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Post by
asakawa
a+b) stop trying to put a cooldown on my filler spell! it's a
filler
spell.
c) who cares about trash?
d) why? it's a stack and forget talent.
e) why?
f) why!
?
! we
want
it to pop immediately.
the problem here is that you're trying to fix the problem of ranged having a tough time in ICC when that isn't the issue that blizz are fixing. they're fixing sub-par overall output. you're suggesting stuff which would really meddle with class balance and doesn't appear to achieve anything that fantastic.
Post by
LookOut
Did I miss something? I thought they already figured out what they were gonna buff for affliction, namely giving Shadow Embrace a third stack, but lowering the healing debuff per stack. O, and more sbolt damage through Improved Shadow Bolt.
Or am I talking besides the point here?
Btw, affliction getting instant cast on all dots + haunt (+ fear) would be way too OP in PvP. Hug that pillar! (Do it like ya mean it!)
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327123
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Post by
asakawa
Q: when are these glory days of running around you're talking about?
A: in your mind.
i've played a warlocks since level 60 was end-game and we played SM/ruin. guess what? we put DoTs up then spammed SB until they needed refreshing.
running backwards is a fail.
don't play with bad raid leaders.
casting is what magic users do in sword and sorcery games of all flavours. how has this crept up on you?
tripling the damage requirement on SoC wouldn't change its use in raids, i'd still spam it on one target, but it would kill its use in 5mans. why would you think that's a good idea?
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Post by
asakawa
Either way, get some knowledge about your class.
classic
we had siphon life which was an instant that's true. we also had to cast immolate which has a cast time.
our rotation was:
haunt > SB > Corr > UA > immo > SiLi > CoA
you were casting 2 instants every 30 seconds.
in what way does that constitute "run and cast"?
you make some idiotic posts and then tell
me
to learn the class? lol.
Post by
Philll
Where is that blue post anyway?
Oh, and btw, on icc trash pulls i usually farm shards, throw a couple seeds, occasionally pick my nose ( with a tissue of course), sometimes single target a spider and so on... all comming down to avg 4k dps and guess what, my RL is fine with that. Never had a comment and prolly never will as big numbers come down on the bosses.
I dont know, maybe my RL is a nubcake. What do you think?
Post by
skribs
1) Even if you
can
move and cast at the same time, its not worth it in raids to be constantly running around because you're pushing an extra button to do so and gain no real effect from doing so (unless you're moving for fight mechanics). So why you would run around in circles while DOTing instead of standing still is beyond me.
2) SoC spam on a single target results in some of the highest trash DPS. Tab-spamming wouldn't generally work as well (the focus target is more likely to be taking hits), but even so your idea wouldn't result in that big of a DPS increase. You're mainly looking for the cool factor of having multiple AoEs go off at once, and "cool" has nothing to do with balance.
3) Affl warlocks have more mobility than a lot of ranged. Look at a destro lock - the only instant is Conflagrate. An Affl warlock has CoA, Corr, and instant SBs - plus quite a few 1.5 sec casts. This is a lot quicker than most classes.
4) Adding a CD to shadow bolt for Affl would be like adding a CD to Incinerate for Destro. The spell is your filler spell, bottom of the priority list. So why would you want to put a CD on it (what would you do during that time if all dots were already up?).
5) Any GM who assumes DPS on trash is the best measure of skill should not be in charge. It does show some knowledge if say warlock A is doing 22k and warlock B is doing 5k, but cross-class doesn't matter as Blizzard doesn't balance AoE damage. What matters is boss fights - are you capable of doing your part of beating the enrage timer while still following fight mechanics?
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244066
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Post by
Badguy
and no. raid leaders dont look at trash dps you kluts.
Only in PuGs.
Post by
skribs
and no.
good
raid leaders dont look at trash dps you kluts. they look at boss dps cause boss = what matters.
fixt
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