I completed the Frozen Shadoweave Boots last night.
I knew they were going to break my Imbued Netherweave Boots set bonus, but I did't realise quite how shit the epic boots are (or appear to be)
OK, I accept the shadow damage is nice but WTF is with the i-level? The epix have an i-level of 102 compared to the blue imbued boots 109.Am I just being really dense or is there no point in equipping this epic piece of crap until:
a) I have full 3 pieces of Frozen Shadoweave
b) I break the Imbued Netherweave set with a huge upgrade to the piece that the Frozen set does not replace (probably legs)?
Also I was looking at the set bonus. Return 2% of the damage caused to your HP?
OK, just one example, say Seed of Corruption does 2K damage. That returns 40HP, which means 40 mana against an expenditure of 800 mana for the cast. That's 5% of mana back. Which means one free cast every 20.*
Is that awesome? Or is it Turd-on-a-Stick(TM)? Answers from "real" warlocks appreciated :)
*disclaimer - I'm at work and my maths is crap, these figures are from memory when I was looking at this stuff drunk last night!!
2 comments:
I'm going to assume that you are affliction and not shadow destro, though in the case of the set bonus it doesn't really matter.
Over the course of a boss fight in your gear I'm going to ballpark a dps of 300 (for easy math). 2% of 300dps is going to be 6hps, which you can convert into mana at 1.2(hps) with improved lifetap.
The thing is that the bonus is scalable, and when you get into some phat epics, and get your dps up to 500dps, you now have 10hps.
This will shine in a long boss fight, where you will be able to maintain your mana (and health) for much longer than other casters due to the set bonus and Siphon Life. You also will take some weight of the healers who won't have to feed your lifetap addiction.
In conclusion (didn't mean to go on too long) the frozen-shadowweave set shines in longer fights, and, for an affliction lock, spell damage is king, and should be valued above spell crit (though don't totally ignore crit).
Cool, yes I am and intend to remain affliction.
Just like HolyWarrior who levelled 0-70 as Holy, EvilBastard levelled 0-70 as Affliction.
Thanks for your advice, it had occured to me that it would be good over a long fight, but really wanted the re-assurance that it was worthwhile.
I think for soloing I would keep the Imbued set for better pewpew.
Also thanks for the spell damage tip, will itemise accordingly :)
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