List of buffs you’d typically get in a raid:
1) Misery/Improved Fairie Fire – 3%hit
2) Earth and Moon/Ebon Plaguebringer/Curse of Elements – 12%dmg
3) Totem of Wrath/Heart of the Crusader – 3%crit
4) Moonkin Aura/Elemental Oath – 5%crit
5) Imp Moonkin Form/Swift Retribution – 3%haste
6) Wrath of Air Totem – 5%haste
7) Flametongue Totem/Demonic Pact – +spellpower
8 )Scorch/Improved Shadowbolt – 5%crit
9) Kings/Wisdom/Mark of the Wild/AI/Prayer of Spirit
10) Flask/Bloodlust/Heroism

I think that about covers it.

So, instead of leaning on GS alone, i’ve been calc’ing my new DPS and scale factors via simcraft, it is truly disappealing:

a) with 5k GS, i can do 6.98k DPS on an optimal fight (patchwerk), but i can do 7.38k as affliction. on a more reasonable scenario, it’s 5.4k / 5.7k for affliction.

without buffs, 4.6k destro vs 4.9k affliction .

while i trust simcraft to do it’s mojo, the numbers are incredibly inflated compared to what i see in recount, or on the training dummies.

i have not tried switching to afflic full time yet, i’m still trying to nail down the timing for haunt, omniCC/power auras works, but it’s all over the place. i recall several addons with brightly visible timers, but it gets manic during the fighting, and having haunt fall off with only ~2 seconds to refresh, is akward.

so instead of affliction FT, i’ve compromised, from RoF to SoC in heroics, and boy does that educate about threat management.

Doing so will cause Corr/Haunt to drop off.

I normally let it do 2 ticks and recast it.

ForteExorist is a great dotimer which shows when your channeled spells will tick.

This helps in recasting/refreshing Haunt/UA/CoA.