Demonology Warlock should be a tank spec

Classes Warlock
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Imagine this:

To tank, you summon a gigantic Felguard which can move around the battlefield at high speed, striking directly at the souls of your enemies and unleashing Felstorms to draw the aggro of every enemy nearby. You see a mob attacking your fellow party member, and send a horde of Imps to harass and distract the mob away from them, kiting them over to your Felguard. As this happens, you see the nearby Hunter accidentally pull another trash pack, leading you to use your cooldown to summon a Demonic Tyrant, instantly healing your Felguard to full and granting it an absorb shield.

You directly take control of the Tyrant, and use its Demonbolts and swiping claws to aggro the entire pack at once (Replacing Shadow Bolt with the claw attack). At the same time, you command your Felguard to Soul Strike over to the pack, bringing them all together and allowing the party to burst everything down.

Alternatively, if your Demonic Tyrant is on cooldown, you can call your Felstalkers to harass and push the enemies towards your Felguard, nipping at their heels with Dreadbites.

Your Felguard’s health is low, and you don’t have Demonic Tyrant up! You have multiple options to bring its health back up- Health Funnel is efficient, but dangerous to you. You could use Fel Domination to resummon it at full health instantly, but it loses all aggro- instead making the mobs it was distracting attack YOU.

Demonology, rather than playing like a normal DPS or tank, feels more like an RTS in WoW. Instead of dealing massive amounts of damage yourself, you conduct a demonic symphony to command the battlefield and lead a one-lock army to victory.

The spec is by far the hardest to play in the game, but as a reward it has the highest potential for damage out of all the tanks- if played optimally, you could potentially reach up to 95% of a DPS! If played poorly, however, you’re the squishiest tank in the game and could simply die as fast as a DPS without a Felguard protecting you.

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Creative idea, but I’d rather see them take Affliction or Demonology and turn them into something like the new Augmentation Evoker. Having more DPS specs that can buff people is something I feel Blizz should lean into if this spec ends up working, and the classes that have 3 pure DPS choices should each have one spec tuned to be more of a buff the group role.

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fan fic is getting wild these days

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No thanks. I never liked the old warlock Metamorphosis spell. I like the summoner version of Demonology we have currently more than any version in the past.

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No thanks. However I wouldn’t mind a fourth support spec similar to the evokers new spec.

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No it shouldn’t be.

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No it’s not.

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I was using “is” as “if these changes were implemented, is”

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Affliction is the hardest to play.

Also, by taking your idea, how about making Affliction as a healer spec? XD

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I could totally see Demonology being a support spec, with your imps sacrificing themselves to power up you and your allies.

I could also see Arcane or Frost mage having that change, as well as Survival Hunter.

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Most specs in the game have a dedicated following. I play Demonology in most content with Destro occasionally and Affliction if it is overpowered in a specific situation. I would not play a warlock if Demo wasn’t a dps spec.

They can introduce new specs, but changing any current specialization into another role would not be well received imo.

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No, definitely not!

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Adding more specs for them to balance I don’t see happening. They already rework specs all the time as it is, and the augmentation evoker is a DPS spec.

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My point is that changing pure dps specializations into a pseudo-dps that is reliant on supporting others with buffs, or a tank, is not gonna sit well with players that enjoy those specs as pure dps. For me personally, I would find another main class. Some people may like the idea because they don’t enjoy Demonology as it is but that is subjective. Adding a new spec is probably not likely anytime soon, but i would much prefer that to gutting pure dps specs and changing them into something like augvoker or a tank.

They already rework specs all the time as it is, and the augmentation evoker is a DPS spec.

Augmentation proves that they are willing to add new specs in the future.

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NO… just no…

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Affliction is already the best spec for survival, I think it would make a better tank.

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My thinking is that Augvoker just wasn’t ready for launch so they waited to test it more and/or they wanted to hold it as a patch feature to keep people subbed longer. I get the attachment to specs, Demo in it’s current form is my favorite spec by far, but I would much rather see them change one spec that every class that has 3 pure DPS specs into an augment style play at the start of the next expansion then have them add even more specs to the game.

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I’m really surprised to see this get such negative feedback. I think the idea is a really cool one. Obviously if left untouched it’d be super OP, particularly in PVP, but the concept is really cool IMO.

Just right off hand, in terms of balance, I think implementing soul shard usage to regulate how to balance the tanking/dps aspect of the playstyle would be interesting. If you had to allocate resources to helping the party then it’d make you less tanky and/or do less dmg, or something like that.

I think its an interesting idea but who know if it could ever be implemented.

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It’s negative feedback because its a bad idea.

No warlock who enjoys Demonology as a damage dealing spec would be happy with such a suggestion.

Then you have odd ideas who just aren’t practical, and anyone who have tanked or had to micro-manage pets before knows how terrible it would be

Then comes the “wishfullfillment” like a tank that deals 95% of a damage dealer damage who would never exist and no damage dealer would be happy to have that happen.

Its a “it works in my head so it should work ingame for real guys” kind of idea.

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I get why people wouldn’t like this idea but I’m not sure why you have such strong feelings about this but whatever. I’m not saying it should be implemented or that it was a great idea. I just thought it was interesting.