Anthropology, I would assume that a FG demo build is the best leveling spec, as pet specs generally allow one to blow through group quests and etc with ease. Since SL/FG isn't an option anymore, 0/31/5 is probably your best bet.

My question is kind of a silly one: is the chaos bolt glyph viable now? I currently use conflag, imp, and immolate; I'm considering dropping immolate to make room for CB, but I am not sure its ideal.

From a PVE Standpoint no. The DPCT of Chaos Bolt is only slightly higher than incinerate and furthermore at high haste levels, casting Chaos Bolt through backdraft procs futher reduces that as the cast time is lower than the GCD. In high haste circumstances it is actually better to cast incinerate over chaos bolt during backdraft therefore reducing the value that a cooldown reducing glyph would have.

That was someone else who asked about leveling specs. I posted:

I've been thinking this over and I can't imagine why using this type of macro wouldn't benefit the non-imp pets as well. It seems that the objective of the macro is to maximize globals, and while it might be more effective with imps because of the cast time of Firebolt, wouldn't it still be worth using with the other pets?

All i found concerning this is a bit old but most likely still true
Dots and you: The Affliction Warlock Thread

A 6 sec CD and 200ms latency would result in a Shadowbite roughly every 6.2 sec and erasing that latency caused delay in a gain of 1 Shadowbite every 180 sec if the macro hits the exact time the CD runs out. If you're not button mashing it's most likely somewhere between the CD and the CD+latency resulting in even less effect.

Thanks. Looking through that link:

Is this correct? Other macro functions not restricted to the GCD seem to go off at the same time as a GCD-restricted one in the same macro.

So, I guess my new question is, if the macro does provide some benefit, is it outweighed by the input lag? Is there a way to quantify how much input lag the /cast [@pettarget] macro line causes?

Hi

I've tried searching in all the threads and can't seem to find a clear answer to my question:

What is the correct usage of Improved Soul Fire for aff, demo, and destro? Hard cast it to keep the buff up? Or wait for Soulburn/Empowered Imp? If I get an Empowered Imp buff is it worth saving it until the current Improved Soul Fire buff has expired (assuming it will last that long)?

Thanks

Sorry that doesn't really answer my question because I wasn't specific enough...I know what I was doing pre-Cata but now that Imp. SF has changed I am wondering what the SF prio is for Tier 11 raids.

The destro one is wrong, the 80% requirement was removed with 4.0.3a.

As for cataclysm, I think it's hard cast to keep the buff up for all specs.

Hello. Long time reader, first time poster here asking for some help.

I cannot get my Focus Soul Swap macro to work.

I have tried everything I can think of but I keep getting the same message "Spell not learned" when I'm trying to use the Soul Swap Exhale focus macro.

/cast [@focus] Soul Swap

/cast [@focus] Soul Swap Exhale

/cast [modifier:ctrl, target=focus] [modifier:shift, target=mouseover] [ ] Soul Swap

Nothing works.

Anyone that has been able to crack this nut? The last one of those, with the modifiers worked pre-4.0 but never on Beta and not post-4.0.

Very grateful if anyone could come up with or have a solution to this. Thanks in advance.

I looked through a few threads and didn't notice anything about racials. With the updated race/class combos and racials(I think only Orc got rebalanced for Cataclysm), what is the best race for a Warlock on either side?

As far as horde races go I think goblin looks really promising, to me atleast.

I'm finding a ton of use from the rocket jump ability, Even when I'm not using those the goblin's 1% haste seems it could rival the troll's 3 minute cooldown.

Not to mention Rocket blast which I've seen crit for upwards of 20k.

As far as alliance goes, Worgen looks nice to me but I haven't looked much into alliance if anyone else wants to shed some light on this.

I suspect that, Alliance-side at least, Gnome is still one of the best to go for. The Expansive Mind buff gives you a larger mana pool, reducing downtime. The next closest seems to be Worgen, but mainly for the Crit buff. The Humans seem to be the weakest, but also the least grindy of the races Alliance-side.

After GCD-bound spells, you can queue up your next spell during the GCD now. Am I right in assuming the following:

Previous to this change I would mash the next spell button until I see a cast bar, then mash the following spell and so on. After this change I need only press the next spell once during the GCD and wait for the cast bar to start then proceed with pressing the next spell once only.

Hey, I'm returning to a lock and was wondering if someone would mind answering a small question. I'm not a complete novice to Lua, but I'm still kinda new. The function I put above is a standard function that I believe is in WoW to index the various debuffs on a given target.

I'm thinking of getting a standard DoT macro to cycle through and dot with what needs to be there. I believe it would be, I'm having a hard time finding the spell id's for the various warlock debuffs as most of the names have changed from what is listed on the wikia.

Hello,

I'm trying to calculate the new tresholds for additional dot ticks, but I'm completely unsure how haste factors interact with each other. My current suggestion works like the following:

If 1406 haste rating is needed for 50% haste raidbuffed (with 5% Haste out of raidbuffs), which is: 42,86% x 1,05 + 5
(pre 4.0.3a)

Now with ISF as a steady buff, I don't exactly know in which part of the calculation it takes place.

And last, how does Dark Intent correlate with this?

If nothing changed during last weeks of beta then all of them are multiplicative, which means that with ISF, DI and 5% haste buffs up You'll have 24.3725% haste. If I'm not too tired that would mean, that haste tresholds for additional dot ticks with a base of tick every 3 seconds and assuming 128.06 haste rating/1% are:

additional ticks	15sec dot	18sec dot
+2	580	65
+3	2639	1781
+4	4699	3497
+5	6759	5213

In some cases a bit less rating due to rounding, as it happened with the well know 1406 haste for immolate at level 80 - 1405 is actually enough for that additional tick.