My raid bots sim says that I am geared enough to push 4,900 DPS on a patchwork style fight. However, when I practice on raid dummies with flasks, food, and oil I am nowhere near that high. I’m at about 4k consistently. With raid buffs and Hero, I imagine that will be a tad higher but still nowhere near 5k.
After I do my test on the dummies I check my uptime and damage abilities to see how they line up with the sim and they’re damn near spot on. I’m wondering if I’m doing something wrong in my rotation.
- Haunt
- AG
- UA
- CORR
- SL
- Phantom Sing
- Dark Glare
- Dark Soul Misery
- MR until out of SS
Rinse and repeat. Does this seem right for the baseline rotation and filling with Drain Soul? Are the sim’s on raid bots a bit off?
Any advice would be appreciated 
My advise? Don’t sim with raid buffs first.
Sim with nothing except buffs you give yourself (which ain’t any) and maybe food.
Practice until you are near that mark.
Simming for full raid buffs is nice for figuring out gearing but causes too many issues with dummy practice.
Also Dark Souling early to get all dots up as fast as possible is, in my limited Aff experience, the better play
Also also remember to DS up to 3 stacks of SE before MR dump
Great advice, man. Ty.
Ill do some practicing with DS first before applying dots and do some more simming. I’ve been parsing really well with Destro but it’s just so underpowered. I really need to fine tune my affliction play.
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i usually open with haunt into UA while haunt is in the air, clear out the 2 cast times prepull then go into Ag/Corr/SL/PS/DSM/Drain to 3 SE/Soul Rot/DG/Dump.
you are running soul rot right?
I used to generally hit Dark Soul right after Haunt but maybe someone like cheese can correct me.
Lmfao speak and the devil appears
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on single target i hold it for a few globals, on 2 targets like huntsman i will absolutely pop DSM immediately to get dots out quicker. the difference there is negligible either way
Yes, I am running Soul Rot. Forgot to add that to my rotation.
When you’re on a fight like Huntsman, what dots do you keep on the secondary target? As destro I will keep Havoc up on bear while nuking Hunts, but with Affliction what dots would you recommend on the bear?
Also, how you ramp up quick to nuke the shades?
i keep all 3 up on the bear, i use SL on that fight. if dots fall off the bear dont worry its not the end of the world, huntsman is still your main priority cuz they share HP…sorta.
shades arent really your concern; if youre trying to parse the damage amp is removed in logs, but usually a UA into a few MRs will do the trick, youre not a spec that can easily switch and burst. maybe an on use trinket if you have a glyph or a dreadfire or something. youre not gonna do much to shades as aff
make sure you drain snipe the bears and the shades tho
Great information, Cheeze!
Also, I did some sims on Mr Robot with no raid buffs and my DPS is closer to 4,200 so I was not to far off on the dummy. Some tweaks should me get that higher and then practicing during actual encounters.
Cheeze, in aoe situations you cast seed on main target, agony on up to 5 targets and UA your main followed my MR, correct? Popping DSM before casting seed?
yeah pretty much, toss PS/SR in there too but yup. there should be a good example in the warlock discord Affliction-FAQ section, i think its got a video, if not it definitely has the standard rota
I noticed you’re specced destruction. Have you been playing that in the raid? I love Destruction and I’m so much better and efficient at playing it…I wish it would get another buff soon.
Can you drop me a link to the warlock discord? I really appreciate both of you guys giving me some great advice.
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i play destro in open world, maw, stuff like that. I’ve played it a bit in the raid on like huntsman and SLG heroic farm/messarounds but on M progression ive been exclusively aff. current state of destro it just can’t really compete at the level i need it to try and keep my raid spot for HOF.
im on a work laptop so i am unable to, but i would say probably check icyveins, i know motoko updates that and they should have a link to the lock discord in there as well!
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https://discord.gg/0onXDymd9Wpc2CEu
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