Basic math question which might expose a horrible ignorance about my class: "How does a soulfire cast by a 0/40/31 warlock do 300 less DPET than a soulfire cast by a 0/41/30 warlock?"

My guess is you gain more spell power from demonic knowledge using a felguard than from using an imp.

Hihi

I'm wondering, with the glyph of imp buffed to 20%, and a new glyph of incinerate, how good will be an imp-based, incinerate build for meta/ruin?

Could anybody run through a simcraft for this build ( 0/54/17 )

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Glyphs will be incinerate, immolate and imp.

Reason is, imp MD buff give's fire spells an extra 5% crit. Demonic empowerment for imp last 30secs. Molten core will add another 10% damage to fire ( which also means instead of CoD, we will be casting CoA, plus corruption for MC procs ).

Not sure whether all these buffs will overcome the incinerate's lower spellpower coefficient deficit in a meta/ruin spec.

It's caused by the 5% extra crit given by the imp's Master Demonologist buff. You'll notice the 40/31 lock crits about 5% more than the 41/30 lock.

EDIT: I just realized your question was put the other way around, so my answer looks weird to anyone not looking at the numbers from the OP. But it's the 41/30 lock's SF that does 300 less DPET than the 40/31 lock, because of a 5% lower crit rate.

Please add 0/28/43, have a wws with me at 6.3k with that specc, with nowhere near perfect gear.

Please link your spec and glyph setup.

Might want to mention that you were using a doomguard when you did 6.3k

Might I get a glance at the WWS? Curious about the damage breakdown between your different spells.

The problem with that spec that I can probably guess is that because Conflagrate relies on Immolate damage, losing FnB is going to hurt your damage a lot. Furthermore, Chaos Bolt benefits from the Backdrafts more than Incinerates do and is already more DPS/C and DPM than Incinerate even without Backdraft.

Although I understand that this thread is not about the live builds, the build that you're suggesting is still weaker than 2/13/56 currently on live. I see no reason why it would be better after the patch, especially seeing as how FnB will now have a higher priority in the choice of talents. 0/28/43's strongest point is the ability to sacrifice the imp and summon a doomguard or infernal, but also seeing as how demonic sacrifice is being removed, I don't see any real advantage in the choice of talents over say something like heavy destro or 40/31. I don't have any numbers to put up, but it's just my preliminary guess on what the results will be.

The spec was alright oon live because you could combine demonic sacrifice with the doomguard. This is also why/how he did near 6.3k DPS. Deeper destro specs do not really have that flexibility (Or rather, they lose a lot more from picking up the doomguard, and they can't combine it with demo sac).

Just updated the OP. Couple of changes - first of all, a bug was found that caused the felguard and succubus to not use their cooldown abilities (cleave and lash of pain) often enough. The effect was minor, but it was enough to put 41/30 back on top.

I also added the 0/28/43 spec, because it does outdo deep destro now that master conjuror affects the direct damage increase of the fire stone. I also removed the deep destro doomguard profile because I wanted to reduce clutter, and because I doubt anyone would actually bother summoning a doomguard for an extra 25 DPS.