08-24-2005, 01:02 PM
I have pondered on this, and have taken some of The Drasca's advice in this (Why the The? It's 7:30 AM. Leave me alone.) and have, at least temporarily, switched from destruction to affliction. Spent a good bit of the day playing around with it. There I go racking up the re-spec costs. I hope to keep it under 40g, at least before I hit 60. (Would be better than I did with the mage. ><)
Anyway. The instant corruption--I like. The improved Life Tap--I like. The Fel Concentration--I like. The rest (that I, at this point, have access to) I could do with or without. Night Fall is nice. Was lots of fun for maybe the first hour. But it just doesn't proc often enough to be reliable. It's never around when I need it.
I plan to stick it out for a while, though, at least until I hit the level for Siphon Life and Curse of Exhaustion.
With Siphon Life, one of my good friends, who has played a warlock since back when I annoyed him into buying the game a few months ago, said he tried it out and wasn't too impressed. This was a while back--maybe it's different now, I dunno. But he said it costed a lot of mana, and just didn't drain enough life to make all that much of a difference, unless you're slapping it on several targets.
Curse of Exhaustion, though. This is a big thing. I can imagine just how useful an instant snare would be, in a good many situations. Useful as it is, though, it's pretty deep into a tree in which I am only really wanting the early talents. Only time will tell as to just how much I deem it to be necessary.
As it is now, it's a bit too much of a waiting game, in my opinion. Most solo activity is just waiting for the dots to kill the enemy, or waiting for a night fall proc, etc.. It works, but I'm not really getting into it.
But, again, I've still got plenty of time to play around with all this stuff. Still having lots of fun with the warlock, and I don't exactly plan on giving up on it soon. Undoubtedly I will return here to ramble once I have done more testing.
Anyway. The instant corruption--I like. The improved Life Tap--I like. The Fel Concentration--I like. The rest (that I, at this point, have access to) I could do with or without. Night Fall is nice. Was lots of fun for maybe the first hour. But it just doesn't proc often enough to be reliable. It's never around when I need it.
I plan to stick it out for a while, though, at least until I hit the level for Siphon Life and Curse of Exhaustion.
With Siphon Life, one of my good friends, who has played a warlock since back when I annoyed him into buying the game a few months ago, said he tried it out and wasn't too impressed. This was a while back--maybe it's different now, I dunno. But he said it costed a lot of mana, and just didn't drain enough life to make all that much of a difference, unless you're slapping it on several targets.
Curse of Exhaustion, though. This is a big thing. I can imagine just how useful an instant snare would be, in a good many situations. Useful as it is, though, it's pretty deep into a tree in which I am only really wanting the early talents. Only time will tell as to just how much I deem it to be necessary.
As it is now, it's a bit too much of a waiting game, in my opinion. Most solo activity is just waiting for the dots to kill the enemy, or waiting for a night fall proc, etc.. It works, but I'm not really getting into it.
But, again, I've still got plenty of time to play around with all this stuff. Still having lots of fun with the warlock, and I don't exactly plan on giving up on it soon. Undoubtedly I will return here to ramble once I have done more testing.