MoP Warlock Guide

[Lizana]

I have some commentary.

Harvest Life for short aoe burst? Why not using rain of fire? It does more than twice the damage of harvest life. Mana costs are insane, but on a aoe burst window, too short for seed of corruption, lets say 5-8 seconds, this wont be an issue. Just try it.

Soul Link grants you 20% more hp if specced while using GoSac, more hp means more mana per lifetap which can result in less lifetaps per fight. Besides that, everyone loves big numbers. And having the same hp as the tank feels great :p
On fights where you dont need dark bargain as "oh shit" button, i would always specc into soul link when using GoSac.

Best race for affliction is troll now, just run some sims to check it. The mini bloodlust is pretty amazing for affli with pandemic. Not to mention fights like garalon and their 5% bonus vs beasts. With 4pc t14 and a little delay you can even time dark soul and berserking every time for some nice numbers, guess that would be a dps gain instead of using dark soul on cd.

And i spotted a little typing error: Below the t14 hc gemming table you wrote "340 mastery and 180 int". It is 320 and 160.

[Sparkuggz]

I have some commentary.

Harvest Life for short aoe burst? Why not using rain of fire? It does more than twice the damage of harvest life. Mana costs are insane, but on a aoe burst window, too short for seed of corruption, lets say 5-8 seconds, this wont be an issue. Just try it.

Soul Link grants you 20% more hp if specced while using GoSac, more hp means more mana per lifetap which can result in less lifetaps per fight. Besides that, everyone loves big numbers. And having the same hp as the tank feels great :p
On fights where you dont need dark bargain as "oh shit" button, i would always specc into soul link when using GoSac.

Best race for affliction is troll now, just run some sims to check it. The mini bloodlust is pretty amazing for affli with pandemic. Not to mention fights like garalon and their 5% bonus vs beasts. With 4pc t14 and a little delay you can even time dark soul and berserking every time for some nice numbers, guess that would be a dps gain instead of using dark soul on cd.

And i spotted a little typing error: Below the t14 hc gemming table you wrote "340 mastery and 180 int". It is 320 and 160.

Hey Liz, nice catches

Harvest Life situation, well my point was that it's usable but i didnt calculate exactly the damage difference of Harvest Life vs Rain of Fire. Harvest Life ticks every 0,97~~ second depending on your haste and Rain of Fire is around every 2 seconds. Rain of Fire ticks 8700~~ and Harvest Life ticks 3k. Then we need to consider the mana of Rain of Fire which is huuuge dump and Harvest Life barely any. When i wrote this i was thinking of adds moving around and not standing still in a place, where the Harvest Life is situational. But i agree rain of fire is usable on stand still fast aoe!

Soul Link thing is just me slacking not having updated it, saw that i wrote it did nothing, so thanks for the reminder.

The troll situation i did hear about, but havnt had time to check out myself. Will get around to it soon!

Cheers, Sparkuggz!

*EDIT Simmed Troll vs Orc for affliction -with GoSaC- and indeed it comes ahead, while it seems around the same for demonology.

[Drelet]

Hello mate the first thing i want to say that this guide helped me to get from 35k dps to 50k just by following some advices you gave.The 1 thing I didnt understand is the stat prioriti numbers could you please do them like in game "11%hit is 3800" lets say it like that... Could you please do the stats prioriti like that would help me eaven more and keep up the great work :) .

[Krevice]

I'm curious about an issue I've been having as of late during single target DPS fights. I find myself running out of soul shards midway through a fight and unable to cast Haunt because of this. Should I just hope and pray that I get a Nightfall proc that restores a shard or should I use Drain Soul instead of Malefic Grasp in order to restore a shard. All of this is also happening above 20%. Any help would be appreciated as I've been wanting to break my keyboard in half over trying to figure out what I should do.

[Sparkuggz]

Hey! Thanks for the awesome guide.

