Patch 3.0.8 - Additional Changes
Not as big as the last post, but here’s a couple of new buffs for Demonology. Nothing fancy but still welcome!
Master Conjuror
- Master Conjuror - now increases the combat ratings gained from your conjured Firestone and Spellstone by 15/30%.
What it means is our Firestone will get +0.3% direct damage and + ~0.47% spell crit chance, while the spellstone will get +0.3% Dot damage and +12 Spell Haste (+ ~0.8% faster spell cast).
Glyphs
- Glyph of Felguard - Increases the Felguard’s total attack power by 20%. (Up from 10%)
If you’re using this glyph, your felguard’s damage should increase by 10 - 15 DPS.
- Glyph of Felhunter - When your felhunter uses Devour Magic, you will also be healed for that amount.
The old glyph increased the critical strike chance of Felhunter’s Shadow Bite ability by 6%. I have to say I like the change, but it still doesn’t do anything about the fact our pets still die in two-three global cooldowns, and as gear progresses it will only get worse just like during the previous expansion.
Additionally, Felhunter’s Devour Magic ability will receive a range boost to 45 yards, but only the new healing portion: the dispel itself will stay at 30 yards range.
Soul Shards
Quote from Ghostcrawler:
Look, I know you’re impatient. I would be too. It’s totally understandable. We do have changes in store for warlocks. Changing shards is one of them, of which the new summoning mechanic is but a very early first step.
We all have plenty of ideas on fixing the crazy pink diamonds but nothing is ever done about it.
I don’t know about you but I’m tired of listening what the devs have in store for warlocks. During Wrath beta they told us to wait till patch 3.0 for buffs, when the patch went live we had to wait until Wrath is released. Then they told us to wait until we’re level 80 — now we’re 80, arena season 5 just started and we’re still screwed! Wait for the next expansion perhaps, is that the new excuse they’ll use? I want something done already, and I want it now.
We are all tired with the devs. It looks like they gave all the “scary” stuff to DKs and just nerfed the warlock. I moved from angry to loling my own warlock. Hell, I rolled a DK and I am now tanking at level 60 since nobody wants a lock in arena, we die fast to make honor points, people are still sceptical about bringing locks to raids and heroics. I also hate people saying bring imp out - I am demo you idiots or respec cos destro is “better”. I don’t think I will return as the DK is much simple to play with and dies a lot less. Ghostcrawler, I know you read this blog;. GET REAL MATE! Roll out improvements ASAP or do a free migration to all warlocks to a different class until you get your act together. No blizzard rules here
I never understood the pink diamond thing. And before I quit the game recently, it really did start to annoy. Listening to my death knight buddy complain about having to pay 50 silver for corpse dust I almost flipped. What I would have given to been able to buy a stackable set of shards.
Before any pvp session, not that I did too much of this on account of being killed too quick, I would have to spend a good 15 minutes faffing around looking for mobs. In TBC this was somewhat acceptable as I would hearth to Shat, queue up for something and go farming in the forest. Dalaran is a different matter entirely, mobs are spread out and it just increased the the frustration. I never really worked out the best place to go farming.
What other class has to do this nonsense? Its really hitting home with everyone. now because locks are in such an awful state.
Be patient I hear Ghostcrawler say. Is not waiting over a year for the expansion wait enough? Or is calling a game an MMORPG just an excuse to release an unfinished product? Pathetic!
Actually the latest thing was wait for 1200 resilience… maybe in the 6+ months it’ll take you to get 1200 resilience you’ll be so jaded and thick skinned that they could strip all your dots from you and you’d still be able to beat people with sheer tenacity.
I for one resolved to strap a giant bullseye to my arse and run like a madman while my arena partner mobs up the melee train that is working on me.
demonic circle… ptah… rogue parking lot more like it.
blizzard really needs to fix lock. how come mages have blink, frost nova, slows, ice block, etc and we have death coil…at level 44…and castbar fears. buff warlock. compared to death knights and ret pallies now we are jokes and rogues and ferals wipe my face in the dirt. i hate having to have soul shards and a bag just to keep them. if i wasn’t a human or luckily have a pvp insignia i would have quit playing a lot longer than it has already taken me to quit. i’m playing dk now until blizzard fixes this blatent unbalance. buff loc
Anybody out there that still thinks Destros can out DPS Demon doesnt know what there talking about, im 0/41/30 and i can match the DPS of a similarly equipped destro lock without my FG in fact my guildies saw what i was doing and several of the switched to my build, i have even out DPSed my GM who is a mage with better gear than what i have. by the way Bliz didnt get rid of the SB spam 0/51/20 or similar does it quite nicely and will by far out DPS a full destro. what has me miffed is that they gave mages some of our toys (Living Bomb!?!) and i can help but feel that DKs particularly unholy ones have skills that should belong to us. but seriously in PvE i would like to see some changes but the only thing locks really NEED is a better aggro dump, PvP on the other hand, the only classes i used to worry about were rouges and warriors, now blah….