So, SL/SL. Why 24/37 over 27/34?Follow

Now I'm sure there's a reason, but why:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=Iq0rVRckoZbxczIiz0es

Instead of!
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=Iq0rVRskRZbxczIiz0xs

Is it the 3% crit reduction, or the -15% damage to pet? Or, both?

And presumably they're more valuable than the 4% shadow damage or the (tiny) chance for free Shadow Bolts for reasons I should really know. :x

it's personnal preferance, personnally i go for this version:

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IVzrVkfzoZbxczIiz0es

in the end it's probably a bit of a "what is your resiliance and hp at currently" situation. if your hp and resiliance are low, then survivability is what it's all about. but if you have a decent amount of health and resiliance then you can focus your talents more on improving your damage, and you can't win an arena without damage so it is just as important too. though 1 reason why it's 24/37 over 27/34 is primarily because of demonic resiliance. the bonus damage gained from DK is incredabily useful too.

1 thing though that's true of all SL/SL builds. if you're ever up against a caster, you're designed to out last their mana (drain it), rather than try and dps them down as SL/SL can barely create sustainable dps, let alone anything worth worrying about for any healer. it is to be a nuisance. and if taking damage isn't an issue for you any more, then dealing that little bit extra will make you ever more the annoyance.

Well you can spec two ways wtih SL/SL. One is for more servivability and resilienace against warrior/rogue teams who often go for your pet allot.

The other way is for more outright damage to compensate for the lack of burst dps SL/SL spec has.

i personally like the DPS variant: LINK

Spec choice often matters on who much hp/resilence you have and if you run with a healer or another DPS.

mana feed isn't essential at all. i've been in matches lasting well over 10min and my pet has NEVER gone OOM, remember once it's dispelled all the buffs from your target, after that point it'll just be regenning mana and at a decent rate too

I intentionally keep detect invisibility up on me at all times for this very reason, if they don't have mana feed, their pet will go OOM.

Also, if you fighting a team with a druid, your pet will go OOM without mana feed. Thats a lot of dispelling.

However, in the event that your pet does go OOM, you can fel. dom. another one out, assuming your healer has the mana to let you tap.

If you dispell a HoT he will have to cast it again and thus use up more of his mana.

go up against a lock+druid or lock pally. mana isn't an issue for either class so all we'll do waste out your mana, use devour to remove CCs and spell lock when needed. once we've got rid of the max rank version of all your abilities we really don't need to worry about dispelling any more. in 2v2 and 3v3 it's all about outlasting and the best way to do that is simply to drain mana. in 5v5's SL/SL doesn't have much viability anyways, UA is far more useful so as to protect everyones debuffs.
i must say. the people who just leave their felhound on auto dispel make me sick. complete waste of mana and GCDs plus it's incredably predictable. i can happily wait for a devour. put up detect invis/UW breathing and use the GCD of the pet as time for me to cast a fear as he happily devours my buff instead, leaving the poor lock screaming and slamming his keyboard as he pet doesn't CS me at the right time, leaving him/his buddy feared, me with having a 3sec silence which i can dispel and no CS.

I just BG in whatever spec I'm currently playing. I prefer doing BG's in arena spec, just for the extra practice. I hate being on 2 servers, I had to give up raiding on 1 of my toons, and sadly I chose the warlock. So now I'm always SL/SL, it works quite well for me. But any spec can work really in ultra large scale PVP, but I still prefer SL/SL. Especially in WSG, which is smaller scale PVP. With a healer + skill you can win 2v4 in the enemy flag room and come out with decent HP and the flag. I suppose you could do that with UA as well, but not as easily.

I've even done BG's in 0/21/40 raid spec.

If you just want to top damage meters, UA is probably best but you can do quite well as SL/SL as well (often 1st by a mile). If you want to defend objectives I feel SL/SL is better because you're more likely to win outnumbered encounters, such as 1v2 or 2v3, 2v4 @ an enemy tower (EoTS), bunker/tower (AV) or flag node (AB).

Wow everyone is bantering about mana consumption/regain, with pets,... with lifetap, SL/SL 28/33 I take the caster/plate caster and use my pet as a late secondary. curse of tongues, Siphon life, CoA, Corr, fear, drain life, tap, tap, drain mana, curse of tongues, fear, drain mana spam,.. and so on,,.. then if hes down 2 %30 i bring spell lock/devour out on the 12 year pre-pubescent girl im pwning,....