Just did some tests, and it does indeed recalculate and adjust corruptionticks everytime it's refreshed by Haunt/Drain Life. This goes both ways, if you apply a trinketed corruption, the first haunt cast after the trinket has run out will lower the damage. Likewise the first haunt cast after you use a trinket will increase the damage of corruption.

Level 80 spreadsheets are reliant on us figuring out the new equations and such, like we are trying to in this forum, first.

Thanks for hinting at this. Hmm... but even including these talents and the additional spell damage debuff only brings the gain to about 1.1 DPS per point. The underlying gear is hit capped and rather heavy on both haste and crit for affliction purposes with both values above 15% (implying that there is good gain from each point of spell damage.)

Raiding 10 man Naxxramas last night with 368 +hit, 14.01% on the character tooltip (upgraded legs since then and down to 367 +hit) with 3/3 Cataclysm. I still noticed partial resists on Patchwerk with Incinerate and Immolate. I would expect resists with CoA and Corruption, but not on destruction spells.

Is this because bosses have a certain amount of resistance to all spells and I should have used CoE, or am I missing something somewhere?

Also, there is nothing you can do to remove those partial resists on normal bosses (ie bosses that aren't more resistant to a certain type of school) - CoE won't help you.

Yep, bosses get innate resistances due to being +3 to you. You will never be able to overcome those resistances so you will always get some partial resist. As others have noted, even if you could overcome the bosses resistances it would be with spell penetration (or CoE) and not spell hit. Spell hit only affects whether the spell hits or misses* while resistances affect how much the damage registers for.


*It is possible that a spell can fully resist if the victim has enough spell resistances. However, these cases are displayed as Resist. If you see a spell fail completely then a "Resist" will indicate it was due to spell resistances while a "Miss" will indicate it was due to lack of spell hit rating.

Incorrect, we tested this just this week in fact. Pretty simple to test that Heroic Presence has been altered to affect the entire raid. Whee, only need 1 Draenei now!

Because they get innate resistances as a result of being +3 to you. They don't have an actual resistance amount, they just resist some spells as if they do. This is something that was proven in the other warlock megathread. You can look through there for more details.

The topic of pet hit rating has been touched upon briefly (Warlock: Simple Questions/Simple Answers) but after parsing numerous WWS reports using both the felhunter and the imp - it appears that my felhunter misses approximately 8-9% more than myself and the imp. While taking into consideration dodge, that still leaves about 4% miss that I can not account for since the pet automatically attacks from behind.

WWS All Bosses with Imp at ~11% hit
WWS All Bosses with Felhunter at ~10% hit
WWS All Bosses with Felhunter at ~11% hit

% hit listed is my personal paper-doll hit rating. I get an additional 3% from talents, 1% from Draenei and 3% from misery. Is there something else going on with the felhunter and hit rating that could account for this additional consistent 4% miss on swing damage? I could understand the pets not getting the hit from my talents but the imp seems to do just fine.

Melee abilities require to meet the melee (white) hit cap, which is alot higher than the 17% required for spells, hense every Felguard/puppy miss alot more. its something you have to accept as stacking to the correct hit cap for pets, will reduce your dps overall.

I'm repeating myself here, there isnt a single miss in the WWS reports that you linked. All of them are just dodges & parries.