Few questions about the Scourge Warlock

aronath123

Ok since I have started this lock there has been some confusion on how/when to use my skills. When i am grouped with a CW, they have a habit of blasting mobs too quickly for my to make any good use of tyrannical threat. Any tips on when I should be using this daily in a dungeon?

Perfect Vorpal or Perfect Lightning? I have read some threads on how perfect vorp is prefered, but then someone will pipe in that p.lightning is the way to go. There hasn't been any in-depth discussions about this.

Personals. Obviously, No Pity, No Mercy is a no brainer, but what about the second one? I know flames of empowerment can be a pretty solid choice IF i keep my daily meter maxed, but i also hear that the personal that makes your shift move quicker is a better choice.

Yes, I have read guides, but they dont entirely answer my questions.

and for people who are curious, im at 16.8k gs (without prince)

championshewolf

It depends on your play style. If you are lazy and fall on TT all the time Flames of Empowerment is pretty useless so use Shadow Walk if you are comfortable with that, but if you tend to hold your action points I would use Flames of Empowerment because that's 12% more damage boost. There are alternatives because in PvE speed is pretty much not needed, unless your PC is that bad or your connection is absolute garbage. As an alternative if you find yourself the victim of tons of damage, Warding Curse is useful to use against big hitting bads to help reduce the incoming damage. Dark One's Blessing is, probably, the most useless of the bunch since as a warlock you probably have mountains of life steal anyways.

As far as when to use TT, if you find yourself in teams with bad CWs that are knocking foes away, I just wouldn't even bother slap on empowerment and go to town then with fire bolt (or killing flames if you are fury) and warlock's bargain and dreadtheft. I wouldn't use TT unless you were that lazy except for big packs of large health mobs anyways. Getting first place on the damage meter is not a big concern, it's being useful as a party member in the end that is.

As far as which enchant to go by, unless your crit is absolute garbage, vorpal is always going to pull out ahead. Even if you only have a 30% crit chance and get a perfect vorpal, that's a 15% increase to your DPS.

aronath123

sorry for the late reply. since i asked this question, I have had a ton more practice utilizing my powers. I have 47% crit chance, so turns out perfect vorpal is the way to go. have gotten some nasty hits. so the three skills i tend to stick with during dungeon/questing is killing flames, fiery bolt, and dreadtheft. should i be using warlocks bargain 100% of the time or just on boss fights? fiery bolt can get some amazing crits so far on a pack of mobs. i know that having warlocks bargain curse on a mob though, ill get that creeping death stack via dreadtheft. does it only stack on the mob that i targetting (the cursed one) or will creeping death stack up on the mobs surrounding as well?