That is just backwards. The Warlock spec that loses the least personal DPS to put up CoE is Destruction. Affliction would lose a great deal of personal DPS having spent points increasing damage and buffing DoTs, and any Demonology spec would lose DPS due to being unable to use CoA to proc Molten Core. The spec of Warlock that loses the least personal DPS is Destruction, but some math will be needed to figure out if a mage loses more or less than a Warlock.

Thanks for all the replies, I knew the stamina gems were far from ideal but i had them in the bank and could not find a usable blue socket gem so i got socket bonus. I plan to max my enchanting this weekend to get better enchants.

For the record I did indeed read almost every post in this thread and the pve discussion and spreadsheet threads but in any event, sorry if some of my issues were obvious.

Take care all.

What blue socket gems are recommended for a raid warlock? Would you forgoe socket or even meta bonuses to just stack sp or hit as appropriate?

Gem qualities have been discussed quite a lot. Dont skip the meta. And remember that, for example, green and violet gems also count as blue.

But don't forget, most socket bonuses simply suck, a "+3 crit" from the gown of the spellweaver, to put an example, isn't worth the damage you give by not socketing a 19 SP gem. Try and get the 2 best socket bonuses to put your 2x purple gems in them and go SP for almost all the rest of gems (if you got hitcapped).
I also noticed you replaced some of your gems, and I'm wondering if you can read the word "Purified" before "twilight opal" because you are, again, losing dps. And still under the hit cap. Socket +16 hit until 368, that's your priority. And enchant your gear.

Is there any Ulduar "gear list" around? Ulduar offers so many different items I really have trouble keeping track, is there any BiS gear list?

Thanks

Ulduar loot - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

Here is a nice list.

Does anyone know the worth of the 2pt7 bonus vs the 4pt8 bonus for 13/58?

I switched out my [Valorous Plagueheart Leggings] for the [Conqueror's Deathbringer Leggings] yesterday.

Losing 55 crit and the the 2pt7 setbonus replacing it with about 50sp (if you count the spirit on the legs) and the 4pt8 bonus.

Currently only have 19.18% crit selfbuffed (with firestone) and only 356 haste but still greatly outperforming Haunt/Ruin in raids.

I have a question regarding the value of two piece t8. I currently use the 25 man helm, and have the 25 man gloves sitting in my bags because they're not better than what I currently use. I was thinking that it might be better to use the gloves to get the 2 piece, is this correct? To show you what I would be replacing, this is what I'm usingHandwraps of Plentiful Recovery and obviously i would be replacing them with Handwraps of Plentiful Recovery . So I would gain a little bit of spellpower, but lose a good amount of haste. Is this worth it for the 2piece?

Oh yeah, im 13/58 by the way.

Well if you think about it for a second:
The 2pcT7 bonus is a 10% crit rate on a proc and the 4pcT8 is 5% crit rate all the time on the same thing. So, unless the T7 bonus is up for more than 50% of your Incinerates then the T8 bonus is better. Running a quick simulationcraft shows that the T7 bonus has an uptime of 11.1% for me in my gear. This makes sense because you are only using Immolate which has a chance to proc it and you are casting an awful lot of Incinerates compared to the number of Immolate ticks.

So the 4pcT8 bonus is better.

It's approximately a 1.25% overall DPS increase to use the DG instead of the Imp. This is assuming the DG is able to stay attacking the target the entire time (not the case in a good deal of Ulduar fights).