Spec for highest bonus dmg?Follow

bonus dmg comes from gear, not specs. well you can have more '+dmg' with demo say, but that doesnt mean youll be doing the most damage with it. Im affliction, and i aim for alot of + shadow dmg gear, so all my dots hurt alot

Maz, correct me if I'm wrong. Doesn't the Voidwalker have higher STA+INT than the Felguard? I'm fairly certain that he has more HP and a bigger mana pool which would seem to indicate that. I could be wrong - I gave up on demonology and went back to Afflic after finding myself becoming a healbot to that damned Felwimp.

It would be demo, but if you want to put that spell dmg to good use I would suggest a build like 0/40/21. It depends what you're doing. Alot of people are finished questing, finished grinding at 70, in this case ruin is way better then a felguard. Personally I balance it a little, 39/1/21 right now for half farming/half instance runs, but when I get serious about end game heroics, raids, its gonna be 40 in demo and 21 in destro (ruin = 200% crits).

I'm making my shadoweave vest in a few days, putting me at 790 shadow damage with gems. And I got a nether drop tonite so I can craft spellstrike pants. Pop the good spellthread on those, theres another 35 point jump, around 825. Add the hood and some enchants I'll be sitting near 900 shadow damage without demonology. Once I respec I should be in the ~1050 range with the demonology talents.

For pure grinding, I'm guessing 40 points in demo kinda sucks. I mean you're so close but you dont get the felguard. But take a serious look at the other talents, combined with destruction talents (up to ruin) and you see a pretty amazing raid/5 man spec. You have alot of options, sacrifice a pet, roll with imp for 20% less threat, 10% damage increase with sucubus, longer CC durations on seduce, 15% more stamina, 200% shadowbolt crits, shadowburn for finishing trash mobs, the list goes on.

In raids/5 mans the only things I would really miss from affliction are dark pact, iHoT once in a blue moon, improved life tap and soul siphon. I wouldnt even miss instant corruption much.

While Demo builds give you the most bonus spell damage they also give you the least use out of it. With all that extra damage you'll notice that no where on the entire tree is there a talent to give you something to use it on or improve it's use. For proof of that see some simple calculations done here

The long and short of it? An extra 10% bonus spell damage doesn't do **** when you have longer cast times, lower damage coefficients, fewer spells, a lower crit rate, etc.

Demon aflicktion would have horrible raid dps, it has amazing grinding dps, because with sucky you have 20% damage and darkpackt (asumine 31/30/0 spec). however 10 in destro is a must for a raider. bane increases shadowbolt "speed" by 20%, wich is 20% extra dps on shadow bolt, improved shadowbolt futhermore gives like 70-80% extra damage when you crit asuming you have time to cast shadowbolts to use up the debuffs... w/o thouse your raid dps sux big time... 30/21/10 however should have the highest raiding dps, but lack range on destro spells, agro reducktion on destro spells and can't sustain it's dps as well as 40/0/21