Ok gents. When I am in an instance and a fellow warlock fears a mob, and then fails to even bother CoR kiting, I die a little inside. I fear (no pun intended) that our proud Class will descend into the ranks of the huntards in terms of group hate.
So, here I am to tell you, fellow locks, how to make the difference between looking and feeling like a pro, and getting the 1 finger salute from your party, quickly followed by a kick from the leader.
STEP 1: Fear
This is the step that many newbie locks find disturbingly easy to follow. first things first, you need to prioritise. who is attacking what? what is the biggest threat? Tank being hit? DON'T FEAR. Priest copping a sword to the face? Now is your time to shine.
STEP 2: CoR
Curse of Recklessness, or CoR from hereon, is the backbone of this strategy. It increases the damage output of the mob, but decreases it's armor. But we don't care about that. It's important (!) feature is it's ability to make the target mob IMMUNE TO FEAR.
Can you join the dots (lol) ? Fear, then you CoR when it's run a bit.
STEP 3: Co(anything else)
Now whilst CoR makes the mob immune to fear, it doesn't dispell the fear effect. So, should the mob once again be near you, you can simply cast another curse and they suddenly remember that they're really fucking scared of you again, without recasting fear.
Rinse and repeat. TADA! fear kiting with CoR!
ADVANCED
CoR Kiting can in a way, be used to control mob movement. Fear, when cast, sends the mob (or human player, haha) in a random direction. should this direction be unfavorable (say, to a group of mobs that would turn a bad situation hopeless if pulled) you can cast CoR, and then another curse straight away. This will send the mob running in a different direction, possibly in the opposite direction of more mobs.
This can be advantageous in two ways: 1, it puts more space between you and the mob than regular CoR kiting and 2, it allows you to focus on what you do best: dotting up the other mobs.
Well, that really is all there is to it! for greatest mana efficiency, only get rank 1 CoR, and possibly rank 1 CoW (Curse of Weakness) as it has the lowest mana cost of any curse.
Happy kiting!
-Dis