So the current soul shard system is cool and all but I feel like that’s a solid fit for demo and affliction. What are the odds that we could see Destro return to the Ember system we used to have in MoP honestly that system was all around really good. In between your big ember dumps on Chaos bolt, your sustained abilities actually did some pretty good damage it wasn’t even broken or overpowered. You also had the option to consume embers for a self heal. I honestly would love to see this back for destro in Dragonflight
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I think highly likely and I love this idea. It fits destruction much more from a class fantasy point of view.
How does a fire based specialization have soulshards as a resource.
Different classes and their specializations have a different resource system why can’t destruction have the same?
couldnt you just introduce shard tap and be done with it? youd have burning embers as a glyph for cosmetic purposes and then youd have shard tap instead of ember tap and boom done? the resource system doesnt really work any differently does it?
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It’s “the same thing”, the biggest difference between Current Destruction and Mists of Pandaria Destruction isn’t even the Embers vs Soulshards differences (because some differences existed).
Embers by themselves only differentiate in things like: You only had 4 Embers (40 rly versus 5 Soul Shards (50) and the economy of them meant you casted less chaos bolts then than you cast now (but to compensate for that, chaos bolts then did hit somewhat harder than currently)
The spec itself had some other differences like RoF existed as a generator while FnB the AOE spender, https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Chaotic_Energy being a thing and a few changes on spells from then and now.
But deep down? Embers are Orange Soulshards who got multiplied by 10 on the backend of the spec, then, they got painted Purple again and became Soulshards again.
Edit: just putting this as i am sure someone might show up and say “ember offered you a level of risk as they slowly killed you in self damage”; that version of embers got ditched somewhe along beta and the version who went live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNoKXCNh-8 didn’t damage yourself, yet, you still kept ember tap heal.
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