Curious, because I’m not really feeling Demo atm.
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Same I went to destro and I’m liking it so far. I been topping dps meters.
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I think it is the worst spec right now. During the full blast mode you go berserk but between those bursts it is meh. Affli pumping with one button, seed of corruption is the name of the game now. braindead.
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Fun but numbers wise its extremely weak. I think if they just buff the numbers on it, Destro would be fine.
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I mainly PvP, but I found destro to be vastly superior for actually making things die. Demo has a lot of fun new toys and a ton of control, but it just doesn’t put out enough damage. With destro, you can get a bunch of haste rolling with reverse entropy and random malevolence procs, which let you soulfire for a guaranteed overlord for shard generation, then you can dump that into chaos bolt spam.
I was really excited to try demo with all the new quality of life changes (instant dogs + vilefiend, 2 interrupts), it just doesn’t put out enough heat right now without the capstone talents.
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Not to mention, as another forum post accurately identified, the change to Hand of Gul’dan (requiring 3 shards instead of 1-3) means you can’t preload the cast if you shadowbolt on 2 shards, and it adds a really jarring clunkiness to the flow of its casting.
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Not a fan of wither dot tracking. I enjoy destro, but the wither part is ruining it for me. That said, immolate isn’t fun either. The cleave spreading doesn’t ever refresh your current target, so you still have to keep track of the debuff, which now requires an unfiltered nameplate or CDM, and I’m not using that garbage.
If you go off the parses on Warcraftlogs….well
Dead last.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/44?region=3&aggregate=amount
Doesn’t feel like it has the same pop, but is probably the best of our specs currently. Even though I do prefer playing Demo.
Destro now has total control over a perfect “go” in pvp, it’s awesome even without the capstone 4 point talents.
Yeah there’s some weird casting lag everytime I go to cast hog.
Man locking us into hog being only castable at 3 soul shards is terrible not to mention in pvp you might as well have 1 school of magic because you can’t cast shadowbolts when kick on shadow and you can’t cast hog if you have less than 3 soul shard la where as before you could.
Meahwile on my unholy dk. 
You can’t stop any of my abilities and with 30 yards and cc only being able to applied twice, not to mention team magic shield I could care less about how many utilities you have since I can just tank it all with no worries what so ever while doing full damage.
Playing unholy dk is as if demo had spells that are all instant, I have access to both power syphon and imlposion where implosion only cost 1 soulshard that summons in 1 empowered imp to blow up for the power of 6 with being as tanky as DF season 1 soul leech shield while the community is just slightly bothered.
Not to mention as unholy dk you a mix of affliction/demo.
Lastly can we rake off soul burn off the gcd since that mechanic to gain a benefit from it from DF is gone now.
Destro is the same it’s been for a while now.
Visually fun, mechanically dull.
I agree with you about not feeling Demo.
I liked a lot of the changes but they took it 1 step too far.
it is the most newbie-friendly spec and it is good.
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Define “good.”
Are you referring to visual appeal? Definitely.
Rotation? It’s fairly simple, but decent.
Damage? It’s literally the worst DPS spec in the game right now, by a pretty significant margin…doing less than half the damage of the top DPS spec in the game.
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Thats actually fine. Number can be adjusted. Spells and what spells we get cannot
As a part of the warlock community I dismiss your application to become a warlock due to the positivity in thinking we’ll get adjusted by blizzard to be good.
Regards
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I really tried to stick with Destro after the patch prune/change and jsut kept going “I know things have been altered but it STILL feels more off than it should…” and afterquesting and dungeons I switched to Demo, and while plenty of folks are not happy with it either…Im having a blast so far…especially compared to Destro.
That’s why the rest of my post covered the rest of what you’re talking about.
I provided a holistic picture of where the spec is right now, today.
Not really. Blizzard should give destruction (and other classes) buffs as necessary to where they’re all performing within roughly 10% of the top DPS spec, but it’s prepatch and that can be fixed later.
So, I’m gonna out myself and my shame for this, because I definitely feel dirty about this, but…
I’ve liked Destro and the new Demo (new meaning since they took away what it used to be and created Demon Hunters with the ashes, and changed it to a pet spec), but always hated Affliction (managing dots = annoying).
This patch, I tried out Affliction…and I’m…liking it.
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You guys realize rain of fire stacks now right? They moved some of Destro’s single target potential into massive AOE potential. I’m just asking because I haven’t seen many people making use of it in BGs yet.