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Cabalist Specs/rotation as requested
Cabalist
You should know that now "Decay" is a buff that gives you stacks of decay once every 2 seconds to a maximum of 3, with this build the only other 3 buffs you will have are Armor of Devotion(if inquis) and your cabalist resist buff(stacks with everything), and mein of agression. This build is for PURE DPS, it will have little to no survivability, which is fine in a raid situation where heals are ok, if you ever decide you want to have this as a support role, i would suggest 51cabalist/11 justicar/4 sentinel(or 51 cabalist/14justi/1 sent ((for mandate)))
51 Cabalist/10 sentinel/5 Warden (full ranged AoE based cabalist with some more SP)
51 Cabalist/11 Inquisitor/4 warden (full ranged AoE based cabalist with a little more crit + Armor of Devotion+SH)
51 Cabalist/14 inquisitor/1 Warden (adds soul drain if you feel like getting up in melee)
Rotation/Macro:
Single Target:
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cast Curse of Discord
cast Obliterate
cast Dark Water
cast Sanction Heretic
cast Shadow's Touch
This is the current single target macro. Personally, i don't use macro's for cast-time classes, and the rotation is simple, but if you are someone who likes using macro's the above will work fine.
NOTE: Mixing in "Tyranny" when you have full decay, watching your Obliterate CD may push your single target DPS up a little, it just can't be in the macro, mess with it and see if you like it.
(specs that do not have Sanction Heretic, just remove it from your macro, simple enough)
AoE: I am not going to post a macro for this, the way you use cabalist with AoE is very situational, an AE macro would just lose you some DPS.
First off let me say that with cabalist AoE, the most damage you will do is when there is a decent chunk mobs in a centralized area, of course you aren't going to come across that ideal setup every time you do something, which is fine becuase cabalist does sustain enough dps on 2+ mobs as well.
Before I go into the AE rotation, let me go through a cooldown: Sign of Asias:
Asias is a 2 min CD that allows decays to persist and not be consumed, this means you can burst DPS in an AoE fight like no other class could ever dream of. I highly recommend not doing it at the immediate start of the fight, as you will probably gain aggro and kill yourself(i'm great @ that). You should be using this in an AoE encounter whenever it is available, I have spiked to over 20kdps using this cooldown. Be sure you have a centralized mob targeted and drop 5 full-charge tyranny's. Have fun!
Rotation: 1) Soul Drain, 2) Tyranny(be sure you have a centralized mob targeted for best AE spread), 3) Bound Fate(5 target AoE) 4) Shadows Touch 5) Tyranny 6) Soul Drain, Repeat. NOTE: Be sure you keep an eye on your decay stacks, ideally you only want to be dropping tyranny when you have 3 stacks of Decay. NOTE: Curse of Solitude is similar to Curse of Discord except in that it will put a DoT on the mob and damage enemies around them when that mob uses an ability. You can work this into your rotation as well, as long as you are not sacrificing a GCD while sitting on 3 stacks of decay.
Non-Soul Drain Cab spec AE rotation: Simply do not use Soul drain. You will gain more repeat casts of Shadows touch during your downtime on CD's (or waiting for decay stacks). Tyranny>Bound Fate>Shadows Touch>Tyranny>Shadows touch>Shadows touch>Tyranny>bound fate>shadows touch>tyranny. (remember you can mix in curse of solitude if you so choose)
Single target Cabalist w/o Inquisitor: Dark Water>Curse of Discord>Obliterate>Shadows touch, keep your DoT's up while spamming Shadows Touch waiting for Obliterate to come off of CD, as i said before you can gain 3 stacks of decay while an obliterate is on CD, as I said previously occasionally I will drop Tyranny on a single target mob just so i do not have to waste Decays(you will have enough saved up to get 3 more decays before obliterate is off CD) Some players who do not have the gear will find this a DPS loss, I find it to be a minimal increase because it's an instant no-cast time ability and I have over 2ksp raid buffed.
This is all based off of my extensive experience with cabalist, It is my favorite spec. I'm sure i'll get some flak from a couple people here, however, I currently hold the highest matron cabalist parse Defiant side. Riftlogs.com
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Originally Posted by Jonchron 
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