Folks;
I'm one of those 'research it till you find the 'best' spell rotation/cast order/stats to improve, etc. My armory.
I thought that I had found my max damage casting rotation on bosses in Kara. I'd go: CoS -> UA -> Corruption -> SB x 6 (though realistically, I probably do 5 and a dark pact), rinse & repeat.
I went to maxdps.com and found that it said that if I use siphon life that my dps would increase. So, I plugged the numbers into the warlock dps spreadsheet from EJ and it concurred (though the numbers were different as to the actual amount of difference). I plugged in immolate into the spreadsheet and it said that'd be an increase in dps as well (which shouldn't be, I don't think). The reason is that the uptime of the DoTs is very important to their overall dps, which decreases shadowbolt spamming time, which should reduce the overall damage. I'm wondering if either the spreadsheet or the website take 1.5 second GCD into effect or if they say "ohh, casting Siphon life... assume it's up 100% of the time, divide by length of spell and that's your dps!".
Does anyone have any good data on this? Also, the warlock spreadsheet says that I should be doing around 1200 dps and the best WWS I've ever posted is around 700.... Is this just bad DoT uptime/having to move around type stuff? (e.g. on nightbane, you have to run to the tank before rain of bones, then back out).
Any help would be appreciated.
Edited, Apr 29th 2008 1:12pm by ktangent