In your first build (Haunt/Ruin) you don't want points in Aftermath cause you can't have UA and Immo on a target in the same time anymore in 3.1 patch. Put those 2 points into Demonic Power and get your Succubus out instead of Felhunter.
Otherwise those builds seem pretty ok to me. I have to do some personal testing before deciding my spec. I'll probably have a dual spec (Haunt/Ruin and Decimation/Conflag).
ok so im new to locking and have a few general questions about those specs (i know the text books on ej have the answers somewhere) but for each of those specs which pet do you plan on having out?
also any tips on the general rotation would be great, there seems to be alot of variety in which filler spells to use, changing to diff spells at diff % etc...so a few pointers would rock
Main reason is, Meta lock is going to be a SB spammer, so MC isn't going to be a 100% useful talent, aside from immolate and the soulfires below 35% health. But even then it's gotta proc. I find keeping mana on my pet and having felguard bust out that attack speed from demo empowerment during a bloodlust is pretty sweet. And with the change to drain soul to give you soulshards at anytime, you'll never run out of shards to hit with shadowburn.
I'll probably go 0/40/31. But I'm also considering trying a deep dest build. I know it's not as high DPS as decimation/conflag, but would like ot give it a go.
Essentially take Shadow and Flame and Pyroclasm instead of Decimation and Molten Core. I imagine that this doesn't yield as much DPS as 0/40/31, as I'm sure I would have seen it by now, but I'm just curious.