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doriangreigh
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Thought i'd see what people are liking. I tend to try to favor paths that aren't the preferred path at the moment. Although this time around it seems the path I want happens to be a path a lot of people are going with.
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why have two people voted for THAT already?
Just looking at the number of puppet armies hanging around zone exits tells you how popular Damnation 'locks are at the moment.
Aelar Hawkwind - Archer
Karrin Feywinter - Mistress of Flame
Errin Duskwalker - Executioner
Darquess - Soulbinder
Can't say i'm super great at fighting lots of mobs at once, but give me one tough mob to throw down with and I can trade blows with it quite nicely. Vampiric Embrace works great with a curse giving me a bunch of Temp HP and usually fills me full health from near death, although not so great on using on trash mobs. Pillar of power is nice gives me a good damage increases and if mobs come into contact with it, a nice AoE burst. Fireburst great for trash clearing, Infernal spheres pretty nice for a number of situations and works great for melee style.
Combine warding curse with hand of blight and with some feats from the damnation tree, it seems you can take some pretty good hits from a single target, again not so hot when swarmed.
I have not gotten my capstone yet, but often I use my daily for healing and to summon my puppet and while its out i'm granted another 10%DR and some other nice benefits one of which when I level further will give me another 10% increase in damage.
I can't say its the most dangerous nuking build out there, but its fun to play and it takes a bit to bring me down, at least in PVE. I use a lot of defense deflect gear and some pretty high lifesteal.
I have not pvp'd with mine yet, so far in DD I have been more tank than most tanks i've ran with. I heard so many wanting to do Fury and Tempatation that I wanted to do something that isn't being done by the vast majority. Personally I think diversity is useful, even if there are 2 or 3 warlocks in a group it helps if at least one isn't a mirror image of the others.
Aelar Hawkwind - Archer
Karrin Feywinter - Mistress of Flame
Errin Duskwalker - Executioner
Darquess - Soulbinder
Uh, I can tell you as a temptation lock from start to finish I came out swinging and only picked up speed as I leveled. I dunno where you got your approximation from, but it's way off base.
He means the Temptation and Fury Warlock don't shine bright at the start until they hit 50 and get their respective capstone feats. This is less true of the Damnation capstone cause all it dose is summon puppets well to be more clear it boost the dps of existing puppets is more like it. TBH its not hard to have a soul puppet out at all time even with out the capstone and the first 4 feats that come before it off the bat Provide excellent Party Support Via cures effects and the feats after those 4 only make the puppet stronger and boost your persona dps and defense along the way so you can say damnation warlocks start shining at lower end lvl even before we have the puppet summon capstone.
This is why Temptation and Fury are late bloomers and for the record on preview i lvled up a fury warlock and On live i lved up a damnation warlock and fury dose not start to pick up until 45 when you can get executioners and then 50 when i got the capstone cause in fury they give you a considerable DPS Boost. Any way temptation warlock lets be honest the only worth wild party buffing feats they get till they get the capstone is compound soul and the lifesteal aura the rest of your feats are all kinda Lackluster DPS debuffs maby the 5% dmg aura is ok but really its not all that till you get the capstone.
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You mite not consider temptation a late bloomer but tbh it is and the only reason anyone would want one on their team is thanks to that capstone feat and its mass healing other then that your doing less dps then a fury and damnation warlock if you were just dps i would pass on you for one of the other two but because you can heal at the same time yeah join up.
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I have <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> gear now, just hit 60, but little but of damage and little bit of healing = always Great Success in Dragon HEs even when I join late.
I enjoy Pew Pew Pewing my enemies souls, and watching them die to Creeping Death DoTs... Just how I roll bay-bay! lol
11k GS so far and still a fun ride. It certainly doesn't pack as much of a punch as I want to, dailies are much slower than my cw, but then I don't have the best gear or enchants either. It's certainly fun in a dungeon/group environment. I've only done random dungeon groups so far and temptation pairs well with a buff/debuff DC.
I have not played fury or damnation but don't really have any interest in those two specs. The army of puppets sound fun but in a dungeon environment, probably not so much. Fury.. well, I have my cw to play.