PvP Tuning Changes for June 9

PVP Arenas
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So, do I need to gear my destro lock just to have a “comfortable” experience grinding the last wins I need for my season mount out Blizz?
Not even pushing. Majority of the minimal amount of games I’ve played sub 2k this season are destro locks casting bolts in under a second.

Listen to us for once.
These changes you’re making are awful and not what we’re asking for. People have already left the game en masse, and even a lot of people still playing the game are refusing to do/push arenas now. Are you trying to strangle the rest of the people who enjoy this out?

Locks needing to actually cast chaos bolt isn’t going to ruin them.

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  • Masterful (Corruption Effect) reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
  • Severe (Corruption Effect) reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
  • Expedient (Corruption Effect) reduced by 33% in PvP combat.
  • Focused Chaose (PvP Talent) increases chaos bolt damage by 35% (down from 65%)
  • Demon Skin (Talent) passive absorption rate changed from .5% hp every sec to .5%hp every 3 sec - up to a maximum of 10% hp (down from 15%)
  • Entrenched in Flame (PvP Talent) root effect now has a 8 second internal cooldown

There ya go guys, have a template for some actual changes since you obviously can’t do your jobs.

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That’s true, but that’s only one minor problem.

Yes mages and warlocks won’t stack versatility now, but they will quickly go to haste.

one problem exchanged for another problem.

Haste will increase speed of casting for greater pyroblast and chaos bolts.

The stuns reducing by 50% instead of 100% may help, but were those teams running conflict and strife to begin with?

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Uhhh lol??

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Can you please take a look at Destruction warlocks. They are oppressive at all ratings and we need to see change. If destruction puts out damage like a glass cannon, make the cannon actually glass and able to be killed.

It is unreal that a warlock can cast fear and Chaos bolt twice in that fear duration. Then you can be rooted directly after and you are stuck eating bolts to the face. You feel helpless most of the time during a warlock match. Being forced to line of sight until high dampening to even have a chance of winning is not fun gameplay.

Here are some of the things that could be looked it.

  • Chaos bolt damage (Adjust Focused Chaos)
  • Chaos bolt cast times in PvP
  • Fear cast times/DR
  • Soul Leech effectiveness in PvP
  • Demon Armor
  • Flashpoint Haste benefit in PvP
  • Vision of Perfection strength in PvP, infernals are extraordinarily strong
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Cannot believe warlocks are not touched. Is it like all the devs are playing lock or something? Also look at how many mages we have in all the top 4 teams both in EU and NA…

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Now we know what the Live Stream was cancelled for the 9th. They knew this would be rolling out on the same day.

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Mages have already been nerfed

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Can we please nerf destro locks, either the cast time of chaos bolts. the impact of their cd’s or the overall dmg of their chaos bolt.

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where the hell are the destro and fire mage nerfs

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@kaivax @blizzard cntrl f warlock in this thread plz

i don’t usually watch the youtube side of players content but i came across this pika video going over his game vs the mlm

https://youtu.be/Eq8QFz1kVMs?t=229

it’s a really good perspective that isn’t unique to tournament play and how most people qing ladder feel even at lower ratings

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MM hunter is even more gutted with the changes. Thanks for making the spec 100% unplayable once more. People will just die to destro, rogue mage comps faster

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Yo did he actually just scroll forward 6 minutes and say “this is where stuff actually starts happening” when the timestamp you linked was already at 25% damp lmfao

Really good video though.

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such a terrible game

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LMFAO

the craziest part was was watching him step garrote lock to meld sap mw drink that trinkets into instant half sap into full blind into shrouded suffocation garrote on the destro lock at 70% dampening whos health then does not move at all
at this point the warlock

hAhA cHaOs bOwLt gO bOoM

swap fade disperse silence

and they’re so close to losing a game where the warlock did literally nothing but coil and press bolt in response to all of that

this is in no way me trying to be disrespectful to anyone c9 even individually has been the highest skillcapped team for like the last decade
they obviously are playing 2/3 mains and their classes happen to be really strong together and they’re obviously playing it better than anyone else they would be in similar tournament standings if all 3 of their mains were considered unplayable

this is solely a commentary on how blizzards tuning on destro locks has effectively ruined all game play for both the locks team and the other team as well as the entire ladder

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hahhahahha do you not READ the thread?!?!? Literally every reply is begging for destro fire mage nerfs! What the hell are you guys doing?!?! hahhahahhh!!!

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Good change, thank you. I can play rmx again and kill something.

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Good change! I think now we should reconsider the versatile nerf though. Because that was the main issue with versatile when paired with conflict and strife. Versatility increases damage by a good margin.

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I agree with everyone else in the thread, nerf destro locks plz.

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nerfing soul leech is dumb idea because it applies to all 3 specs (affy and demo are already dying faster than destro, would make them worst with that suggestion)

i’d say nerf destros mastery in pvp situations, not soul leech. I do agree with your other two points though