Haste rating.

[Zoink]

Does haste rating effect dots and channeled spells?

- Zoink

[Coud]

edit: your instant cast dots won't be affected, the ones with cast time will ( UA in particular )

yes to channeled spells

[Arthian]

How does it affect your channeled spells?

[Muberikntyl]

it makes the ticking go faster, so if you had drain life going you would get the same amount of damage/healing except that instead of 1 tick per second it would be 1 tick per 0.95 seconds or whatever

[Raszahk]

It will do the same amount of damage in less time. Basically, your DL will tick off 5 times in less than 5 seconds. The actual channel time will be less (depending on the amount of spell haste you have), but the damage done will be the same.

[Zoink]

Thanks.

But regular dot-tick lenghts will not be affected? As in Corr won't actually tick faster and thus essentially do the same amount of damage in less time?

- Zoink

[Coud]

no it won't, haste only affects cast speed

[Zoink]

Ok.

Thanks again then.

- Zoink

[Kilmir]

Haste not effecting dot-durations is a major problem with Affliction tree scaling in the higher end when you start stacking haste. Now that Haste items are becoming more commonplace with ZA and badge loot the impact will be better noticable.

[Alohakeith]

Just an fyi in case you were hoping to stack haste gear, it's NOT feasible for a warlock to do so :(. I've gone through the gears and such, and to be effective as 21/40 (the only build that haste would really matter with) we need high hit/crit/damage. To stack enough haste to actually make a noticeable difference in dps you would need full t6 gemmed with +10 spell hit gems, leaving you with like 15% crit, and 1k damage. Depressing.