New player, fresh start lock questions

[papasmurf 0]

Hi guys, I'd like to start off that I'm originally from Kronos, and I'm sorry (please don't crucify me). That information is kinda required to understand a few questions. I played a warlock from day 1 through aq40, so a lot of simple questions are hopefully avoided here.

1: This is probably my most important/worried question. Knowing true vanilla, the respec cost will cap out at 50g each near the end (it was actually modified to be 5g on the other server). Because of the low respec, I found myself respecing very often. As a warlock or any other class, how do most cope with respec between raiding/farming/ext?

2: Does this server allow Enslaving of elite demons? Wintersprin/blasted lands/ext.

3: If so, say I used 'Demonic sacrifice' then enslaved 1, would I lose my 30min buff?

4: Finally, in the destruction tree, there is the "Pyroclasm" talent that adds a 26% stun chance to 'rain of fire', and 'hellfire'. Is that % divided between ticks (26% / 10pulses = 2.6% per pulse), or as a flat rate% (26% per tick)?

I hope these are questions that can be answered, but #1 is probably my most important seeing how I was spoiled by a modded respec cost for so long.

Thank,

Papasmurf

[Denbts 3]

1) Warlocks don't need to respec between farming and raiding; our raid specs are decent enough that you can hold your own out in the world with them. Even the low-utility DS/Ruin spec is fine; just sacrifice your VW for the health regen, be sure to drain soul/life occasionally, and you'll barely ever go oom. 

 

2) It's been about a year, but as far as I remember, elite demons that you enslave are severely weaker. 

 

3) Yes. 

 

4) Sadly, it means over the duration of the entire spell, according to blizzard's response in 2005 (http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-372532.html). It's a pretty depressing talent. 

[Lifealert 19]

Pyroclasm is depressing. I specced it for AV so I could вау up groups with HELLFIRE trying to kill our boss but sadly that 26% is divided over every tick which ends up being less than 1%.

 

It does the job for hellfire though because you can chill in the back and put it on a big group of guys and a few of them will get stunned. 

[papasmurf 0]

I kind of figured the talent worked that way. On K it was 26%/tick for awhile, but was nerfed. It made DM:E farming possible with vw DS.

Kinda sad to hear that the enslaved demons get nerfed. I remember Enslaving them in retail to solo farm elite areas. Unsure if anyone knew, but on K the elites are immune to enslave, so it's still an upgrade.

[Aethelwulf 12]

1. If this is your concern, just spec SM/Ruin. It's the cookiecutter Warlock spec which is good in all circumstances from raiding to farming to PvPing. It's the most popular spec and it is very strong at all of them. Strictly speaking 7/21/21(+2) DS/Ruin is the hard raid spec but even hardcore raids tend to have at least 1 or 2 SM/Ruin warlocks for imp stamina buffs on their tank and the DPS falloff between SM/Ruin and DS/Ruin is fairly minor (and in fights with adds SM/Ruin can actually out-DPS DS/Ruin on bosses thanks to Nightfall).

 

2. I think it should, but I don't know. All enslaved demons are typically weakened when enslaved (Improved Enslave Demon reduces the penalties). As far as I recall there should not be a special nerf for elite enslaves, or that would be a bug.

 

3. If it does, that should be a bug. The Demonic Sacrifice buff only vanishes when you summon a new pet, not when you enslave demons.

 

4. Divided across all the ticks. Therefore it is trash with hellfire and okay with Rain of Fire. It's typically a talent you reserve for mass PvP.

Edited December 20, 2016 by Aethelwulf

[Rayaleith 2]

I remember in some expansion (not sure if it was vanilla) that we Sac Succubus and a healer rezzed her, so had both the DS bonus AND MD one. (That was MD/Ruin ofc)

Edited December 25, 2016 by Rayaleith

[Denbts 3]

Yeah that was vanilla. It was fixed in 1.4, and no longer works on this server. 

[papasmurf 0]

I remember in some expansion (not sure if it was vanilla) that we Sac Succubus and a healer rezzed her, so had both the DS bonus AND MD one. (That was MD/Ruin ofc)

 

As far as i know, that worked in vanilla, but only when a druid used Battle Ress since the dead pet would despawn before a normal ressurrection cast time.

 

Also,

I thought of another question if players on the current PvP/PvE realms know.

- What is the typical Shadow resistance of MC/BWL bosses? I know that Curse of Shadows/Elements is the primary curse, but ive seen other servers with bosses that have to much and you get to many "Partial" resists.

[papasmurf 0]

double post* opps

Edited December 27, 2016 by papasmurf

[Numi 0]

As far as i know, that worked in vanilla, but only when a druid used Battle Ress since the dead pet would despawn before a normal ressurrection cast time.

 

Also,

I thought of another question if players on the current PvP/PvE realms know.

- What is the typical Shadow resistance of MC/BWL bosses? I know that Curse of Shadows/Elements is the primary curse, but ive seen other servers with bosses that have to much and you get to many "Partial" resists.

Nostalrius worked with paladin resses, not sure if that means anything, it should work on the fresh server again, so prepare to stack up on mana pots for your healers to bribe them to ress it!

 

MC / BWL should drop to 0 with the curse, IIRC the item penetration items are dps neutral until either late AQ or Nax, at which point the bosses had 10 or 20 extra resistance, meaning they'd be a DPS upgrade.