WotLK Warlock Talents and Spells
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There’s no point posting opinions since most of the spells and numbers will be quite different, probably as soon as beta starts.
You can check the preview of warlock talent trees here (note the Soul Link in tier 3 :O ).
Some stuff looks pretty interesting, especially the much needed defense vs. melee (Metamorphosis), although 360% armor bonus, 10% melee damage reduction from Voidwalker and Soul Link look like overkill Your pet is desummoned when in Metamorphosis so you probably won’t get any pet bonuses - thanks to commenters for catching that. Won’t make it to live, ever. It might make it to live 
Anyway…
AFFLICTION
Eradication: 3 pts; requires 25 pts; Your Corruption, Siphon Life, and Curse of Agony ticks have a x% chance to increase your spell casting speed by 1% for 8 sec. This effect has a 10 second cooldown.
Death’s Embrace: 3 pts; requires 40 pts; Increases the amount drained by your Drain Life by 30% while your health is at or below 20% health, and increases the critical strike chance of your Shadowbolt and Haunt spells by 15% when your target is at or below 20% health.
Soul Depletion: 3 pts; requires 40 pts; Your Corruption spell ticks have a 15% chance of consuming w% mana, x energy, y Rage or a z Runic Power on affected targets.
Everlasting Affliction: 5 pts; requires 45 pts: Your Corruption, Siphon Life and Seed of Corruption spells gain 20% more of your bonus spell damage effects, and your Drain Life and Shadow Bolt spells have a x% chance to reset the duration of your Corruption spell on the target.
Atrocity: 1 pt; requires 50 pts; You devastate the area, causing Corruption (Rank 
to all targets within 15 yards. In addition, your Corruption spell will do 434 Shadow damage to the target when it finishes its duration.
DEMONOLOGY
Demonic Empowerment: 1 pt; requires 30 pts; Grants the Warlock’s summoned demon Empowerment.
Succubus: instantly vanishes, turning the Succubus invisible and restoring it’s health to 100%. The vanish effect removes all stuns, snares and movement impairing effects from the Succubus.
Voidwalker: Increases the Voidwalker’s health by 20%, and it’s threat generated from spells and attacks by 20%.
Imp: Increases the Imp’s damage by 20% and chance to critically hit with spells by 20%.
Felguard: Increases the Felguard’s attack speed by 20% and breaks all stun, snare and movement impairing effects and makes your Felguard immune to them.
Felhunter: Resets all the Felhunter’s cooldowns.
Empowered Imp: 3 pts; requires 35 pts; Increases the damage done by your Imp by 15%, and all critical hits done by your Imp have a x% chance to increase your spell critical hit chance by 100%. This effect lasts 8 sec.
Fel Synergy: 2 pts; requires 35 pts; Your Summoned Demons share an additional 10% of your Armor, Intellect and Stamina, and you have a 100% chance to heal your pet for 15% of the amount of damage done by you.
Love Struck: 3 pts; requires 40 pts; While the Succubus is active, physical attacks done to you or your Succubus have a 15% chance to heal you or your Succubus instead of doing damage. The healing caused by Love Struck will not exceed 50% of the Warlock or Succubus’ total health. This effect has a 6 second cooldown.
Demonic Empathy: 3 pts; requires 40 pts; When you or your pet is critically hit, the other has a x% chance to have their casting or attack speed increased by y% for z seconds.
Demonic Pact: 5 pts; requires 45 pts; Increases your Spirit by w% while your Demon is active. In addition, your pet attacks have a x% chance to increase your party’s total Health and Damage by y%. Stacks up to 3 times. Lasts z seconds.
Metamorphosis: 1 pt; requires 50 pts; You transform into a Demon, with full health and mana. While in Demon Form, you gain Demonic abilities and your armor is increased to 360%, but your pet no longer is summoned. When leaving Demon Form, your health and mana is returned back to normal and your pet is re-summoned. Lasts x seconds.
DESTRUCTION
Molten Core: 3 pts; requires 5 pts; Your Shadow spells and damage over time effects have a x% chance to increase the damage of your Fire spells by 10% for 6 sec.
Kindling Soul: 2 pts; requires 35 pts; Your spell damage is increased by 10% of your Spirit, and your spell criticals increase your Spirit by x% for 10 sec.
Backdraft: 3 pts; requires 40 pts; Increases the critical chance of your Conflagrate, Immolate and Shadowflame spells by 10%.
Torture: 3 pts; requires 40 pts; After you critically strike with a Shadow spell, your next Searing Pain or Immolate spells have a x% chance to become instant cast. This ability has a 20 second cooldown.
Eternal Flames: 5 pts; requires 45 pts; Your Searing Pain and Incinerate spells have a x% chance to refresh the duration of your Immolate spell on the target, and increases the critical strike damage of your Destruction spells by an additional 10%.
