Originally Posted by Sharrash
I'm trying to understand the specs given for Demonology and I don't understand the various standard points distribution.
Standard 1/44/16 : Why the 1 point in Affliction ? It seems useless to me.
Succubus 1/39/21 : same question.
Any advice ?
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In case you're still using corruption (which is gear/spec dependent, although 1/44/16 will probably always use it), you'll gain 0.4 seconds per 18-20 seconds, or the equivalent of roughly 2.2% haste through one talent point. Extra points won't gain you more since you'll be limited by GCD.
Originally Posted by Scarletsnow
Is the damage difference enough to switch from Affliction to Destruction and justify the lack of Malediction?
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No, never. Affliction is for Shadow Embrace. The minor blood pact bonus is almost negligible, and Malediction dps won't make up for being in a gimped tree. 400-500dps loss for affliction at end gear level is a reasonable estimate. Malediction will not make up for that, you'd need around 18k shadow dps. Warlocks do around 2k each, usually.
I recommend one warlock for Shadow Embrace (by no means necessary, but it is optimal). To get that, you have to be affliction and you might as well pick up Malediction and two points in blood pact in that case.
in short:
- affliction without shadow embrace is a waste of a warlock.
- always use CoS/CoE over any damage curse. Usually CoR too, unless you're worried about the damage increase.
- if CoS/CoE/CoR is up and there are still warlocks available, have destro's use CoD, unless they're threat capped.