First I want to say to anyone new to this game checking out builds, take this build as any other and make it your. In other words try something different. Now for the build.

http://demosthenez.100webspace.net/displaychar2.php?charname=wenlock

This is basically the build from I believe Overpowerd AOE farming guide with a slight twist.

First I cast my BSOL, gather a mob and run them in a tight circle and cast Unerving Shout to slow them down and it helps keep them in that tight circle, then Gaseous Blast, then Ring of Fire, then Dark Wizardy for the boost to shadow damage. Then I start casting Shadow Lighting. When RoF and Gaseous blast recharges cast em and start shadows lighting again. All the mean while running in circles between casts. The few that survive go down quick with a bit of Shadow Bolt. I must warn that while this builds does great for me, in solo play it is a pot hog. But its fun and I like it.

Any advice or input would be great.

P.S. This game rocks WoW.

It actually works better if you use toxic mastery, instead of shadow mastery. Toxic mastery + gas blast = death to everything except some champions, heroes. It will kill just about anything else.

It's more effective than shadow mastery, since you don't have to spam it. Just buff, hit gas blast and let the ticks of damage kill them off.

I thought about this for a while and did the math a while back. As it stands now my Shadow Lighting does 546-3825 damage with no dark wizardy. when I buff myself it does 614-4301. My Gas does 3178-5915 and with Toxic Talent it does 3523-6552 over 6.5 seconds. Which is where it gets tricky. I can cast Shadow Lighting 4 times in that same 6.5 seconds which comes out to a damage output of 2456-17204. Also I have to wait 10 seconds for Gaseous Blast to recharge. In that same 10 seconds I can cast shadows lighting 6 times which comes out to be 3684-25806 damage. BUT.... Gas does affect more enemies. So it may be a trade off anyways....

With the Improvement for Shadow Lightning, it has the potential to affect just as many enemies as Gaseous Blast can: plus the fact that Gaseous Blast only affects a small radius, while Shadow Lightning can potentially hit ranged mobs hiding behind melee mobs.

I have to agree with FSeries on this as Gas+tox is your best spell vrs bosses or heroes, champions. You will find out that alot of those shadow lightnings will be resisted, or wont hit for the fullest while Gas almost always does the most dmg. It also depends on who ya fighting as well, but if you went to hdol lvl3 and tried the 2 boss mobs, you will find out that gas, ring of fire will do the most of the damage to those bosses. While lightning, shards kills the others.

I have now tried both ways and my take is this. Using shadows lighting im taking a alot of damage with my tactic and drinking alot of health pots since when i cast im standing still. I tried Gas+Tox and then running a bit away from the mob, cast shadow lighting a couple times, then recast my AoE spells again. By doing this i didnt use near as many pots both health and mana as i wasnt in the middle of the mob and i wasnt spamming Shadow lighting. It seems to take a bit longer but saves tons of gold. And the joy of watching an entire mob drop within a second of each other is really cool with the gas. Now im wondering if i should wear gear that boosts my poison and fire and or ice and drop shadow all together. I already have my bolts and shards maxed to my level, so i only need gear to boost it. Anyone have advice on using fire vs ice and ice bolts vs shards? Also if anyone looks at my character and sees fighter gear, i been tinkering with a mage that can change gear and be a good pally. which seems to be working pretty good for just changing my gear and not respecing

Ice and fire arent as good as poison when lvling. I would stick with lightning, gas, and fire. But we all play different so if you like to kite alot then fire is the way to go. Run up do your gas, fire, unverving shout then run away and pluck the slow moving monsters to death with fire.