Thoughts on Warlock Talents

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Improved Drain Soul - 2/2

Improved Drain Mana - 2/2

Improved Drain Soul is utterly useless and has been bugged since release. It sounds good, but the effect only takes place if drain soul deals the killing blow, which is very rare.

Improved Drain Mana is not very effective. With 2/2, it only does 40 damage per tick with the highest rank of Drain Mana. I suppose that could be mildly effective in pvp vs classes you'll want to mana drain, like shadow priests and druids, and the various ZG bosses that need mana draining. I can't recall a single time I cast Drain Mana before level 60. I think those 2 points could be put to better use.

If you skimp on the two above talents, that will leave you with 6 extra points. I highly recommend 5/5 in Suppression in the Affliction tree. It is very valuable in helping your Fear and DOTs last the full duration, and will prevent the high resist rate (in PvP) on the new Death Coil. Knowing you, I assume you'll be on a PvP server, so Suppression will be quite valuable, especially later on (40+)

Oh, and ask Lissa if you want real warlock advice. He's the expert!