So, after watching a ton of videos of the Midnight Alpha from various content creators, I feel like I can pretty confidently say that Demo is missing 1 button. I don’t know what that button would be. But right now the spec has “affectionately” been dubbed a “Shadowbolt simulator” by content creators.
And unfortunately it is true, new Demo is more about slinging blobs of shadow than summoning demons now. Roughly 70% of all casts are just Shadowbolt. And outside of Dreadstalkers and the cores they give upon despawning, there is nothing to break up the monotony of 3x Shadowbolt > Eye of Gul’dan > Repeat until Dreadstalkers go off cooldown.
Like you literally press 2 buttons for 20 seconds, then Call Dreadstalkers, and 12 sec later you get 2 cores, only to go back to pressing just Shadowbolt and Eye of Gul’dan again. And that’s it. Tyrant even make this more monotonous since it delays your cores by making the Dreadstalkers last longer.
We need something to happen in between those long streaks of Shadowbolt spam.
Personally I would probably want something that interacts with the Felguard, since it is now a completely passive part of your kit with the loss of Immutable Hatred, Demonic Strength, and Soulstrike. Blizzard could remove Felguard and you couldn’t tell the difference between it being there and not.