09-20-2006, 10:37 PM
Quote:A general thanks to everyone for the info and feedback. I didn't know that about that drain life talent (I like to get my info from Lurkers first and if I can't get it here I then look elsewhere call me site-ist. :)
You guys have me pondering a couple of other changes no matter which way I go. And the 7/21/21+2 does look good if I get stuff in the destruction tree. I very well may save that for later, but I think I want to play more with affliction right now.
As someone who has played with a SM / DS build quite a bit, I'd call most of this accurate. Drain life and Siphon have some aggro issues, in that the DPS combined with the healing can get you in trouble sometimes. CoA is usually not in use in favor or CoE or CoS and Corruption may or may not be beneficial. Most of the affliction tree is wasted in instances.
I started out doing a lot of sac voidy in instances for low maintenance, but found that the health ticks draw aggro just like normal healing. You probably have the right plan with sac the succubus.
DS + SM with sac'ed succubus puts shadowbolt DPS in a good place. A little lower DPS than an SM / Ruin build, but not bad. very consistent damage.
Cool. I know with the slower cast SB's that I might have some trouble with getting them off in time with some of the DPS some of the 5 man groups put out. :)
I'm not all that worried about aggro, I'll have you tanking for me after all! :) Drain hasn't been a problem so far but that might be a recent thing. Last reports I saw (from looking up stuff for warrior aggro actually) was that drain life only did threat equal to the damage. Siphon might still do double though.
And I do know that a lot of the affliction tree is wasted in instances but I will still do solo grinding stuff. I just don't know how much yet. So I do want to keep my drains viable for solo play still and really it's not like there is much else I can put it in.
I'm wondering about supression as well. I don't think any 5 man boss is higher than L61 so more than 3 points in it doesn't seem like it will benefit much.
So I tweaked the SM + DS since I think I want to play with that more before I try I something else. Any other thoughts from folks? Again that 7/21/21 + 2 does look fun but for right now I've decided I want to just go with tweaking more or less what I grew up with for a bit more power. I might even respec now so that I can use it solo for that last half level. :)
Looks good to me. I saw CoEx and it reminded me you haven't discussed PvP. Important to you?
"Unholy Power" (improve pet melee dmg by 3%/point) is really not worthwhile for top-levelled players, since player spell damage is vastly greater than pet melee damage by that point. Not many worthwhile points in Demonology (besides the few OMG talents), though, so ... Fel Stamina?
Anyhow thats just a stray point.