Warlock Build!

[DemiMagus]

What should i do to make this better, i would like to base this on the Affiction tree :)

Affliction Talents (31 points)


Improved Corruption - 5/5 points
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 seconds.


Improved Drain Life - 5/5 points
Increases the Health drained by your Drain Life spell by 10%.


Improved Drain Soul - 2/2 points
Gives you a 100% chance to get a 100% increase to your Mana regeneration for 10 seconds if the target dies while while you drain its soul. In addition, your Mana may continue to regenerate while casting at 50% of normal.


Improved Curse of Agony - 3/3 points
Increases the damage done by your Curse of Agony by 6%.


Amplify Curse - 1/1 point
Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Curse of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%.


Nightfall - 2/2 points
Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 3% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.


Grim Reach - 2/2 points
Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 20%.


Curse of Exhaustion - 1/1 point
Reduces the target's speed to 90% of normal for 12 seconds. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.


Improved Curse of Exhaustion - 4/4 points
Increases the speed reduction of your Curse of Exhaustion by 20%.


Siphon Life - 1/1 point
Transfers 13 health from the target to the caster every 3 seconds. Lasts 30 seconds.


Shadow Mastery - 4/5 points
Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 8%.


Dark Pact - 1/1 point
Drains 150 of your pet's Mana, returning 100% to you.




Demonology Talents (0 points)


None


Destruction Talents (10 points)


Improved Shadow Bolt - 5/5 points
Your Shadow Bolt critical strikes increase the next 4 sources of Shadow damage dealt to the target by 20%.


Bane - 5/5 points
Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.5 seconds.

[d-bos]

this is the build for... a lvl 50 warlock?

if 10 points are missing like I suspect, I'd recommend demonic embrace and imp imp, as this seems to be a pve build more than a pvp one. That still leaves 2 points, which would fit nicely in shadowburn and finishing shadow mastery or something.

shadowburn returns the shard at lvl 60 like its supposed to now.

[pzarr]

"Improved Drain Soul - 2/2 points
Gives you a 100% chance to get a 100% increase to your Mana regeneration for 10 seconds if the target dies while while you drain its soul. In addition, your Mana may continue to regenerate while casting at 50% of normal."

its crap, drop it, i tried it and it's lame.

"Improved Curse of Agony - 3/3 points
Increases the damage done by your Curse of Agony by 6%"

never was a strong point, that +6% is only 62 damage on a lvl 60 CoA i believe....so not much. its weak, drop it.

no fel concentration? um....

and improved lifetap is a definate must, between, the stronger drain life and dark pact youll be a mana machine.

and teh full 5 points into shadow mastery is always good.

[d-bos]

I didnt see that you chose those two talents and not fel concentration before, but yeh I agree with pzarr on that one. As for imp lifetap... at lvl 60 lifetap was almost never required on the warlock I play sometimes in MC. Darkpact gives basically infinite mana from an imp, its just a matter of global cooldown which also applies to lifetap so no need for both imo.

Those 2 talent points would be better spent finishing shadowmastery and getting a whole new spell;shadowburn imo. thats getting into details and personal preference tho

[pzarr]

I didnt see that you chose those two talents and not fel concentration before, but yeh I agree with pzarr on that one. As for imp lifetap... at lvl 60 lifetap was almost never required on the warlock I play sometimes in MC. Darkpact gives basically infinite mana from an imp, its just a matter of global cooldown which also applies to lifetap so no need for both imo.

Those 2 talent points would be better spent finishing shadowmastery and getting a whole new spell;shadowburn imo. thats getting into details and personal preference tho

while if youre doing strict runs then yea imp tap isnt needed, its definately noticeable outside of instances and seeing as he's still 50 he'll be doing more solo quests and whatnot. after i switched out of affliction to demonology i can still definately notice the difference in my life taps. the extra mana helps and definately adds up.

[DemiMagus]

This is my revised version of Affiction warlock based on the advice you guys gave me, what do you think?
A question i have is why would a warlock base his skills on Demonology. It seems that most of it is pointless and would only need it if you only did group stuff not pvp?


Affliction Talents (32 points)


Improved Corruption - 5/5 points
Reduces the casting time of your Corruption spell by 2 seconds.


Improved Drain Life - 5/5 points
Increases the Health drained by your Drain Life spell by 10%.


Amplify Curse - 1/1 point
Increases the effect of your next Curse of Weakness or Curse of Agony by 50%, or your next Curse of Exhaustion by 20%.


Fel Concentration - 5/5 points
Gives you a 70% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channelling the Drain Life, Drain Mana, or Drain Soul spell.


Nightfall - 2/2 points
Gives your Corruption and Drain Life spells a 3% chance to cause you to enter a Shadow Trance state after damaging the opponent. The Shadow Trance state reduces the casting time of your next Shadow Bolt spell by 100%.


Grim Reach - 2/2 points
Increases the range of your Affliction spells by 20%.


Curse of Exhaustion - 1/1 point
Reduces the target's speed to 90% of normal for 12 seconds. Only one Curse per Warlock can be active on any one target.


Siphon Life - 1/1 point
Transfers 13 health from the target to the caster every 3 seconds. Lasts 30 seconds.


Improved Curse of Exhaustion - 4/4 points
Increases the speed reduction of your Curse of Exhaustion by 20%.


Shadow Mastery - 5/5 points
Increases the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow spells by 10%.


Dark Pact - 1/1 point
Drains 150 of your pet's Mana, returning 100% to you.




Demonology Talents (3 points)


Improved Imp - 3/3 points
Increases the effect of your Imp's Firebolt, Fire Shield, and Blood Pact spells by 30%.




Destruction Talents (16 points)


Improved Shadow Bolt - 5/5 points
Your Shadow Bolt critical strikes increase the next 4 sources of Shadow damage dealt to the target by 20%.


Bane - 5/5 points
Reduces the casting time of your Shadow Bolt and Immolate spells by 0.5 seconds.


Shadowburn - 1/1 point
Instantly blasts the target with 87 to 99 Shadow damage. Requires 1 Soul Shard. If the target dies from Shadowburn, and yields experience, the caster gains a Soul Shard.


(Devastation - 5/5 points
Increases the critical strike chance of your Destruction spells by 5%. didnt know what to put the next 5 point into when i hit lvl 60 so i choose this)

[pzarr]

A question i have is why would a warlock base his skills on Demonology. It seems that most of it is pointless and would only need it if you only did group stuff not pvp?

actually its probably BEST for pvp with aff or destro on the side. soul link is just amazing.

[d-bos]

demonology/destruction will generally eat a shit-ton of shards. If I was down with that kind of shard management, I'd be all about that build, but since I'm not, I'm going with..


...all these talents 5/5 or whatever
22 affliction (corruption, imp lt, imp ld, fel conc, amp curse, nightfall, grimreach)
8 demonology (imp imp, embrace)
21 destruction (imp sb, bane, imp firebolt, reach, shadowburn, devastation, ruin)

[pzarr]

demonology/destruction will generally eat a shit-ton of shards. If I was down with that kind of shard management, I'd be all about that build, but since I'm not, I'm going with..




thats very true for the most part, except that soullink generally for me means i dont have to use shadowburn OR my healthstone as i just outlast the opponent so much better. warlocks have way more in hp than other classes and that extra absobtion is just a killer.

when BG's come out im goign to be experimenting a lot between 5/31/15 and 20/31 as my talent builds. soullink right now is an incredibly strong ability and i dont think people quite realize this until theyve dueled a rogue and are able to just tank it. the question for BG's is whether i want burst damage or being able to consistenly stay in the fight.