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Destruction Warlock Review - Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions
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2018/07/30,17:34
Throughout the pre-patch, we'll be launching a community opinions article for every class and spec. We're continuing our Battle for Azeroth Class Reviews and in this post, we'll be taking a look at the state of Destruction Warlock. See if this spec appeals to you in Battle for Azeroth!
We reached out to the Destruction Warlock community to give their thoughts and opinions on the changes and current state of the spec.
If this spec appeals to you after reading this article, check out our
Battle for Azeroth Destruction Warlock Guide
.
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Destruction hasn’t seen many changes since my
previous article
.
浩劫
was nerfed and we received 2 new talents,
灵魂之火
and
地狱烈火
. That said, I’d like to focus this article on some of the thing I love about BFA, glaring issues that still remain, and a few solutions.
The Good
浩劫
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.
浩劫
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.
灵魂之火
on T15. I like anything that changes up the monotony of just pressing
烧尽
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.
内燃
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
灵魂之火
, but in a slightly more thought provoking way. The effect happens when
混乱之箭
hits the target, so you can often times cast
献祭
after
混乱之箭
and refresh it before the
混乱之箭
hits.
暗影灼烧
. 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.
牺牲魔典
on T90. It returns as an actually viable talent! We now once again have access to
牺牲魔典
+
暗影壁垒
+
黑暗契约
. Unlike previous times
牺牲魔典
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.
The Bad
灵魂之火
. It’s just slightly worse than
灭杀
and
爆裂之炎
, meaning it has no real use in PvE at current tuning.
火焰之雨
. 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.
火焰之雨
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
火焰之雨
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.
地狱烈火
is numerically awful, but the bigger issue is that it’s mechanically awful because it moves more of your damage into the unreliable
火焰之雨
.
硫磺烈火
was overnerfed to a point where it’s just always bad in any situation no matter how many targets there are.
大灾变
is just always the best choice right now, and honestly I’m kind of fine with that.
大灾变
in combination with
引导恶魔之火
almost entirely makes up for how bad
火焰之雨
is, and feels amazing to use.
吸取生命
. 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
灵魂榨取
and Mastery, it’s fine for overall balance; but, it still feels incredibly weak.
The Solutions, maybe?
灵魂之火
. Based on our simulations and dummy testing, it needs a sizeable buff of about 35.5% for it to be notably (2%) better than
爆裂之炎
ST. This tier (and Destruction talents in general) has a relatively low impact on dps, so it needs pretty dramatic changes to see results.
灵魂之火
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
爆裂之炎
. To get it up to 2% it would need another 15% damage buff on top of that.
吸取生命
. Buff the healing percentage so that it remains the impactful choice it should be between damage and healing.
火焰之雨
. Buff the radius, reduce the duration, or both. There’s no good reason that
火焰之雨
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.
星辰坠落
is 8 seconds and 15y radius, with a talent that makes it 20% larger and lets you cast while moving in it.
地震术
is 6 seconds and 8y radius.
枯萎凋零
is 10 seconds and 8y radius, but has a talent that makes the radius increase.
暴风雪
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
火焰之雨
is the worst targeted ground effect spell in the game.
地狱烈火
. Address the issues with
火焰之雨
baseline and
地狱烈火
stops being awful. Alternately, you can throw the QoL
火焰之雨
needs on
地狱烈火
, similarly to other spec’s talents. Make
地狱烈火
cut the duration of
火焰之雨
in half, or increase the radius by some percentage, etc.
硫磺烈火
. 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.
硫磺烈火
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
硫磺烈火
might be less valuable. Plus, Cata gives ST dps that
硫磺烈火
doesn’t. Even at 75%,
硫磺烈火
is behind
大灾变
on 3 target. All I know is that it needs a large buff to the damage multiplier.
Some thoughts on pvp
不灭决心
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
致盲
.
恐惧
costs waaaaay too much mana. It’s 15% of mana compared to
变形术
’s 4%.
Baseline
暗影之怒
is amazing.
暗影灼烧
adds a lot of mobility that Destruction was lacking severely.
灵魂之火
is a great addition. It particularly helps with
setups because it gives you a decent damaging ability you can
浩劫
.
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