Demonology Warlock 5.2 (59 replies to this topic)

Question about the pet Choice, WHAT specificly makes the observer out preform the Wrathgaurd , but the Felgaurd out preformed the Felhunter. Just curious on the findings, was it the clone magic effect, the tongue or just over all butter numbers, i do remember blizz saying they wanted them to be more utility and normalizing the damage of the pets but i guess it didnt pan out

I believe the mention of the observer may be a typo as I have not seen it suggested anywhere else that the observer is best pet for Demonology.

Simulationcraft.org has simmed out all the demons and Wrathguard is currently #1 (if you want to take Grimoire of Supremacy) with Felguard #2.  I will say I am 100% sure the sim results as recently as yesterday had Felguard as #1 so obviously, it's subject to change at the moment.  And I think it's still correct that Grimoire of Service is more dps than Grimoire of Supremacy.

Edited for the link to simulation results:  Simulationcraft.org

In the Guide:

" Sacrificial Pact can be used smoothen frequent damage spikes."

"...smoothen..."?

Although that word may exist it is, to say the least, an exceptionally ugly option.

The approriate method would be to use the word "smooth" in its verb form i.e. "...can be used to smooth frequent damage spikes" where it can apply to any past, present or future tense or event.

so been spending allot of time at the training dummies in UC trying to refine my rotation (Demo Lock) and I noticed something I thought was odd.

On the regular triaining dummy I do 40k or so and everything hits and all is well, but when I focus on the Raiding Training dummy my corruption almost always misses or doesn't get applied when trying to refresh.

My first thought was that my hit was too low but it is at the suggested 15% so whats the deal? Probably gonna do LFR today to see if it does the same thing or not. Waiting to do an actual raid cause I don't want to pug and then fail epicly at dps....   any thoughts?

Raid-Buffed                            Unbuffed                            Gear Amount                                            Strength                            90                            86                            20                                            Agility                            92                            88                            20                                            Stamina                            9748                            8763                            7869                                            Intellect                            8365                            7558                            7029                                            Spirit                            258                            258                            75                                            Health                            179497                            165707                            0                                            Mana                            100000                            100000                            0                                            Demonic Fury                            1000                            1000                            0                                            Spell Power                            12255                            10334                            2786                                            Spell Hit                            15.00%                            15.00%                            1537                                            Spell Crit                            24.88%                            18.64%                            948                                            Spell Haste                            29.94%                            23.76%                            3042                                            Mana Per 5                            6497                            6188                            0                                            Attack Power                            165                            142                            0                                            Melee Hit                            15.00%                            15.00%                            1537                                            Melee Crit                            13.38%                            8.36%                            948                                            Melee Haste                            23.76%                            23.76%                            3042                                            Swing Speed                            36.13%                            23.76%                            3042                                            Expertise                            0.00%                            0.00%                            0                                            Armor                            10340                            10340                            10250                                            Tank-Miss                            0.00%                            0.00%                            0                                            Tank-Dodge                            0.30%                            0.29%                            0                                            Tank-Parry                            0.00%                            0.00%                            0                                            Tank-Block                            0.00%                            0.00%                            0                                            Tank-Crit                            0.00%                            0.00%                            0                                            Mastery                            18.67%                            13.69%                            1020            

Just to show the ratings, Haste is CLEARLY favored while Mastery has 1020 rating and Crit has 948.  This is the maximum DPS parsing for T13 Heroic.

I apologize if I missed it, but I did not see Imp Swarm discussed at all in the guide.  Thanks for the guide!

Just on racials and Burning Rush vs Unbound Will.  As humans already have Every man for himself, and Unbound Will is basically the same effect, I found it more beneficial to choose Burning Rush as unbound will seemed wasted for my Human Warlock. Like you said it can be situational, however sometimes there are raid fights where having both were nice, for example the Spirit Kings. Where the madness buff comes on select players as well as fixate and there is also flanking order during the fight. I also found it beneficial during some of the dungeon fights as well in beta (where teleport or other were on CD or not available).

SPell description is wrong.

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