Hopefully this post doesn't get too buried in this thread since it's grown quite a bit since I last posted. Another change we'd like to make for Destruction warlocks concerns Conflagrate. We're looking into doubling the damage-over-time effect to 40% of Conflagrate's total damage, up from 20%.Now we're talking about meaningful changes. This will actually bring conflag back to pre-nerf status as far as PVE is concerned, dealing 100% of immolate's DOT portion split 60/40 between the nuke and dot. This is a 25% increase to conflag's damage, which does make this pretty close to the 5% broad spectrum buffs put forth for affliction and demonology.
Overall, this change would approximately keep the status quo. Affliction and destruction would stack up similarly to each other, demo might close the gap slightly but will still be a bit behind. Really no change for lock vs. lock balance, which isn't the intent of the buffs anyway.
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Are locks really only 5% behind other classes? That's only a 350 dps increase for someone at 7000dps.
ReplyDeletewould you suggest removing lifetap glyph for immolate glyph if this change actually goes through?
ReplyDeleteBetty: Not really if you're comparing to arcane and mut, but they are about 5% beyond the bulk of the pack.
ReplyDeleteChris: Not short term. 13/58 does pretty much look like life tap's leaving it from ICC gearing, though. I'm actually working on a series of tests to see just how low spirit will have to get for that to happen, I'll be posting them hopefully later this week.