Blizzard has posted development notes for Warlocks regarding the latest War Within Alpha build, giving details on Destruction including Inferno target adjustments, underused talents, and more.
Today’s Alpha update focuses primarily on Destruction. The Path AheadBefore we dive in, we want to acknowledge that our work with each specialization tree is not complete.
We’ve seen the recent discussions regarding how bloated the Demonology and Destruction tree are in terms of available talents and ranks, as well as thoughts on the pathing of the Affliction tree.In the near future, you will see that the Demonology tree is being restructured and condensed.
Both the Destruction tree and the Affliction tree will also undergo a restructuring in the near future. In this context, a restructuring means that: the amount of 2-rank talent nodes will be reduced, talents may be removed, talents may be added, new pathing will be added, and talent nodes may be moved. Destruction UpdateHere are our stated goals, with the addition of a new goal, for Destruction moving into the War Within: Reduce the fluctuation in throughput in relation to the number of targets in combat.
Improve underused talents such as Soulfire and Cataclysm. Condense the number of talents and talent ranks available. Beginning with our general changes, we are moving Chaos Bolt to be baseline.