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Don't use it if your gunna pull aggro. If your running with a tank who isn't as good at holding multiple mobs and there's a possibility that 4 seeds exploding at once will pull aggro then only put 2 seeds up and throw out some shadowbolts. Far to often I just see locks spamming seeds for trash no matter what, there is a time and place for seed of corruption. Sometimes you might have a kick *** pally tank and you can throw seeds to your hearts content, other times you might have a tank who can barely keep up with affliction specced RoF, and sometimes you might have a tank where the only option to not pull aggro is to single down the enemies.

The best advice I can give is to understand when to use the seed and when not to. It's a damn powerful spell but that doesn't mean it must be used every time there are 3 or more mobs. It's better to adjust to your tank(in pugs, go easy on the first 2-3 pulls and check his aggro to judge how to attack the rest of the dungeon) and make sure that he keeps aggro.

Seeds can put you at the top of the meter real quick but if you keep pulling aggro your making what could have been a nice and smooth run into a mess. Use it when you can, if you can't switch to Rain of Fire, dot tabbing, or killing them one at a time. You might clear stuff a bit slower, but it makes it easier on everyone and if you do pull aggro and get killed it slows it down more, add to the fact that you might get the healer killed by proximity and you just led to a wipe.

Don't forget that if just one target's threat is high you can stick to seeding him because seed does little damage = little threat. It just explodes and hits the other mobs. My eyes are glued to Omen when I'm AOEing because if they're not and I keep seeding we've got a problem. I am dead sexy on the ground though.

I dont even worry about making a tank assist macro...easier way to do it IMO is to find out who your tank is...target him, right click on his avatar on the top of your screen, and select 'Set Focus'. This will put his name in a bubble, which you can move to any part of your screen, and will be there until you cancel it. Then, make sure you have 'target of target' selected in your display options.

The little 'focus' avatar of your tank will always be on your screen, and from there you can see what his target is, it will show up under his picture. You can click that target and begin casting. If the tank switches target, simply click his new target under his picture, and you can restart casting. This makes it easy to not pull aggro while blowing up Seed of Corruption all over the place.

For lower level non heroics, I usually throw up a few seeds on the tanks targets, then start spamming RoF or tossing SB's out. DPS is going to suck on mobs as affliction, but you can pump some serious dmg on bosses. Definitely start SB/Haunt on bosses, then just run your normal dots, and as everyone else has said, drain soul once the target is at low health.

Good luck, lock raiding is easy as pie...just watch your threat! And a good way to get rid of those soul shards is soul shatter, 3 minute CD aggro dump if you get close to the tank.