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The last post I saw on this issue was a couple of months old. There have been changes to destruction in the last patch or two that have tried to revive the destro tree, specifically affecting backdraft directly and indirectly.

I believe Backdraft should include Reign of Fire (RoF) and Hellfire (HF) as affected spells. The current semantics of the tooltip can lead one to believe that all destruction spells are included; talents such as Soul Leech specifically name the spells. (I pick Soul Leech as the best example because it only leaves out the two previously mentioned spells as well as Shadowfury, showing that Blizzard is usually very descriptive.) The same language is used in the Eradication tooptip, except I have seen it reported that it DOES affect channeled spells (even if that isn't he case, my stance doesn't change). For the reason of continuity, I think Backdraft should include RoF and HF.

Backdraft has recently changed to decrease the GCD, making it operate more like a haste effect, thus supporting the reason of continuity.

I do not see a change like this changing the balance of the game, and would not adversely affect the classes balance of power. If there is a reason for Backlash excluding RoF and HF, I would greatly appreciate an explanation and move on my merry way. I assume in-house testing has been done, or the programmers just decided to exclude these spells for whatever reason they had.

At the very least, I kindly ask that we will be allowed to test it on this or the the next PTR. At that point, you can make a proper evaluation and assessment.