Starting second team.... Warlocks and priest.

[Mystic]

I know I've been more lurker here than anything, but I've been boxing since EQ days, yes manually running two computers side by side frenetically moving between the two keyboards/mice (back then, long live Keyclone these days). Wow ismy game these days, and I have three well seasoned 5-box teams (1 horde shamanx4+pally, 1 alliance shamanx4+pally, 1 alliance dkx4+shaman), and just started up a new 5-box team with 5x warlocks (lv 63 right now).

I must say the 5x warlocks are a powerhouse for leveling. I run into a crowd of mobs, 5x corruption, next mob, repeat until everything in my field of view is dead, then I go back and loot. I will say that with some cleverness (required after the VW nerf) they can do instances at level, so far at least, with no real problems. Heroics are of course out of the question. I'm not worried since I can always 3x them in cycles with my paladin tank and one of my shaman on resto.

I made this team for PVP however, and am now sending them into AV to level them there. It is pure madness and fun. I target, introduce the target to CoA and Corruption, select next, and repeat. After about 6-8 seconds of 10 Dots ticking on them they all start dropping like flies. Every once in a while I'll throw a haunt or a UA in there. I also switch it up lately and forego the CoA entirely. I instead have a different curse on each lock to put on the target, with one key press the opponent receives CoA, CoEx, CoW, CoT, and CoE. This is mostly because they die too quickly from the 5x corruption for the 5x CoA to do any real damage. With the 5 different curses, no matter their class, they are largely debilitated in their retaliation by at least one (CoT for casters, CoW/CoEx for melee), and the CoE helps with the corruption damage (I think it does, I'll have to check now that I said it).

I wanted to touch a little on the UA protecting your fears. Honeslty, fear has become completely useless for me except as a spell interrupt. With 10 or 15 or even 20 (CoA,Corruption,Haunt,UA) ticking on them, a fear lasts a total of about a half of a second max before it breaks, because they are taking so much damage. Try it and you will see, even with the +20% fear damage inscription.

I have only tried full affliction spec with these 5, but I used to run a single warlock long ago, and no matter what spec I chose back then (I switched it up a lot), in PVP I wiped the floor with my opponents. You honestly cannot go wrong no matter what spec you choose especially when you are running 4x or 5x.

Two days ago I ran into rather striking opponent. My 'locks were 62 and geared with heirlooms, but fairly abysmal everything else (still ~400 +sp tho). This guy was a level 66 death knight, named Deathassazin (dragonmaw). He has equipped himself with mostly regular <70 instance blues that each have 2 or 3 gem slots. He filled these each with +sta gems, mostly solid majestic zircons (+30 sta). He has 16.6k hps unbuffed, and 18k hps lightly buffed. My 5x team took him down, but i had to focus strictly on him to do so and I usually lost one each time (he had this knack for being in every game I joined and started hunting me down each time). He had 4x as much hps as nearly everyone else and I just watched him mow down everyone in his path with complete impunity (except when he met me, lol).

This got me to thinking just how well this would work for 5x warlocks stacked with stamina. I'm still working on acquiring the gear, but the gems are basically free candy from dailies gold on my other two alliance 5x 80 teams, but I believe I can very easily get them over 10k hps each at level 63. Woe be unto AV horde in a few more days. :-)

While 5xshamans in AV is great fun, dropping everyone like flies with volleys of CL, 5x warlocks are becoming just as much fun.