06.11.08

Warlock Spell: Curse of Agony

Posted in Warlocks at 8:12 am

Curse of Agony tooltip

Curse of Agony casting

Here’s my visualization of the spell cast. Above is the timeline. It’s dotted in 1 second intervals with an extra dark dot at each 5 seconds to make it easier to read.

The spell is cast at time 0. It is instant cast. The “X” is the Global Cooldown (GCD) (1.5 seconds). The dotted purple/grey lines are where damage actually occurs. Assuming the dot runs for full duration it will do 12 ticks. The damage “ramps up” with most of the damage occuring in the last 4 ticks.

Min Total Damage = ({Min Damage} + ({Shadow Damage} * {Effective Coefficient})) * {1+Shadow Mastery bonus}

Assuming I have 1k bonus shadow damage each tick should hit for 151-453 for a total of ~3623.

Relevant Talents:

Amplify Curse increase damage done for next CoA by 50%, 3 min cooldown.
Improved Curse of Agony 2/2 - increases the damage by 5%/10%.
Contagion 5/5 - Increases the damage of Curse of Agony, Corruption and Seed of Corruption by 5% and reduces the chance your Affliction spells will be dispelled by an additional 30%
Shadow Mastery 5/5 - Increase the damage dealt or life drained by your Shadow Spells by 10%

The icky math

Affliction Shadow based DoT (cannot crit). 12 total ticks. Every 2 seconds.

Rank	Mana	min	max	duration	Effective Coefficient (with downranking)
7	265	1692	1704	24 sec	120.0%
6	215	1296	1308	24 sec
5	170	972	984	24 sec
4	130	624	636	24 sec
3	90	396	408	24 sec
2	50	216	228	24 sec
1	24	96	108	24 sec

Average Total Damage = ({(Min+max Damage)/2} + ({Shadow Damage} * {Effective Coefficient})) * {1+Shadow Mastery bonus+Improved Curse of Agony bonus+Contagion Bonus}
Average Total Damage = ((1692+1704)/2 + (1000 * 1.20)) * (1+0.10+0.10+0.05)
Average Total Damage = 3622.5

Ticks 1-4 = Average Total Damage / 24 = 150.93
Ticks 5-8 = Average Total Damage / 12 = 301.87
Ticks 9-12 = Average Total Damage / 8 = 452.81