During the Beta, Diabolist Destruction warlock talents Touch of Rancora got hit with severe pvp modifiers that were in reaction to a bug where warlocks could stack Diabolic Ritual/Demonic Art 3 times instead of once. This lead to one-shots on the beta. The bug has since been fixed and the talent is still nerfed.
The flashpoint talent has also been nerfed since last expansion. Since the new value is 6% haste for a 1 point talent (3 in pvp), this nerf is no longer warranted.
Lastly, ruination now hits for less than chaos bolt, likely due to pvp modifiers.
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An exceptionally interesting issue occurs with diabolist as well.
If you get kicked on shadow, or chaos bolt as destro, you can still dark pact.
If you get kicked on ruination (also chaos) you can’t dark pact.
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Ruination for whatever reason is true chaos damage (all schools including physical and holy, like most DH attacks)
Chaos bolt is prismatic or chromatic i forget what the chaos with jus magic schools is referred to as
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It’s basically “old” chaos (all the OG elements…fire frost shadow arcane nature) because i guess warlocks haven’t gotten a chaos spell since forever and it’s one of like eighty oversights they’ve never circled back to
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Shouldn’t this still lock out dark pact though? Isn’t it shadow?
Well I guess the answer is no cause you can do it when kicked on fear
Nah dark pact is just physical. Nothing else.
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Yeah TIL.
Ty based warlocks
Dude I was thinking this last night when I tried it. I’m like what the heck is this thing nerfing my next chaos bolt cast NOT COOL. The little imp only hits for like 20k too lol
Big DPS loss
Bump
But also if they even fix the modifiers lowkey still might keep the cancelauro macro since ruination misses half the time anyway
I got kicked on ruination the other day and the ruination buff ran off right as I got locked so I could cast chaos bolt while chaos locked. Ended up killing the ret lol
Can probably cancel aura after getting kicked for some bolt cheese. Also ruination doesn’t benefit from havoc and I feel like does less dam than bolt anyway
This should never be a thing and is very counterintuitive. Blizz needs to buff it lol
I think I saw somewhere that ruination has a 50% modifier for PvP while bolt has like a 200% modifier lol I say there’s a very small chance Blizz knows or cares to retype the code.
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I’d say its a large chance and they can’t be bothered. Look how long bane of havoc and mayhem have been bugged together and reported numerous times since TwW launch.
Skeleton crew working there
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Eventually they will just do entire or semi full reworks on a lot of specs if not all, mainly because it’s easier to start over then go over mountains of who knows how many coders work
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I never understood this. Spend a little more on your dev team and you make so much more money in the long run
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Who knows the minds at blizz pulling strings and what agendas they have going on. Sometimes it feels like they are doing things other times it a general sense of apathy like the games in its sunset mode.
Wild to me. WoW is all Blizzard has left tbh. Activision has CoD ig. Both games just getting beat to death
Retail WoW is abandonware.
Sorry diabolist locks, blizzard was too busy buffing other underperforming trees like mountain thane for fury warrior (they needed that). Hope you understand 
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If an MMO can ever replicate the feel of WoW PVP and has passionate devs I’m out of here so fast lol
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