No it isn’t.
Why would anyone have need to talk about the observer before they know Blizzard is changing anything about them?
There wasn’t a reason prior to the announcement to bring it up much in the forums.
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I don’t expect someone to go on and on about something they’re simply content to have for so many years. I’m not going to call out someone for pretending to be upset that their bed got taken away when they clearly never showed how grateful they were to have one on a weekly basis.
I think that’s the argument here against the OP and if so it makes sense to me. I don’t believe they’re being “obtuse”, the OP just made a bad take on something very diminutive.
I suppose I should post about my blood elf’s pony tail in case Blizzard deems it necessary to delete it in a patch in 2030, right, OP?
Blizzard, please don’t delete my ponytail
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This is an inaccurate analogy. It is more accurate to compare this to a government removing a random abandoned pole in a lot and a small group of alien cultist lunatics coming up out of nowhere to protest believing the pole to be a teleporter beacon from a different world and they’ve stayed hidden in secret watching the pole in hopes of one day aliens using the beacon to come here.
I don’t know why Blizzard is removing it. I’m sure there are reasons and the reasons are probably better for the overall game than it is for the handful of warlocks actually actively seeking out and using the skin before this “big change”.
Because, in his world, in order to advocate for something, you’d have to advocate for it before you knew that you needed to advocate for it.
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Poor take assuming that many would even go to the forum to say something.
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Please. Blizzard has access to data that actually tells them the actual usage and popularity of the thing. From my very small slice of the world, I legit don’t think I ever seen the dumb observer out and about in the world and I play regularly with a guy who mains a loc and switches specs more often than some people bathe and I’ve never seen him with an eyeball demon.
In that case, I never see any Warlock out in the world with the Imp out, so maybe we should remove that as well.
Funny how that works.
I’ve seen the imp out plenty. The loc I mentioned uses it in mythic+ even. Not that I PvP, but I thought it was a valid demon choice too for the dispel.
Again, I don’t know why it’s being removed. I don’t really care all that much too but I trust Blizzard to have an actual reason that leads to a better overall game than the faux angst of a few who now only when they are about to lose something they weren’t using or caring about before now suddenly decide to raise a fuss.
Maybe it’ll come back later as an actual useful demon worthy of a spot in some content pillar.
People seem to gloss over that the observer actually is a pvp talent and it looks like the glyph one which can lead to confusion as to whats going on.
The pvp talent effectively controls an area by damaging any players that cast spells whereas the observer glyph is just felhound. Both do significantly different things and having both with the same model is a bit of an issue of visual clarity.
Yes this makes sense and I figured it was something like that. If it attacks from range like certain other eyeball demons can/have done, that makes it better than the mutt but I’m going to wager it doesn’t do that.
Pretty sure too that was the reason hunter pets lost the ability to be any of the 3 pet specs. It was an overall bad game design when a player can’t be sure of the capabilities of something without first being subjugated to it and it puts them at some level of disadvantage. At least when I see a wolf, I know 100% what spec it is and what it can do vs the hunter getting to keep it’s potential capabilities a secret
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For a better pet that does more than purge? Sure why not
Man and add exorcism back in for paladins, don’t change the mage pets to a cooldown either while we are at it.
Also why can’t dks have presence and icy touch back. Icy touch is so nice when you need to not aoe something in frost spec. They don’t really have alot of non aoe abilities for long range except for death grip. But it isn’t always available to use on the fly. Sometimes it is on CD. I swear I always end up using howling blast and accidentally aggroing other creatures I didn’t want to in the process.
I’m going to make a new post today listing everything I love in WoW and would never want to lose.
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Dude your logic is flawed.
Why would someone complain about something before it even happens? Did you do a search for how many times the imp was mentioned? Or any of the other pets minus the succubus?
If I buy a pair of shoes from Wal Mart I’m not going to complain or talk about them constantly for four years until the day Wal Mart shows up on my door and says “I want those shoes back.”
Then yeah I’m going to start throwing Karen-sized fits.
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And yet one of them could’ve been changed to the Dark Glare…
Sometimes I do complain about mount related topics but that’s because there’s precedents with Blizzard, but its kind of weird someone complaining about a pet before this happened.
Actually, I’d like to see the #s of players that complained about Observer being an issue on PvP because that was the main reason for this change and I never saw a thread about that.
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Right? I cannot believe that the vast majority pvp’ers are that stupid.
You got this exactly backwards. Blizzard made this claim:
… so that each demon and the functionality or power they provide to the warlock is easily understood by other players as well as the warlock.
They insinuated that PvPers were complaining about the pet for the past 10 years. All you’ve shown from your search, was the opposite, which means Blizzard’s excuse is pure BS. No one complained about the pet before the patch notes.
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