Destruction Warlock Review - Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions

Хаос nerfed from 100% of damage copied, to 60% of damage copied. A lot of the community had negative reactions to this change, but it’s actually something I’ve been asking for since the start of Warlords of Draenor. Destruction has long been completely unbalanceable due to its ability to do 100% burst damage to 2 targets. Хаос being brought down in power means Destruction’s ST and AoE can be buffed to a healthier state than they were in during previous expansions.

Ожог души on T15. I like anything that changes up the monotony of just pressing Испепеление for long periods of time, and I like mechanics that manipulate time even more. It’s nothing thought provoking, but it still feels good to switch up the buttons you press.

Внутреннее возгорание on T30. This talent has been very polarizing in the community. Some people love it, some people hate it. I love it. It’s similar to Ожог души, but in a slightly more thought provoking way. The effect happens when Стрела Хаоса hits the target, so you can often times cast Жертвенный огонь after Стрела Хаоса and refresh it before the Стрела Хаоса hits.

Ожог Тьмы. It’s currently in a pretty decent state. It provides a lot of instant cast GCDs giving Destruction some of the mobility it’s been lacking for several expansions. It’s a few percent behind on patchwerk, but if there are adds or a fair bit of movement it can pull ahead.

Гримуар жертвоприношения on T90. It returns as an actually viable talent! We now once again have access to Гримуар жертвоприношения + Оплот теней + Темный пакт. Unlike previous times Гримуар жертвоприношения has been good, it’s not just always the best. It’s always a decision between controlled burst and sustained dps.

T100 Talents. What can I say, the row is just really well designed and balanced. All 3 talents are within 2% ST, and you get a choice between a powerful CD, a short duration rotational CD, and a constant passive. All 3 have value outside of ST as well.

Ожог души. It’s just slightly worse than Искоренение and Искровый разряд, meaning it has no real use in PvE at current tuning.

Огненный ливень. This is the big one. All of the exact same issues from legion are still here, and don’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. Огненный ливень is still an awful spell. It’s 8 seconds long baseline (the haste really doesn’t help much), has only an 8 yard radius, which is less than melee range, and costs 3/5ths of your total resources. Things constantly move in so many dungeons and affixes in BFA that it’s just impossible a lot of the time to get Огненный ливень to even do half the damage it should on paper. Not to mention the fact that most of the Humanoids in dungeons now run away when they’re near death for no apparent reason.

T60 Talents. Преисподняя is numerically awful, but the bigger issue is that it’s mechanically awful because it moves more of your damage into the unreliable Огненный ливень. Огонь и сера was overnerfed to a point where it’s just always bad in any situation no matter how many targets there are. Катаклизм is just always the best choice right now, and honestly I’m kind of fine with that. Катаклизм in combination with Направленный демонический огонь almost entirely makes up for how bad Огненный ливень is, and feels amazing to use.

Похищение жизни. It just feels too weak. Right now you can expect it to be about 4.4% of your life healed per second, at an absolutely massive dps loss. Maybe in the context of Destruction also having Поглощение души and Mastery, it’s fine for overall balance; but, it still feels incredibly weak.

Ожог души. Based on our simulations and dummy testing, it needs a sizeable buff of about 35.5% for it to be notably (2%) better than Искровый разряд ST. This tier (and Destruction talents in general) has a relatively low impact on dps, so it needs pretty dramatic changes to see results. Ожог души does pretty decent damage already, so they could try buffing the shards it gives. Buffing the shard gen to 6 puts it about 1% ahead of Искровый разряд. To get it up to 2% it would need another 15% damage buff on top of that.

Похищение жизни. Buff the healing percentage so that it remains the impactful choice it should be between damage and healing.

Огненный ливень. Buff the radius, reduce the duration, or both. There’s no good reason that Огненный ливень takes 8 seconds to do it’s damage at 0% haste. Even with a *very* sizeable 20% haste it’s still 6.67 seconds. There’s also no good reason that it has an 8 yard radius. Звездопад is 8 seconds and 15y radius, with a talent that makes it 20% larger and lets you cast while moving in it. Землетрясение is 6 seconds and 8y radius. Смерть и разложение is 10 seconds and 8y radius, but has a talent that makes the radius increase. Снежная буря is 8 seconds and 8y radius, but decreases the cooldown of a massive AoE CD every tick. The point I’m making here is that Огненный ливень is the worst targeted ground effect spell in the game.

Преисподняя. Address the issues with Огненный ливень baseline and Преисподняя stops being awful. Alternately, you can throw the QoL Огненный ливень needs on Преисподняя, similarly to other spec’s talents. Make Преисподняя cut the duration of Огненный ливень in half, or increase the radius by some percentage, etc.

Огонь и сера. It needs a pretty large buff to be in a decent state. It’s also pretty hard to say how big of a buff it needs to actually see play. Say you look at no cooldowns, 5 mobs in a pack, and it takes 30 seconds to kill the pack. Огонь и сера at 75% beats Cata by 5.5%. But if it takes 40 seconds to kill the pack it’s tied with Cata. And then the pack after might not be AoE and Огонь и сера might be less valuable. Plus, Cata gives ST dps that Огонь и сера doesn’t. Even at 75%, Огонь и сера is behind Катаклизм on 3 target. All I know is that it needs a large buff to the damage multiplier.

Твердая решимость at 3 minutes makes us too vulnerable, but at 1 minute it was too powerful. 2 sounds like a sweet spot where we’re vulnerable but not for 3 entire minutes.

Succubus feels worthless. There’s just no world in which other players let your succubus (or you) channel the CC. It should really be an instant cast like Ослепление.

Страх costs waaaaay too much mana. It’s 15% of mana compared to Превращение’s 4%.

Baseline Неистовство Тьмы is amazing.

Ожог Тьмы adds a lot of mobility that Destruction was lacking severely.

Ожог души is a great addition. It particularly helps with setups because it gives you a decent damaging ability you can Хаос.

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