New Alpha Build 5/21

Important take aways, will update once folks find more stuff:

  • NEW Blood-Stained Dagger Health Funnel also reduces your pet’s damage taken by 10% for 10 sec.

  • NEW Bottled Shadow Gaining a stack of Soul’s Blessing increases your pet’s damage by 200% for 15 sec.

  • NEW Crystal of Perpetual Displacement Reduce the cooldown of Demonic Circle: Teleport by 8.0 sec.

  • Shadowed Shortblade Shadowfury deals 50 Shadow damage to creatures that are already crowd controlled.stun duration increased by 100%.

  • NEW Smoking Shard of Teleportation Using Demonic Circle: Teleport or your Demonic Gateway reduces all damage you take by 50% for 10 sec.

  • NEW Tainted Blood Vial
    Destruction:
    Your Chaos Bolt no longer consume any Soul Shards, but instead cost you 50% of your current remaining health.
    Demonology:
    Your Hand of Gul’dan no longer consume any Soul Shards, but instead cost you 50% of your current remaining health.
    Affliction, Initial:
    Your Malefic Rapture no longer consume any Soul Shards, but instead cost you 50% of your current remaining health.

  • NEW Void Etched Talisman Using a Healthstone increases all healing taken by 50% for 30 sec.

  • Zovaal’s Resolution Unending Resolve lasts forever.duration increased by 1000%.

AND:

It appears

That maybe

Perhaps

There is a possibility

That we are getting DEMON STABLES IN SHADOWLANDS LIKE WE SUGGESTED IN THE COMPILATION THREAD'S FUN SECTION

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As it stands Enslave Demon is the same but stables now lets warlocks see 5 slots, 1 per demon.

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I really really hope this isn’t a bug xD

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What is with those anima powers?

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Wow, okay, doing a total 180 I see. Maybe someone out there is looking out for us.

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Dont do that. Dont give me hope. Honestly for all the flaws of demo, being able to customize my demon more would just make me forget everything.

As long as i get a pitlord.

Or the female portal keeper, those are fire.

And shadow.

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After showing me this I gotta say I’ll probably just go ahead and die if it’s not true the bar has been set

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same

10char

Although I’m excited for Torghast… I can’t really be bothered to be excited for class changes that only affect the tower. I’m not trying to be negative, but I wanna be awesome outside the tower as well. Not just inside /sad face

Now that I’ve processed it a little, I also don’t know what’s exciting about casting spells at the cost of half our health lol

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I’m confused, so does this mean we can have 5 additional demons? So like, I’ll be able to go to Argus and take 5 new demons of my choosing?

If the screenshot and the way the slots are labeled is anything to go by, and assuming this isn’t a bug, they’re might be doing the “demonic slot roles” idea, ie certain families of demons can replace your imp etc

difference from Hunter pets where they can pick any 5 of any type of pet, we are forced to pick one of each type of pet

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Oh nice, okay. So would they each have their own unique abilities you think? I never messed with hunters and their pets so I don’t know how similar they are or aren’t.

So say (I don’t really know my demon families so for give me) Felguard and Fel Lord are in the same family, and I am able to “tame” a dread lord… would he in theory be stronger, maybe have different abilities from the Felguard or play differently?

I get you’re not a dev and this is all speculation. I’m just asking what you think it would be. Like although I think cosmetics are cool, I would kinda hope for it to be a little more than just a skin. Like I would love for there to be an actual benefit to using a pit lord over the Felguard, or a shivara over the succubus, etc m.

I see Kanrethad (I forget how to spell it) summoning all these pit lords like it’s nothing, and I’m sitting here with my imps feeling like a chump.

I see Gul’dan summoning these fel lords and other awesome demons and I’m sitting here with my little Felguard and imps, again, feeling like a chump.

I have no idea why blizzard never just gave us, at least demo, the ability to summon these demons.

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Not anymore! Nowadays all pet abilities are the same within each allocated famiy, e.g. all snakey things are Cunning and all have the same ability, regardless of what kind of snake (cobra, mana wyrm, etc)

Nah Hunter pets all do the same damage within a given family. Doesn’t matter if it’s a random wolf or the wolf from Hall of Valor dungeon (Fenris), same damage.

Balance would be a nightmare doe

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Sure thing. I guess more reasonably, if we were to be able to talent into those demons. So like, make GoSup similar to what it was in legion but with more than just the two demons. So we could choose between a Doomguard, Dread Lord, Pit Lord etc.

I also feel that as demo locks, our demons should have a bit of edge over the other specs as well. Again, via talents or whatever. I just don’t want talents tied to 1 specific demon anymore. That’s not to say demon specific talents are bad, I think they would be great so long as they apply to our entire kit.

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I agree Demo should have the most powerful demons, maybe like a pit Lord. But overall locks should have WAYY better demons than a f-ing imp and felhunter. Demo already summons hundreds of those.

What about the eredar hoes, we recruited them in legion. I need them

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Just saw the screen shot, very excited, let’s pray more info comes out soon.

Torghast notes are nice but realistically all classes are meant to be op in their, I’m hoping more changes come for Warlocks in general but so far I’m a little more excited.

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Seriously this post needs to stay active until confirmation…demon stables would be gaming changing for me as a big Demo favorite.

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100%, otherwise… what’s the point in calling us demon masters? Just change it from demonology to Imp Master

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Yeah I really don’t care about Torghast. Ok its a nice a instanced tower were practically everything is broken and once you start actually doing mythics/raids/world/PvP nothing of it applies.

Granted that pet vault screenshot seems cool. But I rather see the actual updates to the spec and if that pet change will apply to outside of torghast. Which is basically a beefed up island expeditions.

It is worrying to me though all this torghast abilities updates/how it functions but nothing as of yet of the covenant/soulbinds/tiers of soulbinds system, the rest of the things that affect the entire game/gameplay through diff settings ie. mythics/raids/PvP/world.

Kinda seems like torghast should of been the last thing they focused on. Since you can basically throw anything in there to make it fun.

Where’s the actual things that affects how we interact with the entire game?

And in the last interview it didn’t even seemed like most of the other systems are even close to being in place. Don’t we have like barely 6 months left.

Those few months can sneak in pretty damn fast. But when are they actually going to test THE systems that affect everything else.

Covenants/soulbinds/the tiers if soulbinds/ from what I hear there’s an additional thing to soulbinds. That’s alot of things that need to be tested in raids/dungeons for each spec.

Guess I just gotta stay hopeful with their time managing.

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Yeah I’m also frustrated with the fact it appears as if they’re justifying the lack of foundational design with both borrowed power and “but it’ll be fine in torghast”.

I admit we are all speculating as to their intent but without explicit communication we have no other choice other than speculate intent and provide feedback on the basis of that speculation.