I UA and corruption 2 of the valks and UA third one and spam seed of it while keeping dots up on a LK. Also don't forget to keep dots up on LK with soul swaps during raging spirit phases now that we have 40yard range. Also even with recent DS nerf afflic still rapes any fight with anything to multidot. I was pulling 20-23k dps on heroic LK up to valk phase without aoeing p1. We couldn't get past valk phase yet since the patch.

Are you still using 2/2 Improved Searing Pain? I personally don't think those are even necessary any more.


Your Bane and UA on your primary SoC target should detonate it by themselves without having to tab.

I've been doing some research today on regemming my warlock. According to the SimCraft numbers for destruction, haste outweighs Int by a small but noticeable margin.

I found out they added some new gems to the Eye of Zul cuts, and one of them is [Design: Lightning Eye of Zul] [+10 hit, +10 haste]. What do you guys think of replacing int/spi with hit/haste? Would I be amiss in reforging everything to haste in addition to regemming everything to haste/hit, haste/int, and pure haste? Is there a point where crit/int/mastery becomes more important than the next point of haste?

Has anyone done the numbers on the DPCT for shadowburn is? I'm curious if shadowburn is replacing searing pain as a kind of execute.

With the glyph that refreshes its cooldown every 6 seconds, being an instant I'd have to say it probably is worth the DPCT, not sure if the Simulationcraft thread author tried doing so.

For the sake of utility though, half the boss encounters in ICC have adds that could proc a Soul Shard refill, and that by itself would represent a DPS increase by virtue of instant Soul Fires and once the buff to ISF goes live, less opportunity cost on maintaining uptime on ISF.

That's a test build only meant to test the spec itself in a hermetic environment without player skill or gear making a difference.

Use the build in the OP of this thread instead, it's better for actual fights with adds and changing conditions and phases.

I ran Demo in a "test raid" through ToC 10 just to see how everyone's new talents held up in content where we could think about our rotations more than the fight itself.

I pulled about 16K DPS, but honestly hadn't been here and looked at stat weights yet. I think I can possibly do a little better with some reforging and gear changes.

That said I have noticed a couple things I wanted to bounce off the community regarding the spec.

1) Currently sans Glyph of Incinerate my Incinerate tooltip lists it as doing more damage on average (by like... 100 dmg) than SB. With GoIncin I was wondering whether I'd be able to swap to Incinerate as my primary filler, using SB only to keep up crit debuff. Due to addons being broke and Blizz deciding to ignore Molten Core when doing the new Power Auras I'm currently having a hard time managing Molten Core.

2) Tests on beta at 85 (though admittedly have not tried on live, yet) indicate that single target the imp beat out the Felguard by about 300dps. Anyone figured out if this may be a better option in a raid setting?

3) If you are going to use Felguard I've found macroing in Felstorm, even on single target, helps your dps immensely since it does not have an auto cast.

Just a thought:

• Intellect provides spellpower as well as crit, so it's a damage increase along with an increase in the chance to do more damage.
• Crit provides a chance to do more damage - but there's a cap. Given various talents and such, there's a point in a fight where someone will be come, effectively, crit-capped.
• Haste provides for more damage in a shorter amount of time, but there's essentially a cap as well - at a certain point, you hit the GCD and then haste only benefits some of your spells and not others.
• And finally, mastery is a straight dps increase, as it increases damage by a percentage.

If the above is correct, then there should be two numbers, a crit soft cap and a haste soft cap, at which point gear should be tweaked to go for either the other stat or, more likely, mastery. Has anyone crunched some numbers on what those two caps are?

I have been trying to recreate these results with Doomguard's Doom Bolt, with no success. If anyone else has been able to find a way to do this please share =D

Soulburn: Drain Life might have a place between Drain Soul execute and SB filler.

Not seeing why I would use SB over Incin as filler.

It seems that the destruction stat priority varies significantly from the scale factors given in the SimulationCraft, is this because the sims were recently updated and this thread hasn't had time to be adjusted or am I missing something?

Been testing the imp, felhunter and succubus out. Imp isn't breaking more than 750 dps on my tests (that's on target dummy, fel armor only), the felhunter tops out at around 1350, even with the talent for bite, and the succubus is doing 1750 with the lash of pain glyph. So please do tell me how to make my imp out dps these others, because i just can't see it.

Thanks.