Ask Ghost Crawler? LOL yeah I'm sure he will tell me more than its fine..
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Basically every situation that isn't shadowburn sniping low HP adds and cleaving that damage via havoc onto high HP adds destro will be trampled on by nearly everyone. Even during those ideal situations its a midpack spec which falls to the bottom percentiles the moment its out of that niche.
KJC? Who needs it...fel flame feels more than fine as a filler and sneaking in CB's isn't that bad. However the numbers are just not there. At this point I'd favor nerfing the niche (say shadowburn consumes 3x havoc charges) and buffing the whole spec the 15%-20% it would need to start to not suck in terms of competing with the other ranged out there.
MF feels more like a ember generation tool than real damage. Especially since F&B doesn't scale up with MF last I checked. Since RoF's damage still gets doubled vs immolated targets its not like you can even get immolate on the radius of RoF so its a double whammy.
Darksoul for destro is fractionally as powerful as darksoul for aff or demo and the spec isn't more powerful off CD by a looooong shot to make up for it. So even outside of gear scaling whatsoever its just a more feeble spec at its core. Fun at times? Sure...who doesn't like nuking the piss out of things. It just severely lacks the numbers to compete.
After watching a few streamed attempts on 10m Garrosh, it's quite sad to see their Affliction lock top the meter, while their Destro lock does about half his damage. On a fight with lots of adds to cleave off off/SB snipe. Sadness
Are you folks using fel flame as a filler all the time, or just when you don't have backdraft up?
Since everyone here is on about Aff and Demo being better in every other situation..
I'm a Warlock sporting ~515 ilvl without UVLS, would Demo or Aff still be better than Destruction?
Without Backdraft or a bunch of haste (from procs, or gear, or hero) Fel Flame is essentially the same DPS as Incinerate. I'll be using it as my filler w/o haste procs.
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Probably Demo, but that is highly dependant on your skill level as each spec. Play the one you're best at and that'll probably be the most damage you can do.
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Aff isn't dependant on UVLS, but it's extremely beneficial to have the legendary meta. It also scales well but has somewhat low (compared to Demo) damage with lesser stats.
Demo is good at lower ilevels compared to Aff, and is still very good with UVLS. Without it it's still good, but not exceptional.
Destro is the warlock spec that doesn't require as much gear and is thus better at low ilevels, however it's so far behind Aff/Demo I'm not sure it's any better than the other specs even at low ilevels.
You'll be up to par with Demo and Aff. Not sure you will be with Destro. That said, Aff and Demo have a much lower lower-bound than Destro with low skill, and Destro can do better than the other specs with little skill. With high skill Demo does exceptionally, Aff does exceptionally, and Destro can do exceptionally depending on fight mechanics.
It's mostly dependant on your individual skill with each spec as opposed to what gear you have. (Hence my original answer.)
Hope that helps some.
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That's a lot better, thanks!
So Icy Veins just posted their update to the Destro guide for 5.4. They (I'm guessing Gahddo) are saying that stat priorities have not changed, and aren't recommending the use of Fel Flame.
Brusalk, have you been in touch with Gahddo? If so, are you both just in disagreement over this? Obviously more will come within the next week, but this seems to be a point of divergence.
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Decided to test destro this week in normals, Thok 10 man was pretty much completely patchwerk before the hotfix (just timed fel flame through the screeches) with mastery>crit>haste (unbuffed 11804 mastery, 8414 crit, 5897 haste), grim sup w/observer, fel flame filler, legendary meta, 549 ilvl, no RoF. Topped the meter at ~239k.
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I've raided completely destruction through SoO so far and I've observed that SoO is very much a "don't stand in the bad things" instance - sha pools, corrupted brew, blind hatred, self-reflections, fire arrows, tar/missiles, toxic pools/purple tornados, heroic shockwave/blades, arcing smash, bombs etc. Seeing as you should be looking to take Archimonde's Vengeance every fight, having fel flame as a filler pretty much serves the same purpose as taking the new KJC - being able to move out of fire quickly outside of chaos bolts. While fel flame remains relatively close to incinerate (until the dps gain is greater than taking AV instead of KJC) I don't see myself using incinerate outside of backdraft/hero/haste buffs.
HI,
its hard to go trough 100 pages on this post. So can anyone tell me what are best stats for destro? I'm doing crit-haste-mastery now and dps is around 200k.
EU, Alonsus, Kasajunior
Thanks in advance.
Hey there.
This guide says that I should prioritize Haste over mastery over crit. More importantly crit always seems to be the worst stat to go for.
However when I go to the mr.robot website it tells me to go fullout for crit, in literally everything.
Is mr.robot wrong? Should I just not use it or why does it say that is the best stat to go for?
My character is Sensen on Al'Akir EU server if anyone was interested.
latest simcraft release fully supports 5.4 locks. Happy theorycrafting. If you find some bugs, let us know.
Looks like mastery ~= crit > haste for typical setups (especially if you use RoF only for movement as it is only a measly upgrade for stand-still)
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