Question on 56/0/5 vs. 4/3/54 specs and in wolk.Follow

First of all, how are you 68 with a 70 spec??? You must be missing points somewhere. Seeing as you have Haunt I assume it out of the 5 in Destro, which is Bane, which means you can't spam your SBs fast enough. If that's not where it is, please let us know as it's pertinent information.

You Affliction rotation looks ok, but where's Siphon Life in there? If your affliction you have it.

Really what I think it comes down too though is that your not 70, yet trying to compare lvl 70 builds. Just not gonna work.

Well, it lowers SB cast time, therefore you get more SBs in less time, therefore DPS increase.

Also, that is a boss rotation, on mobs if you try to DoT them up, yeah, you'll get less DPS. Destro is burst, Aff is over time. As Affliction, do not try to DoT every trash pull, just Haunt, maybe Corr since it's instant cast and SB away. Of course, w/o Bane you'll get less SBs than a Destro would get Incinerates, since they have the cast time reduction on thier main spell and you don't.

Edited, Oct 28th 2008 2:15pm by Lathais

Edited, Oct 28th 2008 2:16pm by Lathais

100 DPS, probably not, but there are other factors also. Was the group make-up the same both times? Did you have a fire mage that was buffing your fire damage on your Destro run? RNG(Random Number Generator)?

You also have to look at the fact that as Affliction, due to the nature of it, you will do less DPS on trash than on bosses. That's how DoTs work. Are you comparing overall DPS, trash DPS or Boss DPS?

Edited, Oct 28th 2008 2:28pm by Lathais

k, as said, you're lvl.68, so no offence but due to lacking in gear etc... your opinion on dps based from your own experiences kinda aren't that valid. firstly, 56/0/5 is good, and probably 'equal' to 0/3/58 (which is better than 4/3/54), afliction specs have ALWAYS been crappier on shorter fights and outside of raids in terms of dps due to requiring so many make dots to tick through and dps to 'slowely' increase as everything ticks through into pattern (give it a minute to reach your avg dps I'd say) while dest specs will start with high dps and then lower down to their avg as the fight carries on, hence why you're probably doing better in 5mans as dest.

in terms of 'top' dps at 70 (which won't be relevant for long) 0/46/15 is meant to be the top spec for us.

zebug, the armory is buggy for now and blizzard said they can't be bothered to fix it until wotlk comes out, so just live with it for now...

Just for Clarification Jenova, is this right for the 0/46/15 spec?

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IZbxczsgRq0sguZE00V

So the only thing I had wrong was Imp HS and Demonic Sacrifice in place of Imp VW and Demonic Tactics in place of Demonic Empathy. Ok, Demonic Empathy makes sense, but why Imp VW? You have Felguard.

EDIT: NVM, just saw that Imp VW is not Imp VW anymore. Same icon so I just looked over it originally.

Edited, Oct 29th 2008 4:54pm by Lathais

12.5k health is more than enough. you're forgetting that your pet only takes 20% damage from all aoe abilities, which are what usually do the majority of burst damage for bosses, also don't forget the 30% damage reduction from improved health funnel. tbh you could probably almost solo heal your pet in most encounters due to that ability and talent.. lol. but there's little point in him tanking, the threat is supposedly to 'OP' so the next content patch will adjust it to being alot less.

Edited, Oct 30th 2008 9:53am by Jenovaomega

just check my armory link in my sig