Lock problems

PVP Arenas
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Poor Scaling:

  1. Fel bond (~100k) and Fel lord (~ 40k a swing) not scaling

Double Standards:
2. Howl of Terror limited to 5 targets. Why? Priests and Warrior aoe fears everything. This problem is compounded by the abundance of pet classes
3. Double Standards: Imp Dispel removes just 1 debuff whereas curse dispel removes all curses?

External Problems:
4. Abundance of curse dispel on Off DPS specs, druids/evokers/mages/shamans. Chances are u have one of these in your game

Single School:
5. Affliction. Why? Only spec that must juke to be effective. All other caster specs get some reprieve with other school spells. Can we at least make Soul Rot a multi school ability. Or Soul Fire is fire school, so why not Soul Rot?

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Proposed Solution

  1. Improve Fel bond and Fel Lord
  2. Remove cap on Howl
  3. Curse Dispels (non healers) should only dispel 1 curse and not all
  4. Make soul rot multi school or fire
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Valid but you’re about to get wrecked for asking for buffs given the most recent round of tuning

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Wrong sp fear is capped as well, when I play against demo lock I can fear only 5 pet.

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Id say felbond is pretty good. Something on fire school that can interact with your stats and probably crot for 300k on destro is anything but bad.

Its just competing against more important utility.

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Not when you consiser destro can launch 5 other spells at you in the same gcd fel bonds hit.

It just adds to the dtack of dmg already present.

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they changed it recently in 10.1

Go to the changelog for this spell

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I saw but it doesn’t mean they uncap it.
Pretty sure it’s capped in pvp still, I’ll try after work.

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Dragonflight Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Now hits all enemies within 8 yards (was a maximum of 5 enemies).

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Nah, you all get Mortal Coil off Fear DR, imagine if Hunter Scatter was off Traps DR?

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Read the pvp part below.

‘’ Psychic Scream offers a powerful instant escape option from up to 5 opponents.‘’

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That is technically the pvp part above, and hasn’t been updated to reflect the hotfix that uncapped psychic scream.

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And locks armor gets stealth nerfed

Instead of 190% it will be 145+35

From 190% to 180%

I get it from demo stand point, but why nerf aff?

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yeah it is u can snake trap it and rng luck not get feared

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It wasn’t stealth nerfed because they announced it, and its not 145+35, its 145*1.35

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Its still buffed and it wasnt stealth.

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This one change is probably going to make me quit aff in pvp. Aff has already been soul draining to play all expac, never good and extremely hard being virtually 1 school ( now is 1 school). Soul rot was the 1 ability we had to bait kicks. I already juke 75% of kicks or more in arena, and having soul rot available to at least use if kicked, or to try to bait kicks was so needed. Now getting trained by 2 melee and add a Rsham and its just impossible. Also the armor change. AFF NEEDS ARMOR, IT NEEDS SOMETHING. Aff dies so quickly. idk how much of a difference armor would honestly of made. I rather have no armor update and instead have soul rot be nature damage again. Destro, and demo don’t need any help, aff has needed help / meaningful changes all expac.

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Ah! if that is the case, then pretty much no change

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off topic but how much speed are u getting in that set