For those of you looking to work out how to be a destro warlock, and I know there are a couple of us, you might be interested in looking at this log file from Watchesup's showing on Hodir last night.

This fight led to about 7.7k dps (or a little more), I consider that to be a mark to strive for by most anyone's standards.

I hope watches will weigh in on this and fix any errors I'm making in my read of the parse.

That said, here are a few things of note:

1. He's using CoE, which is good but I don't think there's any benefit from more than one warlock using it. That said, if another one of us is using it (assuming more than 1 lock in raid) his dps could go up even higher with something like CoD. Given when CoE shows up in the log, it seems like he's casting it enroute to the place where he's going to stand to kill shit.

2. Here's what I can gather about priorities:

Immolate seems to be priority number one. Note, I could not find ONE SINGLE INSTANCE where he clipped immo. He seems to wait until it's totally out and have it back up about 1.5 to 2 seconds after its last tick.

Conflagrate is priority number two. Conflagrate gets cast very nearly once every 10 seconds (maybe 11 or 12 seconds here or there)...for a 10 second CD this means he's hitting it almost everytime it's up.

Chaos Bolt clearly comes after Confl, as sometimes there are longer gaps b/t casts. Still, it seems like this is getting cast about every 15-20 seconds-ish (that means there's sometimes up to 8 seconds of downtime). Lots of reasons this could be on Hodir...for instance this filter on the log doesn't tell us when he was out breaking out frozen ppl.

Incinerate is the fourth priority. (Although on Hodir, his Incin was hitting for a metric asston of dmg.) This may have been the reason for more gaps in CB. And who's to argue w/ 7.7 k on hodir? Plus I'm noticing that at some points he was getting about 5-6 incinerates in a row before something else needed to be cast.

For my money, I'm loving what this means for me as destro, I think. About 4 main spells to mash (and keeping up CoD ...which with a 60 sec CD is not too bad). I've always had a hard time knowing for sure what I should be casting if all of my dotimer bars are going to run out at the same time.

Some things I wonder...Watches, please help if you can...did you find yourself standing around a campfire much. You seem to be casting much more than I could. 

I know Hodir isn't a standstill fight and there's target switching which makes it difficult to judge rotation. However, lots of Ulduar is that way, so this fight may not be as bad of a meter of what to do rotation-wise.

What do others notice?

Edit: here's the Kologarn log for the same thing and the Thorim log. I can't determine that much (rotation and priority wise) changes from the Hodir fight.