Infraction for krno: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.

• Meaning · 10/02/11, 2:45 PM

Post: Warlock Mechanics in Cataclysm
User: krno
Infraction: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.
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Original Post:

Hello n stuff.

I've found out some interesting things about Bane of Doom, espacially as affliction 'lock.
Dunno if they are new or I just never noticed it.

1. BoD seems to take a snapshot of our SP when casting. So when casting BoD with potion and proccs, the whole BoD benefits from it. This also effects Apocalypse (4p t12).
2. When casting BoD on a target already affected by BoD, the duration extends by one tick. I.e. when casting BoD on a target affected by BoD with 14 secs left, the new BoD will have a duration of 1min 14secs.
3. This brings me to another interesting point. When you recast BoD with proccs and/or DS active within the same situation above, the last tick from the originally BoD will benefit from it.
This means, i.e. activate DS, refresh BoD, you will have 5 ticks with the benefit from DS instead of 4.
4. Also BoD seems to take a snapshot from the shadow embrace debuff. While Haunt still reacts dynamically, casting a BoD on a target with i.e. 2 shadow embrace debuffs, the whole BoD only benefits from these 2 stacks, even if you directly cast a shadowbolt to gain 3 stacks afterwards.

I dunno how to handle this, recasting a BoD with power torrent and volcano active are about 3k increased dmg per tick without losing the next tick from your active BoD, instead this tick also gains the 3k dmg.
With BoD ticking, then proccing volcano plus power torrent, activating rune of zeth and DS and with the lucky situation of having 4p t12 active all at once, recasting it will lead us to an significant increase in ticking dmg, with the bonus of having 5 instead of 4 powerfull ticks. While testing on a dummy, with CoE, haunt and shadow embrace active and no other buffs (i.e. SP increase, Kings) w/o proccs n stuff my BoD ticks for ~22k. Recasting it with all of buffs described above it was ticking for ~42k!

I would be happy if you also could test this and if its true, to make suggestions to what to do then.

And of course, if this was already mentioned and discussed in this forum, I'm sorry for repeating!