This is a typical question of "fix my dps please" type.

I'm a relative newcomer to warlock class. I've played a boomkin for a very long time before, so i've enough experience playing a range dps (not that it takes that much).
I've read through the whole affli guide in detail, done what i could ingame to implement it both in character and in play.
Yet my DPS is, mildly put, awful.

My biggest detriment is, of course, gear. Here's my armory: Permeate @ Burning Blade - Game - World of Warcraft
I've been playing drain life filler, armory will show SB, which i've been trying out on dummy.

Yet despite the meager 357 ilvl equipment, i feel i should pull out more than 13k, doing near perfect rotation on dummy. Singletarget raid encounters are hardly bettter, i go ~15-16k due to raidbuffs and flask&food. Varying a lot of course, depending on how many oppurtunities i get to dot something else up too.

Here's dummy SB filler parse: World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis
A crappy log of Argaloth, with DL filler (started at about 70% health): World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

I've two logs of Halfrus, but that's likely nearly useless due to the amount of Wotlk-ing everything in sight. Beyond that, i've many SS's of recount detailed hostile attacks, showing dmg, %dmg, counts and... nothing else. I'll post them if anyone thinks they're informative.

I'll do satisfyingly well on multitarget fights, where i'll go crazy dotting everything up (halfrus hi), so that's not an issue.
I just refuse to believe that it's simply a gear problem. With similar gear on my Boomkin i'll pull ~4k dps more with easygoing rotation. Yet i don't see what i'm doing wrong on my warlock.

Please help a fledgling lock.

I know this is probably a pipe dream, but I have been playing my fury warrior more is the last couple of weeks and I see one change that could be made to help rogues out in the burst department.

Expose Armor could be reworked to be more like Colossus Smash, where it gives us a personal arpen buff for 6-10 secs. That may h be making rogues and warriors too similar though, but it is just a thought of how to make us a little more bursty. Another thing, but again probably too similar to fury, is to give us something akin to recklessness, cold blood is good, but something that lasts for more than one attack would again give us some burst damage when encounters need it.

I haven't thought about pvp tho, I imagine a shadowdance/recklessness combo would be pretty deadly and not a likely change, but it's just some thoughts.

Thanks for the link i will post my further questions on the assassination section instead

Shatterskull Bonecrusher might be a better alternative MH/OH for Dwarves due to the expertise racial (and the fact that haste > overcapped exp). If one takes in that factor they have to reforge some things and I'll be working on that.

The list looks solid! I'm curious about our LvB/spellpower weapon usage next tier for sure.

Yes, i've started playing with SB filler yesterday, in case the DL hotfix was so severely impacting the dps.

I'm really surprised at the uptime of dots in my log. I can hardly argue the numbers, but i don't understand how it could be in the 80's range. It's not like i've a zillion of other things to pay attention to on dummy/Argaloth, to miss my dots falling off.

I've done another one today, again dummy, SB filler: World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis
Paid special attention to uptime, making sure they don't run out before being refreshed. I'll grant a margin of error of a second or two to UA and Haunt, but however possible could BoD, being of a minute duration have an 82,4% uptime??
Opener gives no more than a second for BoD to land. SB->Haunt>Demon Soul+Curse of Elements as SB hits, then BoD, so no latency included, it should be 1,25s after opening (1 point in Pandemic, -0,25s on Banes). That sure as hell doesn't sum up to 82,4% uptime. I may have clipped the last dot, could that account for it?

The other three have ~95% ranges, but i also think that's a bit low, considering all i've been doing is staring at the bloody bars running out over the course of 4 minutes.

I've used default blizzard frames to track the duration. Refreshing in the last 2-3 seconds of UA, more for Haunt (4-5s) on account of it's fly time. BoD in the last 10 seconds.

Hey guys,

i read the last 10 pages or so. I'm sorry if there was a post already about this topic.

My question/recommendation/whatever... to Tier12 Set:

As stated before, we should aim for a 4p Set.
My question is which items will we choose?

I think that I'll go for the chest as Offpiece. In my opinion, crit will
be stronger than mastery especially for my healing strategy.

I was arguing with myself wether i should take the Hands as OffPiece
for the fact that the T12 Hands don't have spirit. but I came to the conclusion
that the increse in total mana, spirit becomes less important with better gear.

But of course I would very much like to know how you think about the t12 set and
which setpieces you will choose.

edit:
dont be offended by my bad english skills ;-)

Could you have clipped the second to last tick of UA? Unhasted tick time is 3 seconds, so with haste the tick time will be at some point between 2 and 3 seconds. If you refresh UA before the second to last tick occurs, you lose one tick. That should not change uptime but is definitely detrimental to your DPS.

I had not enabled macros

Thanks a lot :P

Yes, i think i do clip my dots more often than i should. Ironicaly, mainly so my uptime would be higher. I haven't seen math on it, but i expect it's better to clip it rather then letting the possible partial tick at end go to waste. This only really applies to UA and BoA.
BoD has such a long duration and time between ticks that it isn't hard to catch it at the right time. Haunt does measly damage on it's own, mainly there just to provide the debuff and SE if LD filler, so i expect it's better to be on the safe side and refresh it earlier than risk losing it's dot buff and SE. Correct me if i'm wrong here.

The original patch notes did not have the requirement of shadowform. I'm under the belief that it was added because of the immediate reaction to the original 4pc for the set. Cauterizing Flame was like a second Lightwell, which would have to be used, clicked, to activate. The randomness of the proc and the overall general use of lightwell made it immediately unpopular and theory spoke of the faster shadow fiend cooldown being a better bonus and to do 2pc of shadow/heal instead of a 4pc.

Later patch note changed the flame to be more of a smart heal, like Karazhan book, instead of an use item, and the shadowform was added to the 2pc shadow set.

Forgive me for what must seem like ignorance, as I haven't spent a great deal of time Raiding in cata, much less HM.
However, I have had plenty of raid xp over the 6 years I have played.
When did aggro become such an issue, by which I mean, what happened to the days of a '5' count before going balls out, are the enrage timers that bad now that we need to go nuts off the bat?

On a side note to add something useful to my post, for those that pick up Field Dressing, it does not effect pots/bandages, as an alchemist I was hoping it would stack with the alc stone, but alas didn't.