Thanks for clarifying, and sorry for not doing so myself. It doesn't seem like it has to do with any diminishing returns on haste, so I'll assume it to be a fix for later when (or if) the profiles get reworked.

Just thought I'd post my results for Destro both with SP filler and Incin/Sub-50-SP filler. They're significantly higher than Zakalwe's numbers (though the simc files are nearly identical), and I'm not clear on why that is exactly, so if anyone notices something off, lemme know where I can improve/fix it. I also ran both specs through after replacing 40% of the critical strike rating (truncated down to a whole number) on the items in the Zakalwe/whi Pre-RS-BiS gearset with mastery rating. My hunch was that mastery would be better, and that was "confirmed" in previous builds of SimCraft, so here are my most recent results.

CataSimc Destro HTML Outupt (Hosted by Google Sites)

Ya, I was curious what was going on there too! I removed the soul_leech trigger events from the warlock file and I'm gonna run these four profiles through again, let's see what happens. ^_^

Found this thread just now.

I changed summon_infernal_t::ready() and removed soul_leech from conflagrate and shadow bolt.

Bane of Doom in simcraft should be affected only by general damage multipliers and not dot-multipliers. An exception is demon_soul:felhunter, even though that doesn't really make sense.

Soul Siphon 24% cap is implemented, and Improved Immolate doesn't work on Conlfagrate

Don't forget the Ebon Imp when comparing BoD vs BoA, always compare the total DPS and not just some DPET values.

Regarding Reforging & Regemming: We really hope to rely fully on wowhead profiles for this, we'll see how fast everything is implemented there. The plan is to push at least a non-gui release out after the wowhead parsing is correct again.

Oh and we are still missing base stats value for warlock lvl 82,83,84, have a look at Issue 331 - simulationcraft - Cataclysm base stats or feel free to post some values here in this thread.

In regards to the Affliction profile, I doesn't seem to me that the UA glyph would outdo either corruption or coa glyph due to the fact that in high gear settings your ua cast is 1second and lower anyways.

Is the 4.0 simcraft available somewhere to mess around with it?

Looking at your graphs, I'm very confused why DPS and mana drops off sharply the last 20% of the fight. The last 10% of the fight for destro looks like its lower dps than any other section of the fight, which makes no sense to me. Same with mana, where at 20% the line drops strongly. Soul Leech usage shouldn't change at that point (or ever during the fight). It seems like the only sections destro cars about are (> 80%, 80% to 50%, < 50%). The doomguard is long gone before the last 20%, so something else must be dropping off at that point.

EDIT:

Ahh ... I bet the imp goes OOM at that point. Looking at his mana regen, its almost never overflow, and if the imp was oom, he wouldn't be procing free soulfires, so you'd start going OOM as well. Interesting.

Making this change resulted in a ~350 dps gain, nice catch. It's checked in to r5033 and should be changed in the main post once Zakalawe reruns the profile.

On the subject of release, we should have a 4.0.1 release with support for all classes except DK, Hunter, and Mage ready "soon".

Is the Imp going OOM going to justify using a soulburn to summon a new imp instantly?

Only managed to get a few 5 minute tests on an 85 lock on beta but BoA did seem to slightly outdmg BoD but at over 2x the number of casts. Gonna retest simulationcraft tomorrow and try and see why it gave higher dps with BoA compared to BoD (what was BoD not scaling with when compared to BoA, the affliction mastery and I think haste - @ ~50% haste and 13% mastery dmg it is quite a bit of extra).

It looks like the weird mana lines were a result of simcraft handling soul leech incorrectly, it's been updated and I've updated my little html output too!

CataSimc Destro Output (Soul Leech Fix)

A soulburned soulfire nets you ~3k damage over a searing pain, along with 4% mana/health back.

The imp's cast speed should be - 2.5s firebolt - 0.75s (dark arts) / 1.3 (haste) = 1.35s. (if I have the math right here on how dark arts works). So in a 300s fight, he should get off 222 attacks. In the OP he got 193. So we're missing 29 casts. 29 casts should proc an additional empowered imp, getting you back the dps/mana missing from above, along with 2566 * 29 = 74k extra damage.

So I think its worth it to keep some soul shards around to soulburn a new imp every 4 minutes of the fight, assuming everything else in the sim is correct.

Your Demo spec doesn't include Demonic Embrace (10% stam) but Life Tap now scales with stam so it would be an overall DPS increase. There's plenty of talents to take points from, like Aura of Foreboding.