To summarize my comments elsewhere, we can be reasonably certain that it's not a utility tier or the AoE tier. The lvl 100 tier is too strong and the lvl 90 Grimoires are too potentially conflicting. That just leaves talents of the 15 and 30 tiers. Of those, it's unlikely to be the more complex or active ability, since the sample ones all seem to be nice boring passives that everyone would be willing to use. We can probably cross off Haunt and MG, as the combination of the two would be pretty nuts. We can also probably cross of Reverse Entropy, since RE plus ELP would be a little stupid.
That just leaves:
Afflic - Writhe, Contagion, or Absolute Corruption.
Demo - Shadowy Inspiration, Demonic Calling, Impending Doom, or Improved Dreadstalkers.
Destro - Backdraft or Eradication.
For affliction it has to be Siphon life these are talents that are taken by 90% of players
I'd say reverse entropy but that would conflict with ELT. RE is worth it because it also saves you GCDs but having to life tap anyway for the buff destroys its purpose.
I think taking RE or Eradication woudl actually be a terrible decision from Blizzard. Not that I would personally mind it or that the output would be bad - it could actually be quite good - but it would almost certainly force ELT (if people don't already feel forced) into being chosen every single time when people already dislike it.
I actually just don't see how it could be anything other than BD. That would open up people taking Shadowburn in add fights, it allows us to take RB for a single target boost, and it creates the mirage of Backdraft being baseline. To Blizzard, that would be them "fixing" all three of those issues that Destruction Warlocks have complained about.
To us, though, it's a big !@#$ you. Why this is tied to a Legendary and not like.. an artifact trait is beyond me. But it almost has to be Backdraft.
first talent in the 2nd tier for all 3 spec.
I am almost sure for Demo it will be Improved Dreadstalkers.
More than likely it's going to be a shared talent as it seems most of the pure classes had just 1 talent and even some hybrids. The other thing like mentioned before is they seem to be passives. I'm going with Soul Conduit. It also has to be able to stack with the talent if you choose to have the talent which is why most of the ability casts are off the table.
Most if not all of them are stackable talents so you can actually pick it twice effectively. If it is something that is an ability or won't stack or stacking it would be ridiculous, it won't be the one.
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I really don't think the tier matters since honestly Eradication is probably equal dps to Soul Conduit if you don't consider the fact that you miss out on other talents. The problem with a lot of classes' final tier is that they either don't stack or they are an ability/replace an ability which would also imply they don't stack.
It basically has to be a talent that can realistically be chosen twice if you had the option to do so. The following talents are pretty much out of the running then:
Haunt, Writhe in Agony, Absolute Corruption(only part of it stacks), the entire 45 tier for all 3 specs, Siphon Life, Soul Harvest, Burning Rush, Dark Pact, the entire 90 tier, Phantom Singularity, Shadowy Inspiration, Shadowflame, Implosion, Hand of Doom, Summon Darkglare, Demonbolt, Shadowburn, Cataclysm, Fire and Brimstone, Wreak Havoc, and Channel Demonfire.
This pretty much leaves the following talents to be the most likely ones on the legendary(from least likely to most likely:
Demon Skin=Reverse Entropy<Backdraft=Roaring Blaze=Eradication=Empowered Life Tap=Soul Conduit for Destro
Demon Skin<Sow the Seeds<Malefic Grasp=Contagion=Empowered Life Tap=Death's Embrace=Soul Conduit for Affliction
Demon Skin=Power Trip<Improved Dreadstalkers<Demonic Calling=Soul Conduit
So for the sake of being lazy as I said and others have said, Soul Conduit seems like the likely choice. I mean for Demo about the only rational choice is Demonic Calling as the others would be a bit silly and people already complain about clutter so 4 dreadstalkers seems a bit dumb.
Some of you need to read the 7.2.5 changes to Warlock before suggesting something. Siphon Life? They aren't going to give you a 'NOW' tier 100 talent for free.
My previous suggestion was OK but now I think about it, it would probably be Grimoire: Service for all specs, though Soul Harvest could be another.
Last edited by Chemii; 2017-05-12 at 07:56 AM.
Reverse Entropy is a good choice for destruction, for sure. It's a talent that I think a lot of people enjoy taking but nobody can really afford to take. I'd also find Shadowburn to be a really cool option, because it's sadly a shitty talent that could do with a way to see its way into gameplay (or, you know, give us back the old shadowburn that hit hard on a cooldown that was used for an execute).
For Affliction I'd like Sow the Seeds. Super useful talent that I often find I wished I could take in more situations other than M+ and Skorpyron cheesing (among some other fights).
Demonology, I'd kill for Soul Harvest. I really miss this talent overall and didn't really find many opportunities when it was useful. For a more crazy idea, Grimoire of Supremacy for giggles (assuming service would not be able to summon a doomguard, which is likely true).
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Maybe but with the changes to Afflictions talent tree (which nerfs siphon life anyway), it may not be worth taking anymore. its already not worth doing on the effigy..with more nerfs, might be better off with the new talent or harvest. (boring).
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one of them was a level 90 talent....another was a level 15. but all of them were damage talents.
Soul harvest...?