Report: GL- Gruul - shadow 0/21/40

[karalock]

Boss Name: Gruul
Report: http://wowwebstats.com/rbpsnleejuara?s=42698-62814&m

Armory Link: http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/ch...ane&n=Karalock

I had two minor gear changes since my last WWS. Runed-spell cuffs and the exalted ring from VE. Still need to grind out CE rep.

Group Make-up: Was buffed up by several paladins but did not have any group bonus or anything. There were only two warlocks(destro and demon running imp) in the raid and one shadow priest. We didn't assign CoS or CoE duty.

Information: I had superior wizard oil on my weapon but didn't have a food buff on. I worked corruption into the mix just before ground slams so I could turn tail and run to the walls. I think affliction might have helped me more in this fight with the movement I had to do. I kept having cave-ins on me. I was using CoD till about 30% percent and then switched to CoS. At one point in the fight, I stopped and Lifetapped instead of drinking a pot. If I had used the pot and then lifetapped when running it probably would have made more sense.

I think between the two locks one should have put on CoE and the other CoS to help give some boosts to everyone but I'm not the raid leader.. I'll work with the locks next time.

How soon should CoE/CoS be put up?

I'm on the line between switching back to affliction for 25 man raids for a little while and staying destro. I like both playstyles so it's not an easy choice I might run Gruul's next week as affliction.

[Amiro]

Originally Posted by karalock

How soon should CoE/CoS be put up?

It should be up all the time from beginning or never - depending how much good it will do.

Your CoDs were usually hitting for about 7900. So if all shadow / arcane casters could get better then 79 000 damage in that 60 seconds, overall raid dps would be better. It is about 1320 dps for all. Both locks have almost that, so adding the spriests as well as your arcane mage(s?) I can tell you for sure, you should have cast CoS.

For teh CoE similar math should be calculated, but considering only fire and frost casters

[karalock]

Thanks! I was thinking it should be up earlier honestly. I'll double check the mages and see how we can max out the DPS.

[Ladhy]

My suggestions for you are, go for CoS for sure, you don't want immolate in your spell cycle with your current build, if you want to keep immolating drop cataclysm and soul leech, then go for improved immolate and emberstorm. As far as gear looks like you could improve a bit on your gems, you have a couple +8 haste gems, I'd say replace them for the orange +damage and +haste, it adds more dps then just haste. As far as build, your crit is fairly low, Ruin is not worth it unless you have over 20% crit disregarding devastation. An affliction build like 40/0/21 would be better for you as it fills the gear lack that you have before t6 content, demon works pretty well tho and is also good for pvp (bgs).

[karalock]

Thanks for the response Ladhy. I'm going to make a topic in a gear thread since when I use the DPS spreadsheet that a lot of people say we should reference (and assuming I'm doing it right), my DPS drops by about 30 DPS with the heavy regemming (from another post) and respec. I'm guessing it might have a high damage output but I'm trying to max damage output + DPS since most fights seem more about burn down than sustained fights anymore. Enrage timers and all that