AA's for a starting lock (lvl 11)

[Godhand456]

<p>hi guys</p><p>just wondering where as a warlock i should start my AAs and what i should advance to. I am planning and just soloing and grouping occasionally. any help plz?</p>

[DwarvesR]

<cite>Godhand456 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>hi guys</p><p>just wondering where as a warlock i should start my AAs and what i should advance to. I am planning and just soloing and grouping occasionally. any help plz?</p></blockquote><p>If you're mostly planning to solo with the occasional group, I'd suggest putting 10 points in the Magi's Shielding on the protection line in the warlock tree, then hitting the STA line to the bottom on the KoS tree as well as the WIS line down to at least the 3rd level, if not all the way down.  Then I'd got down the Hastenings line on the warlock tree all the way to the bottom for the "you can't interupt me for 15 seconds" ability.</p><p>What this serves to do is increase your personal survivability if/when your root breaks.  It won't "hurt" your damage output, though it won't maximize it like you would want for raids either.  The ability to cast really fast without being interupted from hastenings will help a bit, though overall isn't really so power efficient.  Still. . .if you're soloing and gotta burn it down fast -- it'll help.</p><p>If you do decide later on to group and raid more, you'll want to respec.  Generally on the KoS trees, to maximize dps, one will take 2 of the 3 following lines: STR, AGI, WIS.  STR gives higher crit % chance, plus the ability to guarantee a crit 1x per minute.  AGI speeds up your casting and shortens your recast, effectively upping dps as well.  WIS increases base damage on your spells, has "Freehand Sorcery" which at max will boost your next cast by 24%, plus the endline is the 12% less power used, making you more efficient and lasting longer.  Arguments abound as to whether STR/AGI, STR/WIS or AGI/WIS is the best combo, so. . . sounds pretty balanced to me overall.  Personally I'm going STR/AGI, but I may respec later.</p><p>On the KoS trees, it's generally considered "max dps" to get propagations to the bottom, explosions to the bottom, and 8 points in hastenings (3 war pyre, 5 Void Distortion) on the way to Dark Infestation in the propagations.  There's some aregument there too as to whether hastenings or explosions are "better" so again. . . take it fwiw.  I'm persuaded by the explosions argument, but I'm still filling in my STR tree on the sorceror tab 1st. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Good luck and enjoy!</p>

[Windowlicker]

The problem with asking a question like this in a place like this is your going to get the right information (sometimes) at the wrong time.There are several very nice AA setups you can use once you <b>have AA to spend.</b>  At level 11, you do not have AA to spend.With your first points you should concentrate on raising your INT.  Your INT is absolutely important at low levels, as each point will have a greater effect on your character then later on in life.I suggest you put 8 points into INT to start, and put your next 8 points into STR.  The reason being, the extra INT will come in very handy while you level your character .. the extra STR will help you carry more of that loot you'll be collecting.Once you have the points to spend, you should likely respec your AA (Very easy) .. and take the AGI line to the end .. and then the STR line until the end.  That AA setup will get you through to 70 and likely leave you very happy with the damage.INT stops being as effective between 600 and 700 points.  You won't hit that for quite a while, so keep raising that INT.So you know, your "level cap" for INT is your level X 15 + 20.  So at level 11, for you to cap INT you would need <b>185</b> INT.  Don't worry if you don't hit this, but get as close as you can.

[Godhand456]

<p>ya i know i dont have many AAs to spend at this time. i am now lvl 14 and have gotten lots and lots of diffferent advice on how and where to spend the points. Some people say start in the sorc tree and improve the INT. Others say go the STR tree to inc my spell damage (is this true?). others say start in the warlock tree and do with the hastening tree. others say start with the magi's shielding spells in the lock tree. so many choices.</p><p>doesnt really seem like i could go wrong and as everyone says u can always respec. but still, i like to respec as seldom as possible at this time since i am new and still learning the game and i am not sure how much respecs cost (i am kinda poor for being brand new to the game).</p><p>so far i think i have 6 AA points and havent spent any yet. the INT tree makes sense to me so thats probably where i will start. I was just hoping to get some advice from other locks where they started out spending their points and what effect it had for them. did most start in sorc tree or did they start in the lock tree? </p><p>i know its alot of questions and I know there is no "one" answer, but there must be a few standard "cookie cutter" builds out there for leveling locks. </p>

[anshar]

I would recommend putting your first 10 AAs in magi shield. The regenerating ward is awesome. At low levels it is the difference between root breaking being death and root breaking being no big deal.