Originally Posted by
whisperingsage
They did already tone it down, though, since a crit is only as good as doing 200% damage, and right now it does 350%. The problem is balancing the damage of scorch both inside and outside execute. They can't buff it much past 100% outside execute, because at ~117% it has the same dpet as fireball.
But on top of that there's the issue that inside execute, scorch at 350% did the same damage as fireball... and it could still crit. So now that scorch always crits do they balance the execute damage around a fireball crit? A normal fireball? Halfway between?
However, the guaranteed crit makes heating up more consistent, so how much damage is consistency worth?