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4.3 Updates and Patch Notes for Warlocks - Last Updated Nov 15, 2011
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Rekijan
I did enjoy a lot of theorycrafting on my paladin tank in tBC, but then again that was when tanking was actually hard (trollface). But yeah locks rule!
Also you should say CDO, its kinda like OCD but with the letters in the CORRECT alphabetical order!
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Metalfenrir
- Updated main post with new PTR patch notes
- Removed now incorrect information from MMO-C in Datamining
- Updated title
- Oct 13 -
General
Soul Fire now scales with 72.6% of spell power, up from 62.5%.
Talent Specializations
Demonology
Demonic Knowledge now provides a damage bonus of 20%, up from 15%.
Master Demonologist now grants a base bonus of 20%18.4% and 2.5%2.3% per mastery, up from 16% and 2% per mastery.
Impending Doom is now also activated by Soul Fire.
Destruction
Cataclysm now increases Fire damage by 30%, up from 25%.
Fire and Brimstone now increases the damage of Incinerate and Chaos Bolt on Immolated targets by 5/10/15%, up from 2/4/6%.
Burning Embers now deals damage equal to 25/50% of Soul Fire and Imp’s Firebolt, up from 15/30%.
Buning Embers damage cap has been raised.
Shadowburn now deals Shadowflame damage, instead of Shadow damage.
Improved Soul Fire now lasts 20 sec, up from 15sec.
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Post by
Kangi
I don't even care about the straight damage buffs as much as I do for the Improved Soul Fire change. Yay for five more seconds to juggle other spells!
Post by
asakawa
It's a movement in the right direction but it's not enough! (the iSF change)
Post by
DraconisAerius
I wonder if part of the reason Destro's damage is so low is they balance us around Bane of Havoc, so that on a fight like Omnitron we aren't OP, but when we get to a fight like Baleroc, we are suddenly missing 15% of our damage.
I like this move though. It's a step in the right direction, but like alot of the 4.3 fixes, this just feels like a great big band-aid.
Post by
asakawa
Again though, using the phrase "band aid" suggests that there's a gaping wound that's not being treated appropriately. Warlocks really don't have any gaping wounds, I'd just like to see Blizzard being a bit more bold with the mechanics instead of buffing percentages here and there.
(I guess that's what you're getting at but I'm not sure the phrasing is quite right for the situation).
For me, I really enjoyed Destro but got very tired of the iSF mechanic. I see what they're going for but I just don't see what harm it would do if the buff was 30secs (or even more!).
Post by
DraconisAerius
Yeah I guess what I'd like to see them do in the beta for the next expac, is include some madly high gear compared to the first tier, just to test how well specs scale, and then mayne they can actually pre-empt issues like we are having with Destro not scaling well. imo if they are doing something like iSF, they need to have put it on something with a lower cast time, but a cooldown, preferably something we already use. They did it with Shadow Priests and Empowered Shadows/Mind Blast, I don't see the issue with doing something similar for us.
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asakawa
Oh well, it's quite different to the SP thing. I think the whole purpose of iSF is to get us to
use
Soul Fire (which was basically completely ignored pre-Cata).
I think it's probably fair to say that they should have reacted more quickly to Destro falling behind but I don't think they really needed to change the spec back in 4.0 because of how it is now working. It didn't just fall behind because of inflated gear, much more it was simply that both other specs got buffed up to and past Destro.
I don't even mind using a long cast time ability like SF. It could be fun to know you have to cast it once every 30 seconds and if you don't get an EmpImp proc then you're gonna have to plan the best time to stand and cast it. Every 15 seconds (now 20) is too (still) often to feel like you're planning it's use. It's too important to let it drop and it comes back up all too quickly.
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asakawa
I figured someone might have mentioned this but I guess not, one of the datamined changes in the latest ptr build included set bonus changes.
That's because of
this
on the 29th of September ^_^(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##
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asakawa
Well, to be fair, I don't think we really mentioned it much when it was first datamined either.
Post by
Metalfenrir
No need to stick to lurking, we don't bite
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Post by
asakawa
Hehe, I don't think there's too much danger of that. The buffs to Demo are just balancing out the nerf to Doomguards and the Destro ones are buffs it really needs just to compete.
Post by
DraconisAerius
On a side note, from the current lay out of loot from Dragon Soul, it's nice to see people will be able to get Tier without having to do the final boss for a change.
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