I have a dilemmaFollow

I don't really understand what responses you seek in this post, but oh well.
After seeing what I believe to be your armory (Redemptio right ?) I can tell you this.

Your gear is pretty similar to mine before I started Karazhan, actually even a bit better, you should be pretty neatly befitting your dps role, I'd actually be more worried about your tank and healer in any case.

Do take into account your felguard will be of little use in most heroics, he will be easily two/three-shotted when you least expect it. You will have to start placing a bit more of faith on your succubus for seducing those nasty adds. You will also want to use the imp more, since it wont die unless you SL him and get quite damaged, and it will reduce your aggro, which is really nice in instances were there are mobs that can 1-shot you.

For starters go to Mechanar or maybe one of the Hellfire lower instances to get a hang of it if most of you aren't accustomed to heroics. Always pull the minimal number of mobs possible, and try hard to keep CC on all except the tanks target (assuming he is warrior or feral). Take a mage with you, and a nice rogue/hunter if possible, if both stack similar dps as you do you shouldnt have many to any problemas with dps.

And is it worth it ? why yes, it is, Primal Nethers allow Leatherworkers, Tailors and Blacksmiths to pull up some neat gear, and Badges of Justice can be exchanged for some really nice items as well. Besides you can easily get epic gems, and may get some epic drops which in general are mostly Kara-level.

So, I hope that helps somewhat, oh and good luck.


PS. you dont really need the penetration for much of anything in pve you know that don't you ?

For heroics, I'd go with spell damage mainly. Hits not super important in non raids, and penetration is basically a PVP stat. Mobs are different in heroics, they hit incredibly hard on cloth. You'll generally get 1 shotted if you pull aggro, so 500 extra health will almost never help you. Spell damage (high as you can get), stam, hit + int, spell crit somewhere in the middle for destro builds.


edit - if you're friends trying to talk you into PVP, I'd work on 2 sets. A stam set where stam (and resilience) are top priority. If you're felguard build spell crit is really huge, you'd want stam + resilience + spell damage + some penetration (dont need much) + spell crit (in that order).

For PVE (like heroics) you really just need spell damage and maybe 80-100 hit. I could be wrong there, but I never seemed to get resisted with that amount.

Edited, Aug 12th 2007 1:24am by mikelolol

In general extra +hit is supposed to enchance your dps further than +crit, but then mobs in heroics are just level 70 and 50-60 hit should be enough to have very little problems against them. So if you have that covered I'd go for more spell damage, and maybe afterwards more crit.

And penetration doesn't usually do much in instances, as it lowers the enemies resistances and I believe most mobs don't have any resistances so to speak.

I would personally keep continuum blade and Star heart lamp, if you are going to suffer for your crit rating then by all means do Hellfire heroics until you reach exalted and can buy yourself the Stormcaller.
I would also rather wear the Cowl of Oblivion than any of those two heads (specially rather than Helmet of second sight).
And I love Mystical Skyfire Diamond, but then if you want maximum efficiency then maybe you could grab a Swift Starfire in its stead, but I manage pretty neatly with my mystical (and healing myself of over 2000 damage through draining in 2.5 seconds is something I find to be priceless :)

As for Darkmoon cards, Storms can be nice for a warlock trying to keep imp shadowbolt debuff up but then that is only really important in raids, else you can use a more useful trinket. And blessings is actually somewhat nice if you can keep the buff up through constant casting, but I have my doubts about it being worth the investment. Madness I don't like at all, I could care less for a post-killing random buff, even thought it is ok for pvp (mainly for its 500hp).

If I were you I'd take ancient draenei talisman/Vengeance of the Illidari/Scryers trinket gem. And when you get enough Justice Badges first spend them on the beautiful Icon of the Silver Crescent.

Wasn't really taking the fact into account when I said that heh, but I do guess you must have an equivalent.

Spellstrike is real nice for PvE action, I gave up on getting the patterns some time ago thought, and kept running with Oblivion and Battlecast pants (which aint that bad for a demonologist warlock now are they ? and useful for pvp too).

And on a last note, I have been told, and have read around the forums, that heroic Blood Furnace is not as easy (couldn't know personally as I have never found a party to run, which just makes sense with it being kinda hard). So give Mechanar, Ramparts or Slave Pens a run for starters and youll be doing ok I hope.

Well, for one I think it is good you try out more aspects of the game instead of just farming, so again, good luck with that (arenas too).