Decimate: 1 pt; requires 50 pts; Your next Shadow or Fire spell is instant cast, and does damage in the form of Chaos damage, ignoring all resistances, absorption, and immunity mechanics. After the end of the Decimated cast, you become exhausted, disabling you from casting a spell of the same school for 3 sec.
New Warlock Abilities; Wrath of the Lich King (Alpha)
Haunt: Rank 1; Level 80; 650 mana; 30 second cooldown; You send a corrupted soul into the target, doing 800 damage over 2 sec. Haunt will continue to travel between targets who suffer from your Corruption spell. After traveling from up to three targets, the corrupted soul will return to you, healing you for 50% of the total damage done.
Shadowflame (Rank 1, Level 75, 745 mana, instant, 15 sec cooldown) - Targets in a cone in front of the caster take 934-1020 Shadow damage and an additional 492 Fire damage over 8 sec.
Demonic Circle: Summon (Rank 1)
15% of Base Mana
Duration 6 minutes
0.5 sec cast 30 sec cooldown
You summon a Demonic Circle at your feet.
Demonic Circle: Teleport (Rank 1)
100 Mana
Instant cast 30 sec cooldown
You teleport to your Demonic Circle.
Demon Armor - Changed to Armor, and 20% healing received
Fel Armor - Changed to Dmg and 30% of mana regen during combat
Unstable Affliction - Silence reduced to 3 seconds
Improved Shadow Bolt - reduced to 15%
Shadowfury - Stun duration increased by 1 second
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I wouldn’t count on that armor bonus being removed before live. Take a closer look. Your pet is unsummoned and you gain “demon abilities” for the duration. Sounds a lot like pet possession a la Shartuul’s Transporter. I’m willing to bet you can’t cast your normal spells (plus, +360% of cloth is not all that impressive).
The names themselves are so damn good! Can hardly wait to put my hands on it. Surely we still need to analyze their actual effects and usability but still sounds gr8888888!
Thanks for posting(similar things are already removed from WowInsider
)
“360% armor bonus, 10% melee damage reduction from Voidwalker and Soul Link look like overkill.”
You missed the part where it says that this makes your pet despawn. Say goodbye to soul-link and all the pet bonuses when using it.
Indeed I did, thanks.
Anyway, I really like Soul Link in t3, it will probably make other trees more viable in PvP, since the lack of survivability is mostly what keeps us speccing Affliction or Destruction .
aside from being able to get your WotLK cdk the day of release by email and get a discount on your gametime cards at http://www.gamersloot.net (don’t sell gold sorry).
Does anyone know if there’s a cooldown of some kind on the Decimate? Or can you insta-cast a fire spell, then move/liftetap/dot or whatever and just do it all over again?
Insta-cast spell every 3s sounds uh… nice? =b (maybe the mana cost makes that impractical though?)
I doubt Metamorphosis will make it to live as-is. I’m thinking PvP here.
Start a fight in human form with soul-link. DoT + Drain-tank the opponent until you are near death. Pop Metamorphosis. The key here is the quote:
“You transform into a Demon, with full health and mana”.
So that’s a full heal + mana restoration. Sounds a bit like the annoyance of Paladins’ “bubble + heal to full” to me. Sounds a wee bit overpowered.
Metamorposis shouldn’t be to much of a problem, especially in 5v5
think about if your in demon form your going to have to worry about a pally casting fear on you, as well as a warlock banishing you, maybe even the possibility of being enslaved by a warlock
Against any group with a lock theres no way you would want to go into demon form, as well who knows if dispel mechanics would work on demon form
on top of that your health returns to normal when it wears off so its not close to being as annoying as a pally bubble because pallies heal themselves
needs better skins though, I would rather look like a fel elf instead of varithamas
The changes to the Demonology tree may be enough to make my Warlock my main again…
But since the Paladin trees are still not available, who knows.
I’m not particularly happy with the Affliction talents. Death’s embrace sounds helpful, but Atrocity seems very limited in it’s use. In raiding, when fighting a groups of mobs, the added corruption spells will likely break CC, and thus should not be used. When fighting a single boss, the only thing that will really come of the spell is the extra bit of bonus at the end. I can only see using it while grinding solo (perhaps PVP but I don’t know as I don’t PVP). Is Bliz trying to make an obvious “solo spec”, “PVP spec”, and “raid spec”?
WEll Frijona it would not be the right way as they normmaly are going to make balance between each talent tree.. like the trees now you are normally merging them for the best output of dps tat you like.. in the names you can see how you are gonna dps. Affliction, looks like a kinda curse so it should be the way to slowly drain the life out of our enemies. demonology. thats like beastmastery, um like, yes they are not way as good as hunters pets at all, but it make you survive very good and still mitigate some respectable dps. Destruction, thats what warlocks mainly goes for to empower the shadowbolt, its easy for us warlocks to dps so we just need a strong shadowbolt. its also for burst damage, much of it.
