Warlock changes...Follow

i severly doubt it'll benefit from +healing seeing as it's still a DAMAGE spell, the heal is just a leach effect. the thing i'm interested about is whether or not the MS effect will only decrease the healing done to us or also the damage done to the warrior? (i doubt it, but it's a possibility). it's a massive nerf though. gonna see alot of afliction, SL/SL and felcon/demo locks respecing to destruction. just wait for the nerf cries for backlash, soulleach, Nether protection and shadowfury. personnaly I think that this is a complete over-compensate as it's only the nub players / teams that have issue with locks. the ones who know what they're doing haven't had to many issues with us and can usually beat us 50:50 (which i presume is what blizzard is aiming for with all these nerfs and buffs to others.)

I have to agree with the + healing affecting our drains. If its considered an healing effect from the mortal strike point of view, it should be too from the + healing gear point of view.

But in my opinion we can dream, after all, resilience affects our dots, and our dots still can't crit? =/

Edited, Sep 27th 2007 7:49pm by Hagada

Well the fact is, blizzard listens to the majority. Whether its a screaming illogical mob or not is not the issue, blizzard will listen regardless (it just takes them forever). They also risked losing PVP customers to warhammer if they didnt act like they were listening. Look at EVERY issue that was screamed about in the PVP boards for months. Just about every one of them has been addressed.

The fact is 90% of players think we're OP. Thats it. You can argue with them until you're blue in the face, it won't change their perception of warlocks = OP.

Now take a full merciless geared lock, I agree with the mob, nobody in the game can touch them. Name one class who can beat a fully geared out PVP lock, theres truely none at the highest level. That bullcrap of "well this game isn't balanced around 1v1" is just a copout, there should never be a class who can destroy every other class in the game.

The problem is non-merciless locks aren't on that level, but merciless locks truely are. 13k HP, soul link, siphon life, drain tanking, fear, a counter to every single classes abilities in our huge bag of tricks. PVP locks did need a nerf, and other classes (shamans, arena hunters, non-resto druids, rogues ability to be kited) needed a buff. Theres obviously other classes out there that needed them too, but off the top of my head thats a pretty good list.

Drain tanking through pillars, I mean wtf is that? Dancing a hunter around a pillar is not skill, its just retarded. Mages kiting a rogue with frostbolts, same deal. Shamans just all around sucked, warriors still haven't got a nerf which they desperately need, paladins who made warrior teams OP got a nerf, its starting to come together. I think after 2.3 the focus will be taken off warlocks and shifted to the next target, warriors, who have been ridiculous for months now.

Sigh.

Just as I was getting REALLY good at drain tanking...

I refuse to reroll though.

Just GET BETTER at what you do...brains over brawn I guess. I hadn't worked out how to beat a bleedin' warrior or rogue yet anyway, so...

On the other hand it now has a 3m CD, so it's a nerf to the serious Alliance PvP teams who were running Dwarf (or Dranei) priests and could make their entire team immune.

Don't know if it's an overall nerf or buff, but at least you won't throw up a Howl of Terror and see five immune messages anymore.



Warlocks are kind of ridiculous in PvE too, so... meh?

Join the club, we're getting Mace Stun nerfed (boo) and can no longer become immune to Disarm, which is pretty much game-breaking.

k, lets just spell this out.

drain life ISN'T a healing spell. it's a LEACHING spell. this means that the damage it does is the amount it heals (before modifiers that effect heals i.e. felarmour and now mortal strike). +healing can't effect it as it won't increase the damage it does.

Yes, you're right, warriors take a bunch of nerfs, too. But occasionally they toss you guys something nice, like this little MS buff. I understand I'm going to keep getting nerfed, it's one of 2 things I learned about locks early (the other being that you can't expect anything you do to be considered good because warlocks are expected to be the best at everything).

What I want, though, are occasional buffs, just to make me feel like I'm NOT getting targeted as a class every time there is a new patch. I really do just want something that I can play with and say "yeah, ok, sure they nerfed drain, fear and DC, but at least they gave us XXXXXX" you know?

i would to see some buffs come to the warlock class also but this is just blizzard's way of pleasing the masses

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