Season of Discovery Phase 2 Warlock Tank Guide | Talents, Gear, Runes for Tanking Warlocks | SoD WoW
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Today I go over the final and updated guide for phase 2 Warlock Tanks. I'll be updating the set with this link so any updates that are made make sure to check it out here! : sixtyupgrades....
Hopefully you found this helpful and stick around for more of my Warlock Tanking videos!
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I play DPS but i like to watch this stuff just to stay informed incase i ever have to swap so thanks.
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Second, would have to be Immolatus rare elite spawn in Felwood which has a castable knock back and smacks crazy base hits.
I was able to 1v4 with it and take my farming spot back during classic era
I feel like specs are pretty much the same u just need to swap runes and that's it. Or does gear differ as well?
@@Bansku__
Gear varies only slightly. I believe they go for the tank cloak over dps cloak from STV PVP, Fighter Ace Gloves, & Wirdal's Hardend Core trinket. I've seen some tanks opt for demonology talents for the tankiness, although destruction talents do better damage and threat.
I am going to drop a weird take for a weapon. Firestone offhand, with /startattack baked in the searing pain. which is also increased by Incinerate. And provides + fire. Hits around 75 which is much more damage than +12 flat.
I am using curently crit on chest no need chaneler. Got 16% crit which with the boots rune gives me all the time 16%dodge and contant mana regem since of the crita. Each crit gives me back 300 mana no need to life tap at all just spam searing pain. Searing pain with 25%from incer. + shadow and flame belt rune is also on contantly since of the crit 10%dmg SP crits around 350 and its a freaking instant cast. So basicaly rolling a destro crit tank as u get insane dmg, constant mana regen + dodge
Going to have to try this once I get the new rune for sure.
I go exactly like that and i have 20% dodge perma, super tanky and i almost never use connexion. The dream. 3/3 imp and improve firebolt is a must have.
@@UgoScaramellisuccubus is better than imp for critting.
worth pointing out that enchanting with armor isn't that great, tried it in game and the enchant isn't considered for the Metamorphosis 500% increase. It just adds +24 at the end.
Good to know. Thanks!
Just a hunch but I think imp will be contributing decent dmg on bosses so it might be worth dropping destructive reach and 4 points in Emberstone for 3/3 Improved Imp and 2/2 Imp Firebolt, less important for dungeon leveling.
For sure something to keep a note of. Phase 1 I was a improved imp enjoyer so we'll see 👀
Finally, someone who doesn't say "Demo tank" This is correct sir nice vid!!!!!
Glad you liked it!
When I do level my lock to 40, I'll be destro through and through, even though the rank is lower on Hellfire, I think stonks are going to go up, i've already been solo tanking BFD since like week 3 of release. I think fire warlock moving forward is going to be nuts both in PVP and PVE. So many instant spells and AOE now....@@LeTempy-1997
@TaintPUNCH53 couldn't agree more. I've played all specs of warlock tank and destro was not only the most fun but just performs so well. Our one issue was threat in AoE but hellfire alone covers that. Immolation Aura IF it's a thing in phase 2
I can see some aoe threat being an issue, I didn't have too much trouble, I have been running 5 in imp corruption. I usually start the fight with a couple incins into Immolate. Then corruption. It has been working really well holding threat on multiple targets. I think it is a bit exaggerated with all of the melee having wildstrikes as well. @@LeTempy-1997
Pyroclasm sounds good on paper but the % is per spell cast. That means Rain of Fire 7% per dmg tick and Hellfire 1% per dmg tick stun chance.
i read it's 1.6% at two points somewhere :)
I hate to say this bc you said you’ve done this video four times now but you made a mistake in the gear section 😅. You can pick the other orb and get +14 fire damage to go with our with the dagger. Thats going to be big damage, if you’ve picked the other orb already though it’s too late and you can’t undo it
EDIT: can you explain why you took pyroclasm when you can take improved fire bolt and then 1 point into improved imp
Hey yeah that quest pickup is something I failed to mention but like I mentioned I used the gear to get our tankiness while the talents was for damage but you're not wrong. I'll be doing another build video for demonology as that's the go to for tankiness. Taking a bit longer than expected due to leveling/life balance but it is coming!
Also I took those over improved imp just to keep it simple. You can 100% go improved imp in demo and improved firebolt. That's the other build but since it's not a huge difference I never brought it up. As far as my reasoning, strictly for chance to stun over a couple numbers of damage. I tend to keep the videos to the point where it's a very noticeable difference between builds. 😊
I agree deep destro is the play but i think i will be going till ruin, Pyroclasm is near useless and i want my corruption back. In the end i feel locks will be running Ruin / DS.
Your missing the fact that tomb has 40 armour which increases with meta rune activated.
I think the new runes have made the tank specc even more boring than before. Now bis specc is a pure searing pain spam
I think a 5/31/11 be pretty good build for tanking later. maybe 5/5/41 be interesting.
yay...more searing pain spam... xD Immolation Aura when? :3
Phase 3 most likely 😫😫😫
What demon are you using? I think i missed that part.
This build is Imp but if you go the tankier route with demonology then you use succ or void
What about the trinket Infernal Pact Essence i kind of find it better then the ring thoughts?
Trinket is good yes. Testing showing atm that the mana regen with imp is almost nothing though so I'm not sure. Fire ring if destro dps or shadow ring affliction dps I'd say.
Didn't go deep destro, had great threat and great damage. People have been sleeping on demo tree for a long time lol
did i miss it what pet are you using?
Imp
I can't find anyone who will explain the reasoning of not taking Conflagrate - first time warlock here, do you mind filling me in?
