Fire, Fire, Everywhere!
I hope all one of you enjoyed my post about the glory that is Demonic Pact, so now I’ll indulge that little pyromaniac in all of you, and talk about the new destruction tree. It is all about Burnination. Lots and lots of constant fire damage, not just from you, but from your little pewpew’ing imp too.
The build I plan to try out at 80 (because it looks like a whole lot of hurt) is this. It variates from the “OMG PRESS SHADOWBOLT HARDER! (With a touch of Immolate)” style of play that 21/40 destro seems to encourage.
Instead It seems to encourage an Immo, Incin x 5, CB, Conflag, Repeat, all the while, letting your demonic little machine gun rip on your target.
With this, your immolate, and first two Incinerates come at an insanely fast cast time, after a Conflag with a crazy chance to crit. The Chaos Bolt in this rotation still depends on whether or not it will be pve viable at all.
All of that, with the imp damage will certainly be something to be reckoned with.
Last post I talked about the wondrous gift blizzard bestowed on Demonologists with Demonic Pact, well, lets just say it’s good somone in the raid will still have it, because destruction continues to bring nothing to the raiding table but shorter boss fights I suppose.
All in all, I shy away from destro in TBC because it was the spam spec, the way it looks now, careful balances of haste and watching of timers will lead to victory for destruction warlocks, pressing just one button, even a macro, won’t cut it anymore.
Turning the highest dps caster into a skill spec from a spam spec… I say Bravo Blizzard!
It definitely seems like Blizz is steering destrolock towards fire damage, while afflictlock will remain similar in mechanics.
The new talents looks exciting, cant wait for WoTK to come…
But I don’t yet understand why Blizz will want to eliminate lock from doing destro shadow damage.
Posted 1 year, 2 months agoI want to turn my lock Sophina into a Demonolgy lock for raiding…. what do I do?
Gear changes?
Spell Rotation?
Give me the scoop.
Posted 1 year, 2 months agoNo one is happier to get a break from sb spam than me, but many of those talents just seem to lack a synergy, they don’t seem to mesh as well as I would hope (i outlined a few points on your last post).
Heh whatever tho, I am totally looking forward to giving them a test run
Posted 1 year, 2 months agoCB seems a little clonky for me to want to add to a spell rotation at the moment. I’m still waiting to see how all of the talent trees play out when they’re released before I make a decision to stay Demonology or test out the Fir.. err.. *cough* Destruction tree. The Fire/Imp spec sounds sexy but I think heavy AoE encounters spell impending doom to our little stamina buff and might cause issues. Maybe Blizz will love us and give our Imp the Avoidence skill like the Felguard has? Unlikely, but wishful thinking.
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago