I am speechless how can blizzard dev team make this class so unplayable we don’t have defensives we dont have any sort of single target dmg and our dots do 0 dmg we need a game to reach dampening for us to see any real pressure our class has the 3 worst specs in game how can a class have 3 awful specs that are unplayable
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I was watching this today. Was pretty funny, even if it gave me some bfa ptsd flashbacks.
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Maybe it is just me… But I don’t believe they are unplayable, they are just outclassed by their counters. And one of the classes are warriors… The only class they can’t fear. I main rogue and I am just getting hardstuck because of warriors, hpalas and rets completely dominating arenas. I mean they are literally everywhere. When the classes that are strong as hell are your counters. I mean it is pretty gg lol.
I think they should scale gear. So a duelist geared would scale to combatant when played at 1200 or even unranked.
Wouldn’t make any difference.
Yes it would lol… How wouldn’t losing 20 ilvl make a difference?
warlock is alright atm, they just get super punished for doing small mistakes and they rely on 2nd dps to get a kill
Warlocks can do a lot of damage if the are left alone to cast, which is why they shouldn’t be, and they most likely die when jumped onto/focused down as their defensive options are kinda weak compared to other casters.
They are playable but the way you play affliction or demo is frustrating, unfun and feels tryhard. I don’t understand why it’s so hard to make Warlocks similar to Cata, MoP, WoD or even end Legion. Is it so hard to make Affliction not dead whenever someone touches it while making Destruction killable. Not even mentioning Demonology that’s barely playable. People who design Warlock since BFA does terrible job.
People here saying warlocks are good because they do damage have no clue what they’re talking about.
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I can’t even play my main anymore demo is some how worse than it was in bfa. I spend 90% of the arena running away waiting for tyrant
Even winning games isn’t satisfying when it took till high damp to actually finish them off.
Pathetic is the only word to describe demonology right now
Again besides Destruction every Warlock’s spec feels miserable.
As Affliction you are Benny Hill’s wannabe running 90% of the arena spamming instant dots and as Demo you hard cast all your damage that needs huge ramp up time to suddenly be denied by simple CC on Tyrant. Not to mention that you have 3 mandatory PvP talents in form of Master Summoner, Call Felhunter and Nether Ward so even though you have cool PvP talent options you can never use them
Times like this I regret not playing bfa destro for that sense of pride.
Give me 1 season of demo being viable again without some gimped 1 trick pony design that’s all I need
I feel that Demo isn’t that hard to fix. Call Felhunter and Master Summoner baseline and maybe Thal’Kiel as PvP talent or I don’t know make Tyrant less vulnerable to CC?
Here’s my idea.
Bring back Thal’kiel’s consumption and demonic fury as a resource.
Thal’kirl will work like WoD demonbolt only that it won’t be spammable, itll just be 1 big wave once we hit 1k Demonic fury.
Master summoned will now make tyrant instant.
Demonic calling will make dread stalkers instant and it has a chance to reset call dreadstalkers when it procs on CD.
Imp calling will be removed and replaced with demon wrath.
I’d also like back
Impending doom was so good keeping healers permanently in combat and stop them from drinking.
There’s so much I can list but I think you get the picture.
Demo has so much potential and could be the most interesting/fun spec in the game if they focused on it.
Needs to return for all warlock specs along with Dark bargain.
It’s hard to believe we were more powerful than we ever were before 7 years ago, sad.
It would.
How?
Boosted players with 43 k hp wouldn’t rely on gear only to win arenas.
the damage ur seeing in details is being dealt to 3 targets malefic rapture does 3k normal hit 6k crits on one target but the amount u need to setup for you to do damage is just ridiculous ur talking about 11 globals for dots + darkgalre and darksoul then u can spam malefic rapture which does decent single target dmg
i face warlocks pretty often above 2400cr idk. They are not super meta but affli and destro both are rank 1 viable. They are far from “unplayable”.
Warlock in my opinion feels terrible to play right now, every cast feels to long every global cooldown feels like it lasts forever, you do no damage with dots and only with malefic rapture.
You get shut down so easily and is so punished when you get kicked.
Just bring back damage to dots i dont even care if they remove malefic rapture i dont even like it anyways.
if by r1 viable you mean the 2 locks that are in range, sure.
Edit: or one atm i guess.
Tbh personally i enjoy affli even tho dmg distribution feels weird af. Compared to wrath for example with 2x higher hp pool now (compared to deadly/furi season) dots do twice less dmg. Shadow bolt should hit waaaay harder (tbh didnt press shadow bolt once in whole expansion like wtf). On the other hand its huge improvement compared to bfa since atleast corruption does some instant initial dmg so we can kill totems instantly + we have slow.
When it comes to destro it feels fine to play into everything except some warrior cleaves such as turbo. Dmg of destro seems fine only issue i have is my 15% haste (wtb 80% :P).
Overall from my casual point of view i’m having way more fun compared to bfa when it comes to playing lock.
Also i believe curses should have lower gcd.