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| e have finished a fairly comprehensive look at the dps of various classes and specs and are concerned that warlock dps isn't quite where it should be. It's not abysmal by any means, but we think it should be a little higher.
To give warlocks a little extra nudge in PvP, we increased Soul Link up to 20% from 15%. You may already have this change.
In PvE, overall, we just think a lot of classes benefitted from getting the warlock buffs a little more than the locks benefited from getting everyone else's buffs. So we decided to just buff lock damage across the board (which will also help in PvP somewhat). Rather than change damage and coefficients of a lot of different ranks of spells, we just inflated talents that we were almost certain you'd already have. Shadow Mastery, Demonic Tactics and Emberstorm were all increased by 1% per rank for 5% total.
Let us know how that feels. The changes should go live before Nov 13.
In our internal tests, warlocks are close to mages and below hunters, which as I've already suggested (or was that in another thread?) is a problem. I often regret posting what we're seeing at the moment, because it just leads to other questions. I offer it only to say that we do not reach the conclusion that warlock dps is sub-par. Hunters may be OP however.
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| that's not bad should have buffed the coefficients though would have increased alot more then 5%
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| Definitely seems like a fix could be a good thing - but it's not like a 2 minute fight is some legitimate judge of wotlk damage; Mages can heavily frontload lots of cooldowns that warlocks don't have.
This is a good fix though - warlocks don't scale with critical strike like other casters do at the moment - especially in the supposed best spec - affliction.
Hopefully this will create a better examination of the varying specs of all classes and how raid buffs affect each.
I'm not sure I see blizzard being able to create 3-4 viable pve specs for each class along with a pvp spec for each tree...
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| Ya even still shadow bolt has never scaled well in affliction outside of the sm ruin spec at 60. Affliction got a nice buff with the patch but still isn't where succy sac sb spam would have been. With he new talent changes affliction should be alot better after figuring in all the extra dot damage
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| Yea 5% is still a little bit wheeny.
I mean my SB crits used to be 7K-8K.
Now..they're 3500.
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| | Demonology actually might be the best short-fight raid DPS spec. |
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