Have you compared your dot uptime to his on your wws? check the wws thread for the best way to do this.
Are you busting out an infernal?
Are you stacking trinkets and/or speed potions with heroism?
Use the imp for max dps, not the felhunter.
Have you compared the percentage of total dmg he gets from shadowbolt vs you?
Have you asked him about his latency and compared it to yours? (latency differences have a more pronounced effect the more a build relies on shorter/instant casts?

all of these things affect your dps

Alternatively: Are you the first one to apply Shadow Embrace?

Remove those hit and stat gems and replace them with spellpower. You're already over hit cap. You don't have to worry about being under the cap too much, since hit rating isn't as good as it was in tbc.

I'd use Glyph of Corruption or Glyph of Imp over CoA for a full affliction build. For a detailed explanation of why dig around in the Glyph Choice thread. Page six has some good arguments on why you don't want to use Glyph of Agony.

I'm curious about the dot uptime comment. If you're clipping your dots or even worse not starting a shadow bolt because you want to be able to refresh on time then that could explain a dps gap of that size. While maximizing dot uptime is important it's more important to make sure you're always casting something and that you're making the most of your global cooldowns.

What Oth said is probably a factor as well, especially if you're opening with Curse, Corruption, Haunt and the other warlock opens with Haunt, Curse, Corruption. He'd consistently get the Shadow Embrace off first and it would easily explain at least two or three hundred of the dps difference you're seeing.

Hello EJ community.
After reading for quite some time I came up with a few things that aren't really clear to me yet regarding Molten Core;

1: Does it apply it's effect when Immolate is already casted, or only on a newly cast Immolate?
2: If it's only for the newly cast Immolate, will it have it's full buff for the entire duration of Immolate if it lands in the last second of the Molten Core proc?
3: Does it increase my Imp's damage or is it (as I read it in the tooltip) only for my own fire spells?

Hope I don't ask too many or already answered questions. I tried searching for the answers myself but I couldn't succeed in it.

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53/1/17 Affliction. Notes; recently changed to aff down from demo/ember, still a lot of hit gems sadly. I only raid 10man as I left 25man raiding.

AFAIK, MC increases the effect of all Fire spells, whether they are being casted with the buff up or they're already active so if it procs, your current Immolate ticks will hit harder. I'm assuming also that MC only applies to you and not your pet since the buff is only active on the caster, and not a debuff on the target itself that would also increase your imp's damage.

I'm confused. If you want to cast dots, go full affliction/ruin. Shadowbolt will be your main nuke. If you only like "a few dots", Metamorph/Ruin will likely perform better overall and have more versatility for heroics and grinding than the build you linked.

To answer the question on the build you linked in isolation...yes it should do "ok" dpswise. Give it a try and see if you like it. I don't know why you'd put points in soul leech and not improved immolate though, especially when you have siphon life and are taking molten core.

Here's one for you, I think it's simple, but I'd like some other opinions from my own.

Lets say you have a 25 man raid, with no boomkin or unholy DK. Two warlocks, one a 30/41, and one a 56/0/15 (basically, has improved COE). Who would be the best person to put up COE in this case? My reasoning is the afflock, as they have the improved talent, which benefits the overall raid. Is my reasoning incorrect, and if so, please explain.

Not only does the affliction warlock have malediction the 0/31/40 (I'm assuming that's the 31/40 build you're referring too) will see better molten core uptime if they can use curse of agony and corruption which is a pretty substantial dps increase for a fire build.

DoTs tend to do damage with respect to the buffs you had active only at the moment of cast. Does Molten Core really work differently for no good reason? Or did they redesign that to only apply to spellpower buffs and not percent effects.

Is there such a thing as too much haste? I'm reaching close to 600 haste rating right now, and I'm thinking its time to stop picking up items with haste and go for crit. Leiulier values seem odd to me, since even with my gear its still valuing haste points more than double the value or crit with a 0/31/40 build

It's much easier to hit cap in wotlk than it was in tbc, so it's not really an issue. Affliction has higher dps potential on bosses if you are good at multitasking; if you don't like juggling multiple timers, a destro variation is better for you.

Not sure I agree on this. It might be practice, but I find it a lot easier rotating dots on a boss instead of watching timers to pinpoint your Conflag, having to BD, then swap to SF if under BL, always make sure to fire CB asap after CD expires etc. Also despite what people say I find Aff to be a lot more forgiving if you have a bit higher MS. It is much less clinical to keep rolling properly.

