Post by asakawa
Another side note on affliction testing, dummies don't drop below 25% health so your testing won't reflect the massive DPS that an affliction lock can do with
Drain Soul. 9k-11k every tick(3s).
plus pandemic procs tick for 1 damage and no health is returned from SiLi/haunt/DL so the builds longevity is not easily testable on a dummy.
Post by asakawa
i see you've given it some thought but, sadly, the idea behind this spec is flawed.
firstly, you're vastly underestimating the value of haunt and affliction's entire repertoire while vastly _over_estimating the worth of devastation. you also missed contagion and pandemic which would directly help your proposed build and rotation.
to address your points directly:
1)they stack but they don't provide a noticeable bump to your actual output. the actual benefit with both talent and glyph is a little less than 8% but we'll call it 8% for now.
corruption ticks once every 3 seconds meaning that you can expect a proc once every ~37 seconds
so, once every 37 seconds your next SB is reduced by one second. this isn't enough for 2 talent points and a glyph slot and isn't something you should build a spec around.
2)eradication doesn't proc that much. it has an internal cooldown during which time it cannot proc.
the maths is best described here3)corruption is very powerful but mostly when you use it with haunt.
everlasting affliction is only procced by DL and haunt, neither of which are in your rotation so you _will_ have to recast it.
...also the net benefits of not recasting corruption are actually relatively low. it's nice to assure 100% uptime but other than that, the removal of a recast isn't
that great.
4)LT > DP. dark pact's mana return is relatively bad while LT's is very good in reasonable gear. as such any serious dps will be done while using LT. DP can be dropped.
5)death's embrace is actually a 12% bump to shadow damage not crit and actually occurs from 35% onwards. this and your mistake about everlasting affliction lead me to think you've probably been looking at old beta talent builds here.
however, yes, death's embrace is quite nice.
ISB, on the other hand, has been nerfed to a shadow (sorry) of it's former self. it now only does 10% and _only_ on direct damage so doesn't improve your DoTs. along with the dreadful crit rate of anyone with this build (helped a little but not enough by devastation) you have 5 badly spent talent points.
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while your build may seem very good in theory it will perform very badly in practice and there's a reason why certain builds are fast becoming 'cookie cutters'. if you really want to do a SM/ruin bild (i remember those good old days too) then you'd be _far_ better off with 30/0/40+1 though this will vastly under-perform when compared with real raid builds.
Post by bazzaa
Hiya can u help me on raids naxx & heroics i cant get more than 1400 dps on recount i ave 1230 to 1400 in raids. with just fel armor i have 1959 Spell Power so buffed well over 2k SP i am Bazzaa on Perenolde server in Exiled guild. Would appreciate any help thx
also i tried getting the deep destru IMP talent that help u crit more & the Imp kept dying too fast to use that talent so i got rid of it. thx
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Perenolde&n=Bazzaa