Hey folks,
I'm leveling up my SW to 70 (at 66 currently) and I still have the free respec. I stopped playing the SW for quite a while so I'm wondering if I should stay as a Hellbringer Fury spec until I get around 3K iLvl or should I go Soulbinder Fury? I don't really have any outstanding gear or specs to speak of yet. I'm curious since the meta used to be Hell Fury but I see so many SB builds and posts now.
Thanks for any assistance.
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Hellbringer is not viable for end game PvP, you will be one shotted by GWFs, get frustrated and either delete or roll another class.
If you solo a lot, run PvP a lot then run SB. I love the healing of SB and the innate buffs that the Sparks give, but hate that I am pigeon holed into it. You have better survivability and damage overall. I have built my Warlock around fighting GWFs like Wammy and Icyphish in PvP as a Fury lock (Tried damnation and was still getting one shotted by them).
Also, just be aware, this class will not be the same class once the devs are finished with all of the changes, it may be more HAMSTER than what it is or a lot better, depends on what class the devs are playing.
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So that said, you are gonna be very frustrated in pvp with low geared sw. So buying enchantments is maybe the wise choice -> you can use them with your alts (if you have any)
I appreciate the replies.
Thanks
Devs will be very busy with mod9 now and after release they will be very busy to fix major bugs that mod9 will bring.
I really hope they will fix sw this year, but there is so many issues in game right now that needs to be fixed.
Thoughts?
NOTE: Many thanks to @pharess11 for his excellent explanations and help with the respec,
Crit is allways a good choice imo as long as you are not at cap. Never played HB damnation only HB fury.
Arp/RI is caped at 60% in PVE and as some other mentioned before get crit as high as you can.
What are your encounterpower? I assume trash: TT+WB+HG+DT and WB+HG+KF on bosses?
NPNM+FoE as classfeature?
Or did you ever get pillar of power 16% damage boost effectively running?
in the end..with small exceptions..every SB should outdamage you
One note - I do have an SB Damnation but she's level 64; waiting for next x2 XP so I can get her to 70. Even at 64, she rarely dies and does respectable damage.
In my opinion better option would be to stack power/crit for better dps outcome. The only valuable thing you get from Recovery is Action Points generation (and yeah, it is worth it, but look at later Gatekeeper's comment). So I would focus on dual enchantments... but brutals actually, and stacking as much Recovery from gear/enchants/companion as you can.
And basicly yeah - on developers mind HB should do more damage than SB... but it doesn't I'm not even talking about Soul Scorch which is great but basicly all the buffs - NPNM can be easily replaced with right positioning (well, hard to do in solo without summoned companion).
Same with Gatekeeper's Empowerment - Burning Soul give more buff and you don't have to sacrifice your Daily to keep it going (well, you need to work on spending sparks, but TT is huge part of our damage in PvE).
I believe I stated all those 'notices' in some of topic/pool created by @kolatmaster but I couldn't find it now
Anyway - that post might be kinda chaotic - Easter time, I'm sick for 4 days but I wanted to put my few words into further discussion
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I'm wondering if it's just idle speculation/gossip? I'm really enjoying the class & a big nerf would be soooo disappointing!
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