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Hellswrath · 02-14-2008, 05:33 PM

I'll give them credit that it's creative. And if the hit rate on netherbeast and broodlings was 100% and they were immune to AE's then it might be useful as well as creative. But right now it is just horribly disappointing. Especially if I look at it next to the wizzy one. They used our epic to try and address warlock class problems that they created.

Hmm, warlocks have aggro problems because hate management was more effectively designed around single target than encounter. Good proc for the epic.....Yes, it is for multiple mob encounters. Too bad there are precious few of those this expansion. The large majority of content is single target. While I love this proc for grouping (really, big ), it is situational in raiding. I'm not enough of a raider to know how situational. I'll have to rely on the hardcore raiding locks to report on that.
The large majority of content is single target and warlocks are pushed further from the T1 dps that they were supposed to be. Attempted fix added to the epic. Now warlocks can turn on a buff and (damage and casting time taken into account) have Armageddon do more damage for them on single target mobs and also have the absolution line be worth casting on those mobs (haven't fully checked the numbers to see if this is accurate, but my mental math says it should be). Not a bad idea, but two problems with it. First, I don't know about others, but with all the spell recovery haste we can get, I don't really run out of spells terribly often. So this boost is marginal at best and will remain situational. Second, lets compare it to the wizzy bonuses on their epic. Actually, I won't because I'm still to bitter about how shafted we got in comparison.

All in all, I'm truly happy for all the wizards, since their epic will help put them more firmly back into the T1 dps that they should also be.I just wish our epic designers knew enough about the warlock class to have done the same for us.For the first time since launch, including the LU13 debacle, I am seriously considering rolling a new character to be my main since I'm truly tiring of seeing us get left behind as a class.

02-14-2008, 05:33 PM	#9
Hellswrath Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,036	I'll give them credit that it's creative. And if the hit rate on netherbeast and broodlings was 100% and they were immune to AE's then it might be useful as well as creative. But right now it is just horribly disappointing. Especially if I look at it next to the wizzy one. They used our epic to try and address warlock class problems that they created. Hmm, warlocks have aggro problems because hate management was more effectively designed around single target than encounter. Good proc for the epic.....Yes, it is for multiple mob encounters. Too bad there are precious few of those this expansion. The large majority of content is single target. While I love this proc for grouping (really, big ), it is situational in raiding. I'm not enough of a raider to know how situational. I'll have to rely on the hardcore raiding locks to report on that. The large majority of content is single target and warlocks are pushed further from the T1 dps that they were supposed to be. Attempted fix added to the epic. Now warlocks can turn on a buff and (damage and casting time taken into account) have Armageddon do more damage for them on single target mobs and also have the absolution line be worth casting on those mobs (haven't fully checked the numbers to see if this is accurate, but my mental math says it should be). Not a bad idea, but two problems with it. First, I don't know about others, but with all the spell recovery haste we can get, I don't really run out of spells terribly often. So this boost is marginal at best and will remain situational. Second, lets compare it to the wizzy bonuses on their epic. Actually, I won't because I'm still to bitter about how shafted we got in comparison. All in all, I'm truly happy for all the wizards, since their epic will help put them more firmly back into the T1 dps that they should also be.I just wish our epic designers knew enough about the warlock class to have done the same for us.For the first time since launch, including the LU13 debacle, I am seriously considering rolling a new character to be my main since I'm truly tiring of seeing us get left behind as a class. __________________