I'm not sure if this mechanic is intended, but another drain soul bug sure is not. Testing on target dummies, Drain Soul only ticks 4 times during 15 seconds sometimes. If this happens on Bosses too it is a significant dps loss for affliction warlocks who don't cancel their drains early. This bug happens with and without spellhaste (so it seems to be different from the old mind flay bugs).

The priority would be CoA>Corr>Immo>Incin and SB would be missing. This would also mean using the CoA, Immo and Felguard glyphs. I'll create a priority flow for fire demo and put it in the demo thread.

Well the funny thing is it was _only_ SE which wasn't on, the rest stayed on. The reply from dragon makes a bit more sense in this case, i was a bit afraid that was the case.
Can anyone confirm only one instance of SE can be up?
Also, can anyone confirm that my damage won't be nerfed if I don't have it up?
This is because the tooltip says : increase all periodic damage dealt to the target by _YOU_ and thus i read it , that if the other warlock has SE up , i don't profit from it.

Ok, I understand what you're trying to say now. I highly disagree.

The points formula was back-engineered by fitting *every* item in the game up to that point to a generalized curve fit, and aside from an item or two that was latter found to be over/under-budgeted and corrected by blizzard, has generally been accurate to within one ilvl on every item I've ever heard of (accounting for the TBC stam revaluation). "Educated guess" is not an accurate description.

It is fact that one rating of any type costs the same as any other rating. This isn't even a result of the itemization formula, although it agrees with that; there's a slide from the first blizzcon's item panel describing how they make items, and it gives a cost equivalence of hit to dodge (or something), in the exact ratios that those ratings later converted (8 to 12). One rating and one (non-stamina) stat point are equivalent. Considering how accurate the ilvl postdiction formula is, they're just too damn close for there to be any reasonable explanation other than exact equality. In addition, there is absolutely no reason for them to value ratings different when they could simply change the conversion formulas instead. It keeps item comparisons intuitive for casual players, item designers, and number-crunching. Besides, as has been pointed out, if the ratings had broken equality, you would have noticed it in the gems.

I'm looking over your posts, I'm looking over your examples, and I don't see any reason to believe that this is not behaving the way in which it used to. No offense intended, but unless you can provide some counterexamples of items that don't seem to fit with the budget formula, I'm going to have to file this under "Ony deep breaths more."