Comments on: Nobody Panic (Not yet, at least)

By: donnie

donnie — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:35:58 +0000

Lock that crited the mob causing the shadow debuff will be the solely one that will benefit from it … Freking A !

Get ur own god damn crit gear ! I have a lock in raid that tops all dps meters … why ? cause he stacked haste gear like a madman … eating our imp SB like popcorn. Mind you that my guild is curently half way in BT … so not all of us have haste gear.

By: Jaqi

Jaqi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:25:46 +0000

As someone who would much rather raid Afflic than any other spec, this rather worries me. I don’t want to spam SB for the whole rest of the next expansion, but I don’t want to be entirely out of a raiding spot, either.

I’ve already made my own post about what I’ve seen regarding warlocks in the beta, but it pretty much sums up to the fact that we can always reroll deathknights if they screw us over too much.

By: Romil

Romil — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:39:43 +0000

I agree Horns… cant get too excited yet being that this is the beta. Things get added, then get taken away just as quickly.

We also have to keep in mind that we don’t know which spec’s will dominate in the expansion. Affliction lock’s may come out with higher DPS than Destro locks, as unlikely as this seems, we just dont know enough about the talents yet to say for sure what is the best raid spec for Warlock’s.

Although as an affliction warlock in game currently, this does freak me out a bit.

By: Smatter

Smatter — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:44:04 +0000

Exactly, Horns. Although, in its current stage, this change will harm us somewhat. Yet, I suppose the sacrifice is for the greater good of the game and the overall enjoyment of all classes/specs.

By: Horns

Horns — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:39:00 +0000

This change was necessary. With buffs/auras/etc. going raidwide, there would be simply too many buffs to go around and damage would skyrocket.

Nothing will change basically. You’ll still take just enough healers and tanks, and get the least possible number of DPS classes who will bring the most beneficial buffs to the raid, and fill other spots with the best DPS class(es). Why is that different from what we are doing today?

10 classes = 30 different specs. Someone has to bite the dust.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:51:36 +0000

This is on just about everyone’s blog today and everyone sees to have the same response. A majority of it for everyone to just FTFA! Nice to see one that says “We’ll see.” I don’t think any of the changes will be “gamebreaking.”

I’m not sad to see stacks of Mortal Strike and Wound Poison going the way of the DoDo

By: Graylo

Graylo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:42:20 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about Curse of Elements. Some of the things I’ve been reading indicate it will still be the best-in-class debuff, due to the reduction in resistances. I always thought that you couldn’t reduce boss resistances but some very smart people are saying that you can and it has been shown on WWS reports.

However, this change is a HUGE nerf for warlocks. No more Shadow Weaving, Only being able to use your own Imp Shadow Bolt. That is likely at least a 10% decrease in DPS.