Destruction Warlock: Analysis of the 9.2 Systems & Hotfixes in Mythic+ - Shards, AoE, and Blasphemy

Live Posted 2022/04/19 at 4:06 AM by Loozy

March 29th Weekly Reset

9.2 Tier Set Bonus - Shroud of the Demon Star

2-Set - Ritual of Ruin - Every 10 Soul Shards spent grants Ritual of Ruin, making your next Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire consume no shards and have no cast time.
4-Set - Avatar of Destruction - When Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire consumes a charge of Ritual of Ruin, you summon a Blasphemy for 8 seconds.

Destruction

All damage increased by 5%.

LoozyDestruction Warlock in Mythic+ in patch 9.2Destrution Warlock in Mythic SepulcherWhat makes Destruction so strong in Mythic+?Talents

Inferno - Turns Rain of Fire into a soul shard generator, if enough targets are present. Also, the 20% damage increase to this is very strong as this is our biggest damage dealer on AoE.

Rain of Chaos - Makes you spawn more infernals that do more damage, but more importantly generates you more soul shards.

Soul Conduit - Not quite as important as the two prior, but over the course of an entire dungeon, this talent will end up netting you a good amount of soul shards.

Tier set bonuses

2-Set - Ritual of Ruin - Every 10 Soul Shards spent grants Ritual of Ruin, making your next Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire consume no shards and have no cast time.

4-Set - Avatar of Destruction - When Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire consumes a charge of Ritual of Ruin, you summon a Blasphemy for 8 seconds.

How does this work?Rain of ChaosSummon InfernalRitual of RuinAvatar of DestructionRain of ChaosRain of ChaosAvatar of DestructionRain of FireSummon InfernalRain of ChaosLegendariesWilfred's Sigil of Superior SummoningSummon InfernalSummon InfernalCovenantImpending CatastropheContained Perpetual ExplosionMemory of UnityImpending CatastropheDecaying Soul SatchelMemory of UnityFirst StrikeRain of FireFirst StrikeRain of FireFirst StrikeFirst StrikeField of BlossomsDream DelverPodtenderConclusionDestruction Warlock Nerfs

Inferno (Talent) now has a reduced chance for Rain of Fire to generate Soul Shard Fragments when it deals damage beyond 5 targets (was 8).

Rain of FireInferno

Comment by thouforsakenWhy waste time? Say lot word when few word do trick?

Not a nerfComment by Blubb174Destruction pulls 100 to 400% more AOE damage than the rest and Blizzard is afraid of a real nerf lol.

Destruction warlocks will still be able to pull 350k dps in a pull wgen other specs deal 30 to 80k dps. Even overall, we see destro warlocks pulling over 40k dps, including the st parts of a dungeon, when most specs fight to get 15k to 20k....Comment by DhrallI wish PvP was on Blizzards radar.. The absolute state of arena atm is sad. Holy priest, rogues and destro warlocks are completely dominating arena.

PvE balance is less important than PvP balance imo, even though I play both. PvP being unbalanced directly impact the experience of players in a way unbalanced PvE doesn’t.Comment by Mardux11Destruction pulls 100 to 400% more AOE damage than the rest and Blizzard is afraid of a real nerf lol.

Destruction warlocks will still be able to pull 350k dps in a pull wgen other specs deal 30 to 80k dps. Even overall, we see destro warlocks pulling over 40k dps, including the st parts of a dungeon, when most specs fight to get 15k to 20k....Comment by SergiurapDestruction pulls 100 to 400% more AOE damage than the rest and Blizzard is afraid of a real nerf lol.

Destruction warlocks will still be able to pull 350k dps in a pull wgen other specs deal 30 to 80k dps. Even overall, we see destro warlocks pulling over 40k dps, including the st parts of a dungeon, when most specs fight to get 15k to 20k....Comment by AuzsiDestro doing 300k in mass aoe and 30k+ overall.

Demo doing 60k opener on single target bosses.

No idea what happened with warlocks this season, but i loving it. Basically zero to hero. So nice to see them doing better than mages once.Comment by KargnacBlizzard's spell descriptions make me scream in frustration sometimes.
"you summon a Blasphemy for 8 seconds" - uhuh... Wait. What? I summon a what now?
Wth is a Blasphemy? What does it do? Is it good? Is it bad?
It could as well read "When Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire consumes a charge of Ritual of Ruin, you MmMmRrRrgGgGLlLl for 8 seconds."Comment by NemueBlizzard's spell descriptions make me scream in frustration sometimes.
"you summon a Blasphemy for 8 seconds" - uhuh... Wait. What? I summon a what now?
Wth is a Blasphemy? What does it do? Is it good? Is it bad?
It could as well read "When Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire consumes a charge of Ritual of Ruin, you MmMmRrRrgGgGLlLl for 8 seconds."Comment by SarthoriusBlizzard's spell descriptions make me scream in frustration sometimes.
"you summon a Blasphemy for 8 seconds" - uhuh... Wait. What? I summon a what now?
Wth is a Blasphemy? What does it do? Is it good? Is it bad?
It could as well read "When Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire consumes a charge of Ritual of Ruin, you MmMmRrRrgGgGLlLl for 8 seconds."Destruction pulls 100 to 400% more AOE damage than the rest and Blizzard is afraid of a real nerf lol.

Destruction warlocks will still be able to pull 350k dps in a pull wgen other specs deal 30 to 80k dps. Even overall, we see destro warlocks pulling over 40k dps, including the st parts of a dungeon, when most specs fight to get 15k to 20k....Comment by thorr69Why waste time? Say lot word when few word do trick?

Not a nerfComment by Blubb174Destruction pulls 100 to 400% more AOE damage than the rest and Blizzard is afraid of a real nerf lol.

Destruction warlocks will still be able to pull 350k dps in a pull wgen other specs deal 30 to 80k dps. Even overall, we see destro warlocks pulling over 40k dps, including the st parts of a dungeon, when most specs fight to get 15k to 20k....https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/29#dataset=95Comment by okta7Blizzard's spell descriptions make me scream in frustration sometimes.
"you summon a Blasphemy for 8 seconds" - uhuh... Wait. What? I summon a what now?
Wth is a Blasphemy? What does it do? Is it good? Is it bad?
It could as well read "When Chaos Bolt or Rain of Fire consumes a charge of Ritual of Ruin, you MmMmRrRrgGgGLlLl for 8 seconds."Destruction pulls 100 to 400% more AOE damage than the rest and Blizzard is afraid of a real nerf lol.

Destruction warlocks will still be able to pull 350k dps in a pull wgen other specs deal 30 to 80k dps. Even overall, we see destro warlocks pulling over 40k dps, including the st parts of a dungeon, when most specs fight to get 15k to 20k....Comment by Blubb174This is AFTER the nerf. Destro locks are joking about the "huge nerf" because they are already ressouce capped at 5 targets...

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