Originally Posted by SchLing
Great summery, but isn't Stamina something more important to a Demo lock than what you make it out to be?
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No, it's just not as useless for Demo as it is for other builds.
If you're stacking stamina for the purpose of getting it back as spell damage via DK, you only get 4.5% of stamina as spell damage. Clearly a 9 spell damage gem is way more useful than one giving 12 stamina. Getting stamina (and to a lesser extent, intellect) back as spell damage is a really nice benefit of a Demo spec, since tier gear especially is loaded down with it, but stamina is not something to specifically itemize for.
If you're stacking stamina to keep your pet alive, you need to reevaluate either your pet control skills or whether a Felguard is a viable pet for a given fight. Your pet gets 30% of your stamina, so in order to give him, say, 500 more HP, you would need to itemize for 166 stamina instead of other stats, which is a significant DPS loss. If your pet is dying, stacking stamina is probably not the way to keep him alive - you either need some specific items (2 piece tier 5/void star talisman), a different group composition (read: one with a shadow priest), or better micro skills to keep him out of AoE.