It is almost the 11.2 patch and the big bug with hero talents is still doesn’t fixed.
Spell or demon that deals single target damage from hero talents doesn’t generate shields for the warlock.
If you don’t pick the demon armor talent that generates shields over time, and let soul leech to generate shields from your damage you’ll see that nothing from hero talents generates the shields. Pit lord that deals single target beam damage, infernal bolt - empowered shadowbolt from Shivarra, but the worst comes for Affliction and Destruction that uses hellcaster hero talent tree - your Wither doesn’t generate shields and it replaces corruption or immolate, so you as warlock lose a decent source of your shields.
And I has reported this since the day one of TWW. And I would love to hear from blizz if they did all their “Glorious” balance changes knowing that it is bugged, or they just look at the numbers in vacuum without knowing what causes warlocks to generate less shields?
And I tell you why this is bugged, because whomever designed and codded warlocks, didn’t even tried to test warlocks and hero talents in the real fight - because normal target dummy doesn’t hit you back. And they didn’t even tested this against the tank dummy that does hit you back.
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