The state of Warlock Talents

Xanseyy

Xanseyy

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So as you guys may know, warlock talents right now are really weak. Dark regen heals for 30 every tick which is pretty much useless, burning embers with the talent only heals for 132 which is a waste (without it 93) the searing flames talent refunds half the ember back, but i still find the heal pretty useless. As for harvest life, it can be good but it still lacks a lot.
which leaves soul leech as the most viable (but still bad) talent. The reason for this is because warlocks are a pack class, and if you spam incinerate and chaos (or whatever your spec's abilities are) while nobody is focusing you, you can get a huge absorption which is the most viable in my opinion and in my experience. Feel free to comment your opinions on this :)
 
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Harvest Life over Dark Regen

Dark Regen over Soul Leech

Drain Life hits harder with the Harvest Life talent. (I like DoT Damage)

If i want to be defensive, i'll go with Dark Regen.

I don't think the talents are weak, they're just kinda lame.

I miss the old trees...
 
Idk guys but i'm loving soul leech more useful than dark regen. I get to 800-1k absorb shields, i've blocked a whole chaos bolt.
 
Xanseyy said:
Idk guys but i'm loving soul leech more useful than dark regen. I get to 800-1k absorb shields, i've blocked a whole chaos bolt.
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How much damage absorb does a chaos bolt give you ?
 
Soul leech is a pve talent. It works well by reducing cleave damage in endgame raids but requires that you spam your rotation. Unfortunately it doesn't really have a place in pvp because the situations where you're able to stand still and free cast are also the situations where you aren't in immediate danger. In effect its protecting you when you don't need protection. The moment you are swapped to its only as good as the damage you can do on your heels, and the numbers just aren't there to make it a viable choice.

Harvest life on the other hand is underrated. As others mentioned it works well with affliction where shadow bolt is a pretty weak filler. It also generates a healthy amount of demo fury and there are few things more satisfying than draining someones face off and out healing their damage while they flop around. Additionally channeled spells have benefits in and of themselves.

Of course there is a reason the majority of players are regen. Tyranny/regen/candy will keep you alive through almost anything, even without heals from outside sources, and at the very least buys you the crucial time for conflag/gul'dan charges to come up and fear drs to reset. At this level burst is king, and your success is largely determined by your ability to dish out or respond to those spikes, so unfortunately your talent choice is really no contest.
 
fun fact . even with the talent shadow bolt does more dps then drain life .......... just in case u were wondering
 
Snowjobs said:
fun fact . even with the talent shadow bolt does more dps then drain life .......... just in case u were wondering
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Naturally it would. But its about the pressure you put.

You cast unstable affliction , then corruption. After that, shadowbolt, then Harvest Life for 2-3 sec and again shadowbolt, harvest life 2-3 sec cast.

Edit : You should do a spreadsheet on it.
 
Snowjobs said:
fun fact . even with the talent shadow bolt does more dps then drain life .......... just in case u were wondering
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SB spam can be line of sighted tho. The channel will stick for the duration. #rekt
 
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