Okay, thanks for the help so far!

-I did change the immolate coefficients to 0.2 and 1.0 (dot), tested it myself, seems to be right.
-I took out shadow embrace as a coefficent for CoD
-I include NF procs in the overall damage calculation
-I included Amplify Curse now

This changed the results slightly. The mana component is not in yet, but it's not too important right now. I guess I will start to make a complete list of epic gear now, compared by the stat-to-dps rates I calculated. That will be a lot of easy work to do :-)

Btw, as stated above, I know that there is no spell hit cap anymore. But the test warlock has just 10% hit rating, he still misses bosses in a normal raid situation, but that's his fault, not mine! I personally hit all the bosses! :-) The idea behind this was that it is easier to see what more spell hit does when it still DOES something.

So after looking at a recount breakdown after loathib in 25 man naxx, i'm beginning to wonder about crit. I had the spore buff for almost the entire fight and recount reported pandemic as my 2nd damage dealing ability after SB. I forget exactly how long the fight was, but I proc'd pandemic 151 times. As an aff raiding lock pre 3.0, I never put much stock in cirt over 10-12%. However, with pandemic added to help scale aff lock's most powerful 2 dots with crit, I wonder if it's not worth stacking much more than i originally thought. My first step after hitting 80 was getting hit capped, which is obviously vital to a spec thats so dependent on a delicate rotation. My next goal was orginally to stack up haste while shoring up SP...I haven't looked at the gear too closely, does anyone know what kind of stats I should shoot for, or does the gear simply provide both and make it easy on us?

You're doing it wrong. There should be no "stacking up on blah blah" to particular points, unless you have a fetish for hit and you want it maxed. After you cap hit then you just figure out which pieces of gear are better for you using relative weights for each stat. I posted a reply to the crit-is-great-because-of-pandemic fallacy here, so I may as well just link it than spout the same thing again.

I must have missed something in the past few months by why are you multiplying everything by .85 "boss level". Since when did a boss being higher level reduce your damage by that much?

On Corruption you have the following:
+0.30 (Everlasting Affliction)

Pretty sure it's 5% just like the talent reads.

I've noticed a few things about this at least for me:

Only seems to happen in a group situation; I cannot seem to replicate it on the heroic dummy, but I've definitely noticed it happening in raids, so I'm guessing that it could be a bug caused by another debuff on the target.

Also there's no miss message as I thought I might have seen before, corruption just seems to randomly end with a haunt application.

I guess the other possibility is lag so while corruption is ending server side before haunt lands I'm not seeing that client side, but I have a good computer with Fios and I live only an hour or so away from the server I play on, so it would have to be server lag which seems like it would be an impossible amount of server lag to see regularly.

Addendum: also the haunt would have to line up with the corruption ending spontaneously often and the chances of that are just not possible :/

I'm not 100% sure about this but I have noticed it too, and I think what's happening is when Haunt reapplies Corruption, the ticks don't line up with the 3 second markers anymore, and so Corruption ends earlier than the seconds remaining on the debuff shows, because the game stops the debuff when there are no more ticks left.

Think about this situation:
at t=0 cast Corruption
at t=17 Haunt lands on target
at t=18 you get the first tick of the Haunt'd Corruption, Corruption shows 17 seconds left
t=21 2nd tick, Corruption shows 14 seconds
t=24 3rd tick, Corruption shows 11 seconds
t=27 4th tick, Corruption shows 8 seconds
t=30 5th tick, Corruption shows 5 seconds
t=33 6th tick, Corruption shows 2 seconds
At this point (t=33) I think the Haunted Corruption ends. Even though the game shows it as having 2 seconds left, I think it just removes the debuff. So you have to have Haunt land before 3 seconds remaining on your Haunted Corruption, because after 3 seconds remaining on a Haunted Corruption, it could drop at any time, depending on the timing of the ticks.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think it's how it works. Someone could test it?

So your saying you think maybe when it refreshes the corruption it bugs somehow and ends up being more like a 17 second corruption?

Almost all specs are "viable" now, the question is choosing the small differences that boost one above another. Responding to your above post, you don't just lose ruin, you also lose the 5 points in ISB. Both of those lost talents scale with gear (and not just with crit rating). It's also nice to be able to burst a bit more when "add must die" fights present themselves.

I was wondering if the difference between one and two points in erradication made a big difference or not in terms of dps gained or lost. I have been raiding the past two raids as affliction with two points talented in eradication, and today was going to make a change and drop it to one so I could place another point in cataclysm in the detro tree for some more hit. Good idea, bad idea? Should I have three points in eradication? I just dont like sacrificing three points in a talent that only has a possibility and not a definate chance to proc when I could be placing them elsewear in more stable talents. Thats just me, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Here, I'll do some math for you:
Because 10 is a stupid number to use, I changed them all to 1:
1 spell power = 1.036 dps
1 hit rating = 1.129 dps
1 haste rating = .392 dps
1 crit rating = .379 dps
1 spirit = .311 dps
1 int = .104 dps

1 spirit * 1.1 (BoK) * .3 (Fel Armor) * 1.036 (your value for spellpower dps) = 0.34188 dps per spirit, compared to your value of .311.

Also, nobody has responded to my concern: what the heck is this ".85" "Boss Level Target" coefficient you're using. Last I checked a boss' level does not cut my damage by 15% magically.

