Balance: Witch Infernalist Demon Form

So I have been playing a Infernalist Witch with the Demon Possession and Mastered Darkness nodes taken. My build has been using Essence Drain/Contagion with Dark Effigy for single target and Despair curse. I feel the Demon Form node is great for early campaign, especially with life regen easily available for Witch, but looking at what you get for the demon form (25% Cast Speed, +6 Skill Levels, 180% Spell Damage) plus the 5% life degen, when using the Mastered Darkness node to limit Demonflame stacks to 10. BUT, you are spending 2 ascendancy nodes for 3 postives and 1 negative modifiers (Also you Main and Off Hand items are disabled when you shapeshift). So later in game these points feel wasted as the level of the modifiers are available on a Staff late game. Surely ascendancy nodes should feel game changing and not only in early game?

Demon form currently underwhelming and not working as intended by devs.

Quoting Jonathan "Demon form is meant to be used with minions, we're looking into it"



Dont pick that ascendancy node, go with dog first and spec into infernal flame when you've been able to max fire res and pick a lot of damage recoup to never have mana issues again.


There's no other viable way to play Infernalist right now other than that or going for the life reservation shenanigans, which I've yet to see in a good build.


Better just wait until they fix Demon Form.