Do you raid? do you have ANY idea what you're talking about?
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well, a health stone will [in case this comes to be] cover 1 life tap. in combo with other consumable it will cover maybe 2 full life taps. not nearly enough and not even reasonable or to be expected that i'll burn those CDs when you compare it to the amount of mana i can go through in 20 sec.
Timing the use of your consumables for maximum effect is a large part of raiding. Being topped off before an AoE, especially something as predictable as a phase change, is easily done. Life tapping at high risk times during which random AoE can occur almost demands the use of a health stone even without the upcoming changes. What else would you be using those cooldowns for? What else runs off the health stone cooldown? Flamecap?
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no, my main survive/defend ability from that is my HP poll as i stated, which on the other hand will not be desirable any more... soul shatter is is NOT 100% proof and it has a 15 min CD.
What do other classes use to protect them from boss AoE? It's not any of the abilities you stated earlier. At best they've got Ice Block and Divine Shield. Hunters, Rogues, Druids, Warriors, Shamans, and Priests are left completely open to AoE damage and (when spec'd/geared for raid DPS) they ALL have lower HP totals than a warlock, even when the lock gear is balanced.
The HP pool of a warlock is not going to protect you from a direct attack from a boss, so it's either Soul Shatter/DPS off or Bust in that regard.
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er, you think you'll life tap 5 seconds before transition now? you will need mana during normal phase, so you can either tap after or before demon phase, or both. your healers will love you [insert lock snicker], not to mention that you will almost never get to full mana without getting "fizzled" with current stat/gear setup.
They'll do it because it's their damn jobs to do it. That's like the tank ******** about having to generate threat. It's a healers job to heal me, especially as the Leo tank, and to tank Leo the most efficient way possible, yes, you tap before and after every demon phase. Specifically I run out after the demon phase transition, tap to full mana, begin bandaging, and then go back in after the 1st whirlwind when I'm at full HP/Mana.
If you die you SS up, pop as many consumables as possible, instant summon your pet and get going again. Tank Leo. Get some experience, then we'll debate how to do it.
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well, 1st, some of us still don't have full t6 yet, but, 11k/10k... wtf? i have no t6. none, and unbuffed i'm walking around like that, a bit over 11 and a bit under 10 but... [i pull some pvp gear out of my bags and i am @ 13/9]. in a raid? well, m8, in a raid hp/mp disparity is different. there are more buffs hp oriented vs intellect/mana buffs.
First T6 lock I found logged out in raid gear on my server.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tichondrius&n=Crazypyrox
Unbuffed his taps are currently 1527 HP > Mana. After the patch it will become 2168 HP > 1881 Mana. Yes, the HP scales faster than the Mana does, but it is still a mana buff and that single tap is still entirely covered by popping 1 health stone of any size. This does translate directly into FEWER life taps/fight and thus higher overall damage/fight.
As for more HP buffs than Mana buffs, I don't see them. Standard raid buffs include food, oil, flask, fort, mark, spirit, ai, shadow prot, kings, and salv. That's 1 stam specific buff and 1 int specific buff. You may trade kings for wis, you may not, but that looks like some pretty level increases all around. The real differential comes from the talents in the demonology tree that most locks don't even touch until 4/5 T5 or higher anyway. And, like I have been pointing out, at that point the change becomes such a buff to mana regeneration that it offsets the relatively small chance of a crappy LT/AoE combo wiping you out.
P.S. Since I missed the thing about PvP before.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Server:Tichondrius_US
Read up. I've got a prot pally that had almost 200 world PvP HKs before it hit 70. Until you've rolled on Tich you don't know about world PvP.
Edited, Mar 1st 2008 4:56pm by Loki