It is because you have the buff that allows you to cast an extra fast soul fire when you cast the shadowbolt, if you then use up the buff to cast a soulfire before the shadowbolt arrives you loose the buff when the soul fire leaves your character but its then reapplied by the arriving shadowbolt.
I will be making the destro guide soon, been away on holiday and been practising in raids for the last month pretty sure i've got it sorted now. Hopefully i'll get some editing sorted this weekend.
Compared to a heavy Destro build I can now confirm that yes it does less damage. I wouldn't say it sucks it still beats alot of classes. The main reason you would go meta ruin is for the demonic pact buff if you have over 2800 sp its better than ToW. This is a guide to the spec not really a guide to which spec to do. I think I may make a heavy detro movie next if I do make another :). Currently running 0/13/58 with aprrox 1k raid dps more.
Well...for destro, we have soul leech, which gives us 20% of the damage we have done back as health when it procs, plus soul leech gives us replenishment when we crit, then there's life tap, then we have death coil to heal if needed. Honestly, I only use life tap for the glyph buff, then once every 30 or so seconds for a quick 5k(ish) mana, and to keep the buff going.
It's still viable but probably as a one off meta lock in a 25man raid as the spell power buff the provide is better than elemental shamans totem of wrath. Provided you have more than 2500 raid buffed spell power. The buff is 10% of your spell power to the raid a fully buffed meta lock will have more than this I expect atm with my destruction spec I have about 3.2k SP in raids and that's without demonic knowledge.
@Devilhero12 i currently have a 60 warlock, leveling i was pure affliction, then at 55 switched to Demonology. have found he is able to dish out major damage with demonology. have also played Destruction and while that delivers HUGE dps requires alot of mana, i suggest play with all 3 and find what you like best.
What numbcore said :) I aimed for 15% with this build as that is the cap if you have a Draenai in the raid. 15% + 1% Suppression + 1% Heroic Presence = 17% (the cap) In terms of rating something like 380 i think?
@Downfurlife I lol'ed but yeah I need to make more unless you haven't seen my updated guides go and watch them :p. Still recovering from holiday and moving house atm hopefully I'll be up and running again soon.
It's hard for me to say as I havent tried a full PVE destro build yet. I experimented with it on test but haven't actually raided with it. Going on results on the dummy I wasn't doing as much dps as demo. But that may have changed with recent patches. If in doubt take demo as an offspec and take it to an easy instance and see how you do.
ok what i dont understand about warlock rotations are, how are they keeping thier mana pool up using just life tap? eventually your going to run out of health, then what?
I can looking for a guide to Demo PvE build and rotations, with more. I then look throught your video and notice your rotation and the talents you showed of was the same I use (almost, I cast Immolate be4 corruption). I have 2 questions: 1: You think I should replace Glyph of Shadow Bolt with Glyph of Life Tap? 2: Can you give me the realm and name of that warlock so I can check it in armory? (I'd like to know if you play on europeean or american realms too) Urgaal Hellfire (EU)
Man i miss the old days of wow this guide helped me out so much back in the day
It is because you have the buff that allows you to cast an extra fast soul fire when you cast the shadowbolt, if you then use up the buff to cast a soulfire before the shadowbolt arrives you loose the buff when the soul fire leaves your character but its then reapplied by the arriving shadowbolt.
I will be making the destro guide soon, been away on holiday and been practising in raids for the last month pretty sure i've got it sorted now.
Hopefully i'll get some editing sorted this weekend.
this is from 3.1 but i still can help even now when 3.3 is near god job m8
loved the clip, Cheers
Compared to a heavy Destro build I can now confirm that yes it does less damage. I wouldn't say it sucks it still beats alot of classes. The main reason you would go meta ruin is for the demonic pact buff if you have over 2800 sp its better than ToW.
This is a guide to the spec not really a guide to which spec to do. I think I may make a heavy detro movie next if I do make another :).
Currently running 0/13/58 with aprrox 1k raid dps more.
Curse of Doom should be your curse of choice if theres a destro warlock in your Setup.
Nice guide dude. Deffinatly helped me out here. Im more pvp with demo then PVE but is that life tap glyph worth it ?:
very very nice! are there any changes that were applied to 3.2? I'm thinking of respeccing demo as second spec. but who knows, might become primary!
