Why was this implemented? Having Soul Rot on the nature school gave us a way to cast on kicks and was massive for fake casting melees while getting trained. If Soul Rot gets kicked into melee you can go straight into soulburn/drain life to survive melee goes.
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Because lore is more important than having a functional gameplay purpose in PvP
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I tend to disagree. Poor game design choice to completely homogenize all of a caster’s spells into a single spell school. The only spec hit as hard by these changes is arcane mage since their shifting power was changed to be inline with their arcane abilities and that spec is also incredibly homogenized in a bad way. No one complains about lore when the fire mage uses frost spells or the evoker charges off spells from 3 spell schools even though thematically they should be aligned to a particular dragonflight.
EDIT: It is also fair to point out that this change was not in the patch notes at all. So imagine my surprise logging in to see some of my macros broken and the spell school being changed entirely. At least they gave mages a heads up!
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make MR or UA a SHADOWFLAME spell to balance this out.
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that’s omega cringe
LOL
Where’s a down vote button when you need one
My same problem with this change. They really couldn’t have just kept the spell in nature school while changing the visual of the spell, cuz the new visual still looks sort of Nature-like with the green tint, and yeah its badarse for sure, but cmon, why the school change. Outrageous & Unfair.
Was just no reason for the change other than full immersion rather than gameplay balancing.
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This change is the final nail in the coffin for me. I’m convinced there is no way Blizzard is playing their own game. There’s zippy chance any Dev playing Affy would think this is justified. Is there really no outlet for players to complain outside of these forums that are rarely monitored?
In the hopes that a Dev actually does see this, please, I’m begging…
1.) Revert this change and make Soul Rot anything except Shadow.
2.) Nerf Monk’s Peaceweaver PvP talent. No other DoT based class struggles to get their DoTs out and maintain them in RBGs as much as Affy Warlocks. To have to face multiple MW Monks, and have them take turns removing your DoTs with ZERO repercussion, just sucks the fun out of the game and ruins the spec in RBGs entirely. Please, for the love of everything I love about WoW, fix this so that Affy (and other DoT based classes) can play and enjoy the game again.
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Just keep posting about it.
Doesn’t even need to be nature. Making it plague school was a no-brainer that would have added a healthy skill curve to the spec.
Also:
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we’re half way through the expansion and soul burn still doesn’t count as a shard being spent where applicable (e.g. Ritual of Ruin)
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demonic tyrant really needs to interact with call observer and call fel lord. Both in terms of damage amp and duration extension…
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Agreed… any school other than shadow.
Are there community managers that actually read the warlock forums or should I build a post for the arena forum or general discussion forum? I want someone to actually see this change for what it is but I never see blue post replies here in this forum.
Just make Soul Rot Plague school, it makes sense thematically.
They removed it because of people like you, ironically enough.
I think you’re being ironic.
Lots of thing in the game don’t make sense from a lore point of view! I think flavor is important though, but moving SR to shadow was probably an oversight.
They could even have made it chaos dmg to fit in line with class lore but they want us to be usless affliction when kicked.
Maybe in Arenas, all the stuns silence are on us we cant cas t nothing even whit a fake cast, only window to cast is on port or 8 sec defensive
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i cant believe they made such a massive change to an already struggling spec. like seriously wtf is going with blizzard. ive been wondering why im locked out all the time.