Hey folks *waves* first post here although I've been lurking for a while. I've 2-boxed for a few months, and finally getting my 5 box setup going in the next few weeks.

I'm very strongly leaning towards a 5 Warlock setup for this simple reason, the L70 spell Seed of Corruption.


Seed of Corruption
882 Mana
30 yd range
2 sec cast
Imbeds a demon seed in the enemy target, causing 1044 Shadow damage over 18 sec. When the target takes 1044 total damage or dies, the seed will inflict 1110 to 1290 Shadow damage to all other enemies within 15 yards of the target. Only one Corruption spell per Warlock can be active on any one target.



Running the math: it gains 22% of your +damage and ~30.5% increase from talents / Curse of Shadows (improved). With 5 or more mobs and 3 casts per Warlock with good gear. This works out to over 20K+ in damage for ~8 seconds of casting. With around 1000 +damage and 20% crit you have over 25K damage. This is sufficient damage to instantly kill the vast majority of elites in the L70 instances. (Notable exceptions would be the high-HP single pull mobs, such as the Overseers in Shadow Labs)
Alternatively you could keep your spell damage low (~600 or less) and you may be able to get off 4 casts, if your latency is low enough, button mashing fast enough, and no damage from other sources to set off the bomb early. This puts you over 26K damage.
Also, above 1400 +damage you would only get 2 casts off before the bomb drops, dropping you less than 20K AE damage.

I'm not sure how to beat bosses with this group, but you could chew through trash at an extremely fast rate! Thoughts? Something I'm overlooking?