Just want add that if other destruction warlocks who arena & shuffle disagree or have some perspective I’m not aware of, please share as I’m open to being incorrect.
I thought this tuning would feel like a buff for destro in arena/shuffle, but I’ve played a few games, tried different talents and it honestly feels like more of a nerf.
While Chaos bolts can do a bit more damage now, it’s not enough for the small window we get to cast whilst still having to maintain constantly dispelled withers to build stacks that just do less damage.
On top of that reducing Soulfire proc cast speed down to 60% feels soo slow and majority of time will get kicked.
Rifts and incin are still trash, 3 globals spent spamming rifts while on the run when we need to be maintaining wither instead feels bad, especially since the wither nerf, all it does is make you spam 3 globals to replace the same amount of damage we had with wither but lost due to the nerf.
Hopefully as we get more gear it might feel better, but idk kinda feels sucky, slowed down the whole play style in a meta of constant cc/interrupts for a hard cast play style that still doesn’t have the reward it should once you get bolts off.
If the reward was there with bolts, it’d be great, but it ain’t.