As a tank?
Why are you casting immolate? SP is better and instant.
Right now getting more health from stam and boosting imp dps seems more valuable.
@@QurikOfficial well every guide including this guy's is putting 5 points into immolate so yeah I assume it does get used
@@williammcarthur1966 Hey, you asked for a reason. I gave you one. Hard casting = pushback and you lose mitigation like dodge. Hard casting immolate when you can just SP doesn't make sense.
Ymmv I suppose but I'm taking some extra stam and imp damage.
@@QurikOfficial Okay, well on single targets it absolutely makes sense. Targets cast = window for free cast yourself. You may also cast in on a group of mobs and get it off on each of them before they actually arrive to you. I can think of many applications of immolate - probably why it is on every guide.
@@williammcarthur1966 Go for it then, why ask questions?
Isn't it awesome, you can use the same build as a fire Destro?
Actually is kinda cool. And if we want to dps we just swap runes.
Best build for SM dungeon farm??
I'll see about maybe doing a leveling build to see how smooth we can make it.
@@LeTempy-1997 the spec you have here is the dungeon farm build.
at a minimum, you want to be going down destro far enough to get Intensity so you can lake of fire/hellfire on the aoe pulls without too much pushback. If you are running with a group that isn't too worried about speed or pulling threat, anything should work tbh.
It's SM, have fun, do something weird if you get bored.
I understand you're probably not a multi time top 10 performer, but deep demo for soul link will hold threat just fine. I personally will be checking out Ruin first for the crits, but I've got a feeling later the dmg reduction in demo will be fantastic for everything. The only threat issues i found in phase 1 were people with the 2h epic sword. More sp, gear, and talent options here make me not concerned in the least, regardless of build.
I think soul link makes no sense in tanking. You will get less damage but your pet will die really fast, how do you want to keep it alive? Healers will have to heal your pet so from a healer's perspective and their mana, they will lose the same amount if you don't have a soul link. Also, the demo tree boost your pet, not your stats and you will not generate enough threat.
@@MrBananachiquita Almost none of this is correct.
1) Soul Link makes perfect sense for tanking. Yes, you still take the full damage between you and your pet, but consistent incoming damage isn't what kills tanks. Spike damage kills tanks. Having a 70/30 split dramatically reduces how quickly you can be burst down, allowing healers to manage incoming damage more easily. Your pet will not die very quickly from 30% damage unless your healers are braindead, especially if you're using Voidwalker or Felhunter. The point of Soul Link isn't to save healer mana; it's to reduce the chance your tank gets killed by burst damage.
2) The demonology tree doesn't just boost your pet. Do you actually read the talents, or do you just regurgitate what other people say with no original thought? If you're having threat problems, you can run Succubus/Incubus for an additional 10% damage on yourself from Master Demonologist. Combined with 3% from Soul Link, you're getting more flat damage from Demonology than you are from Emberstorm in Destro. You do miss out on Ruin and 15% total crit to your Searing Pain, which is significant, but Intensity is the bigger loss. Losing pushback resistance for Hellfire could be a dealbreaker for Demonology this phase, depending on how much AoE tanking you need to do. However, you can have all of these talents at 60, and regardless of what happens at 40, 31 Demonology WILL be the tank build at 60, 100%.
3) Based on the numbers we're already seeing, I doubt Demonology locks will have too much trouble with threat, especially with Salv and the new Shaman threat rune. We'll see what happens, but if both specs generate adequate threat, which seems likely, mitigation will win out. And that means Demonology. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
can warlock tank holds agro now ?
mine could before just fine.
locks held better aggro than most other tanks in p1 as long as they built destro. wdym?
MUCH Better. Just gotta lose the Underworld band.. Grab the WSG Rep ring instead or the Gnomer one.
I hate when people turn tanks into dps. I just want to get hit while y’all hit them. My goal is to not die
And you can, by using the metamorphosis rune. That's all you need to be a walking bricked shithouse
You have to be a DPS to generate threat... Not dying is cool.. You surely wont do that if you cant do damage to hold threat.
Sorry, should have typed more. I get doing dips for threat but some only focus on dps when tanking
Way more tanky to go 0/31/0 with VV, and threat is not an issue. You lose damage, and you lose the dodge buff a bit more, but you gain an additional 40% dmg reduction
@@danjjon yeah had to have our MT do this on first clear because grubis hits so hard.
We also had him running Rune of Pact and we had a fire mage and a boomy so it was crazy,
Promo'SM 😈
Bro just trust me bro. Take only damage talents. Doing more damage is the most important thing. Take defensive enchantments bro. It makes you tankier. Which is it fam? lmfao
Lol noob incenrate build for tank 😂 u can go 50 crit and 90 percent dodge rating instead
Yes this was made before phase 2 launched 🤣🤡
Warlock tank has been the most dissappointing spec in the game. Having to hard cast Incinerate before every pull is such a bummer.
Only incinerate once.. and their are worse specs in p1
once? every 15 sec u mean.
@@markmoore9237
You don't even need incinerate to tank properly. These youtube vids are showing min-max... not minimal viability. You won't have issues holding single target threat no matter which spec you want to play or runes you care to use (as long as you are using meta).
Don't take any of these guys seriously. I haven't been running incinerate at all really. You will never get it off. The only way you can get it off is if you have a WA that tells you when you get priest bubble.
I will be using wicked and 10% crit instead of channeler so you will never have to LIfe tap
Why would you even bother with incinerate. I personally would go for rain of fire as it puts a 25 percent fire dmg on everyone that get hit with it