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Warlock AOE: Rain of Fire vs. Hellfire vs. Seed of Corruption
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Post by
Onijitsu
I'm curious how you guys would rate these three AOE options.
I have heard, repeatedly, that Hellfire is pretty much useless. Especially, since it is centered on yourself and does damage to you at the same time. However, I have heard some swear that it is more effective/efficient than Rain of Fire when you have a large number of mobs packed into a tighter space. Even though RoF is 675/s and Hellfire is 451/s... It leaves me scratching my head, but I'm curious to know what you think. Some also report that Nether Protection can mitigate a lot of the damage of Hellfire. (Or, they resort to using a Voidwalker's bubble, though this would drop their DPS)
Otherwise, I can't see much use for Hellfire, outside of burn-detecting a Rogue in PvP maybe.
Rain of Fire seems to be the go-to spell for AOE. Especially, if you're Destro.
And Seed of Corruption seems more helpful to Afflictolocks. But it still seems useful to myself on Destro, occasionally. Especially, since repeated castings of it into a cloud of trash-mobs (switching targets) are more likely to take out some of the mobs faster (reducing the demand on the Healer and Tank), rather than more slowly reducing all of their health-bars down at once. Probably also more likely to draw aggro?
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Post by
Barkend
Metamorphosis + Immolation Aura + Hellfire + Sacrifice (optional) = ownage
Post by
asakawa
meta + IA + SoC = better (but bring 2 rogues for tricks)
Post by
Onijitsu
So without a double
Tricks of the Trade
, Barkend's idea works better?
Appreciate the information. Especially the link to Asakawa's guide.
Post by
asakawa
the rogues thing was just me being silly.
damage = threat.
SoC does more damage than hellfire therefore producing more threat. even an exceedingly good tank (well geared pally pops wings etc.)
will
lose threat to you if you do it right so tricks and misdirect will certainly help.
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asakawa
well, i was thinking of trash pulls in ICC like the plagueworks trap pulls ^_^
no warrior will be tanking those off a demo lock unassisted.
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