Hi priests,
I did a little napkin math from my heroic guldan kill yesterday. I tried to calculate my damage after 7.2 hit and I get the new traits I can afford. From what I see in my specific case I would do 4% more damage with the following traits picked in my artifact:
Darkening Whispers - 5% flat increase that I have now as 35th trait
Darkness of the conclave - 10% flat increase that would send me to 15% total compared to 14,5% now @ 54 traits
Touch of Darkness - 5% increase to Vampiric Touch
To the pain - 6% increase to Shadow word: Pain
Mind Shattering - 5% increase to Mind Blast. I have the belt.
All in all I got these new traits to add up to aprroximately a 4% increase in overall damage on my specific log. I am decently Crit heavy in my build so I am running AS (as a test) instead of Sanlayn. I expect the increase to be even higher for a mastery heavy build.
Has anyone tried this exercise to see what we can expect and is this method applicable?