The New Warlock DPS

[dragonhawker]

Hello ladies,

My guild will be resuming regular raids on January 4th,

Comments

[tsu]

Your rotation is almost okay, but with a few key problems. Soul Fire is very very important, for the hast proc. You should have a soulburn->soul fire at the top of your rotation, to keep the haste buff up. In PvE, except I'm sure in gimmicky fights I've not yet seen, there is no reason to soulburn any other spell.

Bane of Doom should be your destro bane of choice, not Agony. With Banes and curses, you can now keep up Curse of Elements. This is good to do. Many destro locks are now talenting for Corruption, if you do so, then it's a powerful filler spell in your rotation. I find I can pull 12K in heroics without it, so I prefer to not stress over it. In raiding, I don't think the leeway is there.

My spec is a bit different from the preferred raiding spec, I rotated a few talents to try to keep my damn imp from dying all the time: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/twisting-nether/phedria/talent/primary

This seems to be the preferred destro spec of the moment: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#IbGZcZIrbfRbsodo

[dragonhawker]

Thank you! I will try all this out! I admit, I didn't really understand Soul Fire so I didn't try to use it.

(I pretty much only used Soulburn to insta-summon a dead pet, or, on very rare occasions, for the haste buff after warlock-porting.)

[dragonhawker]

Oh, also, hi :p How did I not notice your username until I followed the armory link and was like "Hey, that toon is familiar... waaaait a minute."

[tsu]

XD

Also! Shadowburn is super awesome. Use it on trash for regaining soul shards. It's especially awesome on long boss fights with summoned adds. It also does a ton of damage, so yeah. Very shiny.

[dragonhawker]

Woot, I rearranged my rotation last night... self-buffed it looks like I'm doing about 9.8k now. Not perfect, but much better than it was!