Quote Originally Posted by daviddoran View Post
I thought blizzard was trying to step away from players trying to time DoTs when spellpower procs occur, by making all DoTs calculate off of the current spellpower at the moment of the tick. I have no idea if it's implemented as such, but that was one of their design goals for cata.
DoT's yes, they change per tick depending on your buffs etc, but he was talking about Fire Elemental Totem.