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Well, of the three specs, in a raid, Demo is the easiest to play. It should put out less damage than the more complicated "rotations." Makes perfect sense.

Affliction is far from DoT DoT run, you have to time all your DoTs, make sure none of them are clipped and are always up, and keep Haunt going. It's still not as hard as people make it sound, but is definitely more difficult than Demo.

I mean seriously, look at all the rotations:

Aff:
SB > Haunt > Curse > UA > Corr > SiLi > Immo > Haunt > SB refresh DoTs and keep Haunt Up

Destro:
Curse > Corr > Immo > Chaos Bolt > Incin x? > Timing a Conflag > cast Chaos Bolt Whenever it's up, Refresh DoTs as needed

Demo:
Curse > Corr > Immo > SB/Incin(depending on Spec) refresh DoTs


Edited, Dec 11th 2008 12:57pm by Lathais


As I was doing some work I thought about a better way to say this.

Ok, Demo has 3 DoTs, CoA, Corr and Immo, and one Nuke, either SB or Incin.

Affliction has all of that, plus SiLi, UA, and Haunt.

Destro has all that we have, plus Conflag timing and Chaos Bolt.

So Demo has 4 spells to cast, Destro 6 and Affliction 7.

Edited, Dec 11th 2008 1:14pm by Lathais

Once again, Blizzard is a tease.
I would not rest too soon, because you never know when they will take another swing, and that post says they are still looking into warlocks.


I've seen a lot of drain-tanking, and this could be done with Demonology or Affliction, which is different than that rotation. I'd also say that SL is not meant to be a DPS spell, but something you add to keep yourself alive; it's better than DL because it saves time.
I have 4 DOT, plus a curse, then the muke, and keep them all stacked during a long fight. It's really not difficult to manage this and a minion, since most of them are instant. As I mentioned, my DPS goes way down during short fights if I were to bother with a full rotation, which is where I can see your point. But, in longer fights, a full rotation shines more.

Whatever spec you play the rotation is more complicated than shadowbolt spam which, even with some of the downfalls that come with it, makes me a happy warlock. While my damage may be lower compared to other in a raid I've had more fun playing every spec than I did in the "mandatory" 21/40 days.

i agree with lath lol cause if u dont time your dots right ur lowering your dps and if ur timing the sb filler in wrong and forgeting about dots ect your ******** dps up again lol its a pain in the *** to et your rotations right while maintaing high dot uptime

I agree with this comment. I just dinged 80 so I don't have any WotLK experience as of yet, however I was raiding for a lot of BC. My DoT uptime was close to double every other Affliction lock I have ever met and I did better damage too. I agree, it's not that hard but many players still can't maintain it. Demo? I've never seen a good Demo lock that actually micros their pet. Destro? lolbolt or roflinerate. They all told me "I play Destro because it's easier then Afflic."