Vis Maior

My personal preference on trinkets for 0/21/40 shadow is: skull > hex > icon > crusade > sextant.

I don't like the sextant for the same reason you mentioned. Sextant isn't controllable. It might proc at a really good time. It also might proc when you need to be lifetapping, spamming your healthstone/pot and draining life, or running around the boss's room. I like skull, hex, and icon a lot more just because I can line up their buff with drums of battle + heroism. In addition, sextant has passive +crit on it instead of passive +damage, and I much prefer the +damage.

Icon > crusade. Icon is controllable, you can pop it in conjunction with heroism and other cooldowns. It's also higher ilvl and more average passive +damage.


Currently, my stat preference is: damage > haste > crit, assuming hit is capped.

Stacking crit is bad. If you stack crit and don't crit, then your DPS is piss poor. If you stack damage instead, then your baseline DPS is a lot higher. What about ISB? Well, as long as you have 3+ shadow destro warlocks in T6 gear, then ISB will be up a lot. You get enough crit from t6 quality gear without needing to gear for it.

I am going to be prioritizing damage over haste. Haste theorycrafts to be slightly more powerful as damage in terms of item ilvl and stat allocation for pure shadowbolt spamming, but I get to cast curse of doom on off-targets on enough fights that I'm sticking with stacking damage.

Yeah, cool stuff. We've seem to come to the same conclusions. Crit is such a hit or miss stat it seems, I mean if you just got your crit rating all the time that would be sweet, but it never ends up that way. It is either your best friend or the thing you are QQing about for the next 2 weeks. In my most recent case my guild just downed Brutallus tonight and my crit was 27%, a whopping 15% under what it should of been fully raid buffed . Needless to say, doing only 1900 dps instead of 2200 was disappointing, but a kills a kill!

I was also curious what sort of group make-ups you end up with, cause I noticed yall have a boomkin and elemental shammy in your ranks. Like what do your typical 2 caster dps groups look like when you include those silly mages.

We generally give the mages the stacked group:

Ele Sham
SP
Mage
Mage
Boomkin

Resto Sham
SP
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