If they would only change done spells to be nature school, If they would change Drain Life and Drain Soul to nature school could be enough.
drain life is dog for destro and soulburn: drain life is a joke
maybe make the soulburn effect stronger? make it cost a lot more mana and make it heal more but make it so you only get a few uses out of it? bring back ember tap for destro?
or, just for a warlock’s own healthstones, make it so you can use more than one per a combat instance?
No, they need to revamp warlocks and finally be a decent developers and probably a decent human beings, with a functional brains and sence of design.
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dont lecture me on warlock basics i know it better than u
thing is both demo and destro have multiple schools
eg demo is shadowfire for guldan/demonbolt and shadow for fear/shadowbolt/shadowfury
destro are fire/shadowfire if cataclysm is taken/shadow/chaos
affli is only shadow with the exception of soul rot which is a cd and does nothing in case of survivability if shadow is locked
thing about this is both demo and destro can “bait” interrupts with shadow and continue to do their thing meanwhile aff has to fake all the time because lockout is death
and as most(!) people above 3k are kind of clever(just a lil bit but still) they know they should only interrupt one specific cast if they want to kill aff and the other specific cast if they want to stop their damage
destro’s damage cant be stopped at all because 3(4) schools and pletora of high damage instants
demo has a lot of instants as well as 2 schools
aff has “instant dots” and have to cast a lot of UAs which are doing what 4k damage/tick? ok thats huge and scary, people wont W it down ever(sarcasm)
imagine people Wing demo or destro lmao
demo will just either tyrant or nether portal and people will run or die (+ defensive)
destro will simply kill people if they W at it
what will affliction do? use darkglare? xd the correct answer is “die”
This is a such high thihg to say for a person with a such arrogant attitude.
Your single school of magic is justified by the interaction with your toolkit - by generating shields from almost every single spell in your disposal and having a good chunk of instant cast spells.
If you lock “Shadow flame” then the demo loses ability to cast anything apart from bilescourge bombers (don’t ask why, this ability is out of any school on server side). And with shadow flame being locked you are not able to cast anything. So…
Where people interrupt HoG and leave demo useless for several seconds.
Where you just do two things.
A. If demo doesn’t use resolve - interrupt->CC->CC=Ruined Tyrant or NP.
B. If demo uses Resolve - CC->CC->Interrupt=ruined Tyrant or NP.
Unlike Affli, demo burst has a window, both Tyrant and NP require ramp up and their damage is highly dependent on a number of factors.
Tyrant - How many stacks of the buff you have + if the target is not LoS you.
NP - How many demons you have summoned, was you lucky enough to summon additional demons, what kind of demons you have summoned (because if you stuck with Darkhounds and eyes of guldan it is a -70% of DPS for you), and the cherry on the top if people didn’t CCed Pit lord.
And with both bursts being ruined, you don’t get damage and shield value of it.
Affli with one school off magic is nowhere near to be perfect, but it has more potential to get results from own work, where demo is highly dependent on the vast numbers of factors that demo doesn’t control.
yes it also justifies the amount of affliction warlock in 3v3 at 2400+ = 5, which is equal number to tank specs there
and its not a joke, go check it our urself if u dont believe me, 5 affli warlocks above 2400 for both eu and na
and if you lock “chaos” then any school become unavailable… sooo… buff destro please… need to think a bit… learning to bait interrupts with fears… jesus… how to…
cant interrupt while feared bruh
lmao git gud mate
affli doesnt have any burst windows whatsoever
cant get results in a world where u put dots with no burst on people and resto shamans/druids/mistweavers exist
Make Drain Soul and Corruption nature school, would also help Affliction.
that doesnt make any sense lorewise and also lowers the skillcap a lot
searing pain / fel flame(espec the cata version which extended UA by 6 seconds, but even if it were only the fire damage like in mop) would solve the issue of 1 school without making the spec as stupid as destro is
They won’t return the searing pain because by their words it was redundant ability - words of Holinka.
Fel fire won’t come back because it was a part of a toolkit designed by our old class designer - Xelnath, and Blizz has made 180 turn since they fired him.
They would rather experiment on another form of Soul shard spender or other BS like stacking UA’s, rapture or whatever.
Soul Rot should then be shadow damage not nature. It is to improve Affliction. So you can at least still cast something if you are locked with shadow.
Lore? Who cares about lore. According to lore we Warlocks should have the shape of a disgusting demon due to constant usage of fel energies.
Yet we suffer no such transformation.
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Lore wise, not all warlocks use fel - A lot of warlock abilities come from demons and their magic, and tons of demons use shadow magic for most parts.
And what Blizz said on the old forums, Alliance and at some capacity horde warlocks are more careful about fel magic than warlocks of the legion or those who serve their own purpose. On the Alliance side, after the “war crimes” book Warlocks has been accepted into the military under numbers of limitations, where on the horde side, they were just told by Thrall that if warlocks would mess up, they would be decapitated and fed to wolves.
Maybe blizzard should add Drain Soul and Drain Life to the mastery.
Demons in essence are creatures of Fel magic. A demon casting shadow magic simply means that It learnt shadow magic.
Summoning or control of demons can not be done without the utilization of Fel magic.
And lore wise, at the end of the day, ANY tapping into Fel magic will cause body alteration.
Felguard, Pit Lord and Infernal are VERY strong demons. It makes absolutely no sense for us to not suffer consequences while we summon and control such strong demons.
Anywho, my point is, saying X cant be implemented due to lore is at this point pure BS. Whether WoW nerds like it or not, that cat went out the window a looong time ago.
Shadow magic is easy to cast and unlike fel doesn’t need resorces. Shadow is a basic magic like a foundation for many cruical spells and incantations, like a portals for example.
Lore wise warlocks can avoid using fel and stick to shadow magic and other alterations of it like shadow flame and ETC.
soul rot was designed as night fae ability and therefore is the nature school
making drain life(sustain, especially with essence drain talent which i think we will be taking in 10.1 as precog will be gone) and corruption nature would make the spec as dumb as destro is which doesnt even have to fake cast because of the access to 3 schools
With all the micro cc and low cd on interrupt, fahre casting isn’t that good. Without precog it wouldn’t be a thing. So having at least two magic schools would be great.
If you solely stick to shadow magic and dont deal with demons and fel energy than you are pretty much not a Warlock 
well its about the personal skill, making corruption and drain life not shadow would end up with affli who doesnt even fake(as destro do rn) because he cba with faking if he can just press whatever
It’s about bringing Affliction into the year 2023. Even shadow can use holy spells. So Affliction with only one major spell school is totally out of date.
Precog will be baseline with 10.1, so fake casting is still a thing. It’s just not that bad for you if you get kicked.