It’s a great mixture melee and caster.
But then disintegrate really ruins this. It should not be a channel but instant cast damage.
Reduce the cost. Make us press it multiple times. I don’t care but our spender/sustain should not be casted.
Devo should only cast for CC and overpower spells.
They should make ice claws melee range and increase its damage.
Change the Mastery from the dumb unbalance able crap it is now to something like Increases damage the closer you are to the target, max benefit at melee ranged.
Maybe ice lazer should be changed to instant cast dot, keeps its current duration and proc chance for stars burst. Which is what? 3 second dot that ticks 5 times. Maybe make it stackable but not refresh its duration so you can spend essence and essence burst as normal.
Idk. there are tons of options here that could make dev feel better and play more like a mid ranged fighter rather than a ranged caster with severally gimped ranged.
Exactly.
Great ideas love to see a fleshed out response full of ideas.
There’s a lot of ways. Hopefully someone at blizz reads this and makes some changes <3
I would reroll back to warrior instantly if they ever went with ideas like yours to turn devastation into a melee class
I like his ideas.
To each their own.
The only improvements i would suggest for Devastation is a Mastery change, a range increase of at least 5 yards, some mobility QoL (reduced hover CD/usable while casting/or consuming essence burst auto-grants hover time), and some passive survivability increases (could just be buffing the leech talent to 10%)
Making it into a weird ranged/melee hybrid is not what i’m looking for out of this spec. There’s survival hunter for that.
I feel like it’s already a weird ranged/melee hybrid. More so than survival is really.
I just don’t like disintegrate channel. I feel like it ruins the melee/caster hybrid feeling that i otherwise get
No, its just a caster with less range for no reason. It’s not a melee hybrid at all.
If disintegrate was an instant cast it would be basically a 25 yard melee spellcaster.
Being forced into this channel feels awkward to me.
Obviously you feel different. And thats OK 
I don’t think you know what melee means.
It seems like you really wanna be upset and mad and fight.
I don’t.
Glad you have your own perspective and stuff.
I really like that devoker is 25 yard range. It’s unique. Lots of movement. Lots of instant casts and the empower spell charge up thing is awesome.
I don’t need another ranged class. Nor do I need another melee.
The in between nature of devoker is unique and I find it fun. Disintegrate channel kinda isn’t my favorite and I’d love to see it changed. That’s all.
Happy hunting
disintegrate being a channel or a cast or an instant doesn’t change devastations role as definitely not a melee
OK cool. If you start a thread about whether anyone cares if we call it a melee or a caster or whatever it is you are upset about that sounds great.
Great input.
Can’t wait to see that thread.
Thanks
why do i need to duplicate this thread
Thanks for your input.
Appreciate it!
Except its supposed to be a mid range caster like combatant.
Your changes push it more and more towards just beng a regular ranged class. Which is fine too. but not what they identified the spec to be.
Either drop the idea of mid range caster and make it a normal raned, or actually develop the spec into a mid ranged fighter and remove the “caster” tag from it.
This middle ground doesnt work well.
did blizzard identify it as this or did you
Blizzard did.
Literally called it a mid ranged caster then gave it roughly half the range as normal.
so its not a mid range caster like combatant, its just a mid range caster
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I think if we could at least always cast disintegrate while moving it would already feel better…
Now for rework i believe other classes have waited longer, so we can wait a little