Suddenly destro is looking quite hot for pvp with things like casting circle / firestone.
I'm actually hyped wanting to test this.
Sadly, I cannot...insert sad panda image here for dramatic effects
Mastery: Chaotic Energies
Increases your spellpower by (a minor)% and your spell critical strike damage by an additional (moderate)%.
This is all Blizzard had to do for Destro Mastery and call it a day. Would possibly have been close to zero complaints and much more reliable, and it continues the chaos "randomness" they insist on pushing for the spec.
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This is something that someone with Alpha access should ask about in the Theorycrafting Thread at http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20743504316 over on the official forums since it pertains to under the hood mechanics and is a pretty drastic change if it's intended.
It's not 100% downside. I think their reasoning goes like this. They want Chaos Bolt to benefit from the few +Fire Damage buffs that Destro gets. Due to its history they don't want to make Chaos Bolt pure fire damage, and would prefer it to be chaos damage again like the name suggests. But they also don't want to power up its PvP potential by letting it count as physical damage. So they're going with this pseudo-chaos damage that's exactly as strong as they want it to be.
Did Demonbolt also see this change?
Most likely it's just a collateral nerf due to Demon Hunters and their insane amount of Chaos damage abilities.
Destro is looking so sxy for soo many fights xD me(destro) and a demo warlock were tearing shit up in raid testing
yeah, destro and demo are going to be my specs, demo will be my prio spec.
Yes, Destruction has all it's toys in and even more. The only big downgrade is AoE and cooldown department, but AoE can be propped back up with talents and what is lost with cooldowns seems to be gained with sustain.
Destruction is looking to be the smoothest of the 3 specs so far, I honestly hope affliction/ demo get some polish.
For adds we can bank 2-3 Rifts, 2 conflags and 5 shards, that's pretty Bursty and Soul Harvest even if it's not recommended comes to use if really needed.
There's Service and Doomguard too (if they manage to correct the numbers), we lack those only if Supremacy comes ahead on dps but I have some faith on Sacrifice if tunneled right and with proper gear.
Depends if Sacrifice dmg counts for trinket stuff, Mastery, Eradication and can crit as well.
That's still a LOT less guaranteed burst than we currently have access to. We can currently store 4 Chaos Bolts of resources, plus use conflag to get them out faster. Now, we can store at most 2, with one charge of Conflag reserved to letting us cast 3.
We probably can't really save that many charges of Rifts since Incinerate recharges a whole charge and we only have 3, meaning we can safely save only 1 charge on-demand without risking a missed reset.
On top of that, Backdraft isn't baseline, meaning we can't reliably reduce the cast time of Chaos Bolt unless we take backdraft over Roaring Blaze/Shadowburn.
We can potentially RNG our way to more burst with Soul Conduit, but that is not reliable.
Also, we no longer have a CD that increases our direct damage potential (only doomguard) so we have to pray that doomguard can hit that target. Also, Doomguard costs a soul shard so that's effectively one less Chaos Bolt we can cast.
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Well I'd say my burst in Alpha is mostly dependent on Mastery and Rift RNG gods, but yes banking still exists, with conduit and artifact shard refund in addition to conflagrate and rifts - there is about 15 seconds or so of casting only high damage spells.
Im still trying to figure out the openers but yea our burst will mostly be on the rift rng gods and the 40% legendary with doomguard destro is super fun though ive done every raid test as destro and all 3 specs are viable
I believe this has to do with the nerf to Seeds via increasing cast time from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds (though I am not in beta and have not tested). Given the cast time plus time it takes time for seeds to pop, other classes wilt instant aoe will be contributing much more damage.
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Afflcition does not lack aoe its actually top dps on scorpion guy right now in the nighthold the problem is ( i know its beta numbers lol) that you have to notice adds before the rest of your raid n cast a seed (because seed has a donation time of 150,000 and it is a 2sec cast) by the time they realize the adds are up so u can trigger seeds x4 or x8... now soulflame wasn't working then so affi aoe is pretty crazy and so is demo.. all 3 specs are 100% viable