Hello all.
I am fairly new to warlocks and mine is currently at 69. Switched my spec quite a bit, but right now I am 42/18/0. I plan to go something like 42/8/11 at 70 to focus on raiding and PVP.
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Fenris&n=deyanna
My question is in instances (5 Man, 10 man, and 25 man) fighting bosses, which is better a single Curse of Doom or multiple Curse of Agony. This assumes that the boss will live longer than 1 minute for CoD to proc.
Lets say for arguments sake my amp curse is not on cool down and I use it.
Is 1 Amp'ed CoD > (1 Amp'ed CoA) + 1.5 CoA ?
CoA is a 24 second DoT, so you can get 2 1/2 CoA in a minute. Keeping in mind that the 1/2 CoA is not 1/2 the damage as CoA scales over the 24 seconds.
BARE WITH ME AS I TRY AND WORK THROUGH THIS....
Not factoring in +damage from gear:
Base CoA r7 = 1356
2/2 Imp CoA = 136
5/5 Shadow Mastery = 136
5/5 Contagion = 68
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total = 1696
AMP'ed total = 2544 (1696*1.5)
So a CoA rotation would yield:
1 AMP'ed COA = 2544
1 Reg CoA = 1696
1/2 Reg CoA = 424 ( I estimated that 1/2 a CoA time would yield 25% of the total)
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total = 4644
Base CoD = 4200
5/5 Shadow Mastery = 420
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total = 4620
AMP'ed total = 6930 (4620 * 1.5)
So if this is accurate then a CoD is MUCH more effective. I am sure I am missing something.
Some follow up questions:
a) Can the damage of the CoD be resisted? That would suck to wait a full min to see a resist.
b) Does your +damage from gear affect either one more?
Interesting thought...
If my gear gives me +1000 damage.
Then:
1 AMP'ed CoA = 2544 + 1000 = 3544
1 Reg CoA = 1696 + 1000 = 2696
1/2 Reg CoA = 424 + 250 = 674 ( I estimated that 1/2 a CoA time would yield 25% of the total)
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total = 6914
Base CoD = 4200 + 1000
5/5 Shadow Mastery = 420
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total = 5620
AMP'ed total = 8430 (5620 * 1.5)
Still looks like 1 AMP'ed CoD is better.
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If my gear gives me +2000 damage.
Then:
1 AMP'ed COA = 2544 + 2000 = 4544
1 Reg CoA = 1696 + 2000 = 3696
1/2 Reg CoA = 424 + 500 = 924 ( I estimated that 1/2 a CoA time would yield 25% of the total)
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total = 9164
Base CoD = 4200 + 2000 = 6200
5/5 Shadow Mastery = 420
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total = 6620
AMP'ed total = 9930 (6620 * 1.5)
Closer, but CoD still wins.
Any thoughts? Is my math close?
What do you all do?