Originally Posted by
DustWolf
I'm only playing destruction, because I kinda hate the other two specs, so I'll talk about destro.
Sitting with 830 il atm, went for Dimension ripper. Shadowburn, Entropy, Skin, Eradication, Rush, Service, Conduit (<- ST spec) I go for Cataclysm and F&B for AoE fights.
Destruction at the moment seems fine damage-wise, I can do pretty good DPS, I top with some good RNG out of my Mastery (I still try to get as much crit as possible, going for haste second because fuck that rng mastery). Looks like they managed the number tuning on us pretty good. IF you manage to get lucky with soul shards. If you get a steady flow of them out of immolate crits, soul conduit and soul snatcher, my ST dps seems pretty solid. Usually running mythics with a hunter and fire mage, so I think damage is good.
AoE seems ok as well, cleave is nuts too.
However, with having said all that, destruction is not in a good spot, eventhough we can do competitive damage at almost anything. The problem is that we can do everything pretty well, just not at the same time. If you want good ST, you can kiss your AoE goodbye, or vice-versa. If there's gonna be a boss encounter like the Ogron Twins in Highmaul, it seems that destro will be top for that fight. But there's just *too much* reliance on talents. It's not fair, why do we have to spec around encounters, while hunters/demon hunters can do a shitton of dps in any kind of situation without speccing for it. That's my current problem with destruction. They've taken all our baseline and put it into the same talent rows. For me, destruction was in a perfect spot in MoP/WoD. It had everything. Now we can have anything...but not everything :/
The mastery for destruction needs to go, though. They've fucked up destruction badly enough through talents, mastery just makes it a joke. Class fantasy my ass ...
I have high hopes that we'll get a fix in a patch, because the amount of negative feedback all three warlock specs have received is immense. I know, though, that destruction's talents won't get fixed, because it's just too much of a hassle and knowing blizzard, they'll just tune around some numbers ... I just hope they remove that mastery and replace it with our old one/something better.
That's it for me now. Playing destruction, although I'm not enjoying it. Can't reroll cause we need some warlocks in our raid team. So I'm stuck :/