Huge Nerfs Big Oof Beta Build 36806 + Kalamazi's (alleged) last feedback Sept 30

Classes Warlock
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tldr:

  • ability level gained changes
  • Decimating bolt nerfed to 30% from 50% (-20%) SP, SB/Incin damage gain nerfed from 200% to 100%
  • Look like they chose not to implement Demon Bolt buff from Decimating Bolt? But we’ll see once its back up
  • HUGE Impending Catastrophe nerfs: SP from 100% to 20%, dot from 210% to 105%
  • Scouring Tithe also nerfed, down 20% in instant and down 24% in dot

The pain.

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sad that they never fixed the issues that players reported with the class, i guess thats all what we will get in SL.

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I mean they did fix a lot, they just fixed a lot of minor issues and very little big issues

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They are more concerned with throughput than fun. Thats why our damage is now tuned but we spend 6sec casting a pet.

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Demo still suffers from many issues though, both for PvE and PvP

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Now it looks like covenant abilities got a massive nerf?

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I haven’t seen any #’s recently, but at this point, these nerfs have to be going beyond bringing us in line with the rest of the dps specs…

Also why did they ask us for feedback on Ritual of Doom and then literally do nothing with it for what 4 weeks now?

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So they can change it 48hrs before launch.

But no, decimating bolt went from 50% and 200% spell am to 30% damage and 100% amp. Impending catastrophe went from 100% hit and 210% dot to 20% hit and 105% dot. Even scouring tithe got hit.

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After also getting hit last week, so the total impact is getting crazy

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Is Impending Catastrophe not even worth its cast time now on fewer than 5 or 6 targets?

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Well that’s one way to balance out covenant choice, I guess.

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Ok, they released a statement of their intentions. They know some of this might seem large, but say its needed for tuning. Ill watch, but i have been disappointed thus far.

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Don’t worry they just out out a blue post explaining that they were nerfing everything down so they’re competitive with the worst covenant abilities game-wide. Super fun!!

I’m sorry but that’s just a lazy last minute solution to avoid having to rework poorly designed covenant abilities. This is legit turning into azerite armor all over again and will take up all of the dev time trying to fix rather than working on class changes

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Press x to doubt

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so basically they nerf everthing so you dont have to pick based in power, gg.

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So instead of trying to rework soul rot to be worth a damn you just nerf every other covenant that had decent synergy and fun gameplay to it so it doesn’t seem so lack luster to pick soul rot. Even though the biggest issue with Soul Rot is it has no synergy with any of the specs besides affliction. Yea, makes sense. Thats 100% how you fix soul rot. Nice job Blizz.

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This is hilarious this is their modus operandi, seems like this is their go to in every expansion now.

Dev: "Oh man I really don’t have the time or want to find out how to make these work and properly balance. Ureka!!! If I make them all look bad then aren’t they all technically balanced. :rofl: :joy:

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Ion in shadowlands: “Cause we rather want you to not play warlock”…gg

https://twitter.com/i/status/1311398729769910272

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I was really starting to like that Venthyr ability for M+. If only I’d realized the name “Impending Catastrophe” was intended to be foreshadowing.

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Ugh, Blizzard, just delete the class already since you clearly don’t care at this point.
Sure you’ll get massive amounts of backlash if you do that in theory but at this point you clearly don’t care. This shouldn’t be so frustrating.

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