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World of Warcraft Guide to Warlock DPS: Part One
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Warlock DPS is, in my opinion, something that appears simple, but really is rather complex. This is demonstrated when it appears that many people in WoW who dps as a warlock have trouble with dealing significant damage, yet warlocks are a primary damage class (three talent trees for dps, no hybrid duties). I seem to see that question come up a lot in WoW themed forums, "how do i do high dps?". In my experience these problems are mostly due to a number of things: inferior assemblage of a damage cycle, lack of understanding their abilities and the way they interact, and a basic lack of understanding of the math or theory (theorycraft) behind it. In this multiple-part guide i will attempt to impart my experience on warlock damage to teach you how to assemble a good damage cycle, and maintain its output.
Spells and Talents
I'll be giving a short rundown of all warlock damage spells and curses, i will also look into some of the more ambiguous or misunderstood talents of the warlocks three talent trees. I'll start by listing the spells and there statistics including damage coefficients a term it seems the majority of WoW players are ignorant of. Spell damage coefficient is a brilliant little device used by blizzard to balance the scaling potential of spells. The way it works is that the coefficient of the spell determines how much of your spell damage is added to a spell. So let's say you have a 50% damage coefficient on a spell and 100 spell damage, so that spell is going to be getting an additional 50 damage on each of it's casts. This coefficient is based on the casting speed of the spell with 3.5 seconds being 100% and 1.5 seconds or instant being 42.86%. Some spells do not follow this rule, DoT's are one such example they have there own rules for determining coefficients.
Shadow Bolt
420 mana, 541-603 shadow damage, 3 second cast, 85.7% damage coefficient.
Corruption
370 mana, 900 shadow damage over 18 seconds, 2 second cast, 93.6% damage coefficient.
Warlock DPS is, in my opinion, something that appears simple, but really is rather complex. This is demonstrated when it appears that many people in WoW who dps as a warlock have trouble with dealing significant damage, yet warlocks are a primary damage class (three talent trees for dps, no hybrid duties). I seem to see that question come up a lot in WoW themed forums, "how do i do high dps?". In my experience these problems are mostly due to a number of things: inferior assemblage of a damage cycle, lack of understanding their abilities and the way they interact, and a basic lack of understanding of the math or theory (theorycraft) behind it. In this multiple-part guide i will attempt to impart my experience on warlock damage to teach you how to assemble a good damage cycle, and maintain its output.
Spells and Talents
I'll be giving a short rundown of all warlock damage spells and curses, i will also look into some of the more ambiguous or misunderstood talents of the warlocks three talent trees. I'll start by listing the spells and there statistics including damage coefficients a term it seems the majority of WoW players are ignorant of. Spell damage coefficient is a brilliant little device used by blizzard to balance the scaling potential of spells. The way it works is that the coefficient of the spell determines how much of your spell damage is added to a spell. So let's say you have a 50% damage coefficient on a spell and 100 spell damage, so that spell is going to be getting an additional 50 damage on each of it's casts. This coefficient is based on the casting speed of the spell with 3.5 seconds being 100% and 1.5 seconds or instant being 42.86%. Some spells do not follow this rule, DoT's are one such example they have there own rules for determining coefficients.
Shadow Bolt
420 mana, 541-603 shadow damage, 3 second cast, 85.7% damage coefficient.
Corruption
370 mana, 900 shadow damage over 18 seconds, 2 second cast, 93.6% damage coefficient.