Brista,Jul 4 2005, 10:39 AM Wrote:Can you post your talents and gear please Drasca? Also what is your normal plan of action for both trivial fights and for boss fights? (apologies for the tangent)
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Its not a tangent, this is how I have fun! Damage meters mean nothing if the instance isn't completed.
There were however, a lot of factors that enabled me to do so much damage. Rogues used a lot of stun, warriors tanked well, hunters offtanked at times, we had a lot and a lot of healing, plus mages, so aggro was spread around a lot.
I did take a lot of damage though heh. So easy to steal aggro with that much damage early on, but I knew single targets would be killed fast.
I had about 200 +damage on equip, maybe +8 crit on equip. Probably 13-20% chance actual chance to crit total, sadly I did not peek at combat stats to be sure this time. I had to sacrifice a lot of +stam/int for it, but that's why I keep +dmg gear seperate from my +stam/int/resist stuff.
I was not afraid to hellfire, and for the first half up through rend, the mages and myself AoE'd most everything. The mage colt was leading at that point, but past rend I began catching up with single target damage. Some enemies, if I didn't start casting before they were ambushed by our rogues and fireball/pyroblasts, I wouldn't get a shadowbolt in (7k health enemies). That started changing when the hp of enemies became 15k, then I could chain cast 2-4 shadowbolts in.
Basically, I aoe'ed when I could get away with it, and CoS / shadowbolt spam when I had time to. I didn't bother when I didn't have time to cast SB. I could've chosen to CoEl and enhance mage damage, but we had plenty to go around and this group was nowhere near wiping most of the time.
I definitely did not soul drain or pass health stones out as much as I could've, but I was having fun competing and our MT didn't ask for one.
In general, crit gear does NOT on a pound per pound basis give more damage than +dmg items. The easiest to get +dmg gear through crafting is the felcloth tailoring/engineering stuff. Robe of Void is the epic tailoring +dmg robe chestpiece you'll want from scholo, which requires 20 demonic runes (start collecting now). There are various greens from AH too. When healing is plenty, you won't likely be attacked, or there's no chance of survival if MT goes down, there's no reason not to go all out +damage. There's a full list of fantasy +dmg items up to over 600 on the Blizzard warlock forums.
I'll name a few of my own:
Maiden's Circle: Rhazz, DM Arena
Robe of Everlasting night: DM west, Beast doggy
Rod of Ogre Magi: Dm north trib
Blade of new Moon: DM west Prince
Burst of Knowledge: BRD, Flame demon before 7 Dwarves
Eye of Beast: Horde Quest reward
Royal Seal of Eldrethalas: DM warlock book reward
Felheart Shoulders... MC
Shyshroud Leggings: Omokk?, first ogre boss in LBRS
Dragonrider boots: Rend's mount, UBRS
Maleki's Footwraps:thott link hereMana Igniting Cord: MC
Felheart gloves: MC
Amplifying Cloak: DM west, Magister (left of tree boss, opposite Tsu'Zee)
I've had this blue shoulders that was +mag damage, but all int. Can't remember name.
Start collecting tailoring, engineering, and instance options. I still need baroness anastari's amulet, and the +dmg ring from AV. . . as well as many others, especially azuresong mageblade. I've achieved +200. Some people have achieved +300-400. +600 is possible, and I want to be there.
Edit:
And as for talents, I didn't get ruin. 31/3/17 is what I have personally. Its maximized for damage, and a little bit of crit. My imp is about 98 dps due to being improved with 1 pt firebolt. His cast time cannot be improved beyond 1.5 seconds, so second talent point is pointless. That 1 pt firebolt is my personal choice against 1 point crit. Skan would argue ruin, but quite simply there are times where I need safe free mana. I use improved lifetap other times.
ISb-->Bane->Shadowburn (11 pts), Devastation 3 pts, 1pt firebolt, 2 pts Destructive reach.
Improved Imp
Suppression, IC, iLT, Fully improved CoEx, Grim Reach / Nightfall, 3/5 Fel Conc, Siphon life, 4/5 SM, Dark pact.
Also, 5th point in shadow mastery is currently bugged, or could get bugged. I've only divested 4/5 points into it.
Note, my build isn't purely focused on PvE damage, or PvP damage for that matter. I'd take Grim Reach out and put it into fully improving fel conc, and swap suppression with drain life if I wanted to purely pvp.
Anyway, my talent choices are for endurance and safety. You don't absolutely need range, but its nice. Dark pact isn't absolutely necessary either, nor improving life tap, but they're both very nice to have and reduce your health loss and therefore potential instant death if you're surviving with 78 hp. Dark pact also saves me from purchasing water. Its a safety choice. Ruin . . . depends on crits and crits alone. It won't save your ass reliably, and with this much +dmg you'll always pull aggro with a big crit. That's a big pve concern, as pulling aggro from MT in MC is the worst thing you can do. Its bad enough when I pull aggro from trash mob molten giants if I have too many stringed crits.
I'd probably have a 3k crit if I had ruin. I have been getting an upwards 2k crits recently, and it'll only get higher as I scrounge more +dmg items.
What you do need is fel conc for all situations, and CoEx for PvP. SM is a niceboost in damage while you're already in affliction, and siphon's the same kind of 'free' mobile pvp damage.