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Afflic and haste?
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Post by
Evzal
Hey guys, been awhile. So im just curious. Found asa`s pve guide which mentioned destro was the only one who "needed" a haste cap. But afflic got the highest stat priority. So can any1 tell me what I should gun for? Haste or mastery and what should I cap at on haste?
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Post by
Evzal
With patch 4.0.1 the way DoTs work has changed. In addition to all DoTs now benefiting from haste innately, haste now reduces the time between ticks. Haste only reduces the DoTs duration until an extra tick is received.
While affliction does not gain any significant amount of DPS by reaching any sort of haste "threshold" these values and how to calculate them are still good to know.
This is taken from EJ. Which again makes me wonder why everyone is gunning for haste? I mean, sure, if we get 30% haste it does benefit but aside from that. Wouldnt all those ratings serve better in mastery as it increases our overall dps? Or did I miss anything important?
Post by
Evzal
Well, of course i forgot about SB and Drain... Doh. Anyhow, That leads to my second question. Did we stop using Drain as a filler and do we only use SB?
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539323
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Post by
Philll
yep, Drain life got nerfed to the ground (25% of the dmg it previously did if i remember correctly). SB is the only filler now for affliction.
Source?
Post by
Itami
http://www.wowhead.com/patchnotes=4.0.3a
Drain Life damage has been reduced by approximately 12%.
Post by
Philll
Yea well thats pretty far from the 75% posted by ganimede.
DS is still the filler at 25% and lower.
Post by
abulurd
I am to lazy to find this in the official patch notes, but here ya go, source on the drain life nerf.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/05/16/blood-pact-first-look-into-warlocks-and-patch-4-2/#continued
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Philll
Nice digging, but thats outdated ptr information.
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Post by
Itami
Nice digging, but thats outdated ptr information.
The change was on the 4.2 PTR first then they hotfixed it into the live servers before the patch went live. It wasn't really part of any patch and isn't in any patch notes. All references to it are going to be circumstantial at best. That's how it goes when they ninja nerf things. Shame really, AffDrain was loads of fun, and felt much more warlock-y than AffSB.
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Philll
Yea i have to admit i was mislead by the question, and when it was answered sb was the Only filler now i just snapped ;-)
Got to hate ninja's
Post by
asakawa
I was never a fan myself. Drain builds simmed really well because computers are perfect but it never worked
as
well for people in game because you couldn't spam it like a nuke.
Interestingly I've been playing a build that is similar to Aff in ToR (DoT based with a channelled filler - probably more similar to SPriest actually >.<) and in that if you spam the channelled spell it queues it up as if it were any other nuke spell but if you cast any other spell then it interrupts the channel to cast it.
If DL worked like that (and if DL got bumped back up a wee bit) then we'd be in business!
Post by
Itami
I was never a fan myself. Drain builds simmed really well because computers are perfect but it never worked
as
well for people in game because you couldn't spam it like a nuke.Not spammable but when drain was viable I did much better with it than SB and it was more fun! FUN OMG! SB spec makes me sad now, I went full time demo after it was nerfed.
Shame you can't not clip channels without a nochannel macro and that has the same issues as cast sequences.
DAMN BLIZZ NERFING ALL THE FUN!
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