As a quick reply, to all those saying that you should play the spec you are most familiar with over the spec that's the best because you will 'theoretically' get more dps out of it.
No. Your a warlock, you should know all 3 specs, in and out, and be ready to switch at any moment required whether its for better survivabilty, you need burst at this one particular moment for the raid even if its a personal dps loss to you, better CC, etc etc. If you don't know how to play all 3 specs then you should spend some time on a dummy and learn them, don't be bad.
I'd say demonology is a winner on Spirit kings heroic. It got perfect burst for the first and last transition.
I play destro for a bit of variety on the bosses where it won't matter one bit that I'm not optimal. Affliction for every progress/tough boss though.
R25: i do find that destro is better on WoTE (normal) because of havoc'ed SB and full SB "rage", probably depends on your fight tactic+classes
tho i only do ~120k (ilvl 492)
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When people are spamming rain of fire and havoc chaos bolts on protectors and then people are referencing those logs and arguing for it's competitiveness I find that laughable. Padding on a single target fight doesn't mean it's outperforming other specs when a large bulk of your damage is fluff. Yes players can take a a slightly under performing spec compared to the other 2 and play it at a very high level and make a case for a specs usefulness ,but using protectors is down right silly with some of the logs I've seen in this thread.
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For the Normal mode logs, yes.When people are spamming rain of fire and havoc chaos bolts on protectors and then people are referencing those logs and arguing for it's competitiveness I find that laughable. Padding on a single target fight doesn't mean it's outperforming other specs when a large bulk of your damage is fluff. Yes players can take a a slightly under performing spec compared to the other 2 and play it at a very high level and make a case for a specs usefulness ,but using protectors is down right silly with some of the logs I've seen in this thread.
Vizier: Affli
Blade lord: Demo
Garalon: Affli
Wind lord normal: demo, heroic: destro (under recklesssness I can burst insane with CD's, had up to 900k dps with 7 million chaos bolts and keeping rain of fire + FaB immolate up 90%+ of the time.
Amber shaper: Affli
Grand Empress: Affli
Protectors: Affli
Tsulong: Affli
Lei Shi: Affli
Sha: Affli
Stone Guards: Affli
Feng: Affli normal, HC demo
Garajal: Affli
Spirit kings: Affli
Elegon: Affli
Will of the Emperor: Debatable, on normal I played demo, but once we started on HC mode I went affliction as we completely ignore the adds.
This is hardly a problem, if you keep running you shouldn't go too far away before the end of the phase (or your raid doesn't manage the debuff well enough), and you have your Portal if needed.
Sorry for the little bit of necroing, but searching wouldn't yield me an answer.
We're going to attempt Protectors 25HC tomorrow.
I'm tempted to try demo just to get experience, but i learned that the pet of BM hunters doesn't benefit from the buff.
So my question is : does the warlock pet benefit from the buff or not ?
Thanks in advance.
The lock in my raid that usually played Demo said his pet didn't get the buff. There isn't much interest to play Demo on this fight, so he switched Aff to help on the slows. Destro is pretty strong if you are going to be an add-killer and there other players assigned to the slows (1 Aff should be enough).
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That is correct. It's the reason hunters don't play BM for that fight, since their pet doesn't gain from the buff either. You would be much better off (like Zumzum said) either going Aff and being the slow-bitch or being destro. I'd say both are definitely viable however I'd wager that you'd be better off being aff with CoEx glyphed and being the slow bitch since it's the "best" on demand slow (70% vs every other slow being 50%, other than rogues shiving which is dumb idea IMO).
For HM fights, my personal favorites.
Vizier: Affli
Blade lord: Affli
Garalon: Affli
Wind lord: Demo
Amber shaper: Demo
Grand Empress: Demo
Protectors: Affli
Tsulong: Affli
Lei Shi: Affli
Sha: Demo
Stone Guards: Affli
Feng: Demo
Garajal: Affli
Spirit kings: Affli
Elegon: Affli
Will of the Emperor: Affli
necro-ing the thread again, i'm trying amber heroic tonight, not sure if i go affli or destro , at 1st i thought that i needed to be affli as normal but our strat include a 15s burn down of the tank which is constructed, any advice?