Fire and Brimstone buffed for patch 3.1.2
by Eliah Hecht 
May 5th 2009 at 5:00PM
It looks like we'll see that buff in patch 3.1.2, when the deep-Destro talent Fire and Brimstone is currently planned to be changed to:
- Now increases the damage done by your Incinerate and Chaos Bolt by 15% on targets afflicted by Immolate, and increases the critical strike chance of your Conflagrate by 25% (at rank 5).
The first part is entirely reworked, and the second part used to only apply if your target's Immolate had 5 or fewer seconds remaining.
There was also a brief and terrifying time where they were considering changing Glyph of Conflagrate to give an entirely different effect, but fortunately, the current plan is to leave it as-is. Will this F&B revision be enough to make Destruction competitive with Affliction again? We'll see; I know I'll be trying it out.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Futue May 5th 2009 5:04PM
I'm goin destro regardless
Cool pic btw!
shadow May 5th 2009 5:08PM
is that the new look for CHAOS BOLT! yay!
The Artist formally known as Jesus May 5th 2009 5:14PM
I'm pretty sure that's how Chaos Bolt always looked. A fiery green serpent that pierces through everything.
Radiophonic May 5th 2009 5:14PM
I'm still not sure what was so OP about conflag, I've been one-shotted by mages in BG's using some spell unknown to me. It happens so fast, I have no idea what it was lol. 17k health to zero...
Kakistocracy May 5th 2009 5:21PM
Is it also unknown to your combat log?
jbodar May 5th 2009 7:32PM
Radiophonic's combat log:
"Minimage's [redacted] crits you for 17,000. You die."
Oh, he's good...
Ben Striegel May 6th 2009 1:54AM
Dude, I've been having the SAME EXACT THING happen to me and I just figurServer: Msg 547, Level 16, State 1, Procedure error_demo_sp, Line 2
UPDATE statement conflicted with COLUMN FOREIGN KEY constraint 'fk7_ac_urc'.
The conflict occurred in database 'bos_som', table 'curout', column 'ccode'.
The statement has been terminated.
Radiophonic May 6th 2009 8:24AM
"Dude, I've been having the SAME EXACT THING happen to me and I just figurServer: Msg 547, Level 16, State 1, Procedure error_demo_sp, Line 2
UPDATE statement conflicted with COLUMN FOREIGN KEY constraint 'fk7_ac_urc'.
The conflict occurred in database 'bos_som', table 'curout', column 'ccode'.
The statement has been terminated."
wth? lol
Bill K May 5th 2009 5:17PM
Elitist jerks is already showing deep destro as the top DPS spec if this stays the same as it is now
http://elitistjerks.com/f80/t48311-simulationcraft_post_3_1_specs/
Cedric May 5th 2009 5:17PM
Simulations currently on PTR have Destruction at top or near the top at its current state. Even builds incorporating Replenishment are very good.
So even with a few tweaks here and there, I'm sure we finally have the return of the Destruction lock.
Cedric May 5th 2009 5:19PM
Crap, Bill K beat me to it.
Better buy your glyphs of Conflagrate, Incinerate, and Immolate while they're cheap!
Candina@WH May 5th 2009 5:48PM
As a non-lock, but one who pays attention to the patch notes...
Good for you guys. You've been treated rather poorly since 3.0, nice to see you potentionally moving back into the top 3 DPS in raids again. If there are any who stayed with it through all of this.
Eddison May 5th 2009 7:19PM
Thank you!
I've always been destro, as I don't have the patience for affliction, and I'm happy to see it being buffed.
Man, who would have thought people would be feeling sorry for locks. I'm to the point where I feel sorry for rogues, too - I should go PvP for a bit so I forget. :D
FFTARoxorz05 May 5th 2009 6:30PM
Well locks can still kill you before you can turn around with conflagrate, so apparently it wasn't nerfed enough.
Yeng May 5th 2009 7:20PM
Stop keyboard turning.
FFTARoxorz05 May 5th 2009 9:28PM
I was gonna bitch, but that was a good one =P
Finnicks May 5th 2009 9:39PM
This news makes this little warlock happy enough to save rescue puppies.
vocenoctum May 5th 2009 10:45PM
I didn't change to Destro for the Conflag-burst, missed that by a few days. I dual-spec'd from affliction because of how they beat affliction. The "simpler" rotation was boring, and felt too shadowbolt spammy, which I always hated. I also ended up doing noticeably less damage, but not positive it wasn't just my distaste for hte mixture of attention. (It's easier to focus on dot-timers when they're the main time, when they are half your casting, it is easier to not notice.)
Destro is fun, I avoided it mostly because I had a boomkin. I try not to mix playstyles on alts when possible.
paul.marsico May 6th 2009 10:37AM
OK:
Prediction:
On 5/12 3.1.2 goes live. That evening somebody gets hit by a 12K Chaos Bolt that took 1.2 seconds to cast. They had 100 resilience.
30 minutes later a post goes up on forums with a snapshot of the combat log.
45 minutes later Ghostcrawler puts a post up stating that they are examining the issue.
The next morning a Blue Post goes up that is locked that states that Chaos Bolt damage is being reduced.
Destruction sucks again shortly thereafter.
Lab Monkey May 6th 2009 1:22PM
I wish I didn't also believe this was the likely outcome.