Is it only possible to achieve greater than 15K drain soul ticks if you are in top of the line gear, have the optimal raid make up, pop a potion and have another affliction lock in the raid? This last part is the main part that I am concerned with as I am currently the only raiding lock in my guild.

You have entry level gear for Naxx10 and Naxx25. A lot of Heroic stuff, whatever. You have good Emblem acquisitions and rep rewards.

But you're not using Drain Soul when the target is < 25%, and you're not using a Pet. Or, you're using a Doomguard, and your DPS is actually 1000 DPS higher than what you will see on the WWS due to WWS not assigning the Doomguard to you. Regardless, if you're not using a minion, that's a DPS loss.

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doomguards are dumb

Doesn't make any sense... Haunt only hit 5 times, that means 60 seconds of the fight, haunt was up. Fight lasted a little over 2 minutes...

Can someone explain, that's less than 50% haunt up time, yet 7k+ DPS?

Appears so thank you.

Just did 25 man Naxx for my first time last night, I'm reading all the time about locks getting 4k and up on Patchwerk, and I just dont understand how.

I'm FG/Emberstorm (I know people are going to say that's my problem and that I should switch to affliction, but this has worked for me) with 15.35% (including talents) hit, about 30% crit in the raid, and 490 haste. I think my spellpower was in the range of 2.8 for the raid.

This is my WWS http://wowwebstats.com/gpdjcku2rybew I'm the only Warlock.
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I know the up time on my Immolate could have been a little better, and I realized after that I had forgotten to use my doomguard. I put extra effort on Patchwerk to see how high I can get my DPS, I even through in a 15 second haste potion that I had on me. Is there anything I can do to get my DPS higher then that short of speccing Affliction and getting better gear.

Heres 2 of my latest WWS from naxx. Im usually the only lock in the raids, but im wondering if there's a way I can increase my dps on these fights, mainly Patchwerk and Razuvious. Im not using doomguard or infernal (forget usually) in these, but do they make THAT much of a difference from these 6k+ WWS I see from other locks?

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Hello,

I was trying out affliction tonight in Naxx, but didn’t really get the result I wanted. Seeing how people manage to make 6.5-7k dps on Patchwerk stuns me, as I was only able to squeeze out 5.6k with a doomguard. My gear is quite top-notch, hitcapped with 2300 spelldmg and 726 haste. I’ve studied people’s rotations in here and came to the conclusion that SB -> Haunt -> UA -> Immolate -> Corr -> CoA -> SL would be a good solution.

Here’s my breakdown:
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Could anyone comment on that and tell me how it should be/what % the perfect breakdown is at? Only thing that looks a bit too low to me is the drain soul ticks, which I persume should have been higher (the number of ticks that is).

As for the other fights I’d appreciate some feedback too, if any, since I feel some of them turned out quite lackluster. The Doomguard was used on 4 fights (Patchwerk, Grobbolus, Razuvious and Kel’thuzad). However, while I think Doomguard is a nice little gimmick, I don’t feel it’s a reliable tool. It felt more like covering up for some obvious shortcomings.
And please, disregard Sapphiron, it ended up really messy due to one of the ever-present lagspikes.

Thanks in advance.

1) Couple gear upgrades still available 10man nax etc. You have too much hit 289 is your target(with sp), throw a cheap perfect bloodstone in those boots till you get a upgrade. Belt too

2) No demonic empowerment ? its not even on the gcd, I break with people as I never get master summoner, if your pet dies you messed up just take the hit and promise yourself to be better, or know your going into a pet unfriendly fight and sac and run doomguard/infernal or something

3) Dps is a average over the duration of the fight, alot of these guys runing high dps have really short fights.

example
Premeditation did a 2 healer 25man nax on all but sap/kt where they ran 4 healer I belive had like 54 second anubrekan fight and that is basically a lust/speed pot full fight so ya their individual dps will be insane.

ps, I really don't like that spec personally. I haven't ran the numbers to see which is better for your gear level, I would advise you to go download simcraft (simulationcraft - Google Code) plug in your stats for the default values/spec/buffs and then run at least 10k simulations, I prefer to run 100k personally but I have dual quad core so it doesn't take anytime

and good luck



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You dont want to use Doomguard if you have a felguard.

1) Terrible uptimes. (53% corruption, 79% CoA, 38% immolate, 59% siphon life, 42% or lower haunt, 15% UA). Even with those low uptimes, she only cast 5 shadow bolts over the entire fight.
2) Didn't use Drain Soul
3) Didn't use a pet

I bet if you watched her on that fight she was not casting for 50% or more of the fight. If you ignore rain of fire for a minute, she only spent 50 seconds out of 200 second-long fight casting. Far more than 25% of her time should be on casting DoTs and Shadow bolts.

Sit her by a training dummy for 30 minutes and tell her to keep her rotation going while moving around now and then.