On top of all previous Demonology problems in our very core gameplay desing, we have dire problem that could leave us in the outsiders to the end of BFA - it is procs of corrupted gear and azerite items.
As many of you know, we - demo warlocks do not have any DoT damage in our toolkit, not baseline, not in our talents. We have doom, but it ticks one time and absolutely unreliable.
Our demons cannot proc our effects of corrupted gear and Azerite gear/essences. This leaves us behind in proc rate in every encounter possible, this especially bad in PvP, where our uptime is extremely low compared to other classes.
As an example, i took one peace of corrupted gear with Twilight devastation effect, the results was after 2 minutes of damaging the dummy.
Twilight devastation proc only two times. In that period of time…
Shadowbolt was casted 60 times - 1.2 sec of cast time (Pleasure trough pain PvP talent)
Wild imps casted fel firebolt 378 times - 1.7 Cast time
Hand of Gul’Dan was casted 27 times - 1.2 Cast time
My Shivarra used lash of pain 28 times - instant.
Demonbolt was casted 13 times - instant.
Second time results was slightly better - Twilight devastation proc 3 times.
In same timeframe in destro i was able to summon Twilight devastation 7 times on my first try, and 13 on my second.
Now we should look at demonology spells that can proc Corruption/AZ gear/Essences effects, for demo it is.
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Shadowbolt.
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Demonbolt.
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Hand of Gul’Dan.
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Bilescourge bombers - can proc Essences DoTs like ancient flame, but cannot proc any corruption effect at all.
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Implosion - still cannot figure it out after all tests.
Rest of our spells does not proc anything.
Classes with alot of instant spells/abilities DoTs can melt people down with ease, while demo if forced to hardcast every spell, and pick some azerite essences to counter inability to proc.
For example, you can pick “Cruicible of flame” Azerite essence, and use DoT effects from Major and minor effects to proc other Azerite gear/essences or corruption effects. And yes, with that essence we have a way to proc things a little easier, but, other classes already have their instants or DoTs to proc thing up, and “Cruicible of flame” is just a nice addition to the toolkit.
UPD#1
So, if any of you think that current situation is fine, then let’s take a look at our basic rotation and see how mant times per secon we have opportunity to activate any of Corruption or azerite effect. And befor we start, for now we would take basic cast time, without concideration of haste, and after that i will compare it to my char with my stats, with and without “pleasure trough pain” talent.
- We summon dreadstalkers - 2 secons cast time / 1.6 with my haste
- We cast 2 shadowbolts - 2 seconds cast time each / 1.6 with my haste / 1.2 with “pleasure trough pain” talent.
- We cast hand of Gul’Dan - 1.5 second cast time / 1.2 with my haste.
So basicly we have one chance per 1.6 secons to activate our effects in general. Only during preparation state where we have several staks of Demonic core, and we chain HoG->DB->HoG->DB->HoG our chance to activate effect per second rises slightly.
While other classes have DoT’s/Autoattacks/instacasts and ETC that could make their chance to activate effects more then once per second.
Alright, maybe of imps could proc our corruption effect was a bad idea…it would be extremely OP. But in order to keep demo powerlevel in reasonable borders yet still allow demo to be more viable, blizzard should allow our main demon to activate procs and corruotions. Since Fel/wrathguard succubus/shivarra, felhunter/observer have similar attack speed, balance won’t be an issue.
UPD2 - Chat with support.
Well i won’t copy paste all my conversation with support, but Agent has informed me that Blizz know about issue.
Well thats good thing that they are know about it, question is, are they willing to do something about it or not?
