My current template is 0/21/40, with points chosen for SB spamming. To keep this test simple, I only took Improved Shadowbolt (5/5), Bane (5/5) and Ruin. Since I have more Shadow damage than Fire damage, I wanted to check if casting Immolation was useful or a waste of time.

Here’s a simulation of a pure shadowbolt spam, with +1000dmg to all, 18% crit and 11%hit.

Pretty straightforward, we get 776 DPS. We’ll compare other results against this sequence.

Now, we’ll include an Immolation spell :

Obviously, the DPS is higher (4.3%)…not bad ! To get the same increase in DPS while keeping the DPS spam, we’d need to increase our shadow damage by 65 !!

Since many warlocks have more shadow spell damage than fire spell damage, I tried to see how low we can go with fire spell damage to make it useless to cast Immolation :

To get my DPS down to 776, I had to get my Fire spell damage down to 350 ! So unless you have a difference greater than 650 between your shadow and fire damage, you can keep casting Immolation.

Obviously, you’re always better to try all this by yourself on the calculator :

http://www.livingroomfun.info/WoW/Warlock.html

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