KiloVictor,May 9 2005, 01:06 PM Wrote:If the targets aren't fire-resistant, warlocks can provide fairly mediocre AoE with RoF. Sadly, my experience with Hellfire is that it's a good way to grab a bunch of aggro and spend a lot of mana before getting interrupted. Maybe I'm not doing it right.
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Hellfire giving you trouble is perfectly natural for warlocks. Unlike mages, you have to get the timing and far less difficult, positioning, just right.
In 5 man you must coordinate with your party to have everyone move up in a concentrated AoE circle so enemies don't shuffle around too much.
You must wait until your party has grabbed sufficient aggro (not hard with high damage rogues around) so that you have 'just enough' buffer time through aggro and hellfire range distance before your AoE steals aggro. It is an extremely delicate operation. A few seconds waiting extra can mean everything goes splat, or your hellfire is cut short and we have a much longer battle.
Hellfire can be very effective, but the gap of versatility is the difference between AoE and no AoE and a dead caster. Mages can still AoE under attack, warlocks cannot. KV experiences the easily attained situation when warlocks cannot aoe after a HF attempt.
KV's non-use of HF is pretty one sign of the difficulty using warlock skills. Currently, I have 100 skills on my hotbar. I still need more buttons. In addition, I'm just getting into macros now... and they're absolutely necessary to use certain skills effectively. Warlocks are difficult to master. I maintain warlock utility bill costs are extremely high.