Originally Posted by Nisarie
Anyway, I don't think the change to SB really changes much; it now gives us a 5% crit rating buff of some sort for a limited amount of time. DoTs obviously can't crit sans perhaps Haunt and Immolate applications, which don't count for much on meters. Shame.
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It's not a buff to ourselves, it's a debuff on the target, like imp scorch. Which makes me think one of the upcoming mage changes will be to reduce the imp scorch bonus to 5% from 10% - it wouldn't make much sense for us to have a similar raid buff that was only half as good as theirs. It's also pretty obvious that 10% crit from a single raid buff was a bit unbalanced.
The interesting point here is that even though affliction locks currently take ISB, they probably won't in the future because they can't be relied on to keep the debuff up when the boss is below 25%. This leaves deep demo as the only viable "ISB raid bitch" spec, so let's hope the demonic empathy change turns out to be a nice buff.