First Report

Ok, here's a link to the first "full" report. (I am fully aware that my web design fu is negative. Hopefully CSS will save me someday.) This structure of report should mostly stay the same (I hope). For each class I've generated 4 spec/build reports, one specialized for each talent tree (31 points or more in a given tree is considered specialized) and overall. Each report lists the top 10 specs, and the top 10 builds within each spec. There's way too much information for me to come close to discussing this, so if you find something you want to discuss, blog about it and let me know and I'll mention your blog here.

1st Million - Warlocks

Warlocks! There's 34,001 of them in the first million. Here we go:

1. 43/7/11 - 1224 (3.60%)
2. 20/41/0 - 1072 (3.15%)
3. 7/43/11 - 1024 (3.01%)
4. 41/0/20 - 1010 (2.97%)
5. 45/5/11 - 902 (2.65%)
6. 40/0/21 - 826 (2.43%)
7. 0/21/40 - 778 (2.29%)
8. 43/0/18 - 633 (1.86%)
9. 42/8/11 - 624 (1.84%)
10. 42/19/0 - 594 (1.75%)

7 Affliction specs, 2 Demonology specs, and 1 lone Destruction spec. Ok, let me see if I can say this right: So far, of all the classes, the Warlock top spec has the lowest percentage of any other class. This can be a good or bad thing. Either the warlock talents are so good, characters can spec a number of different ways and still be very effective, or warlocks are nubs and don't understand their own class and are top notch at PvP by accident. I'll go with the latter just to piss off Inowar. I note with amusement that his spec is not in the top 10.

Anyhoo, here's the spec breakdown:

• Affliction - 15384 (45.2%)
• Demonology - 10887 (32.0%)
• Destruction - 7501 (22.06%)
• Unspec'd - 229 (0.6%)
• Nospec'd - 4 (0.01%)

Update - Yeah, that second spec was a typo, it's 20/41/0.

Pre 2.1: Most Popular Builds - Warlock

1,712 Warlocks. Another class with high diversity in builds:

1. 11 characters: 7/43/11 - Heavy Demonology with enough Destruction to get Shadowburn and Affliction to get 2/2 Improved Lifetap.
2. 8 characters: 7/7/47 - Same smattering of Affliction, 2/2 Improved Healthstone and 5/5 Demonic Embrace from Demonology, then all the way up Destruction (thanks Ino) to get Shadowfury.
3. 8 characters: 6/44/11 - Variant on 1. Drop Improved Lifetap to 1/2 in order to get 1/3 Mana Feed from Demonology.
4. 8 characters: 5/41/15 - Ditch Improved Lifetap, strip Demonology to just enough to get your Felguard, Then throw the rest in Devastation for critical goodness.
5. 8 characters: 0/40/21 - Sacrifice the Felguard in order to get up to Ruin.

43/1,712 for 2.5% representation. One more class, coming up!