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Originally Posted by Tragik

A better question overall is:

What is the Voidwalker supposed to do?

It has no purpose. It can't hold aggro from anything a level 80 warlock does. In fact, during levelling it's not good, either.

It doesn't make enough threat. It's melee-mitigation talents are terrible, and it's shield is dispellable and doesn't absorb enough damage. You can't summon another pet without popping a 15 minute CD either (Nemesis and any PVP build utilizing Nemesis is easily countered and CC'd anyway).

It's like Demonic Empowerment and the Succubus and/or Felhunter.



Why? You can't get creative and make use of them without completely giving up the ability to do damage at all.

Originally Posted by Koldfeat

Generally as much +stam gear and gems as reasonable/possible. Yes I had T7 gear for this. You probably shouldn't regem or rechant your regular gear, but if you can get pvp gear or the crafted frost resist gear and gem stam it helps. Mix in your best pve gear. A self heal trinket can be nice as are +stam trinkets.

When you are soloing old world dungeons and raids as a level 80 its almost never a dps race. It's an outlasting race. The idea is to have enough stamina for your felguard to absorb the initial damage of multiple mobs or a very tough mob while it builds threat and you put your dots up. Once you have curse of weakness and corruption up healing yourself a felguard that's being healed with improved health funnel and has demonic resilience is very hard to kill and puts out indescribably more threat and damage than the blueberry ever could.

Soloing any single hardhitting boss/elite is easymode this way. Soloing multiple bosses/elites at once is when it gets fun. The 4 big guys at the start of AQ 40 and the Tiger boss in ZG are fun and challenging. You have to constantly target switch the pet to keep aggro on everything, watch buffs/debuffs, and do damage. It's like being a tank, healer, and dps all at once, fun stuff. The stables trash of Kara is quite hard, takes better gear, lots of shards, some creative demo circle ports through walls and lots of practice, but it's doable.