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Demonology... how do you do it?
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Post by
Fingulfin
Your reduced DPS from your spec should remove any chance of ever pulling aggro. The only spec that pumps out crazy amounts of threat is Destro (I swear, I couldn't help that both Conflag and Chaos Bolt Crit!), but after the first few seconds of a fight the tank should leave you in the dust.
Post by
asakawa
demo has very good innate threat reduction in that a much greater percentage of the lock's overall damage is being done by the pet.
however threat can be a big issue on AoE pulls. meta > immo aura > RoF
will
pull agro. you'll probably die but it'll be a blaze of glory.
oh btw, crit isn't that important for demo. it gets more than enough from talents and SP is more important that any other spec since you want to give your raid the biggest buff possible.
Post by
hashmel
so in an aoe situation all you can hope for is to blow shatter and hope someone saves ur ass before it's too late? i could probably live with that, generally if you pull aggro aoeing it should be expected so no biggy.
hope the changes to racials in cata doesn't completely throw off the class/race combo for orcs and demo locks
Post by
WoWTheoryCraft
Given Meta's CD, unless you're progressing
VERY
slowly through the trash I'd save it for the boss fights.
Post by
asakawa
nah, ~2mins is really very short. use it on cooldown.
Post by
WoWTheoryCraft
nah, ~2mins is really very short. use it on cooldown.
Must just be me being impatient, I get bored waiting for
Tiger's Fury
to come off CD!
(Is there anything that reduces that apart from the
T7 4-piece
?)
Post by
asakawa
hehe, i hear that but then TF
is
used on cooldown. more like bersek but talents reduce meta much more than berserk's CD.
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Post by
olgamaster
Incinerate only outscales shadowbolt when you get emberstorm, which is a 25 point destruction talent. In order to pick that up, you are literally forced into felguard/emberstorm, at which point you aren't really even a "demo lock" but more of a hybrid spec. Shadowbolt's damage enhancing talents are either nonexistent or cheap, with ISB in first tier destruction and bane in the same tier (bane only reduces shadowbolt cast time and not incinerate, so it further widens the gap between them until you pick up emberstorm). In short, any demo spec with points past felguard should stick with shadowbolt.
Post by
LookOut
... so i'm fond of being a little bit more sturdy than the other guy and wouldn't mind slightly lower personal derps in exchange for buffing the entire raid's derps.
from what i've gathered sp and crit are top dogs for demo
my #1 concern is threat management
1. you're not that much sturdy than the other guy, all you have is master demonologist reducing 5% damage and soul link reducing 20%. It's something ofc, but if a boss hits you, you're going to die anyways.
2. while crit is nice for demo, i think haste is what should be stacked according to elitist jerks. However, I'm not sure about this myself, because of
improved demonic tactics
increasing DP uptime.
3. your pet does a large amount of your damage, so your threat is also shared with that pet. Therefore, threat should NOT be an issue.
Post by
olgamaster
You should have no problem with threat as demo since your pet doesn't share a threat table and your dps is lower with it anyway, so you have less threat than you would otherwise.
Haste is far superior a stat for demo, yes. By a long shot.
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