PvP Class spell changes

[Btjustice-tichondrius]

Hi,

I’ve seen some of the updates but I hear about classes losing a spell and gaining another and blah blah and I can’t find it. Maybe my googling bad. Can anyone link me with the afflic lock losing a spell and stuff? I’m trying to figure out what to play for pvp next season and am looking for info on the changes.

Thanks and God bless

[Zerved-crusader-strike]

Patch 11.1 Undermine(d) Development Notes - Class Changes, Holy Priest and...

PVE:

WARLOCK
Drain Life damage increased by 100%.
Affliction
Developers’ notes: Soul Rot provides Affliction with a burst damage window that focuses on casting Malefic Rapture in quick succession. While the Drain Life functionality of Soul Rot is unique and has some niche uses, it goes largely unused and can be confusing to newer players as to what they should be doing while Soul Rot is active. To address this, we are updating Soul Rot to heal its caster for a percentage of the damage dealt. This retains some of Soul Rot’s identity as an Affliction spell while providing a benefit that doesn’t clash with throughput.
Soul Rot has been redesigned - Devour the life force of your current target and up to 4 additional targets nearby, causing your primary target to suffer Shadow damage and secondary targets to suffer Shadow damage over 8 seconds. Damage dealt by Soul Rot also heals you for 50% of damage done.
Demonology
Developers’ notes: In Undermine(d), the duration of Doom is now reduced for each Soul Shard spent on Hand of Gul’dan. Our goal with this change is to provide more control over when Doom explodes since its application is dependent on randomly receiving a Demonic Core. In addition, Doom Eternal wasn’t attractive enough to warrant a talent point but still felt missed as it made Doom feel incomplete since its duration reduction wasn’t maximized. Considering this, we’ve redesigned Doom Eternal to increase the uptime of Doom and provide a slight nudge to the Demonic Core economy.
Doom has been updated – Consuming a Demonic Core no longer reduces the duration of Doom. The duration of Doom is now reduced by 1 second per Soul Shard spent on Hand of Gul’dan.
Doom Eternal has been redesigned – When Doom expires, you have a 30% chance to generate a Demonic Core.
Demonic Calling now has a 20% chance to make your next Call Dreadstalkers cost 2 fewer Soul Shards and have no cast time (was 10%).
Destruction
Developers’ notes: War Within introduced a lot of new spells to Destruction’s kit, increasing its complexity considerably compared to prior versions of the specialization. In Undermine(d), we are adding passive versions of Dimensional Rift and Channel Demonfire as well as adding the ability to change Rain of Fire’s targeting to an enemy target rather than a reticle. These changes are aimed at providing more options for players to customize their gameplay to fit their preferred level of complexity when it comes to playing Destruction.
New Talent: Demonfire Infusion – Periodic damage from Immolate/Wither has a 4% chance to fire a Demonfire bolt at 100% increased effectiveness. Incinerate has a 25% chance to fire a Demonfire bolt at 100% increased effectiveness.
Dimension Ripper has been redesigned – Periodic damage dealt by Immolate/Wither has a 5% chance to tear open a Dimensional Rift. Now a choice against Dimensional Rift.
Havoc duration is now 15 seconds (was 12 seconds).
Mayhem now has a 35% chance to activate (was 25%).
Decimation will now highlight Soul Fire while active.
Diabolic Embers has been moved to row 10.
Rain of Fire is now a choice node that can be used to change the targeting from reticle to your current target.

PVP:

• WARLOCK

  • New PvP Talent: Bloodstones – Your Healthstones are replaced with Bloodstones which increase their user’s Haste by 20% for 12 seconds instead of healing.

  • Call Observer (PvP Talent) has been removed.

  • Destruction

    • Bonds of Fel (PvP Talent) damage increased by 40%.

[Btjustice-tichondrius]

Thank you!

[Nasrajin-sargeras]

Official notes with any final changes will also be posted in a week!

Always check wowhead for the news

[Kinsington-stormrage]

@Zerved-crusader-strike

New PvP Talent: Bloodstones

missed opportunity to call it Kidney Stone tbh

[Zerved-crusader-strike]

Maybe now warlocks will actually press it?

[Kinsington-stormrage]

yeah, they will. about 2 seconds after I already cocooned them :x

[Btjustice-tichondrius]

@Zerved-crusader-strike

Your Healthstones are replaced with Bloodstones which increase their user’s Haste by 20% for 12 seconds instead of healing

I think this is more for pve. In pvp they’re usually the target and use the actual healthstones. Right? Or am I wrong?

[Lasso-shattered-hand]

What do you think New PvP talent means

[Zerved-crusader-strike]

Maybe, but 20% haste is a lot

[Btjustice-tichondrius]

Yeah I see that. I overlooked that pvp talent thing. But either way, it seems like it would be better in pve with how much they need the healthstones when getting trained in solos. But I could be wrong.

[Altergodxx-dentarg]

Blizzard Logic:

“Darksoul is bad, remove it.”

Blizzard Logic:

“Just kidding give it back with half the CD but at the cost of healthstone.”

??

[Bathroom-crusader-strike]

@Zerved-crusader-strike

Your Healthstones are replaced with Bloodstones which increase their user’s Haste by 20% for 12 seconds instead of healing.

why do i get the feeling this is going to be a problem once destro has more access to haste/mastery due to new gear, destro has already received many buffs in S1 if yall remember.

[Zerved-crusader-strike]

And everyone else that’s on their team

[Bathroom-crusader-strike]

yeah im predicting some heavy double destro or destro/frost abuse.

[TrillGates-2960682 (TrillGates)]

@Bathroom-crusader-strike

why do i get the feeling this is going to be a problem once destro has more access to haste/mastery due to new gear

I was thinking going full mastery build just to slam one of these haste cookies during double coil to just delete someone with massive bolts lol

[Lasso-shattered-hand]

Ok on 1 hand dark soul is baseline in all aspects of the game and all their spells have to have lower coefficients and all tuning has to have balance/darksoul in mind

Vs a PvP talent that costs a chunk of survivability and takes a talent slot and only usable in one aspect of the game and their kit isn’t tuned around

???

Think less shallow, DS only gave haste to add mind you

[Dist-2542138 (Dist)]

No lock is gonna run bloodstones in arenas.

We’re already everyone’s primary target dummy, no way are we going to trade a defensive cd for damage at this point.

This is more of a blitz talent if anything , but locks are still wheelchairs when it comes to map rotation so doubt it matters.

[Nasrajin-sargeras]

@Ozimov-area-52

No lock is gonna run bloodstones in arenas.

We’re already everyone’s primary target dummy, no way are we going to trade a defensive cd for damage at this point.

Idk, I could ABSOLUTELY see it used, especially in MUs where the lock isn’t getting trained by 2x melee and if rdruids end up staying as strong as they are on PTR.

[Dist-2542138 (Dist)]

Haven’t seen how rdruids look , are they stronger than hpal/disc next patch?