Heroic Spine - desto vs demo

[firepower]

Hi there!

I've been working on hc spine (10man) for a week now it seems like tendon's aint a issue at all (3 casters with legendary(lock, sp, mage), rogue and Frost DK ^^ )

I've been wondering if the tendons go down without any problems is it a stupid idea to go desto for this fight ? I'd get a higher dps on everthing else then the actual tendon and that should be good?


Is it a stupid idea to go anything else then demo for this fight ?

And have anyone tried anything else then demo for it ?

[Kralljin]

3 Casters with Legendary don't say anything, if its 3 Mages / Sp's with T13 4pc, then it's no problem.

If your raid doesn't lose any support and the tendon dps is no problem, why not?

Faster Amalgation kills reduces the number of bloods because the overall encounter is faster.

[firepower]

the 2 others are a mage and a SP, updated the post.

[Sparkuggz]

If you have no issue, obviously it won't hurt to go anything else. But you might want the 10% SP to buff the casters.

Demonology just won't really get touched on the Tendons DPS over the other specs if you line everything up correctly. As Affliction you can put COE on bloods and get jinx on the tendon saving you a GCD, but i found destruction to be quite worthless on tendons DPS.

Personally i will most likely start to just play destruction or affliction so i don't have to respec and reforge for madness!

[Palmz]

idk if you play affliction at all, but like Spark said, bringing that extra 4% spell power is beneficial. If you are fine on Tendon damage you could go Destro or Affliction and do a better job at everything else like you said, but if you really want to maximize everything, especially if you are assigned to help kill bloods affliction is very good for this fight, and even better at doing Tendon damage than Demo and Destro if done right. At this point, Demo "may" be the worst spec on Tendon dps now with the nerfs, but its certainly not the absolute best anymore. There is no reason to be Demo (if you don't like to play it) this patch unless you are there for the 10% spell power buff. If you are more comfortable at playing Destro, by all means go Destro. You might pull higher tendon damage anyways.

[Sparkuggz]

I'm not sure how you manage to do higher tendon damage with affliction or destruction, but i'd like to see it proven before believing so! Demonology is by far the highest i have been able to pull with if done correctly!

[Derivatives]

I'm not sure how you manage to do higher tendon damage with affliction or destruction, but i'd like to see it proven before believing so! Demonology is by far the highest i have been able to pull with if done correctly!

Isn't it the same rotation, only it's Agony over Doom?

[Zumzumzum]

I was in the same situation as you, Tendons are a joke (<30% after each first burn) and Destro has many advantages like better Burst on Amalgamons, Nether Protection for barrel rolls/AoE phases/Explosions, very good stun for handling the bloods at the end.

[Palmz]

I've managed to do 5 mil without Arcane Tactics (10 man) and in our latest kill i did 4.7k mil without PI or Tricks. I could do more but being a 10 man we dont have every buff and debuff covered. We may be slower on taking tendons down versus a 25 man guild but I have seen (WoL log) a lock do 5.3 million before as affliction in a 25. The rest ive seen are below 3.8mil 10 or 25 though so it's pretty uncommon.

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/r...=906&target=29

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/r...294&target=193