New to lock. I feel like I’m always starved on soul shards- I’ve seen people refer to ‘fishing for shards’ what’s this mean?
That’s using drain soul briefly on something about to die for a guaranteed shard.
Drain soul starts instantly so it’s easy to do this several times with AOE pulls by swapping to several nearly dead enemies and channeling drain soul for just a fraction of a second and get a shard from each.
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Drain Soul sniping on low health/about to die targets is the key. It’s a pretty major aspect of Affliction that the other Lock specs don’t have access to for controlled garunteed shard generation.
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Cheers lads will give it a go
Something else that may help is sticking Unstable on a target that you know will die early in the pull (something relatively low health or priority “kill it first” target) then sticking it on a more robust/lower priority target in the pack after that first one dies. That will also guarantee a little extra shard generation during the pull. Combine that with Drain Soul “sniping” and you should have almost no problem with shard generation any more.
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