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Afliction is proving to be the top dps spec currently, and if you check my character's spec you'll find the top contender for best dps being 53/1/17. the glyphing is still hard to decide on.. I'm using CoA, immolate and SL glyphs, but some people choose the imp glyph over CoA. saying this though, i'm going to change the spec slightly for solo purposes.. going to remove imp.lifetap and 1/3 imp.imp for 3/3 felconcentration (or might just go to 2/3, see if that's enough and keep 1/3 imp.imp) as i need felconcentration for whenever I solo onyxia, and i'd rather not spent half the gold i earn from her on re-specing each time... lol

anyways, back to the dps... with my current gear and spec, I pushed out 5k dps on patchwork last night and I still can get quite a few large(noticable dps increase) gear upgrades (head, shoulders, chest and weapon being the things that the upgrades for would make a noticable difference)

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in terms of suggestions.. you need hit.. lots of hit, so the moment you ding 80, start doing heroics and use the atlasloot mod to find all the bosses you need that can drop gear with high hit rating. you need minimum 289 hit rating in a 10-25man raid, but for heroics and pvp, if you go my spec, you only need 79 hit rating (but you should still collect lots of hit gear for when you eventually get to the 10 man instances)

Edited, Dec 31st 2008 6:39am by Jenovaomega

GO ON, try and dis-prove the spec. I pushed out 5k dps with it on my last patchwerk and prior to changing to this spec i had 3 less gear upgrades and the old spec, for which i managed 4.3k dps. now i'm not gonna get a 700dps increase from 3 items. here are some the reason why the spec works so well:

1. imp does more damage than felhound in general, so specing into the decreased cast time and increase in its damage is worthwhile. the decreased cast time works out as a 20% dps increase to the pet.

2. everything else is the same as the rest of the previous spec.

3. the only better spec is this version of 53/1/17 if you're at the 14% hit cap (presuming 3% debuff, or 17% hit cap without debuffs) in which you have felconcentration for a slight personal dps increase due to less push-back issues and then the 6% increase in SB and haunt damage from after you crit.

sinstralis, I'm surprised you're challenging me when it comes to warlocks, haven't I proved my knowledge enough over the past few years? in terms of 'no.1 dps' i'm going by currently available gear levels. come uldar and some of the already known destro changes, destro could beat it with the right balance of stats.. but that's just it.. it needs a specific balance. afliction simply does insane damage right now and i've yet to find someone who can beat me beyond being massively outgeared (which is becoming less and less likely). give me a few more weeks and i should have near perfect gear and 5.5k dps would be more than easy.

also finally, i'm not doing the "zomg it's my spec so must be top dps", i'm going by months of testing different specs + others testing it + theorycrafting and trust me, this one is simply beating all the others in maximum achievable dps (yes there will be certain fights where different specs are more viable, but on average, and in the 'perfect scenario... which patchwerk is pretty much, this spec comes out top.)

the "a number" is total damage done for (that fight/that boss/total instance, depending on what it says) the "another number" is your dps and the % is what % of total damage done was done by you. and i presume you were AoEing in HoL then, 'cos well.. pretty much all trash is aoeable so getting a high dps is easy like that. heck my personal 'aoe' dps record is 18k, but it's only aoe so i simply ignore it. the dps figures that count are boss figures, and from them Patchwerk is considered 'the boss' to count due to the way the encounter works.

Just curious, why would you cast Immolate first? If you put up Corruption and Curse of Agony first, the DoT ticks are going on while you're casting immolate. At least, that's the way i've always looked at it. Does the GCD have something to do with it?

for bosses it does, you'd want to cast CoA and corruption first for a chance that they'll proc molton core before you finish casting immolate

zafire has the reasoning right, though the order is wrong. you want to cast CoA first (2sec dot interval unlike corruptions 3sec) and then COR. this way you get 2-3 dot ticks (depending on lag). also just have to poin out that the GCD after corruption will be 1.5sec, not 1sec

well the order im suggesting (CoA > COR > imm) is a pve raiding order to maxmise your dps. if you're talking only about solo... well then depending on the mobs health i'm likely to just forget about CoA due to it ticking for alot less than COR.