New to being a necro; few question.

[NegaStoat]

The Zoom on the scope is slightly annoying, but you can click it off right away if you want. If you're in a group and are doing the Compact -- Scope --- Cancel Magic on yourself for healing, it's really really useful. Also useful for putting on DoT's a bit faster on your target.

Speaking of DoT's, the Heat Blood and Leech line have a pretty low initial Aggro hit, assuming that your pet did the first swing of damage on the target for that bonus hate. Some monsters have different feelings involving spells hitting them, so test out what you can land on a target type before landing the Darkness + Fear. Anything that puts more damage onto your tally and away from your pet is good.