October 05, 2008, 01:48 PM
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#71 (permalink)
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Re: how broken are locks? (extrapolating from ptr)
After some testing in Beta I am finding pretty decent results for PVE and limited PVP (havn't tested arenas yet). So far the current build that I am really enjoying is 0/30/41.
I gain instant Seduction (longer lasting too) and shadowfury. This gives me 2 escape options ontop of Fear and Death Coil. Ontop of that MD gives me 5% shadow and 5% crit. I am mostly using shadow bolt, you could easily mix in immolate and corruption into the mix for better results, but I havn't really needed them. I dont end up using demonic circle enough because you have to set it. I'd rather they make it an instant cast that you target to the spot you want to port to similar to how shadowfury works but as a teleport. I really have to be prepared and have it out before a fight or its useless. Unless your in an arena match it will inevitably be used very rarely, which is a shame.
Generally most classes can break us 1-3 times. I have about 6 - 7 ways to incapacitate throughout the fight. 2 shadowfury, 1 coil, 3 fears, 3 seduces. Even with Diminishing returns, you will interupt them enough / pause them enough to screw their rotations and with the huge shadow damage boost from all the talents and about 13% increased destro crit with the spec, you can really pump out the damage. I am running at like 33% crit and thats in pretty blah pvp gear for 80. (the starter gear)
Demo is also ok, but meta needs to be changed to a 'perm form' similar to shadowform. Tone it down, but make it perm. Right now its basically just a 30 sec every 3 min Shadow and Flame trinket. The armor is nice, but really not that neccessary - retadins will still eat you alive. I suggest keeping the stun / crit reduction, reducing the shadow damage boost to 10% and reducing the armor increase to 500%. That would not effect balance and it would make meta much more viable. Right now its just a really good trinket.
Destro needs serious help --- it almost forces you to go Fire. Though with the change to Chaos bolt now benefiting from the fire talents its actually a useful spell --- which it really wasn't before. Have to test it more with the fire classification change.
Also with the 0/30/41 I am pumping out about 1800 combined dps --- without any outside buffs or group buffs. Which is pretty much in line with meta / destro / afflic. Though destro can burst higher and meta can also burst higher. In groups / raid senarios I could see this putting out 2400-2600ish.
(Right now avg hitting for 3-3.3k, critting for 5.5k-7k. Meta having the highest crits of 7.5k-8k when in meta form. Destro having similar crit hits as my current build and afflic having lower crits.)
Last edited by Deslegrate; October 05, 2008 at 01:52 PM..
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