Tonight I ran as destro for the first half of Naxx25 (20/51) but after Loatheb I simply found myself frustrated with the low dps and the annoying rotations, not to mention the spam of shards on Soulfires. Jumped back to Aff and to the top of the meters.

Aff is by far the best choice atm, unless ppl are so handicapped from SB-spamming, then demo might be the way to go. Destro is not worth it to me at least.

Well I wasn't thinking about multitasking in terms of the rotation alone, but the rotation in conjunction with environmental hazards. I find it much harder to pay attention to void zones, etc, in Sarth with 3 drakes up while juggling dots as affliction and my dps suffers terribly, so I've been specing destro for that fight. I'm sure others are better at it than I am though.

The WotLK environment is quite different from the TBC for most classes, and this includes warlocks. There are many good posts in this thread alone, not to mention the others in the forum, that talk about new variants for the WotLK environment. I think you'd get a much better idea on what to do if you spend some time reading those.

My personal experience is that at lower-end gear (dungeon blues, 2 pieces of badge-vendor gears), I seem to have equal dps on both 56 /0/15 and 0/41/30 if my pet survives. On many fights, though, Felguards die very fast, so it gimps your dps. So I have been using an Affliction build. If the fight is anti-pet, I switch out the fel-puppy with the imp and put him in phase-out. I tried the 0/30/41 fire build at hit cap against a practice dummy, and my dps is lower (1.3k) than either the afflic or felguard spec (1.7k each). I did the test on the same set of hit-capped gear, against the ???? practice dummy. I think perhaps later on, when I get better gear, I can maintain hit-cap without having to sacrifice spell power and/or crit, the fire build might perform better. But right now, afflic gives me the best dps for my gear level.

Quick and easy question. Should I or should I not use drain soul < 25% if I am using any 0/41/30 or similiar tree (no talents in affli), and should I or should I not use corruption? Based on what I've read, the latter part of the precious sentance needs to be discussed, calculated and tried out. Although, I heard somewhere that Blizzard will be changing the coefficient from .13 or so to .2, I guess that would make it worth casting anyway.

As an affliction warlock I'm having some issues with an excess of threat.
I know there's a talent for that, but I'd rather be spending my talent points on talents which increase my dps.

There are two different cloack enchants which reduce the threat.

-Scroll of Enchant Cloak - Subtlety
Use: Permanently enchant a cloak to decrease threat from all attacks and spells by 2%.

-Scroll of Enchant Cloak - Wisdom
Use: Permanently enchant a cloak to reduce threat slightly and increase Spirit by 10. Requires a level 60 or higher item.

Is the threat reduction the same for the both of them or is the second one better?

There is a meta gem which reduces threat by 2%, does it stack with cloak enchants?

Also I would like to know if the trinket from sapphiron 25 is a good trinket for affliction warlocks (extract of necromatic power)
or should I aim for other trinkets?


And last of all is there an addon which warns you when the target is below 25% for drain soul?

MikScrollingBattleText, available on WoWInterface.com can easily be configured to alert you when the target is below 25%. I have it configured to play a sound and display a text alert when target health is 25%.

The threat reduction of the 2 enchants are similar, both 2%. The metagem stacks with the enchant and the trinket is excellent imo. At least in the top5 of trinkets in the game. But ofc. if you have IotDS and Dying Curse/EotS then those are definately better

Blacksen seemed to get quite emotional about CoA in that post, but I would disagree that Corruption is so much less garbage than CoA. Under perfect circumstances glyphing Corruption is about 20 DPS more than glyphing CoA. However, I believe there is a tangible benefit to lengthening CoA, namely that it becomes closer in duration to SL, allowing them to be "paired" in a fashion similar (though obviously not identical due to the remaining 2 second difference) to UA and Immolate pairing. I would imagine his 1000 dps difference is due to subtle playstyle factors and/or not-so-subtle SE bugging. Glyphing CoA might help rotation management more than additional Nightfall procs.

Drain Soul Warning - Addons - Curse

A must have, IMO. Be sure to rename the folder to get it to load. (Read the comments)

Playing Aff, I don't have time to look for scrolling text or anything else. I put this little window right above my button bar and it works beautifully.

Probably a dumb question, but does Improved Imp or Demonic Power (or even 2/2demonic power & 1/3imp imp) provide more dps to the imp?