Just echoing what I wrote in the beta feedback just then,
Felguard for us Demonology players is in a rough spot survivability wise, I’m even running the potency “Fel Commando” which reduces incoming damage received and it still dies really really quickly, on some cases 2 mobs is enough to take him down, using health funnel in a basic rotation isn’t a great feeling gameplay wise.
During the Beta it was an issue and several feedback was given about this concern and still hasn’t been addressed.
Venthyr covenant aside in this post which deeply needs more tuning or possible rework, I’ve left feedback in above post.
Felguard is a huge portion of our gameplay, damage, talents, having him die and having Fel Domination down is 90% of the time a death sentence to us.
Voidwalker which does significantly less dps and available to all specs seems to out last the Felguard which is our unique go to pet of choice.
Felguard definitely needs to be looked at in terms of survivability, like I said I’m even running Fel Commando potency and he’s a walking Tissue Paper. I won’t even get started on PvP or I’ll be here forever.
Please have a second look over this aswell as the suggestion I left for Venthyr Impending Catastrophe.
Just a long time WoW player passionate about the class in particular the Demonology spec. I already gave my Mythic Raid spot away cause I went Venythr, that’s how much I care about this spec.
Had the same thoughts when I leveled my Warlock. I’d send my Felguard in and I was nearly killing myself trying to funnel health to that guy a little too often.
My experience was a bit different. Levelling through SL, sometimes my VW was very strong and could tank 10 mobs, sometimes he died to 1-2 mobs. Elites he tanks one at a time with no problem, sometimes he chases a stray rabbit and the rabbit kills him.
I have a little bit of m0 gear now, World quests are considerably easier and he dies less and less, but I still wouldn’t solo quest without him.
I didn’t really have an issue leveling. I run with demonic skin though and that talent also increases your Felguard survivability.
As for fixing impending catastrophe from Venthyr easiest fix in my mind is just have it apply corruption as well as it’s own dot. Two dots from the same spell and it gives destro and Demo a chance to use corruption since it’s not really worth casting alone on one mob not being instant.
That change would practically make it the go to for all specs. It applies our soul shard generator. I get that the Kyrian one can give shards at times, but apply corruption is just an easy fix that works for all specs and is a dps increase to the spell. Also, I’m pretty sure they don’t want to strengthen it too much single target because that’s it’s weakness.
And it wouldn’t be great for aff by any means but saves a cast of seed.
I’m just throwing out an easy fix idea considering if it’s not implemented SOON all that’ll happen is some tuning. They won’t want to make any drastic covenant changes too far after people have picked already.
It wouldn’t be the go too, I’m not asking to increase impending Catastrophe dps as a skill, I’m asking to help the specs which they lack in, Especially Demonology, 4 soul shard = 2 Demonic cores on a 1 min cool down is definitely not a must pick choice, kyrians still better, immolate shard regen is % chance, Immolate’s periodic damage has a 50% chance to generate 1 Soul Shard Fragment, which is hardly a must pick… not a shard, fragment… kyrians and Night Fae still better.
Right now Venthyr does trash in all aspects.
Considering most pulls are 3-5 it’s hardly… OP for Destro or Demo even Afflic on a one min cool down.
Night Fae soul rot and Kryians is dominating way ahead atleast giving Immolate AoE and Demo Core procs gives some synergy to us, also helping Afflic with maintenance on Agony once again… on a 1 min cooldown…
Currently Afflic is the only semi benefit for the covenant as the dot works with Malefic Rapture, while the DoT is the weakest out of all covenants, I’d rather a weak dot but have quality of life then nothing.
People picking Night Fae for the Dps, Kyrians for the instant refill on shards, let alone spammable ability, Necro for Burst window opportunity, Venthyr for… aesthetics…