I was looking on this guide and noticed [Mithril Wristwatch] the epic trinket from Dire Brewfest or whatever it's called wasn't in trinkets.
I've heard it's shit but still not confirmed if it's really worse than [Vision of the Predator] or [Flashfrozen Resin Globule]. If [Mithril Wristwatch] is better than both HC blue trinkets, which of them HC blues should I replace with [Mithril Wristwatch]?

Please help me on this. I play as Affliction Warlock, and was curious what you think/know about this.

The trinket is rather bad, due to crit being so horrible value for us. You can always simulate it to get more correct results of how it would work on x length of fight.

I'm curious about an issue I've been having as of late during single target DPS fights. I find myself running out of soul shards midway through a fight and unable to cast Haunt because of this. Should I just hope and pray that I get a Nightfall proc that restores a shard or should I use Drain Soul instead of Malefic Grasp in order to restore a shard. All of this is also happening above 20%. Any help would be appreciated as I've been wanting to break my keyboard in half over trying to figure out what I should do.

Don't use Drain Soul unless you go under 20%, they nerfed the damage output so its no longer worth it. Just sit and wait for procs and keep doing MG until you get a shard.

RNG!!1

[rumato]

hey spark, there are an opinion that affliction dont need to hard cap hit to the prejudice of haste and mastery! So what do u think is better have 10-11 percent of hit and a lot of mastery/haste or just do hard cap anyway?

[Sparkuggz]

hey spark, there are an opinion that affliction dont need to hard cap hit to the prejudice of haste and mastery! So what do u think is better have 10-11 percent of hit and a lot of mastery/haste or just do hard cap anyway?

I don't like to not be hitcapped because it puts a lot of RNG into your play, as you can miss things during important DPS moments and openers. If you really wanna squeeze those extra DPS out as affliction it might give a slight benefit on some tries, but overall its just "meh" feeling to play with.

For ranks, sure you can play with the hit cap, for progress, i dont like it.

[Ashkelon]

hey sparko
first of all i'd like to thank you for the great work you're doing with your guides
i have a couple of reforge/socket questions
yesterday i simmed my char with simulationcraft (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...kelon/advanced) and i obtained that

with a dps of 70869.2, i had mastery reforge and sockets, so i switched them following these values, and after that i re-simmed my char with new stats and these are the results

with a dps of 71212.7
my question is: should i go for haste reforge (which simmed me highest dps) or mastery (lower dps but most recent simulation)? i didn't find any kind of haste soft cap to reach so i really don't know what to do
thanks in advance for your answer

[Telena]

Hi,
If you're in the pull, you just do Soulburn + Soul Wap but now you have Darkmoon trinket + Lightweave proc, I suppose you need to refresh instantly your dot in your rotation (with Soulburn + Soul Wap again) ?

Sorry about my English and thx for the tips !

[Sparkuggz]

hey sparko
first of all i'd like to thank you for the great work you're doing with your guides
i have a couple of reforge/socket questions
yesterday i simmed my char with simulationcraft (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...kelon/advanced) and i obtained that

with a dps of 70869.2, i had mastery reforge and sockets, so i switched them following these values, and after that i re-simmed my char with new stats and these are the results

with a dps of 71212.7
my question is: should i go for haste reforge (which simmed me highest dps) or mastery (lower dps but most recent simulation)? i didn't find any kind of haste soft cap to reach so i really don't know what to do
thanks in advance for your answer

How long fight length did you simulate? It can have impact on it, and also did you take the 0-20% variaty of fight length cuz that can also give different results. When the stat values are as close as they are, its not the worlds end to go with either. It's all very hard to put proper numbers on with 5 man gear and such things. You can try to get a little more mastery with the haste reforge and see when you hit the highest number.

Hi,
If you're in the pull, you just do Soulburn + Soulwap but now you have Darkmoon trinket + Lightweave proc, I suppose you need to refresh instantly your dot in your rotation (with Soulburn + Soul Wap) ?

Sorry about my English !

I'm not sure what the DPS difference would look like, but you loose a whole soul shard = haunt by doing so, so maybe the most beneficial would be to reput them atleast before they expire for gaining full uptime. These small things will get figured out the next weeks.