Quote Originally Posted by 'elroddo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=168255#post 168255
Why not 4 locks and a shadow priest? good synergy, you can keep soulstone up on the priest, and rez when needed. You could use your existing lock to boost the other 4 and speed up the process. A shammy would be good, with flametongue totem or totem of wrath. you could also go with a healer, tank and 3 dps. or you could just boost 4 dps with your pally.
I tried this and found it underwhelming. With the nerf to spriest/lock synergy, and the fact that locks really don't NEED replenishment (lifetap/dark pact), it's pretty "meh" compared to 1 CoH holy priest and 4 locks. Bind CoH to lifetap, imho. For leveling, I went with CoH and then down to the Spirit buff since locks now have synergy with spirit through fel armor.

Shard management is really not too bad -- keep 2-3 shards in your normal bags, and if you need to use one, just grab one off the next mob. The only time you'll run out of shards is massive summoning or if your pets are just faceplanting (i.e. losing at PvP over, and over, and over).

I found the most effective spec for me was aff until I could get a felguard, then head for felguard/siphon life and do a sort of "aoe grinding" by SL tapping every mob in sight and letting the felguards cleave them all to death. It also helped in PvP combat since you could get Soul Link + Siphon Life. In PvP, even if your priest dies, you should always have a soulstone (and many more on backup) to pop that little priesty right back up -- and dots will keep ticking even if you lose a warlock or two. You'll almost never get a total wipe... I think the hardest "wipe" I've had was two DK's with the ghoul-on-death talent that would keep me in combat to prevent me from drinking while the other one graveyard zerged... You have to re-start DoTs on the ghoul each time and eventually the priest oomed and couldn't heal anymore.