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I'm kindof new in World of Warcraft, so I asked several people about a Destro Warlock's optimal build. Most of them agreed that my main "Nuke" should be Soul Fire (on my level, at least) but all of them disagreed on how. How can I optimize Soul Fire? I have heard about differing Talent builds, specific Items, etc.. anything that can maximize it to its fullest. What do you guys think? |
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I think those people misled you. Soul Fire is not going to be your "main nuke", no matter what. So, unless you want to use it anyway because you want to play an odd game (a fine thing to do if you really want to), you'd better stick with the correct spells to cast to achieve best results. Since in WoW what really matters to most people in only the raid boss fights during the endgame, I doubt you'll find any serious EJ-backed study about spell priorities while leveling. You have two ways to decide what is best to do. Way A: do, as much as you can, what you will have to do once you reach the endgame (link). It will not be the best you can do to maximise killing speed, but you will get used to some patterns you'll have to follow when the things get tough (i.e.: raids). Way B: do it yourself, i.e. read carefully the spell and talent descriptions, study the comments you can find around the net, try both on dummy targets and on real mobs what works best. |
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This is sort of a weird question, because Soul Fire isn't really a bread and butter ability in the end-game warlock (it's cast time is simply too long to garner adequate DPS). There are a few situations when it becomes useful to cast however. Destruction (Destro) Warlocks have a talent called, appropriately enough, "Improved Soul Fire" which provides a damage buff once soul fire is cast. This buff makes Soul Fire an acceptable spell to work into a destro rotation (once every 15 seconds, whenever possible) They also have the "Emberstorm" talent, which simply reduces the cast time from 4 to 3 seconds. Demonology (Demo) Warlocks have a talent called Decimation, which triggers when you hit a weak enemy with one of your primary nukes, reducing the cast time of soul fire by 40%! Improved Soul Fire and Decimation are mutually exclusive, (they're too far up their respective trees for off-specs to reach... at least until the next expansion), but Emberstorm is not. Because you want to maximize Soul Fire, I think you should go at it from the Demonology angle because, unlike Destro, once mobs dip below 25%, you can start chain-casting fast soul fires (destro's buff doesn't stack with itself, so there's no way to get use out of more than one soul fire / 15 seconds). When questing, you may be able to simply soul fire mobs to death, the longer cast-time allowing your Fel Guard to build a better aggro buffer, and, if you're in a particularly thick area, you may be able to keep the Decimation buff up indefinitely, meaning you can just cast soul fires willy-nilly. Specifically, for Questing, I would suggest this build (you said you were approaching 60, so add more to the tree as needed): http://www.wowhead.com/talent#IZcbrfMu0R And for PvP, I would caution you that lower level PvP isn't representative of end-game PvP, and then suggest you use your dual-talent spec for something along these lines: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#IZIrrbozbR Hope that helps! |
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You should NEVER ask various people about their thoughts and opinions. You must always look out for the actual stats/benefits/comparisons. The best site where you can find all this is: http://elitistjerks.com Specifically for destro locks the guide you should be looking at is this. Most of the instructions in there are not up for discussion: they are hard facts, calculated gains etc. |
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