Yes cuz casting is efficient…
I’m just gonna stop you there before you completely lose sense of credibility
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It’s a lot more efficient than casting a dot which can’t crit and will be lucky to tick twice before the mob dies.
Instant Corruption: Pretty useless talent because by the time you actually make corruption instant, you’ll have master channeler and haunt, and casting corruption on a mob will do less overall damage than a wand hit, since haunt and MC will kill it before it ticks a third time.
Improved Drain Life: Only affects the base damage of drain life, so when you actually have spellpower (which is much easier to get in SoD) this talent is more like a 4% increase to drain life damage. Basically useless.
Improved Life Tap: This is the only talent that actually has some value, but on the other hand, if you go for Incinerate/Chaos Bolt instead, you don’t ever need to life tap because those spells cost very little mana, whereas affliction spells (which are not runes) cost about 5 times more.
With incinerate/chaos bolt, you can kill about 6 mobs before needing to life tap a single time.
Maybe aff is better for leveling, i doubt it and unless u got friends u ain’t getting meta till at least level 25, chaos bolt u get in the starting zone and it melts mobs and cost less mana than a shadow bolt and what not. For what its worth i leveled using CB and it did fine
FWIW I wouldn’t recommend using chaos bolt unless you also have incinerate, which you will need a friend to get. It’s possible to get it at level 1 though, the mob is easily soloable by anyone level 20+
Why even with out incinerate CB will still hit like a truck through the early levels
It will, but haunt also hits pretty hard, and CB combined with incinerate is a 1 shot, whereas without incinerate it is not, which means mobs might actually hit you, which means downtime. With incinerate, mobs will never reach you.
We are about to get a 100% xp buff in 2 days i dont think people really need to worry about being a super min maxer to level lol
For some people that is part of the fun. I like to min/max leveling. It is classic after all, leveling is most of the game.
Personally, I had a lot of fun leveling my 2nd Warlock as Destro. I’ve levelled dozens of warlocks over the years, always affliction. SoD allowed another option that was both faster and more satisfying than just dot dot dot wand.
Leveling as destro felt fantastic. Destro as a whole feels very good to play, i hope we get back draft has a rune next phase.
It’s not about damage, it’s about sustainability. That’s all leveling is, sustainability. You get way more out of affliction talents and runes than anything else pre-meta. Once you get meta and drain life dot, everything becomes viable. Until then affliction is the best spec for leveling without question.
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It’s really just about the runes, any spec is fine. Haunt or Metamorphosis and Master Channeler then just pull pull pull since you basically can’t die.
Destro leveling is the biggest jebait I’ve ever seen.
Go Aff. Haunt. Master Channeler. your set.
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I’m curious, may I ask what people’s rotations are currently for your lock?
I don’t understand the destro leveling arguments. The only thing that lets you level as destro is channeler and meta, and only one of those is available early game, and it’s the only one that benefits from affliction talents and runes including haunt. Yes, for those who don’t know, haunt buffs your drain life. Destro can work, but it’s slow and clunky and inefficient. Just level with affliction, your life will be easier.
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For single mobs (which does not meaningfully exist anyway) destro is definitely not better, it has no sustain. Affliction can accidentally kill mobs while travelling.
And yes, in quests you are constantly mass killing large amounts of enemies? Have you ever done a quest before? If I did so levelling on Day 1 of P2, you can do so levelling now.
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I agree. Deep Destro does more damage but who cares about that in the open world. It also burns mana faster and you wind up with more downtime.
When I go out farming right now I still use Haunt/MC even though I’m specced Destro for Raiding since I’m too cheap to swap. I can keep killing infinitely.
Meta has the issue of having to drop form every time you want to mount (which you do a lot of when farming/questing and I can still take on Elites a few levels higher than me with Haunt/MC.
These are the builds I’ve been going between:
Dest:
h t t p s ://www.zockify.com/wowclassic/warlock/dps/
Aff:
h t t p s ://www.icy-veins.com/wow-classic/affliction-warlock-dps-season-of-discovery-leveling
I’ve been using this macro:
#showtooltip
/petattack
/castsequence [nochanneling]reset=target Corruption, Curse of Agony, Drain Life, Siphon Life, Shoot
This simply isn’t true. Before level 20, mobs have very little health. Chaos bolt hits very hard. What allows you to go destro before that point is simply that you will kill mobs before they reach you, and since both incinerate and CB are runes, they cost very little mana. You have no downtime because your spells are free and you never get hit.
Note that master channeler does not compete with either of the above runes. You can run them together. But before you can get master channeler at level 14, demonic tactics is the only useful rune in that slot, and that rune works very well with incinerate, chaos bolt, and improved imp.
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Yes I have done quests, and I stood around waiting for mobs to spawn. The ability to kill multiple mobs at once was irrelevant, only how fast you could tag them.