MoP Warlock Guide

[Sparkuggz]

I've got a lot of questions about the haste vs mastery issue, and had no time to test it out properly. Now i did and the results are that you want to go for

Int > Haste (10%) > Mastery > Haste > Crit in Dungeon 5 man gear at around 460 ilvl~~

Once you hit T14HC gear, the official simcraft scalefactors involve Mastery being our best stat, better then intellect on gems.


As soon as i went under 10% haste i got lower output and above 10% haste it wanted me to reforge mastery.


Scale factors in my current gear above 10% haste is

Intellect	3,63	x 160 Gem = 580,8
Mastery	1,64	x 320 Gem = 560
Haste	1,49	x 320 Gem = 476,8

So as you can see, intellect gems in 5-Man Dungeon gear is worth it, BUT no slots are barely pure red and you have very good socket bonuses, so aim to get gems with int + hit / mastery above 10% haste.

* Please note we are talking about differences of under 100 dps gains either way, so its just min maxing.

Reasoning behind 10% haste cap
- Corruption and unstable affliction gain an additional tick during bloodlust

[Sparkuggz]

Bump, updated to 10% haste cap for extra ticks during BL

10-10-2012
Intellect > Haste 10% > Mastery > Haste > Crit

Optimized for maximizing DPS

[Suu]

Just wanted to say thanks for all your awesome Guides! They are very informative and always a good base to work with!
Really hope you'll do a Warlock vs. 5.0 HC-Guide like you did for DS when you got the time.

Keep up the excellent work.. i just registered to show you my gratitude ;)

[Nomnom]

Hello you're saying 10% haste it's the way to go? But only for dungeons or raids aswell?

Atm I have 4.98% haste rating, 14,14% hit rating and the rest full mastery.

So I need to reach 10% haste to maximize my dps?

Thanks for your guide ;)

[Ashkelon]

this is probably only for raids, with spell haste buff and bl
in dungeons it isn't really important because bosses last 2 minutes at max

[Varia]

stat values switch rapidly in the early gearing process, if you want to maximize you will need to use simcraft and calculate almost everytime you get a new item. sparko and me at least were going nuts over the endless reforging

[Sparkuggz]

Hello you're saying 10% haste it's the way to go? But only for dungeons or raids aswell?

Atm I have 4.98% haste rating, 14,14% hit rating and the rest full mastery.

So I need to reach 10% haste to maximize my dps?

Thanks for your guide ;)

10% in raid buffs, to get extra tick during BL! Dungeon DPS is hard to compare stat values due to lack of buffs.

[Ashkelon]

anyway sparko and varia, they fixed windsong bug, you can use it now (i saw from your armory you were still using power torrent)

[Nomnom]

Thanks for your answer, but when you say 10% haste for raids, you mean 10% unbuffed or buffed?

It seems I unlearn how to play with my lock :< I always pawn on meters and world of logs and now I don't know what's up with my skill, gear, motivation...

I will let you here my parses and my armory if you have time to check and help.

World of logs: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/r...um/damageDone/
Armory: http://eu.battle.net/wow/pt/characte...dt/Vort/simple

Elegon tries was a disgrace, the try we killed boss it was /care for this s..., sorry my expression. I did some many mistakes because I was super distracted and unmotivated.

The others locks from my guild are pushing more because their gear?

You refresh your dots 1 sec before it fades, or whenever you wanna use haunt you refresh them and use Malefic Grasp to benift from it(Haunt) fulltime?

Since it's progress I' m poping Doomguard at the begin with potion, trinket,proc's active, I'm doing it right? Or should I wait to <20% to use Doomguard?

Sorry to take your time, and push always for world first I know you're capable guys! Good luck

[Activ8]

Thanks for taking the time making the guide from a random lock! Any chance you will do destro and/or demo at some stage?