Hi all,
Just a post to rant and bemoan the decline in the class fantasy of warlocks. Whilst playing Lemix, we do many quests and challenges that really emphasise the fantasy and power of warlocks.
- Summoning gateways to other worlds
- Commanding demons to be your slave
- Being the overlord of the dreadscar rift
- Rituals of power
- Sacrificing others, not ourselves, for power
You feel powerful walking around dreadscar rift. This highlights exactly what is missing in retail. We have:
- A gateway that will get two charges
- Underwater breathing is still a thing
- Eye of Kilrog is still a thing
- Two types of shield
- Curses that aren’t relevant at the moment
- Healthstones
- A summoning wardrobe that needs 3 people to summon and 2 people to activate
- We set ourselves on fire
- Weak pets
Look at the mage fantasy and utility!
- Can alter time
- Can create mirror images
- Can teleport
- Can create portals
- Can instantly blink
- Can mass barrier everyone
- Can create food
- Provides a buff
Personal, the class tree can really look at MoP and Legion to build upon retail.
- Gateways to cities
- Commanding demons
- Empowered demons
What are other peoples thoughts?
I think the one thing we are really missing is the ability to be tanky at a cost.
At the moment dark pact is strong but not that strong.
With midnight im hoping for another talent node that buffs this ability by making the sacrficed hp more but it gives a damage reduction to either all damage or specifikly magic damage.
Just look at mages prismatic barrier, they get a 15% damage reduction for magic damage while the shields hold. And its on a 25 second cool down, not 45 (WITH TALENT) like dark pact.
Im feeling like warlock is getting its 1 thing it was good at, that being a tanky caster is being chipped at every single patch. At the moment soul link is being nerfed by 5%!
And we got a extremely low buff to coil with is giving us a 1% soul leech absorb when used.
We need more defensives, utility, movement abilities on top of that an actual class tree.
We went from a class tree with pretty much nothing related to the class, just useless utility, then to some class utility.
And now with midnight we lost our class utility for some medicore and some absolute useless talents. (looking at you Infernal Beneficiary)
Also i dont see how we cant just have back dark soul, it was a iconic spell that each spec could use if they wanted. I loved how each spec got a different sec stat from the spell.
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I completely agree. Also, the Fel powers in Lemix are such a warlock fantasy. Why can they do this in a special event and not in retail?! Look at the Dread Lord… the beam actually works and follows your target unlike the Pit Lord as part of our Diabolist hero talents.
The visuals are all over the place. I have been banging on about this for ages now. We have all the cool portals (demon summons, mount summons, apex talent summons) why can DRifts get the love they deserve.