Affliction rotation in raidsFollow

Did they change Drain Life with the patch to suddenly make it raid viable? I didn't think so, but maybe they did. I would drop that from your rotation entirely and just use SB. You do have Bane right? Other than that, just make sure Haunt is up, make sure all DoTs, Dark Pact/Life Tap if needed, and SB in between. For bosses anyway. On Trash, Haunt then SB I would presume.

I use Drain Life for many reasons, which may all be stupid .
- It helps with the nightfall procs
- It does some nice damage when fully dotted (without Immolate)
- It replenishes my life, especially useful on AoE boss encounters and long fights that have me Life Tap a lot.

It was the same before the patch, but there are a couple of extra bonuses after the patch

- It refreshes Corruption (or am I mistaken here?)
- It benefits from haunt as an extra affliction debuff

Jenovaomega, I'm checking your linked post.

Thanks

Healers always heal me (when they can) when I'm Life Tapping, so I've never had a problem with HP unless they're running low on mana. Much rather pop a HS then using Drain Life over my rotation.

I like using UA, Corrupt, CoA/D, SL, Haunt, Immolate. I like opening with UA because of the cast time and you don't have to move at the beginning of the fight. Haunt doesn't work at the start because you want it for your Corruption. Put Immolate at the end because it's my least damaging DOT so if I need to I can drop it while moving. Rest is refreshing DoTs when I need to and fitting in SBs when I can.

thanks for the advice about opening with shadowbolt jen. I tried it, and my dps went up by about 50. I am in love with the new affliction, with eradication, heroism and full bane my SB's are down to around 1.8 second casts.

do you have 5/5 everlasting afliction? because anything less will mean it'll come off. also remember haunt has to travel before it lands, so waiting until 16 seconds into corruption will lead to it coming off... cast haunt everytime it's off CD and corruption will stay on constantly.

Edited, Oct 27th 2008 8:27am by Jenovaomega

what's wrong with fire dest? personnaly I'm finding it does some great damage (haven't tested afliction yet and i'm equaling/beating the better geared locks who're using 0/40/21 currently), I've been lacking behind on trash due to not being sure yet what spells I should be using and I still ***** up my boss rotation in certain situations... so I think once it's fully mastered I'll get to a constant 2.2-2.4k dps on most bosses. maybe 2.6-2.7 on brutalus (or more... got no idea with the changes)

http://wowwebstats.com/uvjzwwjoxzz6a

the WWS of my latest raid, I'll see what we're capable of in tonights raid, presuming I get in.

depends on why you play the game. for me it's all about the maths :P though I'll admit I should be 0/46/15 until lvl.80 for raiding.. but I prefer dest and it can match up in damage on alot of occasions :)

Edited, Oct 27th 2008 6:45pm by Jenovaomega

all routes are viable, but afliction will be the fastest, always has been and always will be. and maybe, depends on if i'm after speed or fun.

Just did Kara last night as affliction. Here's what I did.

SB > Haunt > Corr > UA > CoA > Siphon Life > SB spam refreshing Haunt and DoTs as needed.

This was with Spellstone and no other buffs. I did as much DPS as I did Destro pre-patch with Oil and Food but no flask up. I also had no aggro issues, though the tank has gotten quite a bit better than the last time I ran with him, so I can't totally attribute that to the switch.