Warlocks Nerfed Hard.Follow

According to live test realms all Warlock DoT damage has been reduced by 30%. In addition, Curse of Agony and Corruption are no longer instant casts (not even by talents). Soul link has also been reduced to 20% damage reduction down from 30%.


The damage reduction I can see and agree with.....but making CoA and corruption have cast time??? You have got to be kidding. DoT's are easily dispelled by instant casts, and they take 30 seconds to do their full damage, so they are easy to heal against as well.



Can't blizzard ever just make minor adjustments to balance things out istead of completely changing the way a class is played? A damage reduction in itself would have sufficed. I swear everytime I start to enjoy a class it gets flipped upside down by changes. Once you start making a time investment it would be nice to know what you are signing up for.

Looks like I'm respecing to demonology :(

hi im new, i heard warlocks were pretty good, but after seeing this thread, i think ill gor for tauren shaman instead, thoughts anyone?

Please can you supply a link to this info? I can find the stuff bn the o boards about the damage reduction but not anything about corrption being no longer instant.

It wasn't just the O-Boards that were whining.

Unfortunately, there's always going to be unhappy people in WoW. As long as one class can beat another, the class that can be defeated by the other will invariably cry Nerf.

Edited, Jan 9th 2007 8:00am by Wondroustremor

I dont mind PvP, i do mind PvE.

Remember when they took the cast time talent away from arcane explosion, maybe they are doing the same with corruption. Every warlock will have it as instant cast and maybe that will now be the default - they take away the imp corruption talent as it is going to be instant for all. This is what im hoping anyway.

where do you all see the cast time change? im loged into test right now and my cast times are the same, only different is the recast on shadowfury which is 20sec instead of 1 min now. i was never full affliction in the first place so it wont hurt much but i sure would miss instant Coruption.

Where is the source of this?

Agreed.

And now, because you hurt my feelings with those harsh words of yours Webjunky, I'm gonna quit WoW.

Oh no I'm nerfed! Just when I decided to join the ranks.... now I wont be able to dot up that Tier 1 warrior with 8k armor and 6k life and fear him and start work on the next one while he dies!
I have a 60 warrior, a 30 mage a 40 lock, a 35 hunter and every other class in the 20's plus a 29 twinked out warrior. I decided to work on the hunter and lock after watching them come into felwood at level 50-52 and masacre groups of 3 or more mid 50's mobs while I at 54 had to try to arrow pull single mobs or 2 on 1 mobs to keep from dying, and to top it off they would destroy the group of 3 faster than I could take down my single mob! (thats why you are being nerfed)and forget about questing on the mobs that drop the felcloth if a 60 lock or hunter was there farming.
So for All of you whiners Quit and go back to FFXI and come crawling back 6 months later when you find that the grass is no greener on the other side.
Or better yet play a tank or pally to 60 and then you will really see the light lol just imagine playing a toon that is nearly usless out of a group environment!

I have a question about this. Im not entirely up on all the lock nerfage and have read some confusing things.

Is it that Corruption and CoA do 30% less base damage, or are they getting 30% less from +spell dmg?


Because, from what ive read, i think its the latter which isnt as bad right? meh.

Not gonna get to excited until I see it negatively effect me.

Remember when people were whining about the hunter agi-nerf pre patch? :P