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Kimmi, corruption is also very important for demonology warlocks. No corruption – no molten core – very low dps.
So that no one really thinks only affliction warlocks use corruption.
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The move that you can Conflageration is actually called Conflagrate. Just thought you should know that.
Otherwise, thanks for the times on the gems and Life Tap. Didn’t think of making Life Tap a part of my rotation.
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Well I assume this guide is rather old. I was looking for a confirmation on stat weights specifically the numbers I should be using to weight sp, haste, crit, spirit, and int and stumbled across this little guide. Some little things that are… simply not correct with this.
First the grammar nazi in me has to come out. If youre going to post a video as a guide and have people watch it spell shit correctly lol. It’s Conflagrate not “conflagerate” and its incinerate not icinerate.
Secondly the rotation is fairly solid however tossing corruption into your rotation and keeping that up will also increase your dps as a destro lock or any lock for that matter. It’s not difficult to incorperate that into your rotation.
Third your numbers are on par however you yourself have haste above crit rating in your stat priorities but you say to use a firestone over a spellstone. 1% damage to non-periodic damage wouldnt make up for the haste loss you take from not using a spellstone imo… also using corruption in your rotation gives the spellstone even more merit.
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@Donmayo.
It shouldn’t be necessary to tell the Jewel Crafters to use their Jewel Crafting to craft jewels. There’s a difference between helping and hand-holding. It’s ok to leave a detail out of a guide if 99.9% of the people who watch the guide will say “No sh*t, Sherlock”. And for the .1% that can’t figure it out on their own… well, the gems wouldn’t be enough to help them anyway.
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I took your advice with the glyph of life tap and rotation and it maxed out my dps to 6k!!!!!
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I want to change to destro. Just wanted to know, what glyphs should I use? I been reading that you might not need life tap any more. I wanted to change to the 0-13-58 build. Also, if I wanted shadow fury, where should I take a point out of to get it? Thanks
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I agree with the gem choices, but aren’t you forgetting that there are people with JewelCrafting.
Those who have that can use Runed Dragon’s Eye (+39 Spellpower) instead of Runed Cardinal Ruby (+23 Spellpower). Personally I dunno about what other gems a JC can make, but its worth the difference if you want to get the max out of gems.
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Wow this is a lot of help. THANK YOU!
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After WEEKS of banging my head against the keyboard and bursting into tears during a raid, I’ve FINALLY upped my dps thanks to you, Faulken. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! /BIG KISS!
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CLARIFICATION of my post above:
I normally begin spamming the next spell button as soon as the one I’m casting actually goes off- this is to avoid unnecessary gaps between spells.
So when I said in my last post that I have to pause and wait for Conflag to arm itself after Immolate, I don’t actually mean that I stop casting and take a quick bio after Immo- I mean that I begin spamming Conflag as soon as Immo fires off BUT there is a considerable delay before Conflag actually fires, which means that there is a pause in my casting rotation because I’m spamming a spell that isn’t ready yet.
(Just trying to avoid the inevitable “you should never stop casting during a fight, you should always be casting something even if you are running” responses.)
kthxbai
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“Oh, and guys part of the reason you don’t cast CB before Conf is that you want Pyro on your CB. Dest Warlock = CB. Therefore you want to buff CB max as possible.”
I’m very conflicted on the max-dps casting order after Immolate:
*Prioritizing Conflag first means I actually have to PAUSE after the Immo and wait for Conflag to come up (become enabled). This excruciating pause is increased over and above the normal wait-for-Conflag time by my nominal 175-225 lag.
*Prioritizing Chaos Bolt first means I won’t get Pyroclasm on the CB BUT I’m not forced to pause casting- I can fire Conflag immediately after CB because by the time I have cast the CB, Conflag is up and ready.
I would very much appreciate some input on this. Every Destro Lock thread seems to be roughly evenly split on this issue- half say to cast Immo, Conflag then Chaos to get Pyro on the CB (and these folks don’t mention the Conflag arming delay), and the other half say to cast Immo, Chaos then Conflag to avoid the Conflag-arming delay.
Has anyone tested this both ways or is this the “Bermuda Triangle” of Destro Locks: full of rumor and mystery with no facts at all.
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I have to quote this:
“Cheap, Instant cast, and what the heck you might as well do something while moving around and the more dmg the better.”
The DPCT of corruption is so low that the only time you should ever be casting it is when you’re moving, and for people that run 13/58 that time is saved for lifetap.
It’s not a free cast, nor is it instant. Does it have a cast time? No. Is it governed by the GCD? Yes. You’re wasting time casting it, period. It’s making you lose dps. Drop corruption.”
You’re an idiot. If you cast corruption right after conflagrate the GCD will be just about the same as waiting for it to cool down anyway and the DPS boost from Corruption is well worth it. I garuntee you a lock using corruption will out DPS you easily.
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@Chikung… and Sweguy (if you’re serious and not trolling, anyway. With a gear score like that, I’m assuming you’re being sarcastic)
You probably have the talent that gives Conflag a daze effect. The daze is what they’re immune to, not the damage. The damage is dealt, just check your logs.
It’s something you notice when you try bringing an arcane mage into an instance. They’re usually immune to the slow effect. They actually had to change the way “Torment the Weak” works, piggybacking it on your basic tank’s attack speed slow as well as arcane/frost snares so Arcane could do good dps.
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Hi, have a DEST lock with gs around 4383, doing around 2000-2500dps.
Have a question, you are talking about conflagrate, but isn´t most of the bosses immune against that spell? 95% of the times that i cast it, it says immune… Know that it´s very powerful but useless if the boss is immune.
My rotation btw is
Curse of agony
Corruption
Immolate
Incinirate
Chaos Bolt , and then back to incinirate until the DOTs and the cooldown of chaos bolt runs out.
Any ideas on how to improve the dps?
Great video!
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Didn’t really know how to link my armory..sorry . I did notice one thing tho. Most fights when I cast immolate>chaos>conflag ect I get Immune pop on boss or mob. Strange , just an observation. My posts seem like nub rants but I can’t seem to figure my low dps out.
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