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Re: Frustrated Warlock - Why am I so low on the damage meters?
Forget this rotation nonsense. Looking at your patchwerk parse (which should be your highest possible dps) you cast haunt 7 times in a 3 min 40 sec fight. Haunt has an 8 sec cd meaning you could get as many as 27 casts in with refreshing immediately on cd. I usually do about 22 or so considering cast time and rotation (we kill him a little quicker as well.) I find that affliction isn't so much a timer spec anymore but a priority spec. Meaning that once things start expiring you have to know which spells to prioritize first. I hardly ever watch timers. I hate them frankly. I watch debuffs and wait for things to fall off. Once you've done it enough it becomes more or less second nature to know which spell to cast next. Anyhow, you need to make haunt your 1st priority. Followed by renewing your dots. I find renewing them in pairs means that I can simplify things a little bit (glyph of Curse of Agony makes it almost as long as sl). Thus Curse of Agony and sl get cast back to back and ua and immolate get cast back to back. Corruption never drops because haunt is always refreshed immediately. Drain Soul execute is also hugely important. You should do all your filler with drainsoul once the 25% mark is reached. I usually get all my dots refreshed right before reaching that point. Then I refresh haunt and hit drainsoul. Then i wait for haunt to come off cd. I only refresh things for the drainsoul bonus at that point. Haunt is most important because it and shadow embrace effect drainsoul.
I think affliction is a good choice if you can manage it. The destro spec you had on armory didn't look ideal. I found for deep destro a 20/51 spec was best pve. However, 4x/3x or 3x/4x (x is either a 1 or 0) spec is much easier to maintain at the moment although deep destro is getting some buffs next patch. It is of course Direct Damage oriented so hit capping is a must for those specs. I suppose the best entry level raid spec for ease of rotation is going to be 41/30 with the crit from demo and fel synergy as the last point. All you do is Curse of Agony immolate and spam incinerate.
Last edited by levinho; January 11, 2009 at 01:23 PM..
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