I’m not going to try to make affliction or destruction better anymore. Demonology still feels like the real warlock spec. But man this spec is just blatantly missing stuff for no reason.
You need corruption. And immolate for demonology. And curse of agony. If curse of agony needs to be weakened. Fine. But with these demonology warlock would be such a fun spec again. Complete. Right now. Your just working with less tools. Warlock is generally supposed to be a dot class. So having these things would be a good start at making it perfect.
Demo suffers from much worse problems than not having curse of agony (corrupted is becoming baseline in SL)
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Corruption has a cast time and is weaker than a single cast of Shadowbolt for Demonology
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Your demons are basically just dots with a in-game model. I see where you are coming from but I don’t think Demo will get spells from the other specs … beside Corruption (and even that has no value)
I would like if they bring the Hand of Gul’dan Dot Trait from BFA Azerite as baseline … put it on any level after 50.
Or bring it as a talent somehow … maybe instead of [sacrificed souls]?
The problem with Demo is it just might be the most rooted spec in the game, and in Legion, I would say it was. It was a really fun spec, IF you didn’t have to move! The buildup mechanic of how you were trying to squeeze out as many demons as possible and then summon your Tyrant was a good one and IMO the best version of Demo lock ever, again if you didn’t have to move.
But, you do have to move in fights, and in BFA they made it a bit easier to move, but trying to squeeze every possible demon out is kind of capped now and you just don’t have that same feeling of accomplishment as you did in Legion with a 14 demon Tyrant summon.
Demonology suffers from the same fundamental flaw that most casters do, like Balance druid; generators hit for nothing. Shadowbolt hits for like 8k damage an i480. Seriously? My Boomie dumping 180k Starsurges and Wrath is hitting for 11k. Come on. Why are generators so weak?
In the same vein, Demonology suffers from too much damage being tied to Tyrant. Fire mage feels like too much damage is tied to Combustion. Ret feels like too much damage is tied to wings. It’s not a fun class design to do garbage damage for 2min then OMGWTFBBQ deeps. It’s, again, not a Demonology specific problem.
Now we could talk about Demonology specific problems, for sure. There are many. But there are better threads for that. It’s a long discussion. I feel like Demonology needs, very simply and very easily, to have damage moved from CDs (they’re de-sync’d now too, which is lovely) into sustained damage and generators like Shadowbolt and Soul Strike need to be hitting way, way, way harder. Frost bolt too. Wrath and Lunar Strike. Fireball. Lightning Bolt. Mindflay.
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Your moving in the wrong direction. We dont want to be giving more damage for easy spells. Thats the problem with destro now. We want Demo to have more dots over time. Warlocks are the Dot spec. Demonology used to have plenty of dots. And they removed them. They need to give immolate and curse of agony and instant corruption back. And demonology will be a lot stronger. Definitely a contender.
Yeah but if you read the class description. Its a master that focus on damage over time and demons. And also moving demo in the way that guy suggested. Is going to make it more clunky and more mindless.