Warlock Spell Damage Chart FAQs for Freaks (By Creshinnibon)

[Fenz]

(Bit sucky to read because spaces are lost from the charts but goodinfo)

Warlock Spell Damage Chart FAQs for Freaks (By Creshinnibon)

As complete, and as accurate, as I'm able to make it.

This is purely about damage. You won't see any talk of Fear here.

_______________MAGIC CHART #1 STATS CHART_____________

*** The percentile value is the value of the bonus you receive from items (first column). If you have +100 shadow damage and you're using Shadow Bolt (85%), you'll only get +85 shadow damage.

*** Anything that says Yes simply means that it works, and vice versa.

*** Assumed Talents are Emberstorm and Shadow Mastery





------------ +Dmg Gear | Curses | D.Sacrafice | Talents

Searing Pain 43% Yes Yes Yes

Conflagrate 40% Yes N/A Yes

Immolate-nuke 20% Yes Yes Yes

Immolate-dot 57% No Yes Yes

Rain of Fire 35% No Yes Yes

Hellfire 30% No Yes Yes

Soul Fire 100% Yes Yes Yes

------------

Shadow Bolt 85% Yes Yes Yes

Shadow Burn 43% Yes Yes Yes

Corruption 100% No Yes Yes

Death Coil 23% Yes Yes Yes

Drain Life 50% No Yes Yes

Drain Soul 50% No Yes Yes

Curse of Agony 100% No Yes Yes

Siphon Life 50% No Yes Yes

Curse of Doom 100% No Yes No

Drain Mana 0% No No No

D.Mana's Dmg 100% No Yes Yes (corrected)

------------

Imp N/A Yes N/A N/A

Succubus N/A Yes N/A N/A

Fire Stone N/A Yes Yes No

------------

Fire Wand No Yes Yes ???

Shadow Wand No Yes Yes ???

|

|



_______________MAGIC CHART #2 CRITICAL CHART__________

*** Simply a listing of spells which can and can't crit.



------------ Can it crit?

Searing Pain Yes

Conflagrate Yes

Immolate-nuke Yes

Immolate-dot No

Rain of Fire No

Hellfire No

Soul Fire Yes

------------

Shadow Bolt Yes

Shadow Burn Yes

Corruption No

Death Coil No

Drain Life No

Drain Soul No

Curse of Agony No

Siphon Life No

Curse of Doom No

Drain Mana No

D.Mana's Dmg Yes



_______________MAGIC CHART #3 DISPEL CHART____________

*** This is a listing of only our spells which can be dispelled.



What can Dispel Magic work on?

· Immolate

· Corruption

· Siphon Life

· Drain Life

· Drain Mana

· Drain Soul

· Soul Link

· Demon Armor

· Spellstone

· Unending Breath

· Shadow Ward

· Detect Insibility

· Fear/Howl of Terror

· Nightfall

· PET: Imp's Fireshield (gets recasted)

· PET: Voidwalker's Sacrafice

· PET: Succubus's Seduce

· PET: Felhunter's Tainted Blood

· Demonic Sacrafice



What can't Dispell Magic work on?

· Curses (all of them)

· Rain of Fire (buffless channelling)

· Hellfire (buffless channelling)

· Health Funnel (I'm surprised by this)

· Eye of Kilrogg

· Blood Pact

· Paranoia

· Firestone

· Soulstone



Silence

· Theres 2 kinds of Silence as far as I'm concerned: 'Magic' and non-magic. 'Magic' is dispelable. Most enemies have a non-magic Silence.



What can remove the Rest?

· Mage & Druids can remove Curses

· Paladins can remove Curse of Exhaustion


_______________MAGIC CHART #4 DPS CHART_______________

NOTE: This chart is for those that are hardcore into stats, and efficiency. Best to ignor it if you have little interest in it.



*** This is a Damage-Per-Second comparison of +Spell gear vs Talents (+10%). I opted out of doing a chart that listed +Spell damage in intervals of +50,100,150, etc. Instead, I'll only make 1 listing of +200 Spell Damage.

*** Basically this will help you figure out how much +Spell gear you need to make up for these talents. BUT its also important to note that the talents themselves will boost your +Spell gear's damage.

*** This is essentially 2 ways of trying to Balance yourself. You can compare which spells are getting more dps out of +Spell gear, and how much (or little) is required to reach a reasonable goal.





------------ +200 Spell | To equal +10% (Talents)

Searing Pain +57 dps +48 Spell Damage (Good)

Conflagrate +53 dps +103 Spell Damage (Moderate)

Immolate-nuke +20 dps +129 Spell Damage (Bad)

Immolate-dot +57 dps +85 Spell Damage (Moderate)

Rain of Fire +8.75 dps +258 Spell Damage (Very Bad)

Hellfire +4 dps +1040 Spell Damage (........)

