Classes and how they play/feel is 80% of what players think of the game, as you have learned by now. do NOT be afraid to add alot of spells, and rework classes as past expansions like mists of pandaria. Warlock in particular still needs (ALOT) of changes on the alpha, just like EVERY class so far. If you look at the forums, it is filled with "add these spells back…or “remove this these spells”.
Please don’t make another mistake like bfa and make minimal changes just because of arbitrary reasons. This is what i think warlock needs, just like snutz and every other warlock in wow wants…
AFFLICTION:
Add maelific grasp(channeled ability) for affliction, soulswap, soulburn, haunt baseline, burst baseline, remove darkglare(eyeball) and replace with doomguard, make UA usable on multiple targets and make the dispell dmg of UA alot higher, keep the new maelific ability on alpha for AOE, Make dots GCD 0,5 sec shorter (IMPORTANT), else we trade 5 globals(dots) for a dispell which does no dmg
DEMONOLOGY:
make doom deal dmg faster, like 15 seconds or less, 1 minute before tick is borderline stupid, add metamorphosis in some new way like just wings/horns/claws and make it change your shadowbolt/hand of guldan to chaos slash or w/e and chaos wave, replace tyrant with something else, because it’s EASILY kited/avoided, and is a horrible mechanic to rely on. Make imps do more dmg, and so on…Honestly this spec needs a whole rewamp, it’s currently almost unplayable in alot of situations, not to mention PvP.
DESTRUCTION:
add embers back (MOP) for class fantasy, ember tap, Fel flame for instant dmg outside of conflagrate!, Make fire and brimstone like in mop where it changes your spells to AOE!, If you’re actually going to make pets 6 second cast, then make us use an ember/soul shard for a instant pet summon! (soulburn) like in MoP, and embertap (doesn’t have to heal ALOT, just a heal to not be a “one trick pony”.
These are just some thoughts on the top of my head, also alot of these changes are what warlocks have been asking for since WoD, and not having these FUN abilities make the class feel empty just like every other class, it is more important now than EVER to hit the classes perfectly, as this is your “last chance” for alot of people, including myself, and alot of big streamers. Blizzard just make classes feel exciting and fun, if you have to go back to cata/Mop class design thats perfect, because that’s when class design was at it’s best, and people cry and long for those classes they loved back.
Either make a new post in the Alpha forums so the GMs see it or add your ideas to my existing post. Up to you, I doubt GMs are ever checking this forum.
I’m a really fan of warlock affliction and I enjoy this spec really much, playing only this from ever. Affliction needs a rework, about the concept, not only about skills. Affliction, means that it’s a master of istant cast, draining life and strength from the opponent, weakening them with powerful curses. Warlock needs, more soul shard generation, for first, and we can discuss later, about many changes this class needs. About the Darkglaire, it’s not a spell that fits really the affliction gamemplay, and should be removed from affliction specialization and replaced with a spell that can empower his playstile. Another urgent thing is a movement skill, not a portal with 2min of cd each trip, while the other classes can run, jump, blink, with less cd. Developers haven’t any kind of idea about affliction should be, and this is why is the less considered class, in this game.
How even that thing landed in the affliction spec wich about curses and all… a Darkgalre is an Observer, isn’t it? Intelligent race of floating eyeball squids native to the Great Dark Beyond and they “eat” magic
How the eye lesers fitting in the class I have no idea…
When we first got the observer back in MoP nobody complained. When we had a fire raining doomguard as our 3 min cd nobody complained. But now that our 3 min cd has an interaction with our dots, it doesn’t make sense.
I know it’s trendy for all the sheeps to complain about the darkglare now, but fairly sure if we had this since vanilla and it was changed to a doomguard in BFA, you’d all be up in arms now complaining that doomguard makes no sense for affliction.
Idk I’m lvling another warlock just other race cause for me it’s most fun class to play in WoW. I played all classes but the most joy i have on warlock
I’m not a warlock main but the post title (and most of what you said) is exactly what I feel about wow.
Classes need to be fun for me to want to play the game and play through the content.
The content can be amazing, but if I don’t have fun playing my class I’ll just end up leveling another alt just to find that it also has a boring gameplay.
Ofcourse people didnt complain about it in MoP. Because the actual class was fun, exciting and true to the class fantasy.
So nobody bothered much about a slighty missplaced spell.
I badly want WoD demonology back, or hell, even MoP or Cata.
I want Metamorphosis to come back. They can rename it “Demon Form” or whatever, I really couldn’t care less about the semantics of it. It just needs to come back. I have zero respect for the notion that Demon Hunters having Metamorphosis somehow invalidates the original Metamorphosis we know from WoW. Even just getting the horns and wings like the glyph, would be enough aesthetically, but also stuff like Immolation Aura and Demon Bolt in its chaos damage iteration. Demonic Leap, remember that? With the meteor glyph, god that was satisfying to use.
hm, ur wrong.
why darkglare is a horrible mechanic:
3 minute cooldown
is used to increase MAXIMUM DOT DMG! with 5 UA’s and all dots in the world
…can be insta dispelled and rendered absolutely useless
can be banished= useless 3 minute cooldown
promotes burst gameplay which makes no sense for affli as it’s a dot spec, and the burst is insta dispelled which makes the whole darkglare joke spell absolutely useless
Not to mention how hideous it is, look at it, it looks like it’s from a fkn cartoon, dude…
btw. there’s a reason u don’t have 1 guy agreeing with u on forums, cus ur opinion is wrong.
