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Originally Posted by Fres
Very interesting to read, but I have a few comments/questions-
Why did you exclude a traditional SM/Ruin build from your comparisons? In essence, does UA and the 5% bonus damage from contagion outweigh the dps increase from ruin and 5% to crit?
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I have SM/Conflagrate build in there for lvl 70 comparition, which include SM/Ruin. As it can be seen, it does not outperform Full afflic.
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What if we remove Curse of Agony?
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In first chart (for lvl 60 comparition) you can see one graph for 'no CoA". Of course, it is easy to change it in XLS for lvl 70 builds and check, but end result is that , while we lower our DPS, gap between affliction build and rest is not lowered.
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Why did you assume any innate magical resists at all?
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It was, as I mentioned in first post, guesstimate - I presumed that most boss mobs would have some ressist. Also, I wanted to be able to differenciate between builds with suppression and ones without, and to see how it affect differently nuke-heavy builds and DoT-heavy builds. As with all other stats, you can change it to 0 in XLS and check how it change results ;p
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Why did you assume 0% to-hit from items?
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I was not sure that there is some item common to all warlocks that have +hit, but mostly since I didnt have any guesstimate I put 0 . What would be average value that we could expect warlocks to have?
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Why the arbitrary 100 second duration?
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As you said, it is arbitrary, but it is much closer to average boss fight than 18sec. Main reason was that in 100sec you can fairly accuratelly include whole number of DoT durations (XLS would accept partial durations in period, but i didnt want to use them). Allowing some 'slack' time, lag, waiting to finish current nuke, slow reflexes etc, I estimated about 6x Immolate and other 15sec DoTs, 5xCorruption and other 18sec DoTs, 4 x CoA at 24sec, 3x Siphon etc.
Main approach was to keep all DoTs up, and in pauses of recasting DoTs you use LT/DP as needed., and in all remaining time you cast nukes. But you can change spells that you want to use and how many of those in period in XLS and even use partial values, and you can change period also. I tried different spells distribution for every build and kept those that seemed to have best DPS results.