Originally Posted by
Gaidax
It is more gear issue, to be honest... Destruction is very gear dependent - crit is the key and at this point we are having hard time getting any more than 20% crit in raids, in late MoP we had near 50% crit in raids and with Tier bonus and procs we could get to near 100% crit during Dark Soul, so we were swimming in embers, so of course it felt much more dynamic and snappy because such things like struggling to get embers or having to cast inefficient Chaos Bolts or OOM did not exist really and RoF played very minimal role in AoE only. Not to mention that having these levels of crit makes Shadowburn a beast.
I am pretty sure that once we climb to those gear levels we will be back in business fulltime, now we just have to suck it up and take it, while hoping for a life support buffs. I am pretty sure that the reason Blizz is so reluctant to buff us is because they will have to nerf our ass next tier that way.
Or maybe they are just a bit butthurt over 5.4, when Warlocks were raging and screaming how Destruction sucks until they accidentally overbuffed it to a monster status and then had to deal with godmode locks for a year. I am sure they are very cautious with it now.
Of course I by no means justify an idea that we must suck now because we might accidentally become godmode next tier, but at least I gave an insight oh how Blizzard (in my opinion) sees it.