Originally Posted by
garonne
idk man, i dont think you guys are completely wrong, but the over exaggeration is pretty high in here.
no movement:
are you guys actually taking the right talents to counteract this? DS while used by the pet is a spell we have to cast thats instant (albeit 1 min cd)
demonic calling or power siphon, both spells which help with movement, the latter more so. Power siphon -> db -> db. thats 3 gcds if you have 1 or less shards.
speaking of db, we can pocket stacks which we gain a guaranteed 2 every 20 secs.
Soul Strike anyone???
do you guys actually use your portal? and use it efficiently?
put all these things together and if you want a mobile spec demo has it.
look at affliction which is what i think ppl are comparing demo to, youre constantly casting UA and SB, then there's haunt every ~17 secs. corruption, agony and SL if you take make affliction more mobile but youre looking at 3 gcds every 15-20 sec of movement. look at demo if you take soul strike, thats 4 gcd's every 20 sec (2 SS and 2 DB). no need for the over exaggeration.
no burst:
demo scales extremely well with haste. we don't have the same peaks as aff and destro but we also dont dip and stay down for so long. After hero is done and gone, we still have tyrant again another 1.5 mins. if you time this right with 4 Dbs you can have out a lot of pets buffed (including yourself) and if you have the supreme commander trait thats Intel which is basically 660 Int on a 370 piece for 15 sec. thats about 8-12% damage increase right there depending on how much intel you have.
with that said above, no the 5% wasnt enough. and its emphasized even more when as a spec we have nothing that is truly ours in Uldir. none of the fights are "our fights" as the tools we bring dont compare to our counterparts. destro has cleave and affliction has spread damage. affliction also has single target dps and destro imo has the best of the three (in my experience, for my toon) when it comes to burst damage. another damage increase won't fix the problem, but put a bandage on the spec that'll probably be removed when the next raid encounter comes out. what demo needs is some fine mechanical tuning which i hope 8.1 can fix.