So it does. Not sure why they would revert that change. Most illogical.

I wasn't overlooking the additional portion of a DC - that's simply implied in the 20 RP (what else would you be doing with it?!). If you want to break it down further, it would come down to: is that fraction (20/34) of another SI stack, RC proc chance, and DC's damage worth the cost of a GCD and a full DC's damage? Ultimately, yes, if you have the empty GCD available (or if it's just replacing a HoW), if RC isn't already up, if DT isn't already up (or SI is stacked to 5), and if that 20 RP will be sufficient to grant you an additional Death Coil than you would have been able to do otherwise (meaning you had 14<=x<34 runic)...

But if you fail to meet a single one of those conditions? No, and such is going to be the case the majority of the time.

Still, if one is able to recognize and instantly react to the times when those stars do align, yes, it's free dps. But it's not going to be a common scenario by any stretch of the imagination, and if you misjudge (i.e, think you have the free GCD but you really won't, or whatever), you're going to hurt yourself.

If you're at 100RP and Sudden Doom Procs, you fire off a Death Coil. Say Runic Corruption procs, would it be better to wait till the buff fades before using another Death Coil, using a Rune ability and wasting RP, or burning RP with Death Coil and possibly clipping RC?

Just wanted to mention from my personal experiences in heroics (haven't done the raids yet), I would strongly recommend not using Desecration. It tends to hide all the bad things that will one shot you especially if you have your spell graphics turned up all the way. The utility is nice, but that's a moot point if you're dead. Just my opinion/observation.

Had the same issue. On Orbital Defense System (probably the first boss most people will fight in BWD) Desecration will cover the blue pools (which give mana/damage boost) and will cover the edge of Green poison pools (increase damage taken).

In the end I specced out of it and it did help the raids positioning.

I did not have the same experience, graphically. I was still able to see every ground effect with desecration active.

Desecration was "somewhat" helpful on the poison goo adds but any other slow is probably a more reliable way to handle them.

If I'm not mistaken there is an option to prioritize your own spell effects. That might be the cause of different appearances.

In the interface menu under display is a box you can check to emphasize your own spell effects so that your spells will be more visible than others. Though, its not just myself that was having problems seeing "don't stand in stupid" type things but others in my group as well.

Please remember that the default behavior in SimC for calculating Hit/Exp is to return the dps LOST when Hit/Exp is removed.

If you want to enforce positive scale deltas, use positive_scale_delta=1 or check the appropriate box in the Scaling tab.

DoT mechanic question:

Do diseases update in real time for your current values of crit/str/mastery? I understand for other casters it does not update haste but I'm unsure of the other stats.

Basically if I pop something like Mark of Khardros - Item - World of Warcraft before I Outbreak and keep refreshing with FeS will the extra Mastery wear off 33 seconds in or will it just keep going until I forcibly refresh with Outbreak or IT/PS?

Same thing with Strength.

Thank you very much. I used SimCraft now for myself. Works pretty good.

I think he used "positive_scale_delta=1". If not, the scale is 1.86 instead of 0.36 for BiS

You can move your ghoul into position as you run in with the tanks and place him right next to mele range.