Annual demonology rant.
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11.1 demonology was actually in a good place, despite being outclassed by destro in nearly every raid scenario except pure ST (most bosses now are add burst, spread 3 target, or specifically two target or spread 2 target! Rinse repeat 11.2). Demonology was tuned kind of nicely in terms of ST, but then got an absolute nerf hammer putting it behind destro in ST - literally the only thing its good at.
Aff also got slammed because of the OLD TIER SET, so we just play destro for an entire tier, again?
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Why change demonology’s strength in cleave and ST by upping Destro diabolist Demonic Art skills to hit like the asteroid from Deep Impact (any devs old enough to remember that movie?) and either purposely tuned demo’s version down, or forgot to add damage modifiers from mastery. Destro Mastery affects demonic art, but demo mastery does not, why? They are demons, are they not? Why is mastery only impacting specific whitelisted demons ffs.
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Why the F is mastery so bad? Undertuned AF because of history with Tyrant being too spikey, which hits like a noodle now, gg killing any fun in the spec. Guess we just stack versatility like the last 4 seasons because you can’t design a mastery that’s actually useful. Either make mastery much stronger for demons (~only account for half of our total damage now) or, redesign it so its beneficial to the whole spec. Haste sucks because you reduced the #imps empowered by tyrant (too hard to play apparantly) and tyrant had its balls cut off, mastery sucks as mentioned, crit is the only half decent stat left as something capable of being a damage modified for all abilities and vers is the one left over that actually boosts all dmg output. IF vers is competing for the top spot of secondaries something went majorly wrong in your spec design.
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After so much complaining historically about sycning demonologies abilities, why in god’s name did you go and uncouple vilefiend from Tyrant. Reducing its CD by 5s has instead of “making it easier to play” now results in VF coming off CD with 20s left of Tyrant CD. If you cast VF on CD like your expected to as someone keeping on top of your CDs - it nicely and infuriatingly runs out with about 5 seconds left before Tyrant can be used - Great class design.
Why are we back to holding CDs again to line up Tyrant? Or are we determined to go back to Shadowlands style of demonology with desync.
Not that I think this will do anything, just want the Devs to know how they manage to F up demonology consistently every season.