Reconfigure Affliction's Tormented Crescendo Talent

Classes Warlock
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Currently, it’s chance to provide you a free Malefic Rapture (no Soul Shard Cost and no Cast Time) is really only half true. Sure not using the Soul Shard is great, but the Global Cooldown after casting the ‘free’ one is the same (sometimes longer) than the actual Cast Time of Malefic Rapture. We’re basically waiting the same amount of time after an instant cast than we would if we had just used the cast time.

What I’d love is Tormented Crescendo instead stores charges (either 2 as it is now, or preferably up to 4), and your next Malefic Rapture cast expends all charges to either empower the damage of one Malefic Rapture, or better yet cast additional Malefic Raptures for every stored charge. It could improve cooldown windows, by not having to rush to pop a free TC MR which is soon expiring, you can hold for when you really want to use them.

For PvP it would mean you could be interrupted (sorry friends). But if the charges don’t expire until it is actually cast, and with the bonus damage being frontloaded, surely this would make up for it?

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Tormented Crescendo is another reason I hate Rapture in PvP. This talent just creates more GCD bloat when coupled with casting Nightfall procs.

The easiest solution is to make Tormented Crescendo instantly rapture all dotted targets upon the shadowbolt landing (removing the need to press instant raptures and monitor the two stacks). Shadowbolts triggered by Nightfall should have a 100% chance to automatically rapture all targets.

Let’s not forget about Drain Soul either since it also triggers Tormented Crescendo. This change would make it 100% smoother to proc raptures without canceling your channel or waiting until it finishes to case instant MR.

A lot of things in our damage rotation need to be modernized or made passive.