Well...for destro, we have soul leech, which gives us 20% of the damage we have done back as health when it procs, plus soul leech gives us replenishment when we crit, then there's life tap, then we have death coil to heal if needed. Honestly, I only use life tap for the glyph buff, then once every 30 or so seconds for a quick 5k(ish) mana, and to keep the buff going.
It's still viable but probably as a one off meta lock in a 25man raid as the spell power buff the provide is better than elemental shamans totem of wrath. Provided you have more than 2500 raid buffed spell power. The buff is 10% of your spell power to the raid a fully buffed meta lock will have more than this I expect atm with my destruction spec I have about 3.2k SP in raids and that's without demonic knowledge.
@toddyblud It's a priest spell called Levitation
@Devilhero12 i currently have a 60 warlock, leveling i was pure affliction, then at 55 switched to Demonology. have found he is able to dish out major damage with demonology. have also played Destruction and while that delivers HUGE dps requires alot of mana, i suggest play with all 3 and find what you like best.
What numbcore said :) I aimed for 15% with this build as that is the cap if you have a Draenai in the raid.
15% + 1% Suppression + 1% Heroic Presence = 17% (the cap)
In terms of rating something like 380 i think?
@Downfurlife I lol'ed but yeah I need to make more unless you haven't seen my updated guides go and watch them :p. Still recovering from holiday and moving house atm hopefully I'll be up and running again soon.
It's hard for me to say as I havent tried a full PVE destro build yet. I experimented with it on test but haven't actually raided with it.
Going on results on the dummy I wasn't doing as much dps as demo. But that may have changed with recent patches.
If in doubt take demo as an offspec and take it to an easy instance and see how you do.
ok what i dont understand about warlock rotations are, how are they keeping thier mana pool up using just life tap? eventually your going to run out of health, then what?
For The Alliance ;))
Cheers dude =)
nice vid =P
Pre 3.1. it was the best indeed - however 3/13/55 (with the lifetap glyph!) is the optimal choice nowadays
Awsome
I can looking for a guide to Demo PvE build and rotations, with more.
I then look throught your video and notice your rotation and the talents you showed of was the same I use (almost, I cast Immolate be4 corruption).
I have 2 questions:
1: You think I should replace Glyph of Shadow Bolt with Glyph of Life Tap?
2: Can you give me the realm and name of that warlock so I can check it in armory? (I'd like to know if you play on europeean or american realms too)
Urgaal
Hellfire (EU)
@1 Yes replace Glyph of SB with Glyph of Life Tap. I can pretty much guarentee your dps will improove.
@2 I am on Trollbane-Europe
dude why ditend you use immolate aura in metamorphosis it's one of the best spells of e lock
Yes but after what i have seen the fire? dmg is increased not shadow?
Is it a good idea to specc in molten core and do shadowbolts until it procc and then spamm incerate?
Can u make a Pv"P" Guide?
dest..and demo?
or just link the talent build please..
very useful guide but is little outdated has anything changed since that patch to the now 3.3 ?
how were you flying at begining? ( in metamorphosis)?
whats the song?
However demonology gives a very nice SP raidbuff, even better than elemental shammies
I'm leveling a warlock atm, currently 38 spec'd in affliction, most say at 50 to change to demo. what do you recon for solo leveling 50+
What stone did you use?? fire stone or spell stone?
Thats why there is a healer...
u use shadowbolt?? i have seen athor demo warlocks but they use that fire spell dont remmember name.. increse or something
@StainzToXin watch the up to date reply :p
interesting, withouth molten core ?? that's a core talent for demo
i do 9k crit in destruction at 75lvl with chaosbolt and my dps is 1800...Destru for a life demon sucks
whats ur spell power mate?
U have nice dps but i think that as a destro u can get even more
As Optec's gf (my priest is in his new vid) I can confirm he is indeed not gay. :P
@FluRRReH get a priest to cast levatate on you in demon form
FOT THE HORDE!!
i have demo/destr
i got video of it if somebody wanne try it
Get a priest to cast levitate on you out of combat :)
the damage wasent to high in this guide im a level 80 in full t10 and i hit alot higher:P great guide tho
levitate
Look at the video reply :p
P.s ur sick :P
sotp lo