Frank wrote on Apr 18
th, 2019 at 7:34am:
Help me understand what you're going for here. It looks like you're using the ES burst plus melee for your dps, on a caster class. I've never played a warlock as other than a caster so this concept is foreign to me. But ES was the lowest dps of the runs through lock that I've made, by far. So much so that I've never bothered with it again.
I can see that infernal+tiefling tree has fire spellpower synergy, and I guess you're looking for the fire damage adds to your weapon hits also since that scales with fire spellpower. And full bab from the ES capstone is nice for attack speed even if you're paying for something a melee gets for free. But isn't this kind of fighting against itself? Wouldn't single weapon fighting be better for adding up weapon proc damage since it is so fast? One burst every 2 secs isn't going to carry your dps. Or is vistani as fast as swf? I play casters almost exclusively and haven't run anything using vistani ever, so I'm just assuming that you're using twf+vistani and not swf.
How do you spend your feats on a pure lock who is trying to melee?
You'd have to grab the Vistani capstone to really compete with SWF for attack speed.
But he's getting 3d4 light damage on both attacks, vistani being about 100% offhand and depending on your PLs and AP spendature; you're probably looking at about 50-75% doublestrike and 25% offhand doublestrike. So you're hitting upwards of around 200-400 light damage per click. Probably more depending on your gearing. Add in the fire damage per hit from Tiefling once they hit the HP threshholds.
20% HP without having to use epic defensive fighting from the ES capstone. Add on top of that the aura ticks every 2 seconds for all of his EB dice, plus the full fiend dice since nothing will be immune to the fire damage, plus the extra 3d4 + 3d6 light. So you're getting near an extra 1-2k damage per 2 seconds for free.
Feat wise he only needs to take TWF, ITWF, GTWF, and IPC:P. That's 4 of the heroics. I'd then suggest Quicken, Maximize, and Empower for the heroic 7. That makes your ES cleaves deal a good amount of damage, not to mention your Evard's is going to hurt as well.
From the epic levels I'd probably guess: OC, Epic eldritch, Precision, PTWF, Blinding Speed or Intensify, Arcane Warrior, and for his build I'd suggest taking Scion of Fernia for the extra damage on your aura and cleaves, plus the extra fire damage on your melee swings. But everyone has their own taste on the Scion feats.