Was your corruption hitting for the same amount as it always did or was there a boost (incorporated sl damage)

Just tested this on the PTR, Demonic Pact still doesn't take the spirit part of Fel Armor into account. Really disappointing.

Has there been any confirmation as to what types of glyphs the new ones are? In particular:
* Glyph of Life Tap *new* -- When you use Life Tap, you gain 20% of your spirit as spell power for 20 sec.

I am looking towards a Hybrid spec (0/38/33 or 0/28/43) and wondering what glyphs would be the choice.

It seems like Incinerate, Immolate, and Conflag would have to be the choices, But I'm interested in the life tap one. Assuming you have ~ 600 spirit and 4 piece T7, that means when you lifetap you gain an additional 180 spellpower for 10 seconds, and 120 for a total of 20 seconds. If you are using a fire build of sorts, I was under the impression that you use more than 1 lifetaps worth of mana in 20 seconds, so theoretically it means that the lifetap glyph would be a minimum of 120 spellpower flat (for the most part) which seems like a LARGE boost in damage. If its a major what would it replace, and if its a minor, thank god, we have a great minor finally.

No way in hell they would give us that much on a minor glyph.

Does the new Crit on Corr and UA work the same way the old one did? IE. Crit chance per tick? Is the tick 1.5 times a normal tick (will we now be double taxed by resil? before this was not an issue since Pandemic was not a DoT)

Decimate, the cast time reduction on Soulfire. When is this buff applied? when you finish your cast or when it hits the target? Can you cast Incin/SB and immediately cast a Soulfire, or is there a travel time delay that gets in the way?

I am really hoping that some of the changes that have yet to be released that the above linked blue post talked about will include Fire and brimstone, especially with the +%dmg on conflag crits, with the low odds on conflaging in the 5 second window with the conflag glyph change. deep destro still does not seem to flow.

I don't think the SL damage is included. My corruption normal ticks were hitting the dummy for 1170 or so... if the client would quit crashing every 2 minutes it would be a lot easier to test... I don't know what my corruption ticks for on 3.0.9 offhand, I looked up a WWS and it was an avg of 1800, but that was for a fully raid buffed 25 man 3 drake with consumables and all that...

but I'm fairly certain that on live my corr ticks were over 1k each, so I think everyone has it right when they talk about corruption being the same and no SL damage whatsoever, you just get the 40% heal.

Also: I might have been full of crap about the 500 dps loss... I've been trying different CoE and CoA rotations on the dummy, and neither of them seems to be a clear winner (from my ultra scientific testing <.<), but I've noticed the dps on my recount is back up to around 3300-3400 which is about where it is on live.

I will say though that playing the new affliction still feels about the same, but it's a little less hectic. Especially on a CoE rotation (ezmode!). I still find it enjoyable.

EDIT: I'm gonna just try and get a WWS up so you guys can pick it apart.

Theres a post for this on the wow forums, below. Testing shows that Corruption ticks did not change, and SL adds zero damage to Corruption. Yes, this does not match what was said during the 3.1 preview, but that is to be expected.

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Warlock 3.1 Confirmations from PTR

It still functions this way. You heal for 40% of each Corruption tick. There is just no debuff effect for Soul Siphon and no extra damage added on.

The tooltip worded this way indicates that this is intentional, and that we should run the numbers before jumping to conclusions. Its a big nerf, but where is this damage made up?

It is still VERY possible to max soul siphon without Siphon Life on the target. Most raid comps include at least 2 Afflocks which will result in: [(CoA + Corr + UA + Haunt + SE) * 2 = 10]

There is a VERY good chance if you roll in a smart guild you will have a Meta/Ruin utility along for the ride, so I am not crying about the loss to 1 debuff, as the synergy between all warlocks will cap soul siphon anyways, given they aren't baddies!

<------ Furious

alright, here's 3 or so minutes of me pew pewing away at a lvl 80 dummy.

w/ CoA
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w/ CoE (this one is more like 2 minutes.. sorry)
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Gear is what is on my armory currently, spec is this:
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warl...0&version=9614

no glyphs, using imp as a pet

I'm more upset that we need to take Siphon Life at all to get Shadow Mastery. Otherwise I wouldn't bother at all for raiding as if it's not +dmg, then I don't care. I put a post on the suggestion forum asking them to remove the link for SL -> SM and asked them to maybe consider SE -> SM if they really want SM to have a prereq.

Let me ask something regarding Pandemic as well:
Pandemic used to be +100% dmg based on the warlock's crit chance, making one assume that crit debuffs on the mob would not effect it.

This new one will be dots can simply crit. Meaning debuffs on the mob will effect it, although the damage will be only +50%.

However, now that Pandemic will be effected by all raid debuffs on the mob that increase crit chance (ISB, Scorch blahblah) does that balance it out? I'm not on PTR due to the queue so I cannot test this.