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[Warlock] Shadowbolt vs Drain Soul
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Post by
orloxgr
I know that the subject sounds funny, but I was always wondering since I saw the spell damage coefficients of Shadow Bolt and Drain Soul. I am no good with math, so I'll put the question here.
Is there any way, even if the spelldamage to do that is imposible to achive, for Drain Soul to do more dps than Shadowbold? If we stack haste?
Thank you in advance.
Post by
Celdhyrean
Never. Even not taking crit into account and using high damage bonus (ie giving many advantages to Drain Soul), the damage per cast of SB and DS won't differ by more than a factor of 2 (and that's with an unobtainable amount of +damage), while the cast times differ by a factor of 6.
Haste won't help in any way because a given amount of haste will reduce the cast times of both by the same percentage.
Edit : adding the formulas since we are supposed to be theorycrafting.
Assumptions :
no haste (same effect on both spells)
no shadow damage modifier (same effect on both spells)
no crit (advantages DS)
100% hit for both spells (advantages SB somewhat, but not by much and any lock should aim to have both aff and destruction capped anyway)
Normal affliction template
i didn't count the bonus to DS through affliction effects on the target, the calculation shows that the effect of those wouldn't be enough anyway as there's more than a factor 2 in scaling already.
Damage per spell cast becomes (or dps as it's the same here) :
228.8 + 0.34*spell damage for SB
41.33 + 0.14*spell damage for DS
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91244
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Post by
Persen
While leveling I had a few moments when the dps of drain soul was quite insane... but even better was Hellfire. At some points (very low level) I reckon it was about 3 times as high as shadowbolt, although I might of course remember wrong...
Post by
Wildhorn
1) Every Drain Soul tick (3sec) uses 20% of your spell dmg while every shadowbolt uses 85.71% Right there, Drain Soul is out.
2) Even with haste, both of them will benefit it the same way, shadowbolt even more due to its -0.5 cast speed talent. It would require 66% haste to start to make Drain Soul to benefit more from haste than shadowbolt, but until you reach 100% haste, shadow bolt would still cast faster.
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