From what I recall, its an additional 4% chance to proc... it doesnt sum.

Thus its 1-(.96 * .96) = 7.84% proc chance overall (roughly).

And realize that a nightfall proc really just reduces the cast time of your next SBolt by ~1 second (effectively, love that GCD). Its good, but not great.

The ticks for agony increase the number of SB's thown though! You spend less globals on casting it per fight and these fights are getting longer and longer! That said, you only get 1 global per 2:48 with the Agony Glyph.

For a Demo lock would the Glyph of Metamorphosis be better than the Glyph of Immolate?

If so would the six seconds of the second Immolation Aura be worth the severe mana cost?

Does anyone know if Nether Prot works on Mimiron's Plasma Ball ability? (Phase 3/4 Head attack)

Are there any known non-level-based magic resistances on bosses in Ulduar? I am curious whether COE could be useful here even if there is a Moonkin in the raid. The warlocks of Ensidia seem to constantly use COE and claim to use it even if it only lowers magic resistances.

Life Tap works normally (it just doesn't give mana), so it's always a good idea to use a rank1 for the glyph buff while moving from cloud to cloud. My guess is that the fizzle is just a desperate way of fixing Dark Pact, because it wasn't providing a mana gain per se like the other abilities and thus couldn't be easily prevented from working.

So, does anyone have a suggestion for an addon that would be useful in keeping an eye on your Life tap glyph uptime? At the moment I am using Elkano's buff bars for it, but I'm not completely satisfied with the result so far.

What I've done is that I've made a new group of buffs, and just only white-listed life tap, made it the size I wanted and moved it to somewhere easily noticeable.

Any other/better suggestions?

How is what you have already done not good enough? Because any other suggestion will be the exact same thing, i.e. resize the timer to your liking and move it where you want. So you would be doing the same thing that you accomplished using Elkano's Bars, but you would be using an extra addon to do it.

I'm relatively new to the game (going on seven weeks now), and am part of a new guild, with the goal of working our way up to eventual raid content. I will be running 3/14/54. What I'm trying to figure out is the strongest possible gear layout I can get, without having to go into 10+ man raids. Any 5-man instance should be doable once the guild is up and running, but I'm going to need some gear before we have enough people to begin moving into the bigger raids. I avoid the large-scale raids with non-guild members, as every one of them that I've participated in has been an idiot-filled spamfest that failed in some significant way or another.

Is there a simple way to figure out which gear would be ideal given that particular restriction; i.e. some encyclopedic website of possible gear layouts, or a topic that I may be able to find this answer in? I tried checking here (figuring that with the impressive knowledge accumulated here, it would be around), but either my search-fu is weak, or the answer isn't around.

My thanks in advance for any assistance offered, and apologies if this post is "wrong" in some way.

Use any item database with filters for where the content comes from (and/or item-level) and with stat weights based on the build you plan on using.

I am not aware of any thread that is a go-to place for new warlocks that don't have a lot of resources. I wrote a reply to a similar question a week ago, so here's what I've come up with.

Here's what I have put together using chardev: Profile of a Starting Warlock. My evaluation is done by making spell hit the most important stat to get until 368, then spell power, and then haste/crit.

I made this set so you are hit-capped for Nax10 raiding. The items are a mixture of crafted, Heroics, rep gear, and emblem vendor gear. Crafted items can be had quite easily, especially if your guild has the right profession (tailoring).


Heroic Gear

Heroic Occulus final boss for the helm. However, since 95% of the players hate that instance, you may have to settle for Forgotten Shadow Hood from Salramm the Fleshcrafter in Heroic Cavern of Time.

Speaking of H-CoT, you will need to go there anyway for your shoulder and your ring. So might as well.

Your wrist piece and one of your trinkets are from H-Violet Hold. Unfortunately, it's from the same end boss, so that'll be quite a few trips to get both unless you're real lucky.

Your legs will drop from Loken in H-Hall of Lightning, and your other ring is from Ingvar the Plunderer at H-Utgarde Keep.

I didn't assume profession-specific enchants. The enchants that are on there are not always the best, because sometimes the best enchant are very expensive, and these are items you will replace anyways. The helm, shoulder, wrist, gloves, legs, and shoes are good though.


Emblem of Heroism Gear

Your first purchase should be the off-hand, followed by the belt, the trinket, and the neck. Your off-hand, belt, and trinket will serve you until Nax25, so they are well worth the investment. You want the off-hand and the belt first for the hit rate, since the trinket doesn't add any hit.



Reputation Gear

First order of business is Violet Hold. Not only will you get your mainhand from them, but you also get the head enchant at Exalted. Second group to champion is the Wyrmrest Accord, for their boots. In the mean time, you will be grinding Sons of Hodir for the shoulder enchant.


Enchants

The best enchant for chest and mainhand are very expnesive, so I used the second best. The enchant for boots is surprisingly cheap for how good it is, so it's a must have. The wrist and hands are cheap to get, too. The legs can be had easily if you have tailors in the guild who are exalted with Wyrmrest. Otherwise, Auction House or /trade are not that bad.


Now, I also took the liberty of making some changes in the spec. If you take 3/3 in Empowered Imp, it seems a waste not to take 2/2 in Demonic Power. On the Demonology tree, I took 1 point from Fel Synergy to put into Fel Domination.


At any rate, good luck.