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Rolling an Affliction Warlock
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QuickBASIC
So, I rolled a Warlock after 5.0.4 and I've gotten her to 54.
I feel like
has no real uses for me and I'm constantly capped on
s. I only ever use it to instantly cast Summon Demon or for the Water Walking effect on
Unending Breath
. It seems to barely make a difference in the healing done by
and I'm using
Soul Link
, so it has no effect for
Health Funnel
.
It seems odd that we have this resource and it doesn't do much of anything. At what point does managing my
s become a part of my DPS?
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Post by
QuickBASIC
Okay... that makes sense, but you don't get either of those until later in the leveling process. Thanks a lot.
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edarien
I believe there is no CD on Soul Swap unless it's glyphed. I myself love this because I can dot multiple targets in a matter of seconds.
This is true. I leave mine unglyphed for just this purpose. Sure the old way let you DoT 2 enemies for 1 extra GCD, but unglyphed, use 4 soul shards for 4 enemies, full dots, then drain soul your pick of the four before the whole pack dies and you're back to full.
At your level, one option is actually Soul Harvest, the level 15 talent. Honestly, I use it at 85. Admittedly, I use it more for aesthetics and theme; I hate using any type of fire in my Affliction build. That said,
Rain of Fire doesn't appear to be channeled anymore, you just cast it and let it go
. Soul Harvest, from the numbers I ran, seems to do slightly more damage per tick than RoF. That said, without being able to use soul shards, at your level, you can nab Soul Harvest, then drop a RoF AND Soul Harvest for double that damage.
edit : Sorry about that. At the beginning of the patch, RoF was working as a 'cast and forget' spell, despite saying channeled in the tooltip. I wasn't sure if it was a bugged spell or an unchanged tooltip, but it appears the spell was bugged and fixed. Sorry about that. So forget anything about doing both, but pick one and go for it. My pick goes to Soul Harvest, but admittedly the talents are "best" situationally.
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Post by
rabican1
I believe there is no CD on Soul Swap unless it's glyphed. I myself love this because I can dot multiple targets in a matter of seconds.Ah, thats whats doing it! Thanks.
But doesn't that pull the dots off the original taget? So your not really dotting multiple targets at all. The glyph leaves the dots on the original target and adds the CD.
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BeamStout
That is the perk of popping soulburn + soul swap. Is really no reason I can think of to use that glyph.
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Post by
asciicat
In destro spec, RoF is a fire and forget.
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