Which armor to use?Follow

I just hit 62 on my lock and got Fel Armor. For leveling purposes, is Demon Armor or Fel Armor more useful? I tried looking through the stickies, but I couldn't find that information.

If you drain tank, I'd go with Demon Armor since you take less damage and heal more through Drain Life and Siphon Life.

Being a Destruction Warlock myself, I tend to use Fel Armor more, because things die before they can reach me (Immolate, Conflagrate, Chaos Bolt, dead) and I use Life Tap instead of wasting time drinking/eating. Thanks to Soul Leech and Fel Armor's health regen, I can keep up the killing with zero downtime (tested this by going on a killing spree in Borean Tundra for about 45 minutes, killing maybe 100 mobs and not having to drink once).

I tend to use Demon Armor when I PvP with Affliction because it makes me last a bit longer. Additional mitigation + additional health gain from heals + Siphon Life = sweet. Now I'm level 73 and most of the time if I get ambushed in Battlegrounds, I'm dead anyway (79 Rogues, yay), so I just go all out of the damage and rarely use Affliction in the first place. If I can't burst it down before it gets to me, I'm usually dead anyway.

Even when drain tanking I'd still go with fel armor most of the time due to the nice amount of spell damage it gives you, thus increasing your drain life and corruption. However, if your going up an elite or something of that effect use fel armor, drop an infernal, and when you pull aggro off(use soul-shatter but dunno what lvl you get the spell) then switch to demon armor and drain tank him.

The same goes for if you end up having to many mobs, drop an infernal and then switch to demon armor to survive. No one seems to think of the power the infernal has to get you out of a jam or kill the elite mob, best damn pet we have.

Yeah, I really wish you could use Quartz with the nUI interface, sadly you cannot. Thankfully the author of nUI is working on a new version which will give the cast bar some of the features quartz has.

If you just want the Nightfall proc icons, I highly recommend EventAlert. It displays large icons whenever something procs, be it Nightfall, Backlash or Backdraft. Really handy as you can't avoid seeing the icons.

Necrosis, if they still do it, have the additional cool factor of some dark voice saying "Shadow trance!" whenever Nightfall procs, but I don't really use the additional features it provides (like buttons for stones, minions and mounts) since AutoBar does most of it anyway.

Edited, Oct 22nd 2009 12:07am by Mazra