Stam-stacked Aff Warlock

McBro

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So out of frustration from being tailed by ~2-4 rogues in every BG, I've been putting together a stam set for my Priest. This is just to annoy the hell out of the rogues, but it made me think if it's a possible option to go tanky on other cloth-wearers.

While I'm liking the idea of a tanky Priest, especially Disc which would make an interesting FC, I was wondering how viable a stam-stacked Aff Warlock would be. Create Healthstone and Drain Life healing %HP combined with either Dark Regeneration or Harvest Life could make you a tough bastard to take down, and you would be able to apply more dots before dying.

I know Affliction is not very effective in this bracket in comparison to the burst of Destro, but played in a different style it could be useful in some teams.

Has anyone had any experience with this?
 
tl;dr it's all viable unless ur awful, do what you like the most. stam stacking to a certain extent is certainly viable on a 24 lock.

Go affli if you want, but my recommendation would be to go demo instead. You get the same abilities you mentioned but with an two instant AoE slows and demo leap every 12 seconds.
It's fun and much more viable without being too mindlessly OP.

dunno if it'll help but here's an armory of a dedicated demo

Softlock @ Akama - Community - World of Warcraft
 
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Cool, thanks for the info. I was considering Demo because of the leap, but for some reason I always think of Aff when going drain tank...

Will look into it a bit more, already have a lock on the way to 24 for testing.
 
affli is fun, unstable affliction (90% will dispell it = silence + huge crit), dot dmg isnt good (35 corruption ticks with about 310 shadow spellpower, less than the moonfire from an average f2p resto druid) , still not bad to multidot. you also have a instant pet summon (lets say you start with a voidwalker, disarm huntard/rogue and instantly summon the succbus ). for single target dps you still have the succubus.
 
Locks are one of the hardest toon to play. They are so squishy with little damage. They are good for fearing, seduce, but that's about it. A lock was my main twink a while back in the 29s. I topped damage all the time, and topped deaths. But 24s, I haven't met a really good one yet. You might try a stam mage. My crit mage is nasty with 1000-1200 frozen ice lances. I also have a stam set, just haven't tried it out yet. I will try FCing soon.
 
Hmm, that's what's I thought. DoT damage being so low even with high SP means my lock would be doing pitiful damage, so I may as well just be a resto druid/shammy or disc priest.

In fact, I'll do that. Gonna respec disc for a bit once I complete the set.
 
I tried affliction on my 24 lock recently... it blows.

The CD on dispells make it where UA getting dispelled isn't happening enough to be worthwhile too.
 
Aff doesn't do much damage at low levels because its spells scale very poorly with spellpower. You are better off going destro - they do some of the best damage and burst of any class at 24. Demo is going to be way better than aff too, with the added benefit of slows and mobility.
 
Dorigon said:
Aff doesn't do much damage at low levels because its spells scale very poorly with spellpower. You are better off going destro - they do some of the best damage and burst of any class at 24.
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I can agree 100% with this and I can show screenshots to show destro damage. I do just as much damage as a destro lock @ 24 than I do with my spriest. I've had 100k ABs on both recently. The thing is though, not as many "oh shit" buttons as my spriest has and self healing is weak (health stone and talent). If locks got howl of terror @ 24, we might see more locks in the bracket. :)
 
swap weapons with the haste buff of damage spells enchant on them to build up super duper haste then swap to elemental force and dot everything …….. that or just go boomy and use berzerking and a manual crowd pummeler with elemental force ….. gg
 
all spec locks are viable. i really wonna try a premade with two affi locks, two boomkins and two hunters. serious dot cleave with anti dispel and burst...
 
Phrontistery said:
tl;dr it's all viable unless ur awful, do what you like the most. stam stacking to a certain extent is certainly viable on a 24 lock.

Go affli if you want, but my recommendation would be to go demo instead. You get the same abilities you mentioned but with an two instant AoE slows and demo leap every 12 seconds.
It's fun and much more viable without being too mindlessly OP.

dunno if it'll help but here's an armory of a dedicated demo

Softlock @ Akama - Community - World of Warcraft
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Nice lock! But you could have much more stam. IDK if 31sp is better than 39 stam in this bracket tho. The cloak needs to go xD boa gives
+7 Stamina
+4 Intellect
+3 Critical Strike (0.7% @ L24)
+3 Haste (0.97% @ L24)

46 more stam sounds great imo. 2818hp ftw.
 
Phrontistery said:
tl;dr it's all viable unless ur awful, do what you like the most. stam stacking to a certain extent is certainly viable on a 24 lock.

Go affli if you want, but my recommendation would be to go demo instead. You get the same abilities you mentioned but with an two instant AoE slows and demo leap every 12 seconds.
It's fun and much more viable without being too mindlessly OP.

dunno if it'll help but here's an armory of a dedicated demo

Softlock @ Akama - Community - World of Warcraft
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Nice lock! But you could have much more stam. IDK if 31sp is better than 39 stam in this bracket tho. The cloak needs to go xD boa gives
+7 Stamina
+4 Intellect
+3 Critical Strike (0.7% @ L24)
+3 Haste (0.97% @ L24)

46 more stam sounds great imo. 2818hp ftw.
 
I stam stacked a demo lock because on YouTube their is a video that shows u all of the jumps u can do with demonic leap which they still worked but i was squishy af
 
Update: I've re-specced my priest to Disc to test out a stam set, just need to get AGM and another pair of acidic walkers with boar's speed.

Those items should put me at ~3k hp, which will be fairly solid combined with bubbles and heals. If I'm still too squishy for my liking then I doubt a lock will do much better, but still worth a try.
 
A lock will actually do much worse, as you won't have shields or heals. Not to mention, you will be less able to fulfill your primary role (doing damage).
 
McBro said:
Update: I've re-specced my priest to Disc to test out a stam set, just need to get AGM and another pair of acidic walkers with boar's speed.

Those items should put me at ~3k hp, which will be fairly solid combined with bubbles and heals. If I'm still too squishy for my liking then I doubt a lock will do much better, but still worth a try.
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Stay shadow with the same gear, 60% increase to armor is nothing to scoff at. I do fine at about 2.8k in my thrown together stam set when I have to run a flag. I've got 2x AGM and mix in some gear but I can still throw some great dps at 2.8k and much more armor than disc or on my lock. 99% of the time I stay in my 1.8k glass cannon set though because really, how often does a priest need to run the flag. Leave that to the 1/2 dozen F2P pallies out there.
 
Drayner said:
Stay shadow with the same gear, 60% increase to armor is nothing to scoff at. I do fine at about 2.8k in my thrown together stam set when I have to run a flag. I've got 2x AGM and mix in some gear but I can still throw some great dps at 2.8k and much more armor than disc or on my lock. 99% of the time I stay in my 1.8k glass cannon set though because really, how often does a priest need to run the flag. Leave that to the 1/2 dozen F2P pallies out there.
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I've got both sets ready to swap in and out, depending on the occasion. Yes, shadow will do more in most cases, but the big black outline in BG's is like a giant rogue target that I'm kinda sick of...

Just my little experiment. Thanks for all the input :)
 
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