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We have the best AE in the game? ROFL? Thanks... go run numbers on Mages and come back with a final report. We AE Illhoof because we don't run out of Mana (and Destro has Nether Protection) - nothing to do with the DPS of our Area of Effect spells in general.
SoC is the best AoE in the game period. Feel free to read the other mages cry about it here:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=4489EA117C32C6927565D506314A46F8?topicId=5103810374&postId=51032612335&sid=1
or the sake of comparison, let's take a mage and a warlock with equivalent gear.
Warlock: +1400 damage (including buffs/fel armor) and 22% crit (with SoC). 0/21/40 Destruction spec.
Mage: +1300 damage and 25% crit (with Arc Explosion). 2/48/11 Fire spec.
Seed of Corruption (we'll ignore the DD damage and only calculate the AOE). Debuffs typically don't get put on AOE mobs so the only multipliers in effect are crit (1.11) and Demonic Sacrifice (1.15).
AOE Base: 1200
AOE Gear: round(0.2 * 1400) = 280
Avg Damage: (1200 + 280) * 1.11 * 1.15 = 1889.22
Arcane Explosion Multipliers in effect are crit (1.125) and Playing With Fire (1.03).
Base: 392
Gear: round(0.2128 * 1300) = 277
Avg Damage: (392 + 277) * 1.125 * 1.03 = 775.20
SoC DPS: 1889.22 / 2.0 = 944.61 per target
Arc Explosion DPS: 775.20 / 1.5 = 516.8 per target
SoC DPM: 1889.22 / 822 = 2.2983 per target
Arc Explosion DPM: 775.20 / (445 * 0.9) = 1.9356 per target