Our guild has four mages, one boomkin, and two warlocks who raid regularly. One of the warlocks, by request, should be affliction specced because of the benefits to the raid overall. The only limitations I've been given within affliction are to have my imp out and have Malediction talent.
When I calculated total damage increased by malediction on bosses (taken from
this WWS report) the difference was only 186,293.31 damage total.
The difference in damage between myself, the affliction warlock, and the destruction warlock equaled about that amount of damage. The destruction warlock will not switch to affliction despite being less geared and I wish to switch to destruction because damage I do would make up for lost damage from Malediction.
Is the damage difference enough to switch from Affliction to Destruction and justify the lack of Malediction?