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[Treesh]

Ok, what else can I do.  Make Healthstones...  One at a time.  So, take your usual party of 5.  5 shards where you burn the stone, a bunch of mana, and you can make one, trade, drink, make one, trade, drink, etc...  Meanwhile the entire party is already /bored with you.[right][snapback]73590[/snapback][/right]

So make a stone, life tap a bit, make a stone, life tap some more. Much quicker than drinking in between and if you have a healer in the group, have them throw a renew on you after the first life tap. Speed things up for everyone. And if they're so bored with you making healthstones, they obviously haven't been around warlocks much and haven't seen how handy that stone can be when things go really wrong.

Now, you want to make a Soulstone for your healers, hmmm,  Another shard and, the creation AND life are on a timer, so if you need to supply additional Soulstones, well you'll just have to wait.  I try to keep a 12 slot bag fully stocked with shards at all times, but typically its depleted midway through an instance due to stone creation and pet resummoning. 
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If you are in an instance (and not just zerging it), replenish the shards along the way. If you're zerging it, you shouldn't need tons of shards anyway. You will usually have other DPS classes along so it's not a long wait between the time you soul drain and the time it dies. Oh, and two warlocks can both get a shard from the same critter so you don't even have to compete with other warlocks in the group. Yes, it's not as simple as just buying and stocking up ammo or food for the hunter pet, but it's not nearly as difficult as many warlocks try to make it. I always try to log out with at least 6 shards with my warlocks so that I can summon and stone right at the start of my play session (I only keep six at logout because my warlocks either solo mostly or just group with GG so I don't need to have enough for an entire party at the start of the play session.)


And of course, I will definitely say that you need to be able to restock your shards through PvP play. That is a legitimate gripe of warlocks.