Hey there,
it feels wrong to leave without saying goodbye after I played that game for more than 10 years, experienced incredibly funny moments and made great friends that I’ll most likely keep for the rest of my life.
This was a really long text before where I shared my thoughts and feelings but then I realised you don’t care anyway so i’ll make it quick to read:
You recieved tons and tons of Affliciton Warlock feedback since the early Beta of BFA, what was half a year ago. The forums are full of threads, written by smart and very experienced players that made the effort to spend hours and hours of their time writing down feedback posts about Affliction to help you doing a better job. That is the reason people pay 13€ for the game, because it was always worth it. Thats not the case anymore, at least for me.
The time people spent combined giving all this feedback is insane and what did you do? The only thing we got to hear from your side was some random footnote on a patch that said “expect warlock and dk changes soon”. Warlocks didn’t get the chance to participate in a serious arena environment in BFA, playing the class how it is intended to be played, what means not being forced to run circles with a frostmage and rdruid and wait for 100 stacks to get one drainlife off and eventually score a kill.
And then we hit 8.1… and you dare to come up with Demon Armor Protects the caster, increasing maximum health by 10% and increases armor by 125%
what could have been implemented instantly via a hotfix months ago?? People asked for it hundreds of times!!
And then your developer brains ascnend to the next level and you give us Demonic Embrace Stamina increased by 10%,
what took you half a year???
Not mentioning Casting Circle 8 sec kick immunity, 1 min cd, removes kick immunity on Unending Resolve here because everyone and his grandmother instantly dispels your UA stacks anyway. /golfclap
Your “work” was probably done in less than 10 minutes and that just reflects your immense arrogance on how you treat your customers now. “We are listening” instantly became a meme. You obviously don’t listen because nothing the community wished to happen was on your list.
No baseline Demonic Circle.
No instant Shadowfury.
No Soul Swap. Another way to spend your main ressource in this f’ckfest of melees sitting in your face with tons of interrupts.
The same arrogance you approach the Diablo community with. The same arrogance that stops you from actually communicating with us. Fixing communication issues does not take a year since it was a big topic and Ion said himself that it is an issue that will be adressed.
Telling us that changes will come, telling us months later on livestream that changes will come that redirect us from Single Target to AoE multidotting in PvE and a rotting playstyle for PvP and the only thing we get is a single Azerite Trait that does some damage when reapplying dots.
I cancelled my subscription and I will not reactivate it. The reason is not that all classes got pruned way too much and the game developed backwards since MoP what made most classes boring and one-dimensional, the reason became personal when you spit on all warlock players by letting us suffer for months and then coming up with this baby-changes in 8.1, which are not more than a small hotfix and a complete embarrassment for a company of your size.
It brought me to a point where I am just unwilling to pay for someone who approaches such a loyal and passionate community with so much arrogance and desinterest.
Thats it.
Goodbye.
. 8 years warlock.