Warlock AoE farming

[Bena]

I think around 10/15 min maybe?? not sure never looked really. I'd first clear the hallway from the 4 guys there and then park the followers just inside the main entrance to the first ground. I'd send in the void to various groups and stand at the foot of the fountains in the middle. When I grabbed all the mobs I start seeding SoC. Once that's clear.. I moved the followers to the start of the stairs to the second level. Same void pulling and standing around middle of water. For the cath the followers would be at the edge of water, in front of the doors and I'd be seeding from doors. For the boss I put the followers a the door and stand halfway to the boss and send in the void.

I did have a quiet a few lapses in attention and get nice mob beatings. Key was to start casting SoC.. while it's casting tab to antoher mob.. etc.. so you get off 4xSoC.

yeah SM is the sweetspot for that kind of farming.. higher up, with 1 lock you can't get enough SoCs before they start coming after you.

I have a purple gear lock, but i am still scared to try this. Maybe i should just suck it up and give it a go. Bena how long does it take you to do a cath run? My rogue would kill that place in 1 pull the only thing that is holding me back is the stupid energy. I think that blizz needs to fix this, i can only get 3 hits off them out of energy.

[Hokusai]

I've used this tactic on my 70 affliction warlock now to boost a pally, got him to 38 so far, kinda got bored as I haven't started boxing properly yet, as is my intention.

As for being able to AoE with a warlock, all I can say is that my warlock has what most people would consider rubbish gear, pretty much tailored blues and greens (netherweave/imbued netherweave) and the rep purchasable pvp blue gear, I have 671 +dmg with fel armour if I remember right and 11k hp (exactly!) with imp, something like 9.5k with VW.

The only difficultly with doing this at higher levels (using VW to round up mobs then SoC 3 or 4 of those that are being tanked by the VW) is that you have to round up less mobs than you were able to do previously. I have even been destroyed in stockades after trying to aggro too many and having my VW die and getting the crap spammed out of me by those evil interrupting mobs, strangely I find SM easier than Stockades using this method.

I haven't tried anywhere higher than SM/Uldaman, I'm not sure it would work so well in Maurudon, that place is horrible, but in theory it should work, just will take a lot longer, and therefore might not be the best way of boosting at that level upwards, but I only have a 70 warlock, so I don't have any choice.

As I mentioned, this is with Aff spec, no demonology talents at all, and works pretty well, just need to have a bit of patience and the ability to withstand extreme boredom :P

[Millz]

With decent enough gear you can do it in a few pulls. My warlocks in full S3 using 2 pieces of T5 gear (% of dmg you deal heals pet from bonus)..

In SM Cath - from the part where you open the cathedral doors.. you can send the pet in to attack mograine and clear the full room out in 1 go.. send the pet in, let all the mobs run in and then press aoe taunt... and spam SoC like a crazy person ! If you do it right, you can take them all out in 1 go... Although i messed it up a few times and ended up wiping... I did this from level 28-40ish, in about 2-3 days.