A request for a Warlock

[Lissa]

I think there are too many variable factors to draw any conclusions from one raid: how the warlock is specced, what equipment they are wearing, what skills they use etc etc.

My general experience so far is that my warlock generally rates fairly low on the damage meter scale: rogues and/or mages are usually at the top. Plus Curse of Shadow tends to buff mage's damage considerably.

With enough +shadow or +spell damage gear, and either Shadow Mastery, Master Demonologist-with-Succubus or a sacrificed Succbus, warlocks can get some pretty amazing Shadowbolt crits (between 3000 and 3900 damage or so - the new BWL items might allow you to break 4000). I got a couple of 2000 damage crits last night in LBRS - but then I also got a lot 500-600 SB hits, and I was rarely getting more than 1 or 2 hits per mob except in longer fights. While I'm spending 1.5 seconds to cast CoS for better group damage, the mages and rogues are unloading with their most damaging attacks. 2.5 seconds later my SB hits.

On the other hand, warlocks are often the last class in the group to get aggro (especially if you combine Blessing of Salvation with the new MD imp buff).

Chris
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It's an SM/Ruin build with 5 points into Suppression, 5 into SM, and you get the idea from Destruction... ;)

I have around +100 damage (Briarwood Reed, Crimson Felt Hat, Anastari Heirloom, Dagger of the New Moon, legs from Omokk, and rest all Dreadmist). This allows me to get non-crits of around 1.1k to 1.2k with lucky CoS additions and crits into the 2k+ range (2773 last night on one hit).

I can say this, Skan has always been annoyed with me when looking at my damage output since I can typically out damage Skan in single target output. I still think Quark would win unless he wasn't getting Salvation and had to back off on occasion (Tris was throwing Wisdom on me and Arethor and not Salvation...if he had thrown Salvation, we would have taken much longer to get agro even with the crazy crits).