Pre-kara numbersFollow

I've been browsing and haven't really found anything concerning how high my stats should be before going into Kara. I intend on going in as an Afflic lock.

A gear list would be absolutely wonderful.

These stats are the lowest possible to be effective. 700 dmg with fel armor is incredibly low. 100+ spell hit and speccing into a lot of Suppression with affliction would be a definite with that kind of gear. Khara is scrub pug though, easy and easy, even with those stats you could very likely top damage charts on boss mobs.

At higher gear levels you can spec into +dmg talents and get the +hit from your gear and do more damage, but yes, suppression is the afflic lock ungeared boss damage gamebreaker. Not wrong at all, absolutely correct.

What is this kailbans? I typed it into yahoo/google but got nothing.

I've heard this as well, that's why Supression is an average talent almost exclusively used for filler points.

So I'm looking for hit cap first? 202 hit.
Then 1000+ damage?
8k mana and 8k HP.

Anything on crit rating? SBs are still staple (Nightfall proc and you spam SBs anyways).

Thanks for your help by the way. :)

Again Sederix, you post utter crap.

The reason why stacking Spell Hit is important is that 50% or more of your damage comes from Shadow Bolt, even as Affliction. Suppression only affects Affliction Spells, and Shadow Bolt is Destro. By ignoring Spell Hit, your ignoring 50%+ of your damage. I would aim for at least the soft cap around 74, and yes, you canmake up the rest with Suppression, but if you get more, you can have less points in Suppression, freeing up points for other talents.

Before replacing some of my gear, and now I need to re-gem, I was at 202 Hit Rating and 1054 Spell Damage, the other locks in my guild with more Spell Damage and more +Crit and less +Hit could not out damage me. Why do you think that is. Take a look at leulier's spreadsheet, plug in your gear, and you'll see you can get more damage out of +Hit than anything else until you are Hit Capped.

Edited, Apr 17th 2008 11:00am by Lathais

There's nothing which says you can't have both: most Spell Damage gear has Spell Hit or Crit on it, and most of the time it's a Hit/Crit tradeoff rather than a Hit/Damage. In my boss-fight gear I'm Hit Capped and at about 900 Shadow Damage including Fel Armour, and not one piece of my gear comes from anything above Karazhan. This set includes a green trinket from a Netherstorm quest!

If you use Suppression to make up for what are essentially gaping holes in your gear the flaws are going to be obvious. Yes, Spell Damage is also an important stat, but that counts for nothing when Soulshatter gets resisted, you get 1-shot and the boss goes after all the other DPS who were above 100% threat and should have been perfectly safe.

TLDR: The fact that your Shadow Bolts would hit like a truck means nothing when they end up missing like a truck.



Keep going at the Shattered Sun Dailies and get the Exalted necklace. Farm up your Aldor reputation for the proc.

There's an Elite Ooze that spawns regularly in the far east of Netherstorm. It drops a quest which leads to a nice Spell Hit trinket. Ask your guild for help with that one and replace your Oculus with it.

Regem your Intellect gems with Great Dawnstones and your blue Stamina gems with Glowing +STA/+DMG Nightseyes.

Gloves off of Attumen the Huntsman are the best you'll find in T4 raids AFAIK, so get those if you can.

See if you can get the Glyph of Power for that helm, from Shat'ar rep.

Your helm and bracer Socket bonuses aren't that incredible, you might want to look into putting Great Dawnstones in them.

Edited, Apr 21st 2008 6:24am by ecirphsoj

Just shift-right-click the item and drag the gems into the frame that pops up, like you did socketing it originally. You can't see the colours of the socket but the border around the gem will have little sparkles going around it if the colour matches that of the socket (like a pet spell set to autocast).