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Cuddle, your first question depends on spec. Since you are currently Affliction I will answer with a solid: it depends. Are you Affliction with Ruin or Affliction with UA? If you are UA then the answer is: haste is still not good for you. Your instant dots will go on the target slightly more quickly with a lowered GCD and sure, some haste will make your bolts go faster, but you won't gain as much benefit from it as more +dmg. If you have Ruin instead of UA however (which is a better choice for Affliction at higher gear levels) then you will want some haste because I have seen 1300 dps parses of a Warlock in t6, spec'd affliction, but really wearing destro gear and something like 60% of his dmg was Shadowbolts. Even when I was spec'd affliction in t4, 40-50% of my damage was still from Shadowbolts. Haste will always be useful, you just don't need to aim for it if you're UA.
The only comment I would make about your 2nd question is that the 20% crit is dependent on the other Warlocks in your raid, namely: what is the ISB uptime for your guild? In my guild we will stack 4-5 Destro warlocks into a raid and our ISB uptime is something close to 90%. I was therefore able to go Destro prior to 20% crit because I was essentially able to mooch off of them. Why not just go Destro for a week? Does your guild use WWS or at least have some form of "reliable" damage meter that is tracked and watched? Just let the guild know that you are trying it for a week and want to see how it goes, then compare your results to your affliction dps. As a general rule of thumb from theorycrafting I did, your Destro dps needs to be at least +250 from your affliction dps for it to be worth the swap. That is going purely off Malediction and a shadow-heavy raid.
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