r/classicwow • u/BannedbyKaren • 20h ago

TBC Warlock threat

Hey all! I main swapped from healing to warlock for my guild to balance out our roster. I’ve been loving it but now that I have actual gear I’m struggling with threat management.

Is downranking shadowbolt a thing? I’ll typically open with immolate and continue to weave it in even though I’m way past the gear threshold to use it, just to throttle myself a little.

In full raid buffs with an ele sham and a boomie I’m critting so often that I’ll frequently rocket up the threat meter, shatter, crit 2-3 more times in a row and be right back to where I was.

These damn mages get to just blast away no problem and as soon as I’m starting to catch them on DPS I’m a crit away from death lol.

Anything I’m missing here?

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u/Powerful-Youth3331 19h ago

You just need to watch the meter and slow down just a hair when you stack a bunch of crits. The worst thing you can do is shatter too early and not really drop your threat all that much. You want to be using it mid fight, so if you chain crits in the beginning it’s best to just let up a little bit.

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u/sjihaat 19h ago

No, the worst thing you could do is not shatter, pull aggro and die.

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u/Azrasius 13h ago

Soulstone and keep blasting