Originally Posted by
Alarinth
Destruction aoe will get you 1,5 shard per tick per target on an average basis. Then you can easily calculate how many targets you need to not run out of embers pr GCD.
If you're getting used to CM runs, I'd recommend you to run the specs in this prio, because this is what you'll end up doing if you're 100% result oriented:
1) Affliction
2) Demonology
The reason I don't think Destruction is worthwhile for CMs, is that while it's very good at sustaining high aoe damage, that is not the reason you would spec away from affliction - you do that for extreme aoe burst, and that alone. Anything else is very well handled by affliction. Not to say Destruction is useless for challenge modes, but during my 9/9 golds, I didn't even think about it for a split second, Affliction offered me the singletarget, and I specced into demo with harvest life for those huge trashpacks.