Hi, I'm a newbie in this forum and newbie in affliction. by now i am 0/41/30 but i want to change to affliction. and i want to know if you can give me a build and a rotation to maximize dps, and maybe the keys of this build too.

thanks xD and sorry my newbie question.

Sorry, but I think this is (slightly) wrong, too. You get an uptime of 12/33 for p=1 but in this case every corruption tick would proc eradication and the uptime should be 12/30. I actually assumed that the corruption tick happens 0s after the cd expires (which means t0=0 in my formula).

First of all, my calculations are in principle the same as yours, just somehow simplified by using known facts about the geometric distribution. So my calculations should be easier to follow, but results do not change. With my post I wanted to critizise people that average over the uptime percentage. And I have seen a lot of calculations doing that...

Back to your last post: Well this depends a lot on game mechanics and the programming of Blizz. I have no idea what happens, if the corruption tick and the end of the cooldown happen at the exact same time. That is why I have written t_0 could be anything between 0 and 3. For the calculation you cited I used t_0 = 3 which is probably not the smartest choice, depending on game mechanics.

Assuming a perfect Corruption uptime without clipping: If the corruption that happens at the same time of the end of the cooldown can proc Eradication, a value of t_0 = 0 would be appropriate, if not, a value of t_0 = 3 would be appropriate. If reapplying Corruption by Haunt is clipping, any value between 0 and 3 can be possibel for t_0, so perhaps t_0 = 1.5 would be a smart choice.

But in fact, the relative differences for the gain of 1 / 2 / 3 talent points using t_0 = 0 and t_0 = 3 on the other extreme, are not that big. So independent of the value of t_0 the second and third talent points are a higher dps boost compared to wrong calculations. And that is the important fact, I want to show.

Some days ago, I used only 1 point in Eradication, now I use 2, since I think the second point is also worth skilling...

And btw: "0s" combined with "after" does not make any sense This is what I meant with game mechanics. It could either proc or nor...

Ok, seeem I just misread your post.

Haunt doesn't cause any clipping. But if you look at combatlog data (the file, not the ingame display), you'll see that time between ticks isn't always axactly 3s, it can be less or more than 3s. I don't know if that means that it would be possible that corruption ticks just before the cd expires or if it's just an inaccuracy of the combatlog system. But the difference is so small that it doesn't really matter.

I was struggling with the same issue, but found that hit equipment is rather easy to come by (almost impossible to avoid). Just a week ago I had a hit rating of 473 + 3% from my talents. Since then I've reduced my hit rating a bit, and decided upon an intermediate solution that works for me: 54/0/17 haunt/ruin. My reasoning is simple (and probably flawed): I want to have the same hit bonus from my talents for both affliction and destruction without wasting too many points on low level affliction talents that I don't need. This leaves me with 2x1 points in the hit rate talents. I'm sure some people will tell me Dark Pact is not needed, but you'll pry it from my cold dead fingers.

My equipment still needs a lot of work (as do I in the way of playing a warlock; I started playing WoW on November 21 2008), but you can find it at Sonate EU armory.

From looking at WMO top worldwide dps locks on Patchwerk I'm seeing a Doomguard placing in the top 3 of their dmg output. SB being the #1, crits for around 25-50%. And drain soul or Corr is the #3 dmg out% with about 10 & 50 tics respectively.

I'm also noticing more imp firebolt spam from affliction locks in some logs. These things may help up your dps.

This is a complete change of topic, but I saw something on MMO-Champion and wanted to bring it up for discussion. It is from a GC post originating here (Post #31):

Is this "limitation removal" a secondary effect that we already have (pandemic) or is this a fundamental (assuming code/programming) change that will allow our dots themselves to crit?

One of the things that may be holding back your DPS is you're may not be hit capped. With full talents (and no dranei or shadow priest) to be capped you need 368 hit (14%). Perhaps you have those in your group/raid and that's getting you to the cap, myself, i preferto be self sufficient in case we don't have a shadowpriest on a particular 10 man. If you are not hit capped, get hit capped first before any other stat. That will help.

Given that they said it's going to be removed, I'd imagine that pandemic was the best work-around at the time. Future implementations will probably be more graceful than making crits show up as a different spell. It's likely pretty far out from now since they'd need to rework pandemic and all DoT class DPS tuning.

What I usually do is carry extra equipment with a high hit rate for such an occasion. In my case, that's an ebonweave robe and ebonweave gloves. It's often wise to check what kind of buffs your party/raid will give you before entering any boss fights.

Perhaps these questions are better off in the pet thread, but they're about talents too and my spec is based on this thread. This is my spec: Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft

1. Is the felhunter bug fixed yet, now or in 3.0.8? If not, how severe is it?

2. Should I go with an improved or unimproved imp, or felhunter? If imp, should I go with my felhunter when there's no disc priest around and no other lock with felhunter? If so, this would make the eventual imp talents useless.

3. If, despite the chance that there's no disc priest or other felhunter around, I should spec for imp, what talents should I drop to get what imp talents? The possibilities are dropping imp. SB (2 points) as it doesn't improve dots, MC (1 of 2 points) if only 1 point in the talent is enough, and Eradication (1 of 2 points) if the 0.9 % haste I get from the 2nd point is worse than an imp talent. The talents I can get with these points are improved imp and demonic power. However, I can only remove 2 destruction points.

4. If I should get the imp talents, would the imp in its improved state be better than the felhunter assuming no divine spirit and other felhunter? More importantly, would the imp be better than felhunter, the talents I could keep instead of improving the imp AND fel intelligence combined?

My guess would be imp if divine spirit or other felhunter, and otherwise felhunter, but if I lived on my guess I'd still think spellpower is slightly better than spirit and crit which are slightly better than haste. ;D