Warlock newest Changes in General 27/9

Intended.

Warlock glyphs being very weak when compared to those of mages.

Some changes to the Glyphs are upcoming, but this seems like "grass is greener" to me.

Affliction having two dots as 41 and 51 point talents with cast times and poor coefficients which do not compensate for these cast times.

The coefficient for a spell matches it's cast time, coefficients are not assigned. If it has a higher cast time, it has a higher coefficient. Lower cast time, lower coefficient. We fixed various spells that had higher or lower coefficient's in this expansion.

Dispel being grossly overpowered.

Grossly overpowered is a bit extreme, but we would like to do a pass of the dispel system in the future.


Chaos Bolt Damage Boost

Damage is being boosted in the next build.

Pet hit

We do have a plan to let pets use the hunter or warlock's hit. Certain talents would need to be adjusted to reflect this change.

Poorly scaling pets

We've increased the scaling of pets for this expansion. All pets have avoidance (-80% AOE damage), and we increased the numbers on several pets. If we feel they're too squishy, we can increase the scaling. The pet should not be invincible.

MANY wasted talents

Master Conjurer, Improved Voidwalker, Improved Succubus and Improved Health Funnel are all being tweaked in an upcoming build, if that's what you meant.

2 of 3 51 point talents being 100% situational and/or useless

Haunt is useless? Metamorphosis is useless? The weaker of the three would probably be Chaos Bolt, which will now be the Destruction Warlock's highest damage/DPS spell in a future build.

Dot scaling poorly

Damage over time spells (Corruption, CoA) output for Destruction and Demonlogy are working as intended. For Affliction we did add Pandemic which makes them scale better.

crit and haste not affecting dots

We feel DoTs scale well for the Affliction Warlock now with Pandemic. If we made haste effect DoTs it would have to reduce the duration of the DoT, which would be a nightmare for DPS rotation/gameplay. Haste still benefits the affliction warlock because of Shadow Bolt, Haunt, UA, and the global cooldown reduction.

Soulshards on active combat abilities.