2 embers feels so awkward to play around and you never get the same high that you did lining up 4 chaos bolts with a trinket proc!
So you want to nerf the damage of chaos bolt so that we can cast it more? It’s extremely unlikely they would cut the cost of chaos bolt in half but leave the damage the same, especially considering how the class and spec has changed since then.
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You mean, soul shards. Embers haven’t been a thing in some time.
I want 3 ss chaos bolts
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I think Chaos Bolt costing 2 Soul Shards make much more sense given how the spec and the spell evolved and the existence of Shadowburn as 1 Shard Spender.
Part of the reason why 1-shard/1-ember stoped being a thing is that Blizzard didn’t want you to be able to pool 4 Chaos Bolts (as before you could only have up to 4 embers) and with Soul Shards being 5 i doubt they would want you to pool 5.
I also think it’s interesting how each spec deals with this, Affliction main spender is 1-shard but its much slower shard generation, Destruction main spender is a 2-shard(3 in aoe) but its generation is faster than affliction and slower than Demo(Faster in AOE even), and Demo is a 3-shard spender but have the fastests shard gen in single target.
Could there be a world where Chaos bolt goes back to 1 shard? sure, but there would be some drastic changes who i am not sure would be so appreciated.
Rather 3 shard cost with higher damage.
Chaos Bolt lost it’s unique “oh no here it comes” when it can be spammed yet damage is the same as many instants from other classes.
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Destro is at its best when chaos bolt kills people by itself
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Me too.
Chaos Bolt needs to go back to being that intimidating projectile. It’s cast way too frequent to be scary.
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They probably wouldn’t have to if they’d get rid of all the trash talents of: Bolt does 10% more damage if target has immolate. Bolt does 25% damage for 8 seconds after conflag. Eradication etc.
All those talents suck and do nothing but bottle neck the damage of chaos bolt (and other spells they affect). I would much rather remove chaos bolt from all of them and bake the damage back into the baseline spell
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Roaring blaze explicitly does not buff chaos bolt, only Soul Fire, Imolate/Wither, Incinerate, Conflag, and CDF.
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They’re Embers in all but name. They function identically to Embers.
They also function has soul shards before they became embers to revert back to soul shards.
Maybe alter the spell so that using no shards hits for 50% of normal damage, one shard 75%, 3 shard, 150%, 4 shards at 200%. With modifiers you could start getting some crazy numbers so probably not viable but just a thought.