05-17-2005, 07:53 PM
Drasca,May 17 2005, 10:29 AM Wrote:Sure a character (mage or warlock) who SPECIALIZES TALENTS in AoE damage gets better dps. Not everyone's so obsessed. Skan's arguement is fairly speculative because it requires a talent specialization. Why shouldn't a main caster who specializes in an area surpass another.I'd be very surprised if anyone had both Demonic Sacrifice and Emberstorm - that's a 30/0/21 build. You'd be zeroing out Affliction in exchange for those two abilities (and improved corruptionfe tap are as fundamental in a 'lock build as IAE and IAM in a mage one). By comparison, anyone who gets Arcane Power has IAE anyway. Arcane Power is a great talent for PvP and a 17/24 fire/arcane build maximizes the utility of scorch and AM/AE, making it a fantastic grouping + PvP build.
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Since the comparison is a dest. specced warlock, I was trying to compare apples to apples and give the analogous arcane specced mage numbers and incorporate the crit info. At that point, you're comparing two people specced with overlapping goals. Even using the demonic sac. numbers, the Mage wins the DPS contest and does so without the restrictions built into hellfire. That seems to confirm the popular idea that the Mage is the kind of AoE.