I’ll warn you guys straight, i will complain and complain alot about demo.
Doom - it was garbage in BFA and it will be a garbage in Shadowlands.
Doom - baseline duration 1 minute, deals 175% of spell power, and has a 5% chance to summon unbinded doomguard for 25 seconds.
So what kind of problems do we have right now without talent.
- With one min. duration you will never see this spell land a damage outside of fighting Elite mobs or bosses in dungeons or raids.
- 176% of spell damage is extremely low, for 1 minute waiting time.
- With such damage and such duration we will never see a doomguard.
What set of immediate problems we should see.
- Doom 1 minute timer left this spell useless for leveling, because no mob will live longer then 25 seconds during our leveling process, some quest bosses are exeption.
- Doom would be useless in PvP becase with one minute timer there is no chance that
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- Healers won’t dispell it.
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- Enemy won’t be able to negate doom damage by spells like Cloach of shadows, paladin bubble or any other absorbtion effect.
- In M+ and Raids only bosses will live enough for doom to deal damage.
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- But in M+ with decent group bosses live average from 1 minute to 2 minutes, so for us it is only one guaranteed proc, if no boss mechanic won’t neglect that damage
And now Doomguard’s problems.
- It is unclear - is doomguard will live 25 seconds unenslaved or he will live 25 seconds even if i will enslave him?
With that in mind let’s immagine that he is summoned, and 25 seconds of his life span is started, now i have to spend 3 seconds to enslave him. So effectivly he will fight only 22 seconds for me in the ideal situation.
And there goes another set question and problems
- Do i need to dismiss my current demon?
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- This creates another problem. Right now in Alpha summon Imp, void, succubus, felhunter and felguard has a 6 second cast time. If Doomguard will dissapear after 25 secons, then we will have to spend another 6 seconds to summon other demon of our choise.
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- While doomguard is enslaved, then we won’t benefit from our PvE/PvP talents like Demonic stranght, Soul strike, Pleasure trough Pain (pvp succubus), Singe magic (pvp imp). This is extremely inticlimactic desing on top af extremepy poor designed spell.
- How much damage would doomguard do?
- Do he has any spells for me to use?
- How would i know what spell does he has, to effectivly use them in combat?
- With such design it is impossible for demonology warlock to effectivly use doomguard.