Warlocks, the item debate...

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You speak a lot of the endgame in your post and the analysis seems to assume that all Warlocks will do for damage in the end-game is spam shadow bolts... is that really true?  It seems to me that this analysis would only be applicable if the mana cost for shadow bolt is the primary use of mana for an end-game Warlock.  Have any high level Warlocks tracked what skills they use during battles to see what they're spending most of their mana on?  After all, +damage items only affect those damage spells that they apply to, they don't matter at all when it comes to the utility spells that a Warlock possesses.

I'm not saying this ISN'T true (I'm not that far with my Warlock), though I hope not.  It seems like it would be rather boring if playing a Warlock degenerates from the class it is for most of the game to a source of soulstones and shadow bolts in the end-game.  :)
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I think he might be referring to the instance raid game. I know as far as mages are concerned, it's pretty boring. You just spend most battles spamming frostbolt, arcane missiles, or blizzard. I imagine warlocks do a similar thing with shadowbolt after making sure curse of elements/shadow are on the target(s).