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November 25, 2009, 02:34 PM
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Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
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The real benefit for me to the suppression build is the different utility you can get from speccing into healthstones, shadowfury, soul link, threat reduction. Options you don't have with ISL. |
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November 25, 2009, 04:06 PM
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Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
I occasionally run with a Destro/Soul Link spec to tank Acidmaw in ToGC25, and for this spec I have to drop ISL. The difference in available mana is astounding. I assume (perhaps wrongly) that most people who avoid ISL do not understand just how beneficial it is. Suppression is an excellent talent that lets you overcome hit gear deficiencies, and I ran with the +hit talents for a while in Naxx. That said, I do not understand why anyone would willingly place points into Suppression unless they do not have the hit gear. I've been luckier than most with respect to trinket drops and can now swap trinkets as necessary to maintain a maxed hit rating, regardless of group composition. In fact, I struggle to keep my hit low (I prefer to be over the hit cap rather than under it, and my struggle is to minimize the amount I'm over by.) "dozens" post stated that "if you dont use suppression then you are gimping your other stats haste, spirit, crit and maybe even spellpower to have hit". He is not alone. Forum postings repeatedly mention that grabbing Suppression allows you to pick up additional stats in place of hit. This does not make sense to me. I would currently never take Suppression simply because +hit is so incredibly cheap as a gear stat. Generally speaking, each dps increasing talent is supposed to increase your dps by approximately 1%, but itemization of 1% hit is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP compared to any other stat. Do people not factor this in, or am I missing something? |
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November 25, 2009, 04:21 PM
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Doombledore 85 Human Warlock Ysondre US PvP Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Tree: Demonology |
Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
Take a random sample of gear alliance cloth chest i245 6 pieces total, 3 with hit and without, 2 of the pieces with hit have no spirit on an almost 1-1 ratio (ie 80 hit instead of 80 spirit). The one piece with hit and spirit has no haste. If you take 3 points in suppression that is worth around 80 hit and basically allows you to get 80+ points in haste or spirit. Quote:
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November 25, 2009, 05:54 PM
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Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
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82 hit = 3.13% You can calculate the value of spirit and haste using the following specs: Current rankings from elitist Jerks: 3/13/55 Stat Weight Intellect 0.27 Spirit 0.86 Crit rating 0.87 Haste rating 0.90 Spell power 1.34 0/13/58 Stat Weight Intellect 0.58 Spirit 0.74 Crit rating 1.04 Haste rating 1.56 Spell power 1.54 Quote:
SL is admittedly intended to be a utility talent, but once you are deep enough into the Destruction tree, you have excess talent points that can really only be used for utility. I'd personally value it much greater than points into any other utility talent, such as improved health stone or nether protection, but it's true worth is subjective and situational. ISL is also intended to be a utility talent, but includes a good personal dps component. I don't know how much of a boost to dps it is, but it's enough that the simcrafts I've seen between 3/13/55 and 0/13/58 are negligible, which indicates to me that those 2 points into ISL are worth at least the 3% dps from Suppression. Interestingly, the elitist jerks page I referenced earlier indicates that 0/13/58 is the highest theoretical dps spec on "tank and spank" fights, however not all sites agree: These results indicate 3/13/55 is better, but only by 8dps - less than 0.1%) Because simcraft is "optimal" and does not take into account the increased survivability due to utility talents, the choice is obvious to me. |
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November 25, 2009, 06:26 PM
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Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
In your second spec there, the 0/13/58 one, how does the stat weight of spirit come to be 0.74 when the weight of SP is 1.54? Is there no Glyph of Life Tap in that build? I was given to understand that Glyph of Life Tap was ubiquitous. There should be no lock build without it. With Glyph of Life Tap, when SP is weighted at 1.54 then spirit should be weighted at 1, simply due to the spell power component, let alone the mana return. |
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November 25, 2009, 06:49 PM
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lilsteele 80 Human Warlock Terenas Euro PvE |
Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
