Hellfire.... why?Follow

hi guys
just wondering what is the point of hellfire...
i got it a few lvls ago and only used it once (in a city) just to see what it looked like..
as i see it.. it's just a fast way to suicide
inflicting constant dmg to yourself and other enemies.
if you were getting doubled or even tripled.. would you use this?
Rain of fire is pretty much the same except it doesn't inflict dmg to the caster..
has anyone found a good use for this?
thanks in advance for the replies ^^

Hellfire is incredible in situations where you are part of a group and get jacked by 3 or more mobs, especially if you have siphon life and even moreso with a healer in the party. I mainly use it to mow down crowds in dungeons when a shaman/priest is doing backup. For me, it usually goes something like this.

1. <Warrior> OMFG BAD PULL GOT 5 RUNRUNRUN!
<Me> Nope, more behind us, pull them all together.
2. Cast siphon life on a target, drop a few CoAs while mobs are on warrior. Healer covers warrior with love if we have one in the group.
3. Cast Hellfire. Watch mobs take 1200+ damage. If lucky enough to have a healer, I come out at nearly full life.
4. Suck down Healthstone or get a heal.
5. Drop Rain of Fire or Hellfire again if need be. If most mobs died from CoA/Hellfire combo, just use drain life.
6. /cackle

The trick with Hellfire is that you really need siphon life to make it viable, because the healer needs to keep the tank alive until you have all the aggro. With a healer in the party hellfire is just incredible, because it allows the group to be reckless and stupid and still come out ahead.

Hellfire is great! Ofcourse the spell is situational. One of the greatest ways to use it is to summon VW and use his Sacrifice ability. This will give you a temporary dmg absorb.

Hellfire also works really well with the voidwalker using suffering. When we pull 4 or 5 elites, I usually have the walker wade in and use suffering first to draw all aggro to him, our warrior will take on of them, then the rogue and mage will assist on that one. I will CoW on the others and then drop a hellfire. By the time they begin to move on me, the walker is almost dead, so I sacrifice him in mid-cast, finish off hellfire and usually the mobs are all around 60% life by then. Use a fel domination, get an instant cast pet (lots of demonology specs). After that, immediately sacrifice that walker and cast hellfire again. 4-5 elites all wiped within a minute and I haven't needed a drop of healing.

The spell is simply uneeded. If you cannot manage to deal enough damage with other spells you should be dead anyway. Rain of Fire, Searing Pain, Immolate, Corruption, Curse of Agony, and Shadow Bolt are plenty.

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Note the warlock's DPS.

I just got them so i ahvent had time to use them yet.

I've never seen 4000dps before. thats alot of dmg.

Hellfire is the highest dps aoe in the game.

A group of war/warlock/mage/priest/shaman(or pld) can go through instances so quick. Why bother with polymorph & seduction when yuou can pull all the mobs and kill them in a fraction of the time?

If the mage uses the arcane aoe, rounds up the mobs, then the warlock can go in and hellfire without grabbing aggro (no interruptions on bellfire), with dual aoes decimating the mobs.

I did a BRD instance run this evening.. pretty much every pull required use of hellfire in some form.

<3 Hellfire

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