Infraction for TerrorForce: 9. Do not sign your posts.

• Meaning · 08/24/11, 4:44 PM

Post: Affliction in Cataclysm (4.2 Release)
User: TerrorForce
Infraction: 9. Do not sign your posts.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Also to answer your question, the optimal time to finish your cast is in-between the final and second to last tick - which varies depending on haste.

Original Post:

Oy ye Jerks,

New to the Cata-Warlock, last time i played my warlock was during the race in BT! A while ago,

The applying spells, in what order, how to start, what to do on multi target etc in well clear to me... doing my own maths & running simc's for stats... the only thing I'm unsure of, and relatively uncapable of finding it (in the last 25 minutes) is;

1. Does the Affliction Warlock typically refresh his Unstable Afflicition just prior to it expiring, when the remaining time is less than a GCD when Haunt is up next or less than a SB cast?

or

2. Let it expire, finish whatever you were casting & then put it up again?

Right now I keep casting until less than 1.0s of UA remains, then cast it so it get's up right after it's expired. Sometimes tho, I end up casting an SB at 1.4s, finish 0.5s after UA expires & then reapply it (1.7s of UA downtime) OR in situations where UA is low and im close to 25% (Drain Soul time), i recast it when there's less than 5s remaining on UA.

Hope you can point me in the right direction or gimme a straight up answer, thanks!

Cheers,
- TF