because the thread he linked to is horribly outdated, which is clearly stated in the first line of that thread. EJ is currently not providing scale factors (probably Zakalwe was too lazy to run all those sims before 3.3 out). Up to date scale factors can normally be found on the simcraft website - follow the "sample output" links. @Fauste I don't understand what you are saying. In one post you say that you don't understand how anyone can use suppression. Then however you say that the suppression build is slightly better, and the choice is clear due to more utility talents? So you take suppression now? Anyways, running with ISL is a dream when it comes to mana management. |
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November 25, 2009, 07:12 PM
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Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
Glyph of life tap is definitely not ubiquitous. There are posts supporting both it's use and disuse, but the difference seems very small either way (as in less than 0.2%) I personally don't use it for two reasons: 1.) Not having to maintain it keeps my rotation cleaner and tighter. 2.) As much as I enjoy the ebb and flow of life/mana, there is too much random raid damage these days. I've been killed several times by lifetapping then taking a random damage - damage which would not otherwise have killed me. DEAD DPSERS ARE USELESS I life tap as seldom as possible, and I wait for safe lulls in the fight as often as possible. Quote:
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I understand someone using suppression *if they do not have a selection of gear which will get them hit capped.* Outside that, I do not understand it. I am open to education on this point. The referenced posts showed that the theoretical dps difference between the two specs is negligible (less than 0.1%). Because the tools used to generate the theoretical best spec do not take into account the "random shit" element of real world raiding, the increased survivability of having SL and ISL make the 0/13/58 build even more attractive. To be clear: I do not use Suppression. I used it while playing Affliction in the Naxx days, but specced out once I acquired sufficient +hit gear. I have not specced back into it since. It seemed every drop I got in Ulduar had +hit on it, and I was desperate for haste and spirit. At one point, if I equipped it all, I would have over 20% hit. Perhaps this has given me a better opportunity than other players to mix and match gear while maintaining max +hit. Quote:
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November 25, 2009, 07:29 PM
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lilsteele 80 Human Warlock Terenas Euro PvE |
Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
SampleOutputT9Warlock - simulationcraft - Project Hosting on Google Code up to date scale factors you linked to this site yourself  anyways, the suppression spec can take one point in Soul Link, which in my opinion is superior to all random uncontrollable healing that you get from Soul Leech or from the corresponding affliction talents. You also can take two points in destructive reach without dropping any dps talent. So in my opinion, the suppression build is vastly superior to ISL in terms of utility, except if you have to bring replenishment for the raid. |
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November 25, 2009, 08:44 PM
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Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
Hmm, I get around 165 SP from my GoLT which is roughly +3.5% damage. I don't see 5% Incin damage beating that. 1.5% Incin damage or 3.5% Immolate, conflagrate, CB, Corr and CoD? Speaking of glyphs, I don't know why people take Incin over immolate. Boosting Immolate DoT by 10% boosts conflagrate by 10%. My total Immo (DoT) + Conf damage > 50% of Incin damage. Can someone explain to me why people take Incin? |
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November 25, 2009, 09:18 PM
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Re: Improved soul leech vs. suppression
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Thanks, this will help me with Rhad's mod later tonight too. You can see that this still supports my assertion that +hit is more cheaply gained through gear than talents. This means that 3/3 suppression is worth *less* than a talent which gives 1% crit or 1% haste from a gear itemization standpoint. The problem seems to be that there are no more +haste or +crit talents to take, and Suppression is a lesser of remaining evils, if you don't need replenishment. It's a crap dps gain, but on par with what you get from the 5 points in ISL, and it allows you to place points into other talents. Quote:
 3/14/54 is an interesting deviation, and I'll keep this in mind if I need another point in Destructive Reach (I'm currently running with 1 point, and our off-tank is, ahem, "hard pressed" to hold agro on some fights.) Less raid utility, but more personal utility. I cant shake the sense that Suppression is a crap talent to keep once you have good gear though. And your spec, while having noticeable merit, is not the typical 3/13/55 spec most destro locks with suppression use. Of course, they would have Soul Burn instead of Soul Link, and IMHO that's only really useful on trash/pvp. Is Soul Link + 2/2 Destructive Reach the only reason to go 3/14/54? I must ponder... Quote:
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As someone else mentioned, it's largely down to play style now. Last edited by Fauste; November 25, 2009 at 09:21 PM.. |
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