Shadow Priest Warlock 2v2

[Maitohaile]

This combo isn't so popular anymore, becouse resilience affect on DoTs. This is still viable combo. I will tell what good things and bad things this combo have. I make this guide Warlock PoV.

Spec
Warlock: Warlock should be SL/SL (Siphonlife/Soullink). I don't recommend to spec UA (Unstable Affliction), becouse you don't have much survibility versus melee. I run with this http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=Iq0rmRrzoZbxczIizzes
You can take off one point of Emprowed Corruption and put it to Shadow Embrace if u wan't.
Warlock should use felhunter in every game.

Priest: My priest uses this http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bxzGzhMZZVMGp0toutvo

Good things
Both have high survibility versus all classes, expect rogues.
Shadow Priest and warlock have very much DoTs. Both use shadow damage, so they buff each other damage.
We have much CC too, Warlock Fear, Priest fear and Death coil, thats not much but it's enough with silences.
We have Priest silence (5sec) and warlock silence 3sec.
Together we have much CC and silences for healers.

Bad things
Both are weak versus Rogues, Rogues can lock casters easy.
If priest goes oom, he's useless.
When Warlock is SL/SL, Priests can easily dispell all DoTs.
Be happy of that many priest don't dispell them.

Matchups

Druid/Warrior
This is very easy combo for us.
You need to get warrior combat before he charges you or your Priest. Warlock need to rush in and put warrior to combat.
Then just full DoT him, use immolate too, you have your Woidvalker bubble, if warrior uses pummel on it, it's great!
Just drain tank him until druid pops. When Druid pops to heal, Spell lock him, then throw Death coil. Cast Fear, sometimes warrior pummels it, if he do, your Priest should use his silence.
fear the druid when you can. Almost every time druid use his Trinket on first fear. Be ready to cast new fear. Your priest should use his fear too. Sometimes Warrior is about 20% or less now. Just finish him off.
It's like, Get warrior to combat, full DoT him, tank him until druid pops, Spell lock -> Deathcoil -> Fear/Silence -> Fear -> Priest silence. Almost always warrior dies before druid can even heal.


I write tomorrow more. :) Feel free to comment.

[Volition]

You won't beat dispel teams without UA.

And you should always have 1/5 SE over another point in emp corruption.

[dagashi]

Wow, priest build with no innerfocus?

[Maitohaile]

You won't beat dispel teams without UA.


True, but without Soul link, Warlock dies too fast.

[Volition]

True, but without Soul link, Warlock dies too fast.

A spriest goes oom too fast to do any kind of outlasting with the warlock being SL.

The lock should DEFINATELY be UA.

[Rual]

ur spriest has the worst spec ive seen

[Maitohaile]

A spriest goes oom too fast to do any kind of outlasting with the warlock being SL.

The lock should DEFINATELY be UA.

Don't know but in games what l have played my priest never vent oom. And our games is like 1-3minutes.

[Theaftermath]

A spriest goes oom too fast to do any kind of outlasting with the warlock being SL.

The lock should DEFINATELY be UA.

sig fool

[nsadrianh]

That is the worst shadow spec ever, and the warlock MUST BE UA or you fail, and your english is pretty horrible

[Theaftermath]

the lock does not have to be ua. look at my sig.

you get screwed over against priest teams if your lock is sl, but that's a risk you have to take a imo.

[Lunce]

I got 2350 last season with a shadowpriest, and I was felgaurd.

[Divert]

It's not the worst spriest spec I've ever seen, but it's one of them....


http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=bxzGu0GZZVMGdMtRhtVo

Much better.

[Volcanon]

Yikes, link for lock/SP, huh?

I don't think that will work out in the end, the specs are against each other. Link is for sustainability while SP's are for burst and run out of mana fast. I think felguard would work better because it has more burst and more DPS in general.

Personally, I run UA, as does the other top UA/SP combo on vindication, which is currently sitting around #1 or 2 for the battlegroup.

UA helps to lock the dots down and provides an additional source of damage once you get locked down by a melee class or CC's.

[Ahhsoul]

Ran SL/SL+Spriest to 2200+ last season on BG9(Bloodlust - Incase anyone makes any Reckoning comments ;)) with SL/SL + Shadow Priest. It can be done, but I strongly suggest you go 27/34/0 - pet survival should be the least of your concerns.

We're 2222 (15-2 from 2k-ish) at the moment on Reckoning with a combination of 5/37/19 and 27/34/0, but I'll be trying UA out and will post on how it goes, expecting better results with the extra damage, may incorporate some AC gear to help with the survival trade-off.

IMO SL vs UA is a trade-off, SL being stronger against Warrior and 2dps teams, UA being stronger against Priest teams, just don't expect to do so well against Rogue/Priest or Rogue/Retadin in any case :( I guess spec whatever seems to work best for you.

Just because you can't make something work, doesn't mean it can't be done :)

[fyre]

i would really like to see you guys handle some tough matchups you meet over 2k. for example how would you deal with warlock-druid, discpriest-rogue and rogue-mage? rogue mage both have devastating abilities to whipe out your damage

[Pedocows]

Hi, I play resto shaman/warrior and while we were playing games yesterday, we lost like 75 points to this one afflic lock/spriest and there was NOTHING we could do.

They were on my warrior. Half the time, I couldn't even get a nature's swiftness up because of auto cast (3 second silence) followed instantly by the priest's silence (5 seconds) and possibly a fear if my tremor totem was destroyed by then. Even if I managed to get a NS off, I still have curse of tongues on me to prevent me from healing.

For anyone playing spriest/affliction lock, is there ANYTHING shaman/warrior can do to beat you?