What is this supposed to be?? Are they seriously nerfing pet HP by 73%? Is this a joke? Everyone else got buffs, and we’re the only ones getting nerfed. Why isn’t the Hunter pet getting nerfed too? We really needed this level 30 tournament, didn’t we? Just because people kept crying and complaining, they had to ruin a perfectly fine class.
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They defo did the demon health nerf cause pvp. I much rather them nerf fear or something but i don’t want my demon to die to fart in raids. Or they want us again go always without a pet and just sac
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Yeah, the pet was finally starting to feel useful, and now a single big crit will probably one-shot it after this nerf. Soul Link won’t even make much of a difference anymore. I honestly don’t understand why they had to nerf it this hard…
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This is a HUGE nerf!
If Blizzard was afraid of the Voidwalker solo-tanking 3 mobs, they could have easily nerfed its threat generation instead of gutting its health pool. By nerfing pet health across the board, you are severely punishing all Warlock specializations, especially Demonology, which completely relies on its demon.
Even in PvP, pets will now die instantly through Soul Link. This is insane! Is this a bait to force people away from maining Warlocks right before the launch of Forever? Why execute such a massive nerf literally a day before release?
In original Vanilla, 1 point of Master’s Stamina granted 7.5 HP to the pet, which was balanced and normal. Now, while almost every other class receives buffs and power-ups as promised, Warlocks get hit with an overwhelming nerf that completely guts the class.
You promised to make classes stronger than in Vanilla to match the increased health and difficulty of mobs, yet you are dealing irreparable damage to the Warlock. So much of our talent tree — including Soul Link and essential passive synergies — revolves around pet survival.
The recent buff to Wrack doesn’t even begin to compensate for this huge loss. Wrack as a capstone talent should naturally deal more damage than Drain Life anyway. A mere 10% DoT amplification on a channeled spell is laughable compared to mechanics like Haunt from later expansions, which offered the same 10% DoT buff alongside instant Shadow Bolt-level impact damage without locking you into channeling.
Just because a Warlock reached the PvP tournament finals on beta — without even facing their hardest counters like a Warrior or Enhancement Shaman — doesn’t mean the class is overpowered. Every class has hard counters, and balance shouldn’t be judged on an isolated tournament bracket!
This nerf destroys Warlocks across every single aspect of the game (PvE and PvP), and no other talent tweaks can replace lost pet durability. For PvP, stacking Stamina becomes practically pointless: as gear levels and player damage scale up, pets will melt faster and faster with zero scaling to back them up.
What is the true reason behind this nerf??
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Yeah, the way they’re treating Warlocks makes absolutely no sense. The Voidwalker had the exact same amount of HP in Classic, and it never felt overpowered back then either. Now it looks like just two mobs will be enough to kill it. What a joke. If their goal was to completely ruin the Warlock class, then congratulations, they nailed it.
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I was dead set on playing warlock in forever but one day before release they push this and completely screw over the demonology spec. Now I’m not sure anymore. It’s bad for PvE but Pets will get oneshotted in pvp , specially with the all the buffs they did now to damage output.
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I was finally looking forward to leveling and playing as Demonology, but after this change, I don’t even want to bother anymore. Honestly, I’m not even sure I want to play Warlock at all now…
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Sorry for ur loss.Future hunter hoping same thing dont happen to us.
Completely gutting an entire talent tree just one day before launch… that’s impressive.
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the only reason why I wanted to play forever is to play on my warlock, right now i am not even sure to play forever at all…
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Making a change like this at the very last minute, completely changing the way the class is played… It’s ridiculous. They basically made an entire talent tree irrelevant, one that I was actually planning to build my character around. What a disappointment.
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Hey, at least we still have improved Corruption talent to put 5 points in, no matter what spec you play!
And the nice Suppression talent that gives 1-5 hit, now compare that with mage talent that gives twice as much hit per point spent!
Blizzard devs obviously don’t play warlock
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I start to loose faith in the forever dev team…
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Gonna roll rogue for launch, double sap sounds fun.
Kinda glad I already decided against my one and only beloved favourite class…
I remember trying the class in classic era, but honestly that class was only really fun starting with tbc.
So I won’t be playing one in forever, heard mage is getting some love and its also a caster.
My battletag is destrolock and I am making a mage as my WoWF main…
I should be hunted for that.
Do they have to many warlocks? because anything i heard so far is they try hard to get people to play something else.
worked with me. only ever had 1 idea in wow and its playing a lock.
and after quitting retail and return to forever I can’t believe I am not playing a lock but it is what it is.
maybe in 1-2 years it will be worth it.
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Imo il take any lock nerf that I can get. This is a PvP nerf, and guess what, PvP lock is op.
Tho, I think Pet nerf is not what they needed to hit. They should have hit Fear. Put a 20sec cd on it. And Sheep should also have a 20sec cd. Gouge too… some of the most oppressive spells in the game.
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no, it’s nerf to all warlock specs in pvp and pve, especially demo.
no it’s not. It’s have no burst damage if we talk about sl\sl, and others have no survivability.
yeah…why stop on this? every ability in the game shoul have 5 min cd, now *that* would be balance!
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It makes absolutely no sense
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This is classic, warlocks job is to press curse of reck so other people can have fun
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Lol..I guess nobody on the dev team actually plays Warlock.
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