Shouldn't Emberstorm read: "Reduces cast time for Soul Fire and Incinerate"?

While this could very well change in Heroic, I have had zero issue running Soul Link (glyphed) withough Fel Synergy, and I have found the extra stamina from DE quite helpful.

Isn't this still bugged and limited to 1.5 seconds thus make the 3rd point useless?

If you have access to a Healing Stream totem, sure, your Imp will probably be fine in 90% of cases and is why you have no problem. I also can't speak for heroic modes but I'd rather be self-sustaining than rely on outside sources to ensure my pet stays alive.

An extra 5-6k health is nice but the points are better spent on Fel Synergy.

Whether it's HST, VE, or any number of smart/aoe heals, the chances of one of them not being available to keep your pet up has been nominal at best in my experience. The fact that my pet still has zero problem staying up regardless of the passive healing I have in my group tells me there are more than enough heals that don't consume healer mana to go around. With as tight as healer mana is right now, I would much rather my character be more self-sustaining than my pet. Every heal they don't have to cast on me is another potential life saved.

Based on 4.0.3 modeling, each point in Demonic Embrace is worth 35 HPS (fel armor + soul leech). It also increases your EHP through soul link by a little over 3k. Yeah its not great, but I have never had a problem with my pet dying unless you like camp him in the lava during nef phase 2.

to me its some benefit v. no benefit as to why I take DE.

If your pet had not been low on hp, that Wild Growth/Circle of Healing/Chain Heal might have hit a player instead of your pet. Just because healers are not directly targetting your pet does not mean it doesn't cost them mana to keep it up. The benefit of the second point is certainly doubtful, but it's not like 1 point in Demonic Emrabce will matter very often either considering most raid damage is tuned for players without Soul Link.

Short answer: yes, if you're not gaining the benefit of the ISF (or any other side effect procced from an otherwise low priority spell) for a proportion of its duration then its value will be diminished and there will come a point where casting other spells would be better dps.

Unfortunately, the situation you describe also affects priority in other ways.

For instance, even though you are no longer attacking the Djinn on the platform you're leaving, they're still taking damage from any DoTs left up, which means that in some cases it will be better to re-apply DoTs than to cast otehr spells, depending on how long the DoT has left to run. This is further complicated by the fact that you can refresh your instant DoTs while running towards the jump, but not your cast time spells. Also, you may have time to cast one Soul Fire, but not two Incinerates (say) which would mean that even though the incinerates are better dps, you can't cast one and a half Incinerates!

In essence, what I'm trying to say is that even though it may be theoretically possible to determine the best course of action, it would be very complicated and the answer is likely to change very quickly as you approach the time when you must jump. The difference between the "best" strategy and running your normal priorities until forced to stop is likely to be small as the period of our "rotation" is quite small (~15seconds other than CoD).

All things considered, if it were me: I would run my normal rotation until just before having to move (including Soul Fire) and finish by re-applying my DoTs just before I jumped, but whatever you're most comfortable doing is likely to give the best result.

Note he is talking about GCD capped, which is impossible post 4.0.6 ( you would need 39%ish haste rating)

The 2635 number is for the 8th immolate tick which you can achieve currently in 4.0.3 with nearly BiS heroic gear, but will be unobtainable in 4.0.6 due to the loss of 15% haste from ISF. The haste rating required to hit the 7th tick in 4.0.6 is 2589.

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Jmickey, sorry to be a bother, but what is the function of the "0.00049999" in the haste formulae? Are you attempting to cause the calculated haste targets be as low as possible given the numbers or is it a representation of the way Blizz rounds their numbers? Couldn't you have just gone to a 4th (or more) decimal place for something like that and just applied a safe rounding at the end?

EDIT: Found the post by Keldion that more or less explains it short of a blue post. Seems tick speed rounding is where haste rating thresholds gets pushed around.
http://elitistjerks.com/f80/t111390-...3/#post1828020

When the DoT is applied.