After playing around with the Alpha talent calculator and comparing it to live:
Fel Intellect and Practiced Rituals (2nd row of the tree) should not be a talents. We are losing talents, but the devs still make room for filler. The top of the tree should not have filler talents like this, it should be reserved for core mechanics. Why move carnivorous stalkers down? It should be where PR sits. They just reinvented the wheel for no reason.
I understand the intent of Evil Eye, but I think it needs to be moved up and reworked. I like the idea of letting us talent into more single target damage through Eye of Guldan, but Evil Eye as it stands now feels too weak and holds little impact.
Instead it should something like:
- Evil Eye:
Eye of Guldan survives its initial blast, continuing to serve you, dealing X damage for 8 seconds. Multiple eyes may over lap
Now Demo’s single target profile has distinct visual flair with a small squad of eyes to complement the imps.
Rune of Shadows has been nerfed and now cost an extra talent point . . . just why? Same for Master Summoner, which should not be talent at all IMO. I am half expecting builds to just ignore RoS like this. Just revert the change, RoS was fine as it is on live.
Master Summoner really needs to just be removed. Baking in Vilefiend into dogs is an alright change, but this also means MS is basically only effecting Tyrant’s cast time as Dread Calling already exists for dreadstalkers’ casts. Just bake the cast time reduction into Tyrant and remove MS already.
On Alpha Demo has lost 3 buttons in its rotation. I understand the big goal going into Midnight is to simplify specs and this is not a problem unique to Demo. I can understand removing Demonic Strength, and I can kind of understand the Vilefiend change too. What I don’t like is that the only cool down we have to look forward to is Tyrant. Removing G:FG should’ve been the opportunity to add a reworked Nether Portal or a new big demon summon. As things are now, all big demon summons (Vilefiend, the new Apex talent, the Diabloist package) are all procs / passively summoned.
I want to see NP return in some form as a proper 2 min cooldown.