04-28-2005, 02:06 PM
Skandranon,Apr 28 2005, 05:49 AM Wrote:Yeah, I went there. Everyone always holds up Instant Arcane Explosion as the state of the art of AoE. IAE supposedly has 253 dps vs. the 208 dps of hellfire - clearly better, right?
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For sheer dps (which doesn't really matter in a raid setting), hellfire can easily be upped to 242 from demonic sacrifice, and potentially another 10% from destruction talents. However, it is easily interruptable, has a high base mana and health cost (which is mana to the warlock), and requires staying still.
In addition, channeled spells like this do not crit.
The advantage isn't in DPS or mana efficiency, its in mobility. Running AoE >> channeled standing.
Warlocks can out-dps mages in certain situations, but normally that's a horrible waste of mana or talent most of the time.