Healer drought. Nobody wants to heal anymore. Healing isn’t cool, the kids say.
Well, friends, it’s time for a COOL healing specialization.
THE LORE :
In the Warcraft movie, a newly born Thrall is struggling to survive.
Seeing this, Gul’dan drains the life essence of a nearby dear, and transfers it inside the body of Thrall, saving his life in the process.
It has therefore been established that Warlocks have the ability to keep the weakest among them alive. It should also be noted that they’re the only non-hybrid class that can revive others players, thanks to Soulstone.
THE GAMEPLAY :
In my opinion, gameplay wise, this specialization should be a mix of Restoration Shaman and Augmentation Evoker: an offensive healing who uses Fel Empowerement to bolster his allies, making them more durable and more threatening.
The Affliction spell “Siphon Life” would be a core spell of this new specialization. Your goal would be to apply this DOT effect on all enemy targets, each tick empowering the healing of “Transfer life”.
Transfer Life would be a ~30 CD healing spell with two charges, which would restore a decent amount of health to one target, and it’d provide a shield for any excess healing done. This fel shield would damage any foe who would hit your ally.
A new spell, “Soulbind” would bind your soul (duh) to a friendly target. Any healing on yourself caused by Drain life or Leech effects from your offensive spells is duplicated on your…soulmate.
CONCLUSION :
There are just a few ideas. They’re not perfect of course, but I hope you can see how a healing spell for Warlocks could make sense, both lore wise and gameplay wise.
Do you want to reduce queue times, and have more healers in the game?
Then, the Warlock healing specialization needs to happen. That’s right.
Fistweaver were garbage for nearly every expansion. So, they didn’t see play in PvP.
When they became viable, and that this fresh new playstyle was finally worth using, a huge wave of new Mistweaver players appeared on the ladder by the end of Dragonflight S1.
People love new specializations, just like they love new classes. It’s refreshing.
Yes. Plenty of people did not play Evoker, and only made one to try the new Augmentation specialization.
I expect the same would happen here. The idea of a healing Warlock is so fresh, new and innovative that it would spark the interest of the plebs. I know it.
yes, a brand new role to the game, thats Increasingly meta, got popular?.. and u think a Warlock Healer would live up to the same hype lol. that isnt realistically comparitivable.
Actually a warlock spec, where he drains enemies and heals allies sounds really good. It should be a third demon hunter spec though! A true melee healer would be good for Dawn of the infinites pugs in next season
It’d function better as a Support role alike Aug far better then a Actual pure healer. if it requires generation of something it means the specc will lack any level of reactive healers and be dropped
The specialization literally does not exist. You can’t say it wouldn’t work, because you can come up with your own ideas and suggestions to make it work.
It wont work. We have seen it so many times. Its not the amount of healing speccs, its the role itself that players dont want to play. Thats partly on us and partly on Blizzard. Blizzard can change/fix the role, but the players have to learn to be less toxic.
A warlock draining life essence of others and healing allies for opportunistic reasons is very in-line with class fantasy tbh considering you give away health stones too. Imagine an AoE drain life that aoe heals everyone around you
On a random note here, in the game champions online there is also an ability called life drain. And that ability can be upgraded to heal everyone around you when you use it to drain life. So you can actually play a healer that pretty much just spams life drain and aoe heals people around you.
On the subject of WoW warlock healer however I’m not sure how willing people would be to get healed by fel magic. Might lead to some accidental demon transformations.
THE LORE :