Millz
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^^ idk if you canseethat millz but yea cant see my drop boxes its too big of deal was looking at your guides to what it was. But on yours didn't show it like this so don't know which is what for the Burst key. That im selecting
Attachment isn't working, but I think I know what the issue is anyway. I'll get it resolved.
DPS testing just done. Self buffed, with no Terrorguard.
Demo - 105k dps @ 175mill Damage. Burst topped @ 180k
Destro - 122k dps @ 176mill Damage. Burst toppped @ 203k
Will test affliction now. * Only ran my affliction for 5 minutes. Needless to say, with UVLS and Breath of Hydra it's not very good lol 75k dps @ 35mill Damage. Burst topped @ 125k
So I think I will go back to Destro for a bit, at least until everything gets fkd up in 5.4 lol
I think SimulationCraft is giving bugged figures for Demonology to be perfectly honest. I can't see how that's the top DPS spec. If you code the routine exactly as their script says, it does terrible damage (like 20k dps less than my version does).
5.4 is going to mix everything up, and we're too close to the patch to worry about it now. From the patch notes, stuff I've heard etc, I think affliction is going to be a great spec again (and so it should be, DoTs are what defines a warlock!).
I am having a similar issue. A couple weeks ago, I was doing an average of 120k on the dummies with a 504 ilvl. Since then I've added some new gear and now am at 507 with Lei Shen's (Raid Finder version) trinket. I have checked the Burst Mode and set a key so I can enable and disable, yet I can't even hit 100k sustained anymore. If I leave burst mode off it will start out strong around 120k like it used to, then drop off over a sustained run of about 10 mins to around 98k. Watching my toon, it does not appear to be pausing or anything like that it just doesn't put out the DPS that it was before. Any ideas as to why? P.S. I use this strictly for PvE. I know there is a lot of PvP functionality in the routine, and that's great, but I'm just looking for the strongest edge I can get in PvE. Thanks in advance for any advice.
The core destruction rotation hasn't changed in a while (like... since I released it) - there's new little tricks in there like when your target goes out of LoS to attack something else until its back in LoS again, but this should all improve damage, not decrease it. I'll ask a blatently obvious question, but you haven't made changes to the settings in this time have you? On a target dummy, ilvl 507 @ 98k sustained actually sounds pretty good.
There is another trick I want to change with Destruction spec, but I highly doubt it'll make any difference. When I wrote Destruction spec originally I spent crazy amounts of hours tuning the stupidest little things and re-testing it over and over to try and get as much damage out of it as possible, so I'm very careful when changing anything in it now.
Burst mode for PvE - general rule of thumb, keep it disabled. I think I'm going to write a full set of documentation explaining the ins and outs of how things work.
I'll check it out tonight (and fix the drop down boxes). I'm having a day off the computer today, I've spent every hour im not working or asleep working on Demonic/Portal this week (i.e. at least 40 hrs).