Waiting to use metamorphosis with moonwell chalice yields 1100 DPS

Changed actions+=/metamorphosis

to

actions+=/metamorphosis,if=buff.moonwell_chalice.up

I ran sims from 450 seconds to 770 seconds in 20 second intervals and the DPS increase held.

This does change your stat priorities. Mastery > Crit > Haste

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but a few pages back there was some talk of both the Doomguard and Metamorphosis snapshotting temporary Mastery and Spellpower / Int buffs. I haven't seen a post where that was refuted. I can't speak to the Doomguard issue, however, some in-game target dummy testing today seemed to lead me to the conclusion that Metamorphosis was in fact not snapshotting mastery.

At least, it did not seem to be doing so based on the numbers in my character pane. When my moonwell chalice buff wore off my mastery dropped back to normal levels even though I was still under the effect of Meta. Is this an instance where the blizzard UI is giving me inaccurate information or does Meta not snapshot mastery?

Your Doomguard indeed snapshots mastery and spellpower and your meta indeed snapshots mastery (not spellpower though). Of course when the buff fades, your mastery goes down to the initial level. However, your meta still has the +% dmg corresponding to the mastery you had when activating it. You can easily check that using Bane of Doom for instance (since its damage is constant), casting it once right after you used your meta and still have the +mast bonus and then casting it at the end of your meta, when your +mast bonus faded (checking of course that you have no procs up).

I'll soon be getting the Moonweel Chalice, and i've been using the synapse springs which are macroed to my spells. As both don't stack, i'm wondering how i could manage the tinker so it doesn't accidentally prevent the chalice use, which could eventually delay mwc/meta use. I hope there's a trick besides "manage the tinker manually". Is macro'ing the tinker while wearing the chalice really a problem ? If so do you have an idea to solve the above problem ? Thanks in advance.

Does this mean that the Felhunter deals more dps than Felguard in single-target instances ONLY or does this mean a higher overall dps will be achieved when using Felhunter in single-target instances? In other words, has the effect of Demon Soul of both the Felhunter and Felguard been considered?

I noticed that this hasn't been changed since patch 4.2 came out and I was wondering if "higher gear levels (heroic raid gear)" was referring to BWD/BoT heroic mode, meaning that Mastery>Haste generally with current FL normal gear OR is this still valid and is referring to the current FL heroic mode?

My understanding is that it is still worthwhile to make sure that you hit the haste thresholds but you really want mastery in between. My experience with Wrath was that very high haste makes the game more fun and engaging - psychological factors which might increase your dps through positive feedback. This being EJ, of course, it can be assumed you are a robot with microsecond precision.

The first post is slightly outdated. The optimal "rotation" (used by the BiS profile included in Simcraft) for Demonology switches to the Felguard (by hardcasting it) right before using Demon Soul (and Metamorphosis) and then using Soulburn to switch back to the Felhunter right after the Felstorm of the Felguard has worn off (while in Metamorphosis). This will let you gain the benefit of the stronger Demon Soul while at the same time let the Felhunter contribute its incredible DPS (about 8k for the BiS profile).

On the same note, the scale factors have changed with the changed playstyle. If you are syncing up Metamorphosis with Demon Soul and your Moonwell Chalice (which you should), Haste looses a lot of its value, because you will not be able to use additional Impending Doom procs after reducing the Metamorphosis cooldown to 2 minutes. This can be seen in these two reports: Delaying vs Not Delaying. For some reason, the BiS profile does behave differently. It makes virtually no difference if you wait for the Trinkets/DS to get ready or if you just use Metamorphosis on CD, the scale factors do not change relative to eachother. My hypothesis would be that this is because the BiS profile has a lot higher Mastery:Haste ratio than I currently do (BiS 1.49*, me 1.15) and that 1.5 is the magical "break even ratio" between Mastery and Haste. The only haste threshold I am above and the BiS profile is below is the 10th Corrution tick with Bloodlust. This should not be a big deal, considering it will not save us even one global cooldown in the 40 seconds that bloodlust is up (Simcraft reports: With, Without).

So in essence: Once you obtain the Moonwell Chalice, sync up Metamorphosis with your Trinkets/Racials/Demon Soul and go for Mastery. I think.

We are doing this every CD as long as we have Soulshards. Assuming you are presharding, you can do this 4 times, or at minutes 0, 2, 4 and 6. As you are hardcasting the pet a couple of times, picking up Master Summoner is now a DPS increase. This has not been updated either in the original post.

You will have to make your own gear decisions, the trinkets are compared in the Simulationcraft thread.

Question regarding demon summoning.

Which stats do demons check when summoning?

Cause I'm thinking that if your demon takes a snapshot of certain stats, if would be wise to line up your procs and soulburn summon an new one, similar to what we do with the doom guard. We have procs that can modify int, SP, haste and mastery. Surely demon summoning checks some of those. Thoughts?

Real pets (as opposed to guardians, like the doomguard) do not snapshot any stats, they update dynamically.

This question may come off as a tad noobish, but how viable is it to refresh BoD just before Meta runs out?