Most Destruction locks are running BD/RE/F&B/Sac/Havoc with Shadowfury (for the aoe CC) and Burning Rush (because our base run is slow af)
Tips are just RoF/FnB spam on packs of 4+, or do a regular Havoc/Chaos Bolt rotation on 2-3 targets with FnB Incinerates in between. Focus targets your group calls to focus with Havoc'd CB's and you'll be fine.
Demonology warlocks are good only if you dont need to move, dont know any fight that doesnt need movement at all. Blizzard really need to make some spells instant cast or add killjhaeden cunning thing to all spells by default to cast while moving.
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This is a disingenuous response. It's not like you're going to delay your darkglare or most offensive spells application for movement, and demonwrath is just pathetic.
Let's not pretend like demo doesn't have serious flaws, being absolutely dreadful at add switching, priority add burst, being one of the least mobile dps specs (even what little spells you have for movement, they do jackshit), and the ridiculous ramp up and ineffective aoe that makes it one of the worst 5 man specs.
Demo is good and only good at one thing only, long lived single raid bosses with no adds. In any other scenario destro just thrashes it.
Shadowflame you probably won;t be taking
Demonwrath is pathetic, it;s the equivalent of the nerfed WoD rain of fire
Doom is a wasted cast if it's already applied
Darkglare, well , maybe
GrimServ...cooldown, and should be backed by immediate Empowerment should it not?
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Cooldown, costs too much single target to talent
Yes, the damage is low, but that's also not what the spell is for. Its main purpose is to generate soul shards. Anecdotal: in all my runs on nythendra/ursoc I cast demonwrath when moving if I'm at or near full mana, and it has consistently given me at least one shard every time I've used the spell once or twice while running.
Comparing it to Rain of Fire in WoD is a false comparison because said spell didn't generate resources. They have entirely different purposes.
idk man, are you sure you know what you are talking about? lol
Shadowflame is either highest dps talent if staked perfectly or equal to demonic calling. why wouldnt you take it?
I am sure WoD rain of fire wouldnt be so pathetic if it had the chance to give you a full ember pet "tick"..like demonwrath does
Are you aware that you can have more than one dooms rolling on the same target?
Noone plays with grim of service in pve, synergy is just better.
You are correct, for this raid. Grim Service will have its place, just not on any current fights. Overall dps is never as important as dps on priority targets (unless a single target fight of course). There have been and assuredly will be fights (like Gorefiend, mythic Iskar, Spine, Jin'rok to name a few) where having a huge cd every 1 1/2 minutes will be much more important than overall dps.
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.” -- Voltaire
"He who awaits much can expect little" -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Well yes, it still depends though what kind of encounter..For example on gorefiend i dont think service would be worth it for the burst phase since still you have the priority adds, spawning all the time and synergy makes a difference in that. You would take soul harvest though imo since adds dont live enaugh for doom...so HoD would be kidna meh.
What i mean is that currently, it seems that a fight needs to have a lot of specific things (so many thats kidna rare to find all of them in one encounter) to be really worth it over synergy. Not arguing with your points though