Soul Fire +33 dps +79 Spell Damage (Moderate)

------------

Shadow Bolt +57 dps +56 Spell Dmage (Good)

Shadow Burn +86 dps +110 Spell Damage (Moderate)

Corruption +7.4 dps +67 Spell Damage (Good)

Death Coil +46 dps +204 Spell Damage (Very Bad)

Drain Life +20 dps +71 Spell Damage (Good)

Drain Soul +6.7 dps +91 Spell Damage (Moderate)

Curse of Agony +6.7 dps +104 Spell Damage (Moderate)

Siphon Life +3.3 dps +90 Spell Damage (Moderate)

Curse of Doom +3.3 dps ** Not applicable **

Drain Mana +0.0 dps ** Not applicable **

D.Mana's Dmg +40 dps +21 Spell Damage (Very good)

------------

Bane talent

->Shadow Bolt +68 dps (compared to +57 dps)

->Immolate +26.7 dps (compared to +20 dps)

Ranking system:
· Very Good: Needing less than +25 Spell Damage to reach +10%
· Good: Needing +50 Spell Damage to reach +10%
· Moderate: Needing +100 Spell Damage to reach +10%
· Bad: Needing +150 Spell Damage to reach +10%
· Very Bad: Needing +200 or more Spell Damage to reach +10%
· ........: Completely rediculous.




_________________________FAQS_________________________


Q: When you have Shadow Mastery, Emberstorm, or Mastery Demonology, does that effect your +Spell gear as well?
A: Yes. +10% to your spell damage & Base Damage of the Spell. Shadow Bolt for example only receives 85% Spell gear. Talent will improve that to 94%. However there is a list of spells (mostly dots) which don't have the talents applied to the gear's bonus. These are assumed to be bugs.
Formula: (Base value + Gear) * Talents. This is when it works the way it should.

Q: Can Damage-over-time spells get criticals?
A: Only Improved Drain Mana. Rest can't.

Q: Does Ruin work with all spells that can crit?
A: Yes, even Improved Drain Mana.

Q: Curse of Agony is mentioned a lot in the forums, whats wrong with it?
A: It stops working when out of range, doesn't work on vanished targets, doesn't work when you are dead.

Q: Can you get a lot +Spell damage gear and use low level ranks to save on mana?
A: Not really. Each rank is capped in damage. If a spell can only receive 85% of a bonus, this is also the cap. Base Value X 1.85 will determine the maximum value the spell can go. This is enhanced by 10% with talents. It is not yet confirmed if the highest ranks have a cap. The basic rule of thumb for reaching the cap, is to have the same +Spell Damage as the base value of the spell. If it does 200 damage, you need +200 Spell damage to reach that cap.


Changes: List of spells/talents that have changed/fixed over the patches:
· Conflagrate is now 30 yards (was 20 yards).
· Conflagrate now recieves 100% of Emberstorm's bonus (was 75%)
· Curse of Agony (rank1) now provides proper bonus.
· Curse of Agony now receives +Shadow damage bonus from items and Shadow Mastery.
· Death Coil's timer was increased to 10 minutes.
· Enslave is no longer dispellable.
· Hellfire's damage bonus from now applies to yourself as well.
· Improved Drain Mana is now considered Shadow damage. Isn't resisted by Armor anymore.
· Shadow Mastery (rank4) now provides proper bonus.
· Soul Link works now. Pet takes half of your damage as well as no longer using up pet's mana as well.

[xen]

Myeah, that list is abit hard too read. Basically, +dmg affects spells as follows:

- our main nuke, shadowbolt (84%) (this is why +dmg is so good on warlocks),
- instacast spells, Shadowburn and Death Coil (43%),
- DoTs (100%) (divided over ticks, and DoTs get dispelled, but still nice),
- Drain Mana, dmg part (100%) (making it an awesome spell with some +dmg gear),
- fire spells get too little (23-46%) to be affected much.

One other rule should be kept in mind. If a spell does damage AND heals the bonus is divided in half (since it works both ways), this affects Siphon Life, Drain Life and Death Coil for instance.

[Morlog]

i read this guide to warlocking and found it quite usefull but what do i know, my warlock is lvl 14 and nog getting the love to raise higher atm

http://strategy.worldofwar.net/news.php?id=55

[xen]

Myeah, I don't like the guide too much (at Blizz forum they're abit more harsh about it ). It's a long piece of text, but it's still abit shallow. Also, it contains numerous small errors and some dubious ideas. His rogue guide is much better, that one was really in-depth. Still, I guess reading someone else's experiences with the class can only be beneficial.

[rmz]

2 words: Overpowered Easymode!11