05/29 Destro Warlock Alpha update

rift where in a nice place, if you liked Rift you could build into it, sure it needed some trimming but the pathing was good, forcing us AGAIN into the freaking rift by moving infernal to a corner of the tree, it is the most moronic decision I had ever seem.

STOP FORCING US INTO RIFT, THE VAST MAJORITY DISLIKE THEM THEY ARE OK WHEN YOU ARE NOT FORCED INTO IT, YOU JUST MAKE PPL DESPISE THEM, EVEN MORE, GET YOUR HOLY GARBAGE OUT OF MY INFERNAL INITIAL POSITION THX

I mean you just put time and effort into making Shadowflame and Soulfire playable and indeed you did with Soulfire because Decimation is awesome, then you just trash in all your work BECAUSE OF FREAKING RIFT? ARE YOU GUYS FEELING OK IN THERE? DID U TOOK YOUR PILLS?

congratz you just invalidated all your work on Soul Fire and Shadow Burn because NO ONE IS GONNA TAKE THAT OVER INFERNAL EVER

could we just get a motion or something going on to get this guy who is CONSTANTLY pushing rift into our face fired?

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It’s instant cast, but the spell effect isn’t instant at all. It has a delay before it starts firing and then there is some travel time. Sometimes enemies die before it hits or it gets many of the bolts off because you have no control over which is summoned and it doesn’t retarget.

That’s just poorly designed because you either risk using it when mobs are getting low or just sit on max charges.

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Very much this, nobody complaining about insta cast, but if rift is the only answer to desto mobility, then we really are off to a bad start.

For all that’s good though, put Infernal back where it was, like a normal damn CD should be

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One other issue with the new Destruction tree is that some of the talents that were reduced to just one rank now feel very unimpactful. I think all of them need some retuning but these are the biggest offenders:

Flashpoint- Now provides a maximum of 6% Haste when target is >80% health. This is a very weak effect for a limited uptime buff.

Raging Demonfire- Now adds a grand total of 2 extra bolts and extends Immolate duration by 0.2s for each bolt. This is so weak that it should either be rolled baseline into the ability, or the effect should be doubled.

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Blizz… Yall are trifling.

Got up this morning to play with the tree and didn’t even spend 10 point and I am like wtf is going on here.

You guys have no clue what to do with the rain of fire, AOE side. It was starting to look good but now? Common…

So now single target specs have to get Rain of Fire so we can get scalding flames?

Flashpoint should be on the middle or Single Target side.

Put the Infernal back in the middle of the tree so that all Destro lock specs can pick it up and put the Dimensional Rift and it’s associated talents where the Infernal is now.

All locks need infernal but not all locks will want to spec in to Dimensional rift and bring back all of it’s cool talents from last build and stick them in there.

Split Cataclysm from Inferno. What’s the point of getting an entire pack lit up with immolate when your rain of fire is weak AF?

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Is this how yall want me to spec in to single target? No way to pick up Soul Fire and all it’s buffing talents. I really want to use it but there is just no way… LMAO literally forced in to picking up Rain of Fire and Pyrogenics to get Scalding Flames.

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Rift should be considered like a pet. And target the same one u do. So if the target die it switch to another one if its still alive

I think it is considered a pet, it however doesn’t perform like one.

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They should reintroduce Kil’jaeden’s Cunning. Rework it to be similar to Spiritwalker’s Grace. To make it thematic for warlock, they could even make it cost a bit of HP, similar to Burning Rush. That would provide some mobility to warlocks and keep the theme of mobility at the cost of sacrificing HP.

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The thing is, they know lock mobility is an issue I particularly like the approach they took with destro by making all our cast time short we will see if it’s enough I do think it is, I’m ok with having no mobility while spells hit hard enough to compensate but the majority seems to dislike that guess they wanna be green mages. I do think dimensional garbage is not the answer to that problem if they don’t rework them

and if shorter cast time does not work well man time to bring KJC back in a form of ice flow