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the key to beating a healing class for me is to make shure u have a healthstone made for the battle and to be a lvl 300 first aid for runecloth bandages witch heal for 2000 health. Save your second fear for after they heal themselfs then bandage up. Then continue to SB and dot buy now you and them should be running low on mana. Life tap to get 1 more SB but before u cast it use your health stone to surprise them then SB them ftw thats how i do it :P


Edited, Aug 21st 2006 at 8:09pm EDT by LtCandyrapper

At level 6 you shouldn't worry too much about shards. To get a shard you must use a spell called drain soul when the mob is about to die. The mob must also be one that gives you experience, otherwise you do not get a shard. For example, a level 60 lock cannot go around draining soul on level 8 raptors and get a shard. The lowest level my 60 lock has gotten a shard from is around level 44. Try to have atleast a couple shards on you before an instance for summoning lazy party members and soul stoning your healer. if you decide to learn shadowburn from the destruction tree, then you can keep on recycling the same shard as long as the mob dies within five seconds of using shadowburn. the latest patch notes said that if you dismiss your pet then you get your shard back, but i haven't seen that work yet. to answer your question, good practice is to not fall below 3 shards at any given time. use those 3 shards for emergency like midbattle ss'ing your healer or a quick summon. if you are crazy about being high on the dps meter, then definately come to the instance loaded with shards. you dont want to be slowly draining soul to recover shards when the dumb mage is spamming away.

key to high damage:

get points in enough for demonic sacrifice and use the rest in aftermath for 10% more fire damage. so with this you can get 15% more shadow and 10% more fire damage. shadowburn FTW.

I disagree... Bandages have no cooldown, and heal more. Will of the Forsaken ALSO works against that pesky Intimidating Shout... which is seldom used by nothing but the best Warriors.

When it is used though, you'll be happy you could break out of it.

It's a quest for a staff or an orb. The infernal or felhunter part is just there so you decide if you want +fire or +shadow damage, respectively. You get the Infernal at level 50.

You are screwed, did same thing on my lock.

in PVP. WoTF is incredibly useful. Lock vs Lock. it's basically an extra pvp trinket, on a shorter timer at that(if I remember correctly).

OK, ty Tezaab.

Now I get it, I will abandon and get the shadow one I think.

Other questions. I (think) I have seen warlocks with big "Scythes" across thier backs. I know theese are not for show or peope would not have them on, but I do see that most use staffs. Can someone link a few scythes that are worth getting? I tried to look them up on alla, and could not find them, even under weapons...

I think the lvl 60 pet is the doomguard, the guyy with horns and a ax I see alot of people with... to get him you cave to do that spell that kills your target right? And, you have to keep enslaving him after that right? I do not ever see locks in BG re-enslaving them... so I suppose you do not have to do this to often,or am I wrong, lol.

In case you missed it I have updated some links to the official wow forums stickies for talent discussions. These have the new 2.0.1 talents and all sorts of build details within. Happy reading in the new year.

For same time now, Blood Fury has changed to:
Blood Fury
"Activate to increase melee attack power and Spell Damage/Healing by an amount based on level/class, and decreases healing done to the user by 50%. The effects last 15 seconds, and the cooldown is 2 minutes"

On my level 60 lock, the spell damage increase is 100, so i think that its one more usefull abilitie for all the orc warlocks that exist :)

Wow-Wiki and such has a lot of horribly wrong spell damage coefficients. Here's what I can confirm, just from personal experience.

Siphon Life - 100%
Corruption - 92%
Drain Life - 66% (ish)
CoA - 120%
Shadow Bolt - 85.71%
Drain Soul - 142%
Dark Pact - 93% is what Blizz says it is. I dissagree, I'll elaborate below..


As far as the rest of the destruction tree, Seed of Corruption and Unstable Affliction, I have aboslutely no idea. : \



Here's my DP argument. My rank one Dark Pact drains for 488 mana. My +shadow damage is currently 141. Base rank one DP drains 305 mana. That's 183 from +shadow damage. 183/141 = 130%. I may be totally insane, but that's what it seems like to me. Unless Dark Pact benefits from Improved Life Tap and Shadow Mastery, but.. even then, 93% is still off the mark ;)

Needs to be updated.