Single target, it’s fine.
AoE, it’s no where near close to other specs unless you get lucky with a pit-lord meteor, Rain of Fire ritual proc, and Cataclysm all at the same time.
Suggestions:
- Buff Rain of Fire by 20%
- Reduce Cataclysm cooldown by 10 seconds (or make it cost a soul shard with no CD)
- Change Mayhem to be an AoE mass target where your next single target spell hits all targets within the zone (or have it randomly proc based on your Mastery 1-5 targets, higher the mastery, more targets it selects)
- Increase Fire and Brimstone damage to 50% (or even 75%)
- Change Channel Demonfire into just Demonfire and when you cast it, bolts randomly fly out and you can still cast other spells
- Remove Rolling Havoc and make Summoner’s Embrace the talent there, then change Grimoire of Sacrifice so that sacrificing a pet gives you their ability plus Imp - added 5% fire damage, Sayaad - added 5% chaos damage, Voidwalker - added 5% health, Felhunter - spells deal shadow damage (sacrificing Imp would boost AoE)
- Add a 50% cleave/AoE damage bonus to Decimation when you cast a hastened Soulfire
Not all of them, but maybe one of them. The flat 5% damage buff coming will help some but still won’t put us even close to other specs/classes AoE which is going to cripple us for M+
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Honestly, I feel like this would be the perfect time to bring back fire and brimstone as a toggle ability that spreads immolate and incinerate to 3-5 targets
It would build shards and get us to rain of fire casts quicker
Also spreading immolate quicker would be good for the channel ability (forgetting its name right this second…channel demonfire?)
Obviously it would need to be balanced appropriately but it seems like a good fit in my eyes
who are you guys running with? I play demo/diaboist and I feel fine, the 5% buff kinda shocked me… I win single-target fights and I’m competitive in AOE fights and sometimes even beat ele shammies.
You’re not supposed to run cata (that’s another discussion), the other node is wild.
You also can’t base anything around current dungeons. Trash in heroics dies in like, 5 seconds. Hardly enough time to get rains rolling.
Go hit AoE dummies. RoF spam pumps like crazy.
It’s a little too early to get a good read, but that goes both ways. If you’re just deleting everything and beating people right now, it’s because everything dies in 5 seconds and it’s just all about who gets the damage events in first. If you’re slow on that burst, you deal no damage.
That said, if the 5% damage buff seems shocking to you, you should look outside your bubble.
I preferred how my lock felt in S3.
Rifts splashing, resets from immolate so I can run cata and just occasionally rain of fire, channel demonfire on CD, and AOE incinerate with from the ashes.
It felt very well rounded and mobile. Idk why they changed rift resets to incinerate.
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