Affliction Raid BuildFollow

Personally, yes I would put some in Shadow Embrace. It's not the best talent ever, but it's more useful in a raid situation than max Fel Concentration I'd also try and pick up Shadowburn.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IVMrcRfuVtcobZxx0tM

Is the way I'd set em if I wanted UA.

that looks lie ka good solid build. here is the build i use for T4 affliction raiding, with my gear i put put close to 800dps on trash, and i think 850 on bosses

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IVMrVRrkVtrobZxx0tM

i think the nerf to shadow embrace has soemthing to do with the shadow embrace effect not proccign off drain life? somethign of that sort. it is stil la viable talent, but i would not drop 3 points into it.


OT: I swear to god i have typing dyslexia.

That was it. Nice one, fellas.

If it procs that and still reduces damage it's worth it. 1 point would appear to be enough too, IF I felt I needed iHoT, but I view that as a PvP talent and I'm going to keep Inoperante to pure raiding from now.

So maybe 3 in it to help healers. The other raiding 'lock is demo/destro, so I do have the Aff role and any help I can provide with it.

3 in Malediction or 5 in Fel Concentration - pure raiding won't need Fel Concentration, and full Malediction will be better.

Except...I'm not the one on CoS duty. So that would be a waste. With Amp Curse I'm on CoD/CoA duty. Leaving me free to max out Shadow Embrace AND iHoT.

Thoughts?!?!

(Hard work this...)

Decent start. However, IMO (and I'm commenting both on the OP spec and some of the other suggested ones) :

You only need 1 pt in Shadow Embrace, its only really useful effect is to make drain life more effective.

You don't need the 2 points spent in Imp Health Stone, they're nice, but not really worth 2 talent points unless you have nowhere else to put the points when your making a demo spec. The point in shadowburn is only really for PvP and/or solo questing. Amplify curse is pretty, but not really useful in most situations. (I find the only real use for it is a curse of doom on curator =P).

Next: only 1 lock in a given raid really needs malediction. So, talk to the other locks in your guild (or the raid leaders) and find out if you really need those 3 points in there. If one or two other locks already have it, you can spend them elsewhere.

As to where to spend those points you just freed up from Amp curse, malediction, Imp HS, shadowburn, and Shadow Embrace? I would highly recommend Suppression. Granted, it doesn't help your SB spam when your not refreshing dots, but it greatly reduces the need for extra hit, and getting dot resists (and fear resists) is lame. Id rather see a SB resist than a Death Coil, Fear or even a corruption.

Here is a very solid raiding spec for someone with T4 equivalent gear. I have seen this get around 1000dps on Mag multiple times with several different raid class compositions.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IEMrVMfkVtboZxx0xM

Imo,

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IVMrcRftVtcooZxx0xM

is a better build for affliction ***** spec. If there's a destro lock in your raid it's extremely likely they have 2/2 healthstone, so this way your tanks/healers can grab more than one HS and you can max out your utility. You're not gonna top damage if you're tossing CoS, but you're very helpful to your raid.

Try it out after standing in the blue beam on netherspite...

This is the Affliction build I used to roll with. Still give some goog PvP viability with Fel Concentration and IHoT, yet has all you need to be an effective raider too. Assuming you are Hit Capped. If you are not, I'd move points out of Fel Concentration or IHoT to get as many points in Suppression as you need.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IVMrVRfkqtfoZxx0xM

improved Howl of Terror

1 point in Shadow Embrace still counts (far as I can tell) as another DOT for the Nightfall proc so it's very common for solo/leveling builds.

For raiding we have at least 1 affliction lock with 5/5 SE and 3/3 Malediction as raid support. It may not seem like a lot of damage reduction, but when Gruul is smacking your MT in the face, every little bit helps. With many utility classes (affliction locks, ret pallies, mut rogues) their personal dps may suffer, but their addition to raid total dps is vital. You don't always have to make a splash on the meters to be a great help to the raid :)

So, for soloing 1 pt., for raiding discuss it with your raid/class leader.

Happy hunting!

Confirmed, I stand corrected. It was a bug but seems that it's fixed. Damn!

Still worth 1 point for Soul Siphon though ;)

Thanks for the correction!

I enjoy doing that, but it always seems to go off in phase 2 when there's no red beamed tank to save me. He really doesn't like being hit for over 10k.

If you have Malediction and no other Locks in your raid do, you should always be on CoS duty.

boeba, that is the worst raiding build I have ever seen. Especially for straight SB Spam. If your going to Spam SB, you need Improved Shadow Bolt. However, more importantly, if your Affliction, you should put DoTs up an then Spam SB, not just spam SB.