This idea already exists for Affliction where Drain Soul fully replaces Shadow Bolt.
One of the big issues with wanting more shadow bolt usage / casts is that the ability is in general dull and just adds to bloat, needing to have both shadow bolt and demon bolt on bars that effectively are the same thing… builders.
What i would suggest is have Demon Bolt replace Shadow Bolt if you take the talent.
To balance this as no one wants a 3+ second cast as their filler spell, is reduce demon bolts cast time to be slightly higher than shadow bolt and to provide a single shard (reason for slightly higher cast time would be due to it dealing more damage).
Demonic Core would still make Demon Bolt instant cast, but would also have it provide 2 shards.
Demon Bolt would still function the same way as currently when casting with Demonic Core procs, and it would help increase Demo’s sustain damage as you “casted” filler spell would be doing more damage.
Would need to change Sargerei Technique to buff Demon bolt instead of Shadow Bolt, again this would be a good change for the class tree as currently this talent is very underwhelming for Demo vs the other 2 specs.
That would simply make demonbolt feel worse than shadowbolt to use.
The reason why it was liked was because of the 2 shards generated + insta cast.
There is no point in replacing shadowbolt with demonbolt, if you still keep the 1 shard generation and 2 with demonic core.
There would be a point instead if it was 2 shards baseline and 3 with core.
But honestly they should just stop what they are doing, and keep demo mostly as it is.
I don’t think anyone complains about changes when they are for the better, but this new demo certainly is not better.
Opinions, and morals may be subjective, but that doesn’t mean all opinions are equal most people like pizza, not so many like to eat literal trash, some people do though, does that mean that trash is just as good as pizza?
This is the problem i have with people saying “It’s subjective”, yea you liking it or not is mostly subjective, but that doesn’t mean everything about it is, and it certainly doesn’t mean all ideas are equal.
New demo feels terrible to play, and the devs who came up with this idea should stop and re think their actions, probably stop talking in meetings too, because it’s clear they have no idea what they are talking about, and what actually feels nice to play.