Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Hi guys,

I've just hit level 10 and I'm wondering which way to go about my talents. I want to be able to level and PvP at the same time. I can take hit in the questing department if it means being better at PvP, but if there's a balance to be had, that'd be great.

Thanks for any help.
- Azeral

Azeral wrote:Hi guys,

I've just hit level 10 and I'm wondering which way to go about my talents. I want to be able to level and PvP at the same time. I can take hit in the questing department if it means being better at PvP, but if there's a balance to be had, that'd be great.

Thanks for any help.
- Azeral

Im toying around with a couple of specs Id consider for leveling, heres the two main contenders:

What I used to level to 60 on my first lock:
http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#IyMbhRbkiZbxNzML

Going up the affi tree first, focusing on things that will improve my downtime, like % resist and Improved Drain Soul. Grabbing Shadow Mastery before placing any points in demonology to improve mana efficiency.


Theres some flaws with this build, the biggest one is that the limiter often isnt you or your mana, rather its the mana of your voidwalker and its ability to tank.

Which inspired this build:

http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#IpMZbhh

Grabbing Improved Drain Soul (because void aggro is fine before level ~20)
Then going demo untill you max out the voidwalker talent before going back to afflicition to finish with something like this at level 47:
http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#IyMmVMboVZbhh

There are claims that Improved Drain Life doesnt work, if you wait a couple of days Ill confirm that for you, but need to get my new warlock to level 39 before Im investing any points in it.

The drain tanking build should be smoother, as it allows you to pull more without losing efficiency, hopefully allowing you to swap your voidwalker to the next mob earlier and in that way speed up your kill per hour rate.

I havent tested any demo build, but Ill try it out once I get to level 40.


Note:
Voidwalker aggro seems messed up at the moment, especially as the server gets laggier and laggier, today during peak hours (~2 hours ago, 21.00 CEST), the void just couldnt hold aggro on anything, while merely two hours earlier it never lost aggro. Not sure whats causing it and still trying to figure out a pattern.

Go affliction until 45 then respec demo with improved corruption... and then either go for nightfall 20 31 0 or shadowburn 9 31 11