Post by Lurtzello
I was thinking about a build with Soul Fire on my Warlock Alt... Well, he's 39, pretty soon to think about that lol... Anyway, I thought a prototype-spec like
that. If everything procs, when Bosses got low health, you got:
Casting Time:
Bane: - 2 seconds
Decimation: - 2.4 seconds
Total: - 4.4 seconds / 1.6 seconds cast time
Cost (shards):
Decimation: -1 shard
Total: no shard cost
Damage:
Master Conjuror (and a
Firestone): +3% damage
Master Demonologist (with Felguard, or Imp): +5% damage
Molten Core: +10% damage
Demonic Knowledge: 12% of pet's stamina + intellect, improved by
Demonic Embrace and
Fel Vitality, as spell damage
Demonic Pact: +10% of spell damage as spell power (+10% spell damage as damage)
Ruin: +100% critical strike damage bonus
Glyph of Life Tap: +20% of spirit as spell power (20% of spirit as damage)
Metamorphosis: +20% damage
Total: +38% damage / + 12% of improved pet's stamina + intellect as damage / +10% of spell damage as damage / + 20% of spirit as damage / +100% critical strike damage bonus
Add an Heroism, and you should be able to spam Soul Fire doing a lot of damage.
Obviously it's just a theory (I remember that my Lock is level 39), but I think it'd be pretty nice.
In a "linear" fight (Patchwerk), this spec could be used like that: the Tank pulls, you go CoE, Metamorphosis, Immolate, Corruption, Life Tap and than spam Soul Fire (if you got shards) or Shadowbolts. And if your group is pretty slow with DPS, you may use Metamorphosis 3 times.
Or maybe you could just cast CoE, Immolate, Corruption and than spam Shadowbolts for the Improved Shadow Bolt: as youget it, you cast Metamorphosis, refresh Immolate and Corruption, use Life Tap, and than Soul Fires or Shadowbolts...
About aggro, I assure you, as Main Pally Tank, that our threat is hard to reech (if we do our job well, of course XD). The time the Shaman will cast Storm Cloud, the Tank will have some thousands of threat :P. Criticals aren't for DPS only... I remember a 8.840 lol (ok, it's not a great hit, but I did it with only Heroic gear... As Tank, of course), and with buffs, it was about 20.000 threat...
Sorry if I misspelled some words: wowhead should have Italian lenguage lol ^^
Post by WoWTheoryCraft
Soul Fire actually does the most DPS I hear, but its because of the shard cost that makes it less than optimal. Its similar to Doom Guard. Best in terms of damage, but the downsides keep you from using it at every moment.
No, used outside of a
Decimation proc Soul Fire will lower your DPS.