Warlock's talents building

[Lissa]

Oh that's a riot.

Rogues and Mages have a variaty of stuns, roots, and snares and a whole lot of mobility. That's why they are effective.

The first thing a warlock does is sense demons against enemy locks pets, then ping their location.

Secondly, there isn't a lock guaranteed in battles. Also attempting to banish a FELHUNTER has has the problem of wasted time due to high resists and spell lock.

Dark pact locks can do all your damage and more because they have more mana. If you're wasting 1.5 seconds trying to banish, which turns into a lot more time with their pet on you, CoT, and dots, and time to fear you before you fear them, you're heavily mistaken. Banish first thing? Only if you suck down damage at a very fast rate.

Link locked screwed? Hardly. If I wanted, I could just summon a second pet. In fact, its easiest to shrug off another's lock's damage due to shadow ward, fears and the fact that locks have no rooting ability.

You assume you get time to cast anything. You'll be interrupted, spell locked, silenced, feared, stunned half the time. That is normal for battle. You simply won't be able to output damage because you can't escape away from enemy interrupts like rogues and mages can. You are a glass cannon. I guarantee you'll be one-two shotted by said rogues and mages with that SM/Ruin attitude.

Do you really think any half decent enemy will let you spam? Pfft.

If you're out there banishing, I can fear and spell lock, duh. I gloss over facing why? Locks aren't guaranteed on the battlefield. They're also better taken out by rogues, stuns, counterspells and silence. My spell lock is better served to counter priest and paladin heals.

Get this through your head. You aren't a mage. You have no extreme mobility. Slow cannons will be smashed fast, and ruin still doesn't do greatly superior damage to other builds.
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Summon another pet...out of Banish? Now you're reaching Drasca. Just because the pet is Banished does not mean it counts against your limit and you can't sacrifice out from under Banish. Even if you could, the other 'Lock is going to rebanish it ASAP. Get away from the crutch and learn to play the 'Lock without needing a pet around, you'll become a better player because of it.

Drasca, go look again at an SM/Ruin build. You still don't seem to get the reasoning behind it. SM/Ruin is not about spamming long cast spells, it is about getting as many fast cast spells going as possible that leave you mobility while hitting hard.

You also still are looking on this as a small group (less than 5) exercise. In large scale, the Warlock, and their Group/Raid, is better served by what kind of damage they can dish out as quickly as they can.

I suggest you go back and take a good look at the Affliction and Destruction trees as you have been staring at Demonlogy for far too long to recognize where even a Link 'Lock with a Felhunter out is still easy pickings for an SM/Ruin build.