I don't like our over-reliance on cooldowns. While we hit hard during infernal/DSI window, our spells are so weak when those are on cd. There is no way to talent Destro as a more sustained dps type, which we were in Legion. Talent tree offer no real choice since 2 out of 3 options are so weak in comparison to the 3rd. AoE-ing in m+ also feels so bad compared to Legion Fire and Brimstone. While I think Cataclysm is a really cool spell we should have an additional aoe spell to use other than RoF. After the initial burst of aoe damage we have to single target Incinerate and Immolate. BFA also removed 2 out of 3 instant casts (Life Tap and Dimentional Rift) so movement really screws us over. Also, Legendaries gave us engaging gameplay which Azerite gear has completely failed to offer.
Here are some solutions: Make Cataclysm and Channel Demonfire baseline. Remove or change Grimoire of Supremacy, increase shard generation from Incinerate, increase damage from RoF, make infernal a 2 min cd to line up better with trinkets and Dark Soul, buff Fire and Brimstone, give us another instant cast ability, and balance the talent tree better.
I know that implementing all of these is unlikely, but any of these would be greatly appreciated.
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Yeah destro is kinda bad. The changes on PTR atm wont help and are an insult, nerfing infernal this many times, and now again is just a shame. I mean they probably saw that we need our infernal to do decent dps every 3 minutes, so lets gut the infernal...
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When you have shards, gameplay is super cool... when you don't have shards, spamming incinerate is so poor...
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I miss dimentional rift so bad. It was a great talent for the spec. I really liked the flavour it add to destro and it was one of the only spells actually using the weapon!
Why would they take it away??
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A simple solution for AoE would be reducing Cataclysm’s cooldown to Immolate’s full duration. This would prevent us from single-targeting and Immolating all targets when Immolate runs out. While we are doing this all other classes all are just spamming their AoE spells and pulling ahead in the damage meter.
With such a cooldown we can cast Cata on cooldown and then just stack shards for Rain of Fire.
As for our sustained DPS; It seems in 8.1 they are slightly nerfing Chaos Bolt while buffing some other spells. In my opinion this will decrease our overall DPS. Because I usually output a very high DPS during Infernal and when Infernal is off, my low sustained DPS just balances things out.
With the way they are going in 8.1 my burst during Infernal is going to suffer and due to nerf on the Chaos Bolt my DPS outside the Infernal will stay same; which means decrease in the overall DPS.
As for my suggestion; make Shadowburn baseline (with increased damage) and replace its place with a useless talent.