how to get 1300+ on affliction Follow

For some reason im not getting that great dps on affliction for instance i would use this kind of talent tree http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=IfxzbuMAoVi0IstZVMhV and the other popular 80 warlock felgaurd/emberstorm one but for me when it comes down to affliction my rotation/dot upkeep is always 100% depending on what dps meter u got like recount or whatever but getting to the point lol.I can usually only get like 1300-1500 dps as affliction with my rotation which is SB>ghoul>UA>IMMO>Corr>CoA or COE(depends on boss)>Sl>then filler time lol but ya i also dont know why to put molten core in is that only for like immolate or something... but ya u get my drift of what im saying and also i do 2k+ dps as felgaurd/emberstone single target i only have like 2k sp as that spec the name im using is Daysinn/Tichondruis any help would be appreciated and will be checking thread on and off from reading manga :D lol

my rotation:

SB > haunt (i presume you call this ghoul?) > siphon life > CoA > corruption > UA > immolate > haunt > SB > renew dots when needed, renew haunt when needed, swap SB and immolate for drain soul when the target is below 25% health.

for glyphs: siphon life / CoA / immolate

and well, that's pretty much it. you might want to link your gear as i don't know how you can do such low dps... my dots alone push like 2-2.5k dps... i'm guessing you're not hit capped?

oh so u know ive only been using that emberstorm talent spec in raids so far i have yet to honestly test affliction in raids lol so ya reason could be for my dps to be so low as of 1300-1500 dps in heroics is cause im affliction spec lol and that trash goes down so fast and yes i meant ghoul to be haunt >.< umm and to add to this as affliction i am 1749 sp 16% crit 275 hit

Edited, Jan 19th 2009 4:32am by Daysinn

Edited, Jan 19th 2009 4:42am by Daysinn

lathais when i was using affliction in heroi s that was actually the exact same rotation i was using lol no joke...i always made most my dps to get it up past 1700 in heroics by multi doting mobs with a good tanking and spaming seed and sb

lol ya when i was a felgaurd/emberstone i was criting 3600s every tic lol every now and then would be a normal but i was still just getting 3k dps just from teh constant aoes from just RoF just from the trash though the dps for taht spec for single targets i could only top like 1600-2200

lathais... no offence but i truely hope you don't actually COR every mob for eradication procs before SoC.... you do realise you can't have both SoC and COR on a target at the same time? CoA/UA/imm on each mob, then SoC is fine... but COR then SoC is just a waste of mana and time.

personally in heroics, on bosses i can still push 3k dps, trash.. well it depends on if it's single target or aoe.. single target 2-2.5k at best, aoe.. well up to 7k dps, but then i usually only go with tanks who i know can hold hate with no issue, so SoC isn't any trouble.

I put it up to get the eradication proc, I don't put it on the Skull, or the one that I will be spamming SoC on. Guess I should have clarified that a little better.

Also, even Heroics, my static group consists of a mage and a hunter. So I generally don't use SoC at all, as with their AoE, if 1-2 seeds pop I'm really lucky, and that's not putting any DoTs up. They get the things down way too fast for me. If I were to cast UA and Immo as you suggest, they will be dead by the time I put it up on 2-3 mobs. So for me it's almost always just RoF. Since I don't use SoC often, I forget how to use it properly.

Edited, Jan 19th 2009 2:16pm by Lathais