Somebody posted in the official forums that "Empowered Corruption & Improved Corruption - Haunt not refreshing Corruption with the bonus modifiers."

I know that Haunt doesn't refresh Corruption using the original spell dmg of the Corruption cast, but is the above also true?

Speaking of Haunt, what spell dmg value is Haunt using to refresh Corruption? Base Spell Dmg? Current Spell Dmg at the moment of Haunt Cast (or Land)?

The last piece of the puzzle for me is:
Erradication vs Molten Core.

Anyone have numbers to show which is better?

On the topic of affliction thing that I noticed 2day was like in PTR the shadow embrace buff gets canceled of if there are 2 warlocks in the raid. I did raid with the other affliction lock few times and as I can remember always saw the debuff on my dot timer. But 2day I specifically tested this with him and only one of us was able to have the shadow embrace debuff. Did this happen after yesterday patch ? or Did I miss something ?

this dam thing also happened to me 1st time on 2days raids after all these time. What the hell did they did to the afflition warlocks in that short maintenance ?

Shadows embrace stacks universally for locks spec'd for it. His shadow's embrace works for your dots and vice versa. So, no matter how many aff locks are in a raid, only one shadow's embrace debuff will show up on the boss.

What exactly am I "doing wrong"? I dont take items with just one stat on them and stack it, I'm fairly balanced between haste and crit atm, I was simply wondering if it comes down to a direct trade, would one be better than the other? Also, I don't think being hit capped as an afflock is only to be prioritized if you have a "fetish for hit". Affliction is dependent on having as few misses/resists as possible, to ensure maximum dot uptime without clipping. Therefore, hit becomes absolutely essential, and should be capped first and foremost above all other stats. Thank you for you're answer, I have confirmed that haste probably beats out crit in direct comparison, provided enough crit is already present.

What you are "doing wrong" is assuming that you want certain amounts of one stat before getting another/before another one is useful, for example things like "provided enough crit is already present" - haste would be better than crit even if you had zero crit and were under 50% haste. Edit: one stat depending on another for usefulness does apply sometimes, but not for the crit/haste relationship. And regardless, there is never a situation where you can say "my optimal crit is X% before getting other stats" or anything like that.

Also, as is mentioned in a number of other places in this forum, hit being "absolutely essential" for affliction warlocks is very much debatable. In all my sims, and analysis of my own WWS, +hit is maybe slightly better than +damage up to the hit cap for an Affliction warlock. Not "first and foremost above all other stats", just barely in front. I'm still going to cap it because I don't like getting resists in my rotations, but it's not the crazy dps gain it was in early TBC.

I) Bosses are considered 3 levels higher than you are, giving them a 15% chance to resist spells. There is NO way to prevent that. As these are partial resists, you don't get a "resisted" but just do 15% less damage in the average. This has been fact for a very long time, and you can easily see it when approaching the boss training dummy, you will get "Xyz does n damage (k resisted)" all the time.

II) This has been a lenghty discussion in this thread, and I now agree that "fallenmen" is absolutely right about it. Everlasting affliction does improve your spell damage by 5% PER TICK. Tested, discussed, topic closed. I actually wrote it in the spell description, and you can find it in this thread. Maybe you should read a little bit more before you post, then you would get less warnings :-)

This is actually true (and it changes the value for intellect as well). I'll change that soon.

My overall % mitigated for boss fights is generally in the 3-6% range. I'm not sure how that translates into 0.85 multiplier.

Is that really true? Having to recast a dot is annoying (and a resisted Haunt even more so), but ultimately it's just a loss in dps - the same as will be cause by not having X haste or Y spellpower - not the end of the world.

If anything, because our spells have such a high dpct/aren't spammable, don't we get less out of hit than other casters?

On #2, Interesting, I do not see it in the Spell Description that you wrote but ok, I'll accept it, and now that I look at the Leulier spreadsheet I can see the 30% in there as well.

On #1:
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I could link any number of WWS like this and in every one of them you will see a mitigation value under 10% for any single spell. In this case, the mitigation value goes from 3.1-6.2% at worst. Nowhere near 15% which severely cripples your calculation.

Also, Leulier's spreadsheet appears to have made its triumphant return thanks to Bakka. It's not 100% in the area of items available to be slotted yet but the calculations seem as spot-on as ever. Does anyone see anything wrong with the calculations in that spreadsheet? The only thing I've seen wrong currently is that Drain Soul is not being given the bonus from Soul Siphon and it's not being used in a Haunt rotation, but that's easy enough to fix.
Leulier's Warlock DPS Spreadsheet

Something which appears to be a bit misleading for less experienced Warlocks reading this thread might be one of the most important conclusions of your thread: dps value per stat point. Your DPS per Point values are based on pre-Naxx gear. However, as someone gears up through Naxx, those values will very rapidly change. Using best-in-slot items it is quite easy to reach 2,100+ unbuffed spellpower from gear which fairly drastically changes the stat weightings. My concern is that someone gearing up through Naxx looking at your guide's stat weights would then get all the gear they intended, thinking it to be best in slot, only to not realize that since all their values were backwards-looking instead of forwards-looking, their items are not actually best in slot. When computing best-in-slot values you really have to look forward to what your spellpower/hit/crit/haste will be, and see what the weights will be at those values before you start picking your gear.