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Need some help with warlock dps

I am not a master lock but just looking at his uptime on dots, it looks as though he may need a spellflash add on or at least a good DoT timer to make sure he is getting max uptime.

Going over the numbers from your kill, it looks like he is one of your kiters, so his DPS will suffer a little while he is kiting due to cast times. That said, if he could get all his DoTs up to around 95%+ then that will help his numbers. His Huant at 32.9% is extremely low. As Affliction you used to be able to just DoT and run, but now it is my understanding that they have to channel Malefic Grasp to really throw down the DPS. His uptime on that was just only 24.1%.

It may be easier to check his numbers on a fight where he is not kiting or a lower movement fight, just to get a baseline of how effectively they use their spells to see if it is just the mechanics of the fight that they are struggling with.
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Here is the previous two bosses in HoF

»www.worldoflogs.com/reports/cfl1···jr7wmyp/

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reply to s1deout
you cant fault his rotation or spell priority , its solid, basically from these parses is uptime, whether from not having a dot timer or mechanics im not sure but on blade lord his uptime is around 90%, ideally it should be 95 to 97 but that is ideally, perfect practice makes perfect.
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Okay. Thanks for the pointers. I figured it was an uptime thing. I will get a better DoT timer for him and install the spell flash thing along with beating into his head that he needs to watch the uptime.

I'm websensed unfortunately so can't see the logs. Is he getting 60-70k sustainable at least? Most important dot is the Agony since it stacks. Don't ever want to let that one drop. I wouldn't give too much leeway on the movement fights (as long as the target stays in range) because we have a talent that let's us cast while moving (expected to become a passive ability in 5.2 (woot)). Haunt is a tough one to hold him to because it costs a shard to use and shard regeneration is unpredictable.

I'd also be curious to know if he went the hit cap > Mastery route or vice versa. I haven't had time to do thorough tests but I know I lost dps when I drop the hit cap for mastery as most sites will tell you to do.

Rotation on re-applying the dots should also be played with if he has time. Most of the sites will tell you to re-apply them manually one by one. Personally I eat the shard alot of time to reapply them all (especially in high movement fights where I have to be looking elsewhere). Manually re-applying takes time away from your M. grasp (and hopefully haunt+M. grasp). TBH though I've not actually taken the time to see which method comes out on top. Would be worthwhile to do though.

His armory shows 13.45% hit with 54.72% mastery

so he should probably cap out at 17.5% hit?

The current consensus is that affliction locks should not cap hit for maximum dps.

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Okay. I can have him go for 15% and then do some dummy tests and see what it is.

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That's why I completely ignore Mr. Dumb bot. I get nothing but dps drops and inconsistency in damage when I used to reforge through him. It take longer, but if you research how the stat weights work and are willing to do a little bit of math, you can max your dps in even crap gear.