As the title mentions, its my deeply concerning question to the warlock communityfor BFA.These are my thoughts on warlock as a class right now and I want to hear everyone’s opinion.
A little bit of background :-
I love playing lock and I’ve mained it since MoP. I love playing lock in all aspects, bgs, arenas, raids, M+ and even old content.
I actually quit right after dazaralor and came back to the game about one and a half weeks back.
My problem:-
Normally gearing a lock is pretty easy for me because I knew the classes’s potential to absolutely destroy bosses or players once they get the gear that they needed.
Now when I came back, I saw all these new systems of essences and corruptions and a part of me was excited and I was wondering why there arent many locks nowdays but then I realized something…
I feel like warlocks get stuck now in a horrible unescapable loop because you need at least 2 rank 3 essences one of which has to be the perfection essence, at least 2 to 3 haste corruptions on gear AND good gear to even stand a chance in the first place.
Normally the gear isnt a problem for me but the corruptions and essences are what make and break the warlock unlike balance druids that just need the streaking stars azerite traits and the perfection vision to top the dmg meters in M+ and raids…
You need the right amount of azerite traits, you need an absurd amount of haste to make destruction viable but you cant fork over the damage if you dont have the perfection essence proccing off your haste.
People dont usually even take a warlock to begin with for M+ because of their slow rampup time but an average geared lock? lol forget about it
I managed to gear up to an average amount because I made my own M+ groups and I know how warlock utility works in M+ .
And what does happen even if you do become well geared with the right corruptions?
You just spew out chaos bolts like a turret 24/7 in pvp and PvE…
I feel like chaos bolt used to feel a lot more special when there were no essences and corruptions. Now…it just feels stupid when you just throw them out as fast as incinerate casts…
I love affliction but after testing affliction against other destro locks…with the same stats destruction ends an affliction player within a few seconds…
Even in bgs, spreading your dots on everyone dosent even matter if a destruction warlock can do the damage of stacked agonies on 5 different players to one player in half the time…
I’m not sure about demo because I switched between affliction and destruction mostly as these are my two favourite speccs but both of them don’t feel good right now for some reason to me…
I maybe wrong about this feeling so I want to ask everyone else here who has been playing longer about how they like it since I came back to the game recently myself…
I like the idea of demo, and its current form is fun.
But ONLY with the sheer amount of haste and ridiculous proccs from essences, azerite and corruptions.
Without them it is insanely boring, with no WOW moments.
I miss having meta in any form, it was a fun ability or cooldown. While I get we’re summoning armies I really dislike tyrant being our main source of damage. I wish there was a route we could go with talents that is empowering ourselves with the use of demons rather than always buffing them.
The last talent row for example could be changed into something more fun. I like the idea of Nether portal, it just needs a rework to be more fun to use, and works well with the fantasy of summoning lots of demons.
Demonic consumption is “okay”, sacrificing demonic power (energy or health) to buff up them suits the fantasy of summoning a singular massive demon.
Sacrificed Souls however is just lackluster, It’s supposed to be the empower the player route but it’s so boring. It feels like it should be a base line ability or an early tier talent.
The 100 talent row should keep in line with cooldowns. Another cooldown that empowers the player instead would be far more fun. I get that Meta is now for demon hunters, but we still dont have Dark Soul for demonology, So why not give us one of those instead? Or just name it Dark Soul: Metamorphosis or Empowerment or whatever and make it the player empowerment cooldown talent option.
If meta returns to Demo, I will play lock again.
If destro returns to the state it was in MoP, I will play lock again.
Until one of those happens, I’m leaving the class I mained from BC till Legion in the drawer of Forgotten & Dearly Missed.
wait what ? no its mop demo with dark apoth and fel fire and more cool stuff for demo is better than wod , one of main issues i saw in demo wod is that greater demons such doomguard and info are permanent which they offer alot of stuff and powerful playstyle better than felguard imo , and kill demo fantasy of master demons when aff and destro got big demons too , meanwhile 10 min strong cd for 1 min casting in demo is much better design overall
Nope, the new demo design is crap compare to the old one, destruction is just soooooooo boring - that infernal window design sucks. Affliction without legion artifact is trash as well. Hope in SL they will really rethink the essence of warlock class, otherwise without azeriths and neck essences it’s gonna be piece of u know what …
Demo should get the default felguard back IMHO not this damn prock related spawning of short lived imps…damned that is Diablo III not Warcraft and it is not even fun in Diablo IMHO…prefered the oldschool necromancer from Diablo II where you only summon another skeletton if one dies.
Destruction is not fun either…
Another class that should IMHO be reverted back to WotLK state…all speccs were fun back then…at least for warlock
Ps: Locks should IMHO be able to tank via a demon form! Hell e ery class should IMHO be able to either tank or heal
Thats why i’m thinking of rerolling to ele shaman Atleast the earth elemental pet can hold aggro compared the voidwalker who seem to lose aggro if you hit to hard with spells in destro
I’m a returning player and haven’t played on the max level yet, but I like demo at the moment, I prefer the old school lock more though, not the old old, but back when we had meta, it just isn’t the same. These demon hordes that we are summoning are good, but I preferred when I had one demon buddy and could turn into one. The only problem I have with demo lock, both now and back then, that we are kind of locked in with this Felguard, for me he’s just hard to pass up, I wish we had customization to our demons, even if it’s just looks. Also no bonuses to having different demons bugs me a bit. I haven’t played since MoP hit, because I really hated pandas, only now I decided to ignore it, because seriously, pandas?!
