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

• bartolimu · 11/06/09, 12:41 PM

Post: The Mage Equivalent: The Destruction Warlock
User: Johnneke
Infraction: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Don't reward people too lazy to read. It encourages more bad, lazy posting.

Original Post:

Hello Malevolance,

From your information it seems you are indeed doing some things wrong. You should for instance indeed be doing conflag as soon as it is off cd, even if that means that you have to cast immolate while under the effect. The same rule applies to Chaos Bolt. Wether there is a elemental shaman in the raid or not shouldnt change anything regarding your rotation, CoD when there is a boomkin or unholy death knight or another Warlock applying it, CoE when none of the other rules apply.

Without a log from your performance it's hard to give further input but things you can look at are:
- Am I casting corruption while movement is involved, you should
- Am I casting CoA if the boss has less then 1min to live
- Are you using keybindings instead of clicking (it's really needed if you want to properly cast spells while moving)
- Are you clipping your immolate? Make sure you never cast immolate to early, it should be cast ASAP but you dont want to loose the last tick.
- Are you refreshing your LT buff whenever needed?
- CoD after hitting Conflagrate for a chance of applying it under the effect of Pyroclasm (+6% damage)

As for your gear there is alot to improve still, you have very good gear but have to much hit, since you are on alliance you should try to make sure your rl provides a draenei for all your dps groups since it's another 1% hit. Together with the 3% a boomkin/shadow priest gives you this means you only need 13% hit while you have 19+%, this is where you lose most your dps since it's a wasted stat. I suggest you start by swapping the following items that are available outside raiding: Merlin's Robe, Bejeweled Wizard's Bracers & Band of the Invoker. Another big problem with your gear seems is how you are undermining the value of spirit, at your gear level you should be having alot more since it's actually a better stat then crit and almost as good as haste aswell. You are also indeed missing out on some very valuable socketbonuses which would be a dps increase, also you need the Chaotic Skyfire Diamond meta, it's alot better.

To make sure you in the future make better gear choices I advise you to use a addon like Rhadatip, in Rhadatip you can enter your scaling values that I will provide you (you can also get them yourself within simcraft) and you can enter your hit goal, which should be 13%.

I'll now run you through simcraft with your original profile and with a modified profile with correct gemming and another with the proposed new items to give you a sense of how much your missing out on.

Your original character profile:
Profiler - Wowhead
Player: Malevolance human warlock destruction 80
DPS: 7728.7 Error=9.9 Range=519 DPR=23.5 RPS=329.2/256.4 (mana)

Here is a wowhead profile for your character how you should have gemmed:
Profiler - Wowhead
Player: Malevolance_gems human warlock destruction 80
DPS: 7964.6 Error=10.8 Range=566 DPR=24.0 RPS=331.9/258.9 (mana)

Here is a profile with the replaced items I suggested (Also changed robe enchant to Major Spirit):
Profiler - Wowhead
Player: Malevolance_gemsgear human warlock destruction 80
DPS: 8305.0 Error=11.7 Range=634 DPR=24.3 RPS=341.7/269.0 (mana)

Your scaling values to input in Rhadatip to help you optimize gear/gems:
Weights : Sta=0.0000 Int=0.3627 Spi=1.0484 SP=1.5747 Hit=0.0000 Crit=0.7266 Haste=1.1282
Wowhead : Items - World of Warcraft

As you can see, correctly gemming your gear would already be 240 more dps for you (in a patchwerk style fight), switching the proposed items and correctly gemming is almost 600 dps more in a patchwerk style fight then you are currently achieving. Big improvements