Warlock's talents building

[Lissa]

It is indeed very good. Best for amp'ed CoA. However...

Those points in after shadowburn and before ruin are for 5 man and small unit engagements. On a raid level, intensity is not as useful because other people will have aggro and you will not be interrupted at all. iLoP, well succubus damage is best for solo. I loved it when I had it, but its again best for solo against easy mobs with low hp.

The +crit... Hmm. Crit is not terribly reliable, but with the right equipment you can have 20% crit or so. Considering that many affliction spells do not crit, especially life drain, it would be a waste for your build to have additional crit.

If you were 60 and regularly hitting MC/UBRS/Onyxia, I'd say put the points into suppression instead, demonology (imp 3/3), or getting curse of exhaustion maxed, or even dark pact. Regardless, one point into improved firebolt would get you a lot of utility whereas your +crit wouldn't get you a whole lot more damage.

Its your warlock, but some builds really don't mesh well.
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Even with Devestation and Ruin I routinely get crits for severe damage using Curse of Shadow and Shadowbolts. Yesterday I helped in a Jailbreak for a couple people as was routinely getting SB crits routinely in the 1.6k to 2k damage range with CoS up. While I may have around a 10% crit chance without items, it sure seems like they occur more often than 10% of the time.

I seem to remember a Warlock on the Blizzard forums sitting down and calculating the percentage chance of having the Improved SB debuff up on a mob compared against crit percentage and just having Devestation was a big jump in and of itself. Further having that debuff on and with getting as much crit gear as you could, at around 25% crit chance they guy found that 2/3s of the time you could have the debuff in effect. That's quite a jump in damage, especially with a true SM/Ruin build (and has been making me lean that way recently).