Rain of Fire literally ticks for 1300-1500 at 400ilvl…
Blizzard are you joking? Other classes AoE is hitting for 30-40-50-60k per hit and you have our 3 shard costing ability tick for 1500 because (you can stack it herpa derp) yes maybe cast 2 of them and that’s if the tank doesn’t move the adds because of sanguine.
Our AoE as Destro makes me sad and upset. Our ST and Cleave is fine but why are you forcing us to go Demo for Dungeons?
I just finished doing 3 Atal Dazar’s and had 2 hunters completely dominate the DPS meters on ST and AoE because of how much movement is In the dungeon. Even on bosses where im meant to shine with my big 3 minute CD I get outshined because of the movement.
My AoE dps was like 18k compared to the BM’s 30-40k and upwards of 50-60k dps AoE…
Destruction can do decent AoE every other pull, give or take. With Cataclysm and Doomfire though Dark Soul is the better choice for bosses. at least that seems to be the case when I play mine. Outside of those, it’s pretty weak. Affliction has the same issue in that it does decent AoE provided Phantom Singularity is up but may as well AFK if it isn’t. They should definitely buff Rain of Fire because it’s honestly a waste to even cast it it feels like.
It’s almost like some classes and specs excel at different things, that some are great for AoE and others are great for Single Target while still others are a middle ground of both.
Look at Unholy DK in the MDI with some of the trash AoE pulls they spike upwards of 500k (Yes, Five Hundred Thousand) DPS while the other classes in the group can’t even touch that level of AoE.
Not every class should be a master at everything, in fact no class should be a master at everything. There needs to be diversity among the classes and specs and with that some will dominate Single Target and others AoE. Its even a thing with Healers, some are better at Raid/Group mass healing and others are dominant at Single Target Focused healing.
LMAO at a lock crying about a spec. Mage says hi where all 3 specs either suck and are in the bottom 3 and 1 lower middle. The best is you crying about a fire mage. Typical lock. Play one of the other specs that are in the top 3 for a lock.
First of all, there are always going to be groups who take the best comps and cut out everyone else. Classes like Prot Warriors, Rogues, and Resto Druids are in extremely high demand because they are the top meta atm and a lot of organized groups like to pull from that (as well as things like IO and such).
However, that problem always comes back to two major primary solution. Find a stable group to roll with (Guild, Community, RL Friends, ect) or Make your own group. Because, at the end of the day, no matter how close the classes and specs are to each other those groups who are declining you would still decline you even if everything was more equalized because they look at the Meta.
But why does my Main AoE ability that costs a stupid amount of resource, tickle for 1500 dmg?
It makes no sense. Buff its dmg by 300% and it will be on par with other classes… it makes 0 sense to leave Destros AoE as it is.
As someone who also plays a healer priest at M+13-14, and swaps between Disc and Holy depending on the dungeon/affixes: You have no sympathy from me.
You have 3 DPS specs. Play the spec that’s appropriate for the content you’re doing. At least you aren’t playing one of the many hybrid classes that only have 1 (and MAYBE 2) option for the role they’re playing.
they recommend Cataclysm because it hits hard and applies immolate to everything. so its effectively our answer to the lack of “on demand” AoE. the issue with it is, it comes with a hefty CD and cant be spammed.
Thing is we have decent aoe. I have played destro ever since mop as my main. In BFA we excel at sigle target if you use your azerite traits for single target; and we have a whole other set of azerite traits for two target scenarios which is our main niche. Our two target burst is what keeps us relevant.
Re aoe I find that we do really good during heavy aoe mobs. Personnaly During reaping I follow the rotation of infernal, havoc, our 2 minute dps cd on the last tier, cataclysm, rain of fire, havoc, conflagx2, incinerate to 3+shards, rain of fire. Then swap to immolate on the 3 main health targets still alive, then havoc and chaos bolts to get them down. Using the summon infernal with the infernal buff talent that gives you shards is also a huge way that I get my dps.