How good a spell is haunt! Im surprised nobody commented on it yet. Well in raids its pretty useless as it will probably break cc but in 3v3 and 5v5 its amazing. And 50% health regen from damage done.. 800 x 3 targets = 2400 health regen 6 secs after you hit the spell.. pretty decent i would say.
Also whats demonic circle about? I really dont understand it. Is it similar to mage portals or what?
Some interesting abilities there, how many of them will end up in the finished game we are gonna have to see, but what I understand the demonic circle to be is like the translocator in UT. You can set like a temporary hearth point almost - if you find yourself outnumbered, you can port yourself back to it.
Dont you guys think the destruction tree is a bit OP in PvP.
We now got a PoM-Pyro like ability. Decimate > Soulfire (ignoring immunities and obsorbtions). A Mage iceblock and you shot him with a instant Soulfire.
The insane burstdmg in destruction is not wonna see daylight imo. I mean shadowfury>immo>conf>Shadowburn> if you crit with a shadow spell you have a 60% chance to get an extra instant Immolate> instant Shadowflame(new ability)>if hit, instant incinerate/SB (backlash) > INSTANT SOULFIRE!
Okey after all that your mana pool should be -32322 but still, loads of dmg in no time at all.
Im gonna level 70>80 demo because of the new talent that make 15% of all your damage heal your pet.. just sent FG in, lifetap and drain life, you get healed, your pet get healed aswell as mana from manaleech…
But the REAL question is:
How much Spell Damage are people stacking at level 80?
*reading the Metamorphosis description*
COME ON ROGUES! COME ON!!
PS: Love Struck + Soul Link + Siphon Life = OP Warlock
o.O
I see there is spirit involved in some of those spells. Why on earth would a warlock need spirit. Spirit is sorta useless for warlocks, and you never have much : \ So i’m wondering, what the hell is it doing there?
Early reports have Spirit making something of a comeback… even on ‘lock gear.
Pally gains Divine Shield.
Warlock’s Decimate hits pally for 6k. (Critical)
Pally: NERF LOCKS.
and conflag is gonna proc pyroclasm ftw
Not a fan of needing spirit. Unless gear is going to get buffed to include spirit. At the moment my lock has 0 bonus spirit, and I really dont want to start collecting it. As for destruction, I can see the instant cast being let through. If you read the fine print, imp shadowbolt is getting nerfed to 15%. With 23% crit, it works out at roughly an extra 16% dmg for me as it is, so this’d drop to ~13%. I dont feel that an instant cast sbolt (2.4 second cast time) is going to make up for that. That said, the proposed talents make fire destruction spec viable. Might see an end to boltcannons
I’m surprised no one has meantioned the usefullness of Demonic Teleport in bgs, think about it, as soon as someone captures the flag or tries to take over base, Demonic teleport and save the day. Yay super-lock.
It will probably have a <50 yard range, otherwise your idea would just own
oh man doing pvp will be so insanely fun as affliction or destruction.
and i don’t think anyone mentioned Atrocity + Haunt will own a lot in bg
I would say:
1-Demonic Circle in the center of an arena 5vs5 ..
2-wait til lot of peeps nearby circle..
3-Demonic Teleport instant cast
4-Atrocity instant cast
5-AoE Fear instant cast
6-Haunt instant cast
….
scratch that, any tree will be insanely fun for pvping
what im wondering myself is the demonic circle ability. maybe they will make it so you cant use it while running flags in bgs i dunno.
kinda bummed since i was pretty much forced to take SL style gear up to this point since dest isnt viable in arenas though im sure lvl 80 gear will mop the floor with t5 like tbc did to nax gears.
surprised that theres no comments on shadowflame myself, will finally make the 41 point dest talent worth taking using them as a combo and possibly followed by a fear. was kind of hoping to read they tied in the dest stun chance talent with shadowflame but i havent looked at the full proposed changes yet, just the ones listed here. Anyone know about that?
I imagine that you will drop the flag like when using the engineering speed increase boots. I imagine that if a stun chance does apply to all destro spells then it would apply the same to shadowflame, though I feel that the dot element isnt as useful as the disorient that mages get from dragon’s breath. Though getting a useful close range aoe is long overdue for warlocks - afterall why on earth does hellfire have to damage us and be channeled, when mages and priests get a spammable close range aoe.
Noone comments on the fact that soullink loses the +5% damage, and in general a lev 70 demo warlock will LOSE damage by those change? And survivability too? I think by observing that and the other talents, that they are lending Demo for PvP.
I’ve always been a demo raiding lock, and I WANT to be again, so I want to have talents for PvE dps in that tree, not for uber survivability and PvP. Damn PvP is getting a lot away from this game for me -__-
The spells are changed now, no more atrocity no more decimate