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It use to be useful until they added the sacrifice…it used to be a good pet for certain situations. It was never as powerful as it should have been.
A Sacrifice was its previous iteration. Summoning a doom guard with no repercussions came in MoP.
It should be usable, like when it was made usable.
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Doom Bolt deals just as much dps as imp’s firebolt. But in addition to that, there is a Doom dot, which deals some extra damage and generates a soul shard after 20 seconds.
Considering the Doom dot, the doomguard will cause around 35% more damage than the Imp, and it will also periodically generate a soul shard.
So yeah, the Doomguard pet is pretty amazing. But having to enslave it every 5 minutes makes it very hard and sometimes even bad to use in practice. And then there is the 1hour cooldown on the Ritual of Doom.
I’ll say the Ritual of Doom is mostly there for the fun of sacrificing a friend for a pet you’re not gonna use.
Id prefer if blizz made it so only the warlock can enslave it. Having ppl help summon it only to have other warlocks take it is just bad design.
that’s hillarious
I’m assuming you never use Doomguard as demo?
When using it I notice a 35-50% increase in pet damage. I believe at a lower ilvl my imp would do ~ 10% of my total damage in ST and doomguard did 15%.
But in addition to the hassle of maintaining it, it can’t proc the demonic synergy legendary for you, making it an overall loss of DPS 
If they fix it so that the Doomguard can proc / benefit from synergy then it would be worth it to use for parsing on fights that you know inside and out. In practice the need to enslave it every 5 minutes can be a challenge unless you know the fight well and can find opportune times to use it, and or your kills times are < 5 minutes. If it’s progression it’s never worth it because odds are it will break without you realizing and kill a healer.
Side note: if anyone has / knows of a weakaura that can spam when your enslave demon timer is at 10 seconds that would be wonderful… I never remember to check him, even as my focus target, after the first re-enslave of an encounter
Wow I DIDN’T think it wouldn’t work with the legendary that sounds like a bug though so maybe they will fix it
Agreed. Don’t know why blizzard keeps going backwards yet love to emphasize “class fantasy”.
What is stupid is Blizz giving back some really nice and useful spells to other classes and we get what, 3 curses (which are mostly only useful in PvP) and the completly useless summon doomguard and 1.5 sec cast Corruption which is useless. I whish they would’ve gave us something more useful like Fel Flame or Shadowflame. You know instant spells that can fill gaps when moving, the kind of thing Destro and Demo really need right now.
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