you’d have to kill mobs 1 by 1 when you do not have the self healing needed to pull 4-6 mobs.
Just feels “Slower” when i think of that scenario.
But if you have experience with felguard, then please do elaborate on why it’s better than affli
I found it easier to use the VW, even at 58.
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and i’m here looking for the reasonings behind the statements.
What makes Felguard better than affli.
if you play demo well, you’ll do a lot of damage, you can outdamage destruction lock f/i.
I don’t know why ppl say the felguard is like a tank, i once tried demo with felguard in retail (long time ago), he wasn’t doing the tanking well for me, i disliked the whole spec btw.
Affliction is much better for the masspulling ur doing and the selfhealing you have now but it’s not so good for dungs currently. It’s up to you what you see as more fit. For more in depth info you could read some more on icy-vines and wowhead.
I am not really seeing the mass pulling of affliction anyway.
I do level as affliction, and I sit on T3 and assorted epics of equal quality, yet there is no mass pulling for me.
If I pull 4 mobs at once I will be at 20% HP and almost OOM and have to eat and drink every pull, drinking takes a LONG time and is very boring.
I rather just fight 1-2 mobs at a time and never drink.
Because Felguard is insanely strong for world content, especially if you don’t have raid gear from vanilla. It will carry you to 70.
Switching to Felguard at 50 gives you an insane power spike that doesn’t happen with UA.
I’ve noticed that drinking to full takes a longer time than eating to full, so i just life tap as much as possible before eating/drinking.
Also Drain life should keep you decently topped.
I also run around with mana & healing potions ofc, to help out a bit with either of the bars.
Maby for single target it would be good, But i was more refering to surviveability or mass-pull capabilties, it feels like dots & healing would be too low without the affli talents.
No lifedrain does not really keep you topped up, with 4+ mobs hacking at you you will have to recast it every GCD (and I do have 5 talent point in the uninterruptable).
Basically you are looking at casting your dots on 2 targets, with some interrupts on a third and for more you will have to use your AOE fear to get anything cast/channeled out because you will be interrupted the whole time. Then you can go out pick up stuff all over the place from the fear, or mobs simply running of at 20% as they slowly die from dots.
And then you drink and eat for a long time. As for using potions, you can do that once every 2 minutes which is too little, let alone it is a costly undertaking, are you gonna chug down 30 potions an hour?
It’s cool that you want to take on a lot of mobs at once, just to show you can or something. But is it faster? No.
You become a BM hunter
I leveled as affliction and had pretty much 0 downtime while consistently pulling 3+ mobs. Sometimes nonstop chainpulling depending on how much HP the mobs have.
Felguard sounds like solo elite content but I doubt you’ll level faster.
Smoother? Sure, but not faster.
I’m a new warlock so don’t quote me.
I leveled my lock affli till 60 then i go fg. If you play fg single target you are doing something wrong i mean very wrong.
The general playstyle of fg as: send fg and dot A, when fg hits A charge fg to B, and if you want fear+dot C. Fg will hold A and B with cleave, you can start to nuke higher aggro target at that time. 3 mobs ideal for fg leveling, you dont need to drain because noone will hit you.
I can say fg is faster -but not a high margin- all downtimes included. But fg is much much more comfortable. Your hp is always high and youll be less vulnarable in wpvp.
You have to see fg leveling before you decide. Try yourself.
When I hit 58 and went to Outland the first quest where you kill 4 low hp imps, almost killed my FG, I had to burn a lot of mana to stop it. The one mob you have to kill very nearly almost did the same, I went straight back with my VW and slaughtered them after respeccing Affliction. I had one small weapon upgrade.
It’s faster if you’re really good at it.
Well affi is better if you have atlwast basic gear, that guy seems like fresh lvler so demo would be better for gim
There are multiple better specs for leveling than felguard, don’t listen to naysayers. This is especially true if you have some decent spell power (cheap AH pieces will do the trick).
If your gear is super crap though felguard is usually better.