Thought I'd update my views on boosting with a Warlock in SM.

With Season 4 released, I immediately upgraded three slots with saved honor. Nothing too huge, but it did increase my spell damage and spell crit a fair bit. Now, they run about 900 and 18% (not including some talents). That's up from about 750 and 15%.

Wow, what a massive difference in SoC AE. I can now clear SM Cath in 15 minutes. Its two pulls up to the stairs. Two pulls for the courtyard outside the Cathedral. Two pulls from inside the Cathedral and rush the boss. The boss I now do with probably 10 to 15 trash mobs left. I just SoC them all down.

I think the increase in gear to the average player (I have two pieces of S2 gear, the rest is S1) really makes boosting trivial for a Warlock.

This method also seems much less tedious than having to DoT every single mob. I just have the VW gather up, spam 4 SoC's, rinse and repeat. Again, its 15 minutes from start to finish where in my S1 only gear it was probably four more pulls and another 5 to 10 minutes per run.