Tried the 3 specs couldn’t get into it.
I love the theme but damn gameplay feels dull tbh.
Could look cool as pimp/bank alt with the succubus tho
All warlock specks works the same way
- Gain max shards.
- Summon infernal(Destro), Stack imps(demo), Stack UA on the target(affli)
- Stack buff from grimoire of supremacy(destro), Summon tyrant(demo), summon darckglare(affli).
- Deal massive damage.
- Wait 3 min for repeat(Destro/Affli), wait 1.5 min to repeat(demo).
Current warlock design alone shows Blizz impotence/bankruptcy in the design ideas field.
They didn’t wanted to make a good gameplay desing for warlocks.
They didn’t wanted to ensure the good technical backup for the class design…this is the reason why demo is plays so poorly.
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Not a big fan myself. There’s no arguing they perform extremely well, but the gameplay is a little boring. I prefer casters like Shaman where you can move around a little more instead of just standing there hardcasting stuff.
I wanted to like them because I’m a big fan of demons and fel, but damn, it’s just not worth it if you’re not having fun.
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Says Demon Hunter 
sorry i couldn’t resist.
I’m leveling warlock atm, 76level and i was demo until level 74, i still love demo, but for sake of quick kills i changed to destro, easy rotation, no need to manage pet as imp casts from 40 yards. TBH, Demo is most fun for me, but huge ramp up time keeps me off - says Shadow priest I wonder how it works on raid bosses though.
I don’t deny DH gameplay is simplistic af but at least it stays fun and has cool abilities, I don’t feel any of that when playing Lock. Got better satisfaction on my palret alt overall.
But hey blame it on Blizz class design they all suck in some form or another
Hehe yeah, that’s why i want to finish leveling all possible classes to level 120, so i can skyrocket with the meta next expansion haha ^^
I dont like it either. Too tanky. Life and Mana drains gone and several baseline abilities removed. Wrath and MoP were best iterations of Warlocks.
Demo has atleast some redeeming qualities. I like planning ahead buffs and rotation to get as beefy tyrant as possible out. Feels a lot more satisfactory to have your tyrant crit for 150k instead of spamming chaos bolt all the time. Fel lord and observer are a lot of fun too, i just wish they would scale with gear as the expansion goes on because they are in the end really pathetic hp and dmg wise.
Affli I havent prob touched on since Cataclysm but dear lord is destruction in the worst shape design wise I have ever seen…damage might be ok but holy shift the spec is definition of unimagination and boredom, used to be my favorite spec in wotlk and cata but nowadays it just hurts to even look at that abomination.
Demo rotation is boring dude c’mon and Tyrant is also a failure in a PvP perspective. Observer and Fellord are merey shadows of their former selves
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This iteration of the warlock bored me massively.
This is exactly as you said, a sign of poor design. Even the Destruction spec is literally a copy/paste from MoP.
I don’t recall MoP destro being so boring and broken.
I was referring to the mechanic/playstyle when I mentioned MoP. It was exactly the same in MoP. Blizzard even openly stated they are bringing back the MoP playstyle for BFA. You rack up embers(shards now) by spreading immolates and casting incinerates. The embers were consumed for chaos bolts, primarily. Any difference now?.
You still have almost(if not all) of what you mentioned already. Even in MoP, you had to pop a 2 minute cooldown, dark soul, to do reliable damage.
You guys don’t know what mechanic is, do you?. It means the playstyle. Let me give you an example. In WoD, Affliction’s playstyle was to fully dot, haunt and then drain soul to do sustained damage. Currently, Affliction’s playstyle is to stack x5 UAs. See the difference in mechanics?.
Can we not talk about it. It’s sensitive.
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Problem of current Affliction is that it is artificialy limited by 5 stacks of UA on the target, this limits not only your base damage, but also ruins all potential to deal more damage, if you was lucky on Soul shard procs.
Even if MoP/WoD and even legion design has similarities with BFA, it gameplay of affli was not so Sloppy as it is right now.
I don’t know about Destro, but design of demonology was perfect. Theoretically, you had much to learn and pay attention during the fights, but in the gameplay all that mechanics that was incorporated in demonology gameplay, worked well…and they just worked.
When current demo has boring design (do not confuse design and idea or the class), poorly implemented abilities and mechanics, and bad numerical balance of powers. Current demo will never work well on the current Engine of the game.
Roll classic man:) Im enjoying my lock again, havent even logged retail since launch. Game pace is slower and simple but you can actually cast spells in pvp and ure not a punching bag for every single melee class. The lore is more noticable as well:)
Demon hunter talking about Warlocks’s “boring gameplay” I just can’t
I mean it doesn’t matter what class he posts on he isn’t wrong. All 3 specs hsve equally boring rotations/spells
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And if you actually read my posts you’d see I already said that every class in this game sucks in terms of fun and gameplay.
Big surprise !
I was simply stunned by warlocks as I always thought they’d be fun to play as.