Originally Posted by Pidge
So, given: 4p T6, CSD, and increased ISB uptime from casting more Shadowbolts, does Ruin ever surpass UA in straight up DPS? And if not, how close is it?
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I'm assuming you mean higher personal ISB uptime from casting more shadowbolts instead of UA. In short, it usually doesn't.
If there are about two or more warlocks (or shadow preists if they're using mind blast and shadow word: death), the duration of ISB doesn't come into play because it's no longer the limiting factor. The model developed based on that assumption is common so I won't belabor the details. The point is, you have 3% less crit than the destro warlocks from talents, maybe more from gear and group setups. If you're concerned about ISB uptime you actually want to be casting
less, not more, because your shadowbolts, on average, eat up more ISB procs than they consume.
If you have shadow priests in your raid it's a bit more complicated. In general, if your personal crit is less than the raid-weighted-average-shadow-ISB-proc-chance-thingy-number, you want to be casting less shadowbolts if possible, and if it's higher you want to be casting more. In either case UA is one full shadowbolt per 30 seconds, excepting mana, so it's not going to make a hell of a lot of difference. But if you're going to consider ISB uptime make sure your contribution is actually in the right direction.
Galzo: thanks for dregging that crap up, I intentionally forgot it as fast as I could =P. The english terms are "expectation value" "standard deviation" and "variance" ("normal" in probability usually refers specifically to a Gaussian distribution). Also, if you want, this forum supports LaTeX formatting.