The warlock major glyph, Glyph of Felhunter, which is supposed to heal you when your felhunter uses Devour Magic, is currently also increasing the damage of Shadow Bite by 20%. To replicate, summon felhunter, apply glyph, relog.
Demo is currently one of the most powerful specs in the game, in part due to this bug giving them a free 20% damage bonus on their most powerful ability.
You’ve fixed much lesser bugs than this much more quickly in the past.
Locks are still benefitting from this huge bug. How fast did warriors using fiery weapon get fixed? This is much more impactful and every single warlock is doing it. New phase coming, maybe fix the major class bugs?
Just a periodic reminder that every single warlock who cares at all is benefiting from this major dps-increasing bug. It’s inconceivable that a bug like this exists for months on end when similar but less impactful bugs have been fixed so quickly.
Demo warlock is the strongest spec in the game on single target and two target encounters BY A LOT and continues to benefit from the huge felhunter glyph bug. Kinda wild.
https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/1023#dataset=99&boss=1022
https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/1023#dataset=99&boss=1035
https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/1023#dataset=99&boss=1023
https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/1023#dataset=99&boss=1032
Are you guys going to fix this bug or do they just get a free 20% damage on their biggest ability for the whole expansion?
Demo Warlocks are incredibly heavy on frontloaded damage far and away compared to anyone else – so shorter fights are, of course, going to always have a Demo Warlock at the top. Atramedes and Conclave are right around 1.5 minutes long – Doomguard is out for 75% of that time and snapshotted so it’s a monster… along with silly prepull mastery swap nonsense
Your Chimaeron log you linked has things much closer due to Demo Warlock falloff for fight length.
Top 100 Chimaeron DPSers World Wide have 32 Demo Warlocks, 2 Elemental Shamans, and 66 Fire Mages. Even w/o the bug with Felhunter Glyph, short fights you’re just not going to beat a Demo Warlock.
Mages also scale dramatically throughout Cataclysm and blast off into orbit and become untouchable… at least until fight lengths get optimized to be back into that 1-2 minute range
So because Demo isn’t always the best spec by a huge margin, they should not have this bug fixed? Strongly disagree. Warriors weren’t even good when the fiery weapon/deep wounds interaction was swiftly removed. This is a far more impactful and widespread bug.
I didn’t say that at all; the irony that that’s your takeaway - coming from Fire Mage, which is actually the best spec by a huge margin =P
I said cherry picking fights that are over in ~1.5 minutes; Demo locks will almost always reign supreme. You’re contending with a Mastery-snapshotted Doomguard that’s up for 75% of that time… and half of that time the Warlock is in Metamorphosis too.
When you start to look at the longer fights (excluding Shannox in Firelands, is basically all of them) – Demo Warlocks won’t be at the top. Fire Mages likely will