So I leveled as Demon and now I went Destro at 120. I feel kinda squishy. IS demon the tankiest of the specs? I want the tankish for pvp/pve (mythic +)
In pve, i dont think there is a whole lot of difference between the three. Maybe affliction, but that is because they are the best suited to DODGE damage with their instant casts.
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Affliction. Voidwalker holds threat, dot um up and health funnel.
how about for pvp? same?
I think demo is the tankiest; tried destro in the open world and it felt squishier and less control.
I don’t think any of the 2 other specs can compare with demo. I mean soul link is baseline and if you take demon skin as well, the damage mitigation is kinda op.
Destro and Demo are the most inherently tanky due to Soul Link and Destro mastery. affliction is the squishiest but has the ability to heal itself quite well thru use of ID.
Destruction is the tankiest when you have Infernal up and bursting as the burst damage will regenerate your Demon Skin quickly. Passively though, Demonology is tankier due to Soul Link.
While not the same as being tanky, it should also be noted that, since Demo does a lot of its damage via pets, Demo will generate by far the least amount of threat. Because of this, Demo pets can actually hold threat whereas aff and destro will pretty nuch immediately pull off their pets. It also means when tanks die, you’ll likely be one of if not the last to die. Back in heroic ghuun progression I was last man standing on our first h ghuun kill for this reason
I don’t do Demonology, but Aff and Destro are equal, IMO. The VW holds threat well with the occasional exception. If you steal threat, throttle back for 2-3 seconds and the VW will take it back.
How on earth did you come to that conclusion? Lmao my pets as demo don’t hold threat…
In the open world it was my experience that the FG held agro better than the VW. However, in mythic+ I have never had to hold off my FG because of too much threat. I even went into a Mythic0 with some undergeared guys to help this past week and I didn’t hold back and the tank did not lose agro.
Well yeah, that’s because FG threat is still crap, just Demo Lock does a lot of its damage by proxy of pets so your own personal threat generation is very low. In group situations there’s pretty much no way the FG will hold threat over just about anyone else, even if you remember to turn its threat aura back on.
Hell, depending on your spec, if you’re using Explosive Potential and have a build that revolves around more Demonbolts, you’ll also eventually pull off of the FG too, but a build like mine (which granted is certainly not the best build, i just love summoning more demons) will pretty much never pull off of the FG. Though if the FG dies, it’s probably never going to get threat back when resummoned, at least not before either you or the mob dies.