Armory Musings Reloaded
Okoloth, known as the author of the Armory Musings blog just launched the new and improved home for his project. If you’re not familiar with his work, he’s pulling data from the WoW Armory and puts it all in nice and (at least for me) interesting statistics.
Warlock leveling specs
You can easily check the popular specs for your class, at either level 80 or in the 71 - 80 range. It appears nearly 42% of warlocks level up as Demonology, and at level 80 the most popular spec is Destruction with almost 40% of dedicated followers. You can also check up the average stats for classes at those levels and among other things see how only mages, shaman and priests have less average health than warlocks. It also appears the other two cloth classes, priests and mages, have more spellpower than their evil counterparts.
Although that’s far from enough data for me to presume anything, it still an interesting source for those who like to dig into it.
Interesting. All of the warlocks in my guild (including myself) are Affliction. We’re having fun with Haunt–I just respecced myself for it yesterday.
I think affliction is a lot of fun. Unfortunately the debuff limit is going to be a problem for multiple affliction locks in raids, and I think that sucks.
Affliction for life! With the addition of Haunt, there’s no way I’m respeccing (with a possible exception for if they add a minor glyph of green fire).
At 70, it seemed like most demonology warlocks were bad at PvE (but not all bad warlocks were demonology). Hopefully that will change at 80, since Blizzard’s trying to equalize damage across the board. Of course, there’s now the “OMG I R DEMON” feature for the (mental age) five-year-olds, in addition to the felguard.
Ironically, the good demonology warlocks either didn’t spec for the felguard, or didn’t use it in instances.
Wait, there’s still a debuff limit? I thought they got rid of that a while ago. Affliction locks and unholy DKs aren’t gonna be pretty if the limit’s still around.
Yep, the limit is 40. So a single affliction warlock will have up Haunt (1), UA (2), Imm (3), Corruption (4), Coa (5), SL (6) and Shadow Embrace (7).
Umm, nevermind:
“We changed how the game handles debuffs (ie negative state effects on targets) on creatures with Wrath of the Lich King. The old hard cap of 40 debuffs on a target no longer effectively exists. You can now apply way more debuffs to a target without them dropping off before their duration expires. The default WoW UI will not normally display all these debuffs, but they really are still there!
Daelo
Lead Encounter Designer”