This site makes extensive use of JavaScript.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser.
Live
PTR
10.2.5
PTR
10.2.6
Can't decide: Aff or Demo
Post Reply
Return to board index
Post by
Shadowbites
Play which ever spec you personally enjoy. Quite frankly, on light movement fights affliction and demo are just about neck in neck with demo edging out just ahead by just a bit.
I myself have been playing demo since Fireland's release. I love the play-style and aside from the rotation that I find rather enjoyable, I love the pet dancing we get to do.
Affliction, I still love as well. I rolled a warlock to play a DoT class, and that right there is my all-about-DoTs talent tree. Do what
you
want to do, not what others ask you to do.
But, you'll have to reforge/re-enchant to switch specs off. Each have a pretty big difference in stat priority and if you want to play both to full potential on any fight you play it as you will have to make the changes to make it work.
Post by
AWildmann
I managed to get top dps on normal Shannox both on Affliction and Demo.
Its really what you like the most. I usually swap talents between same fights sometimes to test what the result would be like, I managed to be third on Rhyolith once, but as demo you are more helpful and end up at 2nd or maybe even on 1st.
Post by
493736
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
penguinman
Personally I've been having a lot of luck with Demo. As I am one of 2 locks in our group that regularly raid anything, I am kind of stuck for the demonic pact buff. From my perspective Demo is a bit more versatile with the insane amount of cooldowns available. Aff might pull slightly ahead on patchwerk fights, but how may raid bosses do you know of that are like that? Plus pulling 70k on aoe packs in 5 mans is massive amounts of fun. It makes our mages cry a little inside :P
Post by
asakawa
Actually it's not patchwerk fights that favour Aff, it's fights with a few high health targets.
Post by
446836
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
asakawa
Indeed. A patchwerk fight where I can stand in melee range throughout (Baleroc) has me doing better DPS as Demo even with full Haste stacking for Affliction main spec (read: zero Mastery >.<). That said, I usually go with Aff for that fight anyway because it requires less of my attention and I'm the one calling the fight.
Post by
446836
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
585478
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
asakawa
I used to really enjoy Destro but now the very idea of it makes my heart sink. It's not that far behind on damage but the thought of hard-casting those Soul Fires just makes me sad.
Besides which, I'm only consistently using demo on Ragnaros right now and while Destro would be better than Aff for that, it's still going to be noticeably weaker than Demo. (I just want my globals back that I waste teleporting!)
Post by
446836
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
539323
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
446836
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
304001
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
446836
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
asakawa
It would solve the pet-swapping issue but I agree with Zeronthe that the Felguard is iconic of Demo and it should be the strongest for Demo. They made a mistake when they buffed the Felhunter.
Post by
faia
-not patch notes, just ideas to change of fel guard become demo spec demon-
"Shadow damage plus an additional 10/20% damage for each of your damage over time effects on the target. If the target is under the "Haunt" spell it is increased by 20% /10%"
buff Legion strike a little maybe to not make demo fall to far behind because they lost the pup
It's not that big job to change it but I think blizzard is very well aware of it
Blizzard will fixed it if they wanted to make felguard demo only use pet if they wanted it but I feel they wanted a singel target and a aoe target demon as part of the demo spec to use diffrent demons for different situation
either they will change it in 4.3 or we must just wait for the next expansion
Post Reply
You are not logged in. Please
log in
to post a reply or
register
if you don't already have an account.