I and many others have been wanting it back. Its a nice classic ability, might be crappy but its just sheer fun to use.
Hey I can now get 4 other people and have a Doomguard run rampant in Goldshire killing low level RP’ers like in Classic with my Infernal/Doomguard.
Its a win-win. Might never use it in Raids/PvP/M+ but its going to be awesome to have it back.
Or Solo content, since you need others to summon it.
It’s literally uniquely good for griefing.
It is useless for Raid (re-enslaving mid-fight lol), Mythic (time and death of a player), or PVP (same as raid and mythic).
I am torn. Ritual of Doom was a fun but rarely useful spell. You needed 4 other people to cast it. Someone was going to die, and it seemed 90% of the time it was me. Enslave Demon would last for like a minute or two if you were lucky. The Doomguard was a pretty good pet if I recall, but not worth all the effort and downside.
I’d rather have the Doomguard baseline on a CD than this.
shhhh don’t let the min/maxers hear about this!
They don’t want RPG elements in their MMORPG game.
Well so is sense undead for Paladins, just because its there doesn’t mean you need to use it.
This isn’t even good RPG anymore, because the Warlock NPC has gained sufficient power that this isn’t realistic. We were doing Rituals of Doom for bigger/badder demons in Legion with Doomguard baseline.
It’s dumb as hell.
Of all the things to unprune or add, they add this? Are you kidding me lmao they could’ve gone with
Doesn’t mean they can’t add that back again. It shouldn’t be a this OR that situation. Keep Ritual of Doom and add more.
Gonna have to agree with Baals, needing to have 4 people and a sacrifice to summon a subpar pet when you used to have it baseline and under your full control doesn’t sound that great. Bet it’ll be weaker than a Demonologists Felguard too.
Why the Hell do you want an ability that is literally only good for griefing lowbies that they’re gonna need to dedicate EVEN MORE time to in order to get the spell to work (it currently isn’t on the PTR, a few bugs I already reported, but even then the blue post version is dumb as all hell given the Doomguard can turn hostile midencounter)
Time is a limited resource.
Just scrap this nonsense and give warlocks something that is actually fun AND useful
What if didn’t kill a party member and didn’t lose control mid-encounter(Had a specific time limit)?
Ever since its inception, the only thing Ritual of Doom was really used for was to grief new players and lowbies who didn’t know any better.
Certain things are better kept in the past. Ritual of Doom is one of them.
Signed, a 15-year Warlock player.
Because I and many other have fun with Ritual of Doom. Its FUN to use.
ALSO the doomguard is a guardian pet and your Felguard/Imp/Felhound/etc can still be active if you read the update.
Its a guardian pet now, so you don’t lose your active demon.
It would be such a great troll ability if the Warlock didn’t need other people to participate in the casting of the spell.
Then it’d be a 1 hr CD for a 15 minute demon that does negligible damage that they spent development time on changing older Spell IDs and interactions to get to work.
Thank
It’s not working on PTR, as I stated in the post you quoted, which means more time is needed to get it to work as they intend it lmao
Blizzard has a bad track record of breaking warlocks doing stuff like this, such as:
Yup, can’t even solo
I miss my feral dumb dumb that was my Doomguard.
He might not be always at my side like in MoP but this is nice. Also we can just soulstone rez whoever dies so yay no big drawback.
Now to just hope pugs in dungeons don’t ignore me when I try to start it
Still isn’t worth the repair cost tbh. A pet that can go hostile doesn’t sound like something most people will want to deal with. Honestly if that happen in a key or a raid that warlock would get the fattest boot our guild could offer.
LOL
Its so funny how hypocritical the WoW community is.
I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone at Blizzard was bald. All their hair falling out because of the player bases hypocritical inconsistencies.
Players: “We loved classic! You think we didn’t, but we actually did! GIVE US OUR RPG FUN BACK BLIZZ! You ruined modern WoW!”
Blizzard: “Okay, going forward we will do more to make this game more of an RPG! Make you feel immersed and make you make choices! We’ll help facilitate that feeling of WoW again from classic!”
Players: “NO NO NO! I can’t min/max if you do that! I know it makes perfect sense to have to summon a powerful demon through use of RPG elements, but NOOOOO I want to instantly do it! WHY DO YOU RUIN THE GAME WITH SyStEmLaNdZ Blizz?! U DA POOP!”
You know, I look fondly on a lot of the early Warlock stuff because it was unique and often fun. For a while.
But I can assure you there were a number of things about playing a warlock back then that weren’t fun for anybody.
Its not working right now, but in the class changes it is specifically pointed out that it is a guardian pet:
This summons a hostile Doomguard that soon becomes automatically subjugated as an additional guardian pet for the Warlock.
Well lets see… M+ requires 5… you need yourself and 4 additional party members for the ritual…
Dude you’re on your own…
l8r