7 Upcoming Warlock Nerfs
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Hornstradamus’ predictions for the year 2009 (year of the melee on Azerothian calendar): warlock nerfs. We all know it’s coming, even tho we’re at the bottom of the food chain at the moment.
7. Drain spells through pillars
Will most certainly be removed. Sure, perhaps it doesn’t make sense to drain players health and mana through various objects, but there’s a lot of stuff in this game that don’t make sense either. The devs will fall for the massive cries on the PvP forums eventually.
6. Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is possibly the only spell keeping us from ignoring PvP completely at this point is exactly the one which will get nerfed to ground, rightfully so. Immolation Aura is stupidly awesome, and even though you can simply get out of range there’s always plenty of rogues, hunters, paladins, warriors, mages, shaman, priests, death knights and druids who will QQ about it.
5. Demonic Circle and line of sight
Another line of sight issue which will most certainly be “fixed” as soon as the badgers start spinning the wheels at Blizz HQ. On one hand Demonic Circle is imbalanced, but on the other the spell doesn’t have that many uses so there’s no point in killing the joy. Well, at least from our point of view.
4. DoTs will disappear when we die
Even though they kill us, we often have our revenge even after we’re dead since our DoTs keep ticking. This is yet another serious nerf which again does and doesn’t make sense. I’m surprised it actually lasted 4 years, but don’t worry, Ghostcrawler will put an end to it soon enough!
3. Seed of Corruption
Probably the best AoE nuke in the game, and without a doubt the one which brought the most smiles on our faces in the last couple of years, Seed of Corruption is doomed for a nerf.
2. Lifetap
Image credit: Mystic Chicanery
Blizzard tried pulling this off once of twice before but we vigorously QQed (please click it!) and fortunately one of the best spells in our arsenal is still useful. Life Tap did get nerfed in PvP which was the original evil scheme, but with the recent itemization changes and scaling with spirit it’s 200% overpowered in raids. Mage QQ will make it happen, believe me!
1. Fear
Seriously, did you really think Fear won’t be nerfed? Blizz never needed a reason to nerf fear before and they sure don’t need one now. I’m guessing the devs are laughing their ass off each time they stealth nerf one of our spells, and Fear is probably number one on their list.
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There you go, those are my happy thoughts for the next year. Hopefully we’ll stick around for another great year and see it happen!
/facepalm
I wouldn’t be surprised if these nerfs actually DID happen.
especially the meta nerf, locks cant be allowed to pvp! i mean are you kidding? we are obviously the most over powered class in the game!
Man, if any of these happens it might push me over the edge. Right now were fine in PVE but PVP is horrid! If they make dots go away after death(which would be kinda hard) i would KILL TOM! Though many of those changes would be hard to implement as they would have to change some of the ways the game worked.
Lastly: LIFETAP AND FEAR R FINE! We need those 2 in PVP so we can LIVE! Curse you TOOOOOOOOOOOOM for our arguement over the old lifetap nerf. Thank god it didnt get nerfed that hard. But if the issue comes back up again Tom will be FIRED! One way or another!!!!
/vent off.
Man I heard they want to eliminate LOCKS and give the holders a pally or dk or a mage instead! I will kill blizz!
The tears on this site…wow
You guys can’t spot a joke even if it slapped you in the face. Can’t I ever have some fun?
I got a great laugh out of it.
Awesome content, Horns.
Very nice, Horns. I got a good laugh from it. Only way it would be funnier is if it was 2012.
But, 4, 6, and 7 wouldn’t actually surprise me in the least. We may be crippled as hell in PvP right now, but I still see an insane amount of QQ. And it’s not even good QQ. They talk about how bad they ROFLstomp us in one breath and than talk about how OP’d we are since we didn’t die from the first few hits.
And right now all the talk GhostCrawler is downing about wanting to fix us isn’t making me feel any better. He’s stated that the changed to our Summoning and possibly attaching CC breaking to Demonic Circle would be band-aid fixes until the real ones are ready. I still remember the last time we got a band-aid fix while they worked on something better and that was way back with Death Coil. We still (and still do) got shredded by any and every melee, but at least we could get one off of us every 2 min.
As I said before, everyone else got a new car and we got a new bike. I love my Warlock. Every other class I have played has failed to engage me like my Warlock. But, this new bike is really starting to get dinged up as all the people with new cars keep running over me.
Another nerf and my lock is dead for good. And I will chase after locks and make their life miserable so that they quit to
You know Horns, be careful. Many a true word is said in jest.
Despite my previous post saying I was gonna quit, I had a rogue at level 37 and started to level that.. OP heaven here I come, was my thought.
The problem is Azeroth is like a ghost town since everyone is playing in Northrend. I shudder to think what new players will think who start playing. MMO..? Then where are the people?
Its not much fun leveling and hardly ever seeing anyone to play the game with.
Well my DK is level 66 and I do the 3-man quests alone. So its not pretty hard. 2 more levels and then i go Northrend. Its a shame I can no longer find people for classics like Karahzan etc. Can I do the three man quests alone with my warlock? Take a guess
You obviously forgot that Blizz is eliminating us.
Wow, that page mock-up on Tom Chilton was well done. Or they hacked Wikipedia and took a screen shot of it.
I had to check out the real site to see for sure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Chilton_(game_developer) ).
My warlock hasn’t PvP’ed since Wrath came out, and probably won’t, unless I get bored of PvE. C’mon, Ghostcrawler, deliver on some of those promises!
time to reroll DK.. at least there deathcoil seems better, and crits for stupid damage >_>
It was real. People were so enraged about the horrific nerf that was planned to Life Tap (the % of hp to % of mana) that a few people went around and started editing sites like Wikipedia and WoWWiki.
They made me laugh.
SM/FG (or SiLi/FG) makes 3 man quests cake. You should have no problem taking down 100k HP elites solo (just don’t nuke, if you pull aggro from your FG, you’re toast - slow and steady, full load of DoTs + HF).
Actually maybe that is the plan, certainly DK has many lock style qualities, perhaps they want to give the HS and SS.
Patch 3.2
Death Knights to Get Unholy Grail.
Unholy Grail
Use: Stores the friendly target’s life essence. If the target dies while his life essence is stored, he will be able to resurrect with 9100 health and 9700 mana.
Cooldown 30 mins
Ritual of the Unholy Couldron
Begins a ritual that creates an Unholy Couldron. Raid members can click the Couldron to acquire a Master Vial of Life. The Couldron lasts for 3 min or 25 charges. Requires the caster and 1 additional party members to complete the ritual. In order to participate, all players must right-click the Couldron and not move until the ritual is complete.
Master Vial of Life
Use: Heals 10,000 health
cooldownn 5 mins
And then locks are dead. just watch
lol next to rogues no other class dominated BC pvp and frankly raiding for dps, and you talk like making you guys more balanced is an issue of qqing. lol it kills me.