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Are wands bad?
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Post by
irishsnout
My demonology lock is currently leveling in outlands. I have a few blue drops from ramps and always use my felguard.
My typical playstyle is grab 1-3 mobs put up the dots, felguard tank and then use a wand till they die. I use the wand because of mana issues. I also hardly ever need to refresh my dots. I follow the guides with the typical shot rotations.
Am I wrong in using the wand, or am I just not managing my mana well? Also I usually target mobs 1-2 levels lower than me. Should I be able to pull more than 3 and still manage them well?
Post by
Evzal
If that works smoothly then just continue doing it. I use the more hardcore version and just grab like 5 mobs and use rain of fire :P That works for me but sometimes i screw up and end up with 50% hp or something. But btw, u shouldnt have mana issues. Life tap is the key. If ur life tap drains to much hp etc then u dont have enough stamina. One thing i learned was that u dont really need intellect :P
Post by
Modibybob
dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot, lifetap, lifetap, drain life
hey, no mana issues!
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Post by
Maxlock
dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot, lifetap, lifetap, drain life
hey, no mana issues!
there isn't really anything more to say here.
maybe dot dot dot > life tap > tap (another mob) > dot dot dot ... etc
Post by
rollinz
I cant really comment on what people have already said ( I tried Demo out for all of 2 days and didn't like it lol) but for leveling, you cant beat affliction with the felhunter. With affli you could just run upto mob's throwing a corruption, CoA and haunt on an individual then placing corruption and CoA on several add's (unstable affliction is a nice dot for dps but I prefer to use the insta cast's and run around dotting "everything") all around for constant healing and using dark pact when needed to top up my mana free of charge, besides the ability to jump from group to group with little to no downtime I also found it to be a blast leveling lol
p.s, ofc, I'm Desto now lol.. Affli is just my off-talent for certain boss fight's raid-wise
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Post by
mindthegap5
Wands are brilliant up to outland, at which point you should have a large enough amount of spellpower to stop using a wand.
This point will be when your shadowbolt damage takes over your wand damage. Once that's happened swap to shadowbolt spam instaed of wanding.
Post by
asakawa
hmm, should happen WAY before outland but the sentiment is correct.
Post by
mindthegap5
hmm, should happen WAY before outland but the sentiment is correct.
My warlock was my first charactor and i sucked, it did take me until outland.
Post by
asakawa
lol, ok ^^
well, it's not just that you get more spellpower, wands also start to do far less damage compared to good soloing filler spells like drain life... even good blue quality ones. it's basically as they start to get stats on them beyond just DPS.
Post by
irishsnout
Thanks for the advice guys. I have to admit I was playing all wrong. No issues actually using life tap. wand is just for stats now.
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