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I was just reading up on this thread about someone's lvl 80 warlock macro http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=22209
Is shadow bolt no longer the bread and butter of destruction warlock DPS? Can anyone give me a quick breakdown. I must have missed something that happened between BC and Wrath that changed this.
Shadowbolt is used by two specs as a filler for Demo and Affliction locks. Destruction locks dont use it at all.
It got nerfed a few times and then they kept adding +DPS interactions between other spells...
Yeah, just did some reading on wowwiki. I'm only at lvl 39 with my warlock, but that really changes my plans. Glad I found that out now, rather than later. Learn something new every day..
You should do this more prior to posting in the future.Quote:
Yeah, just did some reading on wowwiki.
Changes your plans how?
Afflic --> 60
Demo --> 80
Destro or preference after
@fursphere lol
@yaki Just one of those moments where I realized I knew less about a class than I thought I did. I've been out of the game for almost a year. Continually finding things that have changed. Typically I have a good read on what is the correct formula for a class' best DPS. Just unsettling sometimes to find you're wrong.
As for plan changes, not sure. Probably still keep my lock destro. I never liked watching for nightfall procs on slaves. Re-evailuating my macro's i'm using now while leveling. I don't think it's time to remove shadowbolt yet since I don't quite have conflag and I need tog et conflag glyphed. Just brain dumping mostly
Most of what I know about warlocks came from before they were given Death Coil, so...
Keep in mind that even sub-par individual DPS is roflbbq overkill for leveling or doing dailies. It's not urgent. I got a lot of mileage out of this macro for my mages:
/cleartarget
/assist Leader
/cast Ice Lance
Shadow Bolt still has its place...in my 5 x lock group I use it for 1-shotting non-elite mobs when farming / questing - its faster and uses less mana than dotting mobs up.
Cheers,
S.
Not to mention that you don't get the base spell, incinerate, for fire destruction until in the 60's
Lol, all the posts said incinerate and I kept reading immolate. This all makes like 1000% more sense now. Today was a good day to help me with humility. lol
Just for the record, improved shadowbolt still adds a GREAT debuff that indeed STACKS with Totem of wrath, since itrs a magic debuff and not a flat crit chance like totem. I add this at the start of every attack I make and it buffs the DPS of my entire group a lot. Since my DPS is all magic dmg, this buff is as good as 5 talent points for most classes, and it lasts long enough to not gimp the lock DPS by too much.
I used shadowbolt just this morning on my destro lock. (solo) Then again it was against a fire elemental that was immune to my fire spells.