Should destro have more than 4 buttons?

Serious question.

For single target we have:

Incinerate
Conflagrate
Immolate
Chaos bolt.

Major cooldown:
Summon infernal

I really dont use shadowburn or soul fire as those dont really contribute to my over all dps.

I use internal combustion and right now i pull on average with my gear 230k dps on raid bosses so i mainly just use the above single target damage.

For aoe, i immolate the 4 to 5 mobs and just spam rain of fire.

I just feel like destruction could use some flavor.

My question is, is destruction fine with a 4 button rotation?

There’s a lot more nuance than ‘4 buttons’ even if the current tier favors a very streamlined build. Soul Fire with IC is still quite strong right now though, even if it doesn’t look great because it performs better with a longer execution phase compared to just speed melting a boss.

By the looks of it, we’ll be picking up dimensional rift and CDF for next xpac with some potential to gain Soul Fire as well. Expect more buttons next time around.

I know last tier we have rift, cata, and CDF compared to now and I enjoyed it. You start looking at AoE with RoF and all of a sudden we’re jumping to 8-10 buttons.

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That is very true. I didnt even think about that, TWW we will have more buttons to press with DR and CDF.

I don’t really run instances any more but when I was finishing up pathfinder in the caverns I was using cataclysm to apply immolate to large groups and soulfire felt very effective.

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