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Maexyn

The Felguard makes a big difference and Maexyn is now level 54, having quested in Felwood and Un'goro. The play style is very hunter-like and is non-stop killing, only pausing to bandage the Felguard every few kills. If Maexyn's health is getting low I just do less Shadow-bolting and more life draining.

At 54 she has enough talent points to make the Corruption DoT almost instant cast so she will be changing her attack to:

• Send pet
• Corruption
• Immolate
• Shadow Bolt
• Drain life -> death

i.e. swapping a Shadow bolt for corruption. This is because Corruption costs 290 mana and gives 666 damage over 15 seconds (typical fight length) and a shadow bolt is 315 mana and gives 360-402 damage or about 800 if it crits but her crit is only 5% so on average the crits only do an average of 20 extra damage. Also since Shadow Bolt takes three seconds to cast and takes a big chunk out of the enemy health, she will steal much more life per fight by spending that time Draining Life (draining life gives her health and hence mana so I can ignore the mana cost of extra drain lifes).

Interestingly (to me, maybe not you) I found that she can send pet while casting immolation but I can't think of any tactical advantage to doing that in solo pve: the longer the pet is engaged the better it will hold agro and I am pushing things by casting corruption just as the pet engages, although the Felguard charge will stun it for three seconds which hopefully would grab agro by the dangly bits.

Corruption is better than Curse of Agony as CoA increases it's damage over 18 seconds and for a demonology warlock the fight is normally over by then.

Hum, my sentences run on a bit when I'm theory crafting, better stop.

A level 56 elite Dinasaur thing killed the Felguard, and quite quickly too, quicker than it would kill a hunter pet. Maexyn hadn't run away far enough and the thing nearly had her for desert.