I see a lot of warlocks that are in favor of upcoming changes to spell lock. I understand why it is appealing to some, but let me just suggest that we be given the option to keep it on felhunter . The one thing that is not being addressed is the usefulness of the way spell lock currently works in Arena, A kick from a demon when you yourself do not have to have LoS is really iconic and interesting , and unique, not to mention it is extremely effective as an affliction warlock dealing with a pillar humping healer.
The idea that removing spell lock from the demon is going to create more diversity in pet use doesn’t even really make sense. We have Fel Domination, and In PvP I have no problem using 2 different demons almost every match, and sometimes 3. If you want to create more demon diversity, give us an extra charge of fel domination, let us change out and summon new demons more frequently, that will create more demon diversity.
Rather than just looking at PvE, it would be really nice if there was meaningful consideration on the impact changes have on PvP, and at least give us the option of how we want our spell lock to work. Of all the things that could be done to improve quality of life for Warlocks, I would put reworking demon design at the bottom of the list, and the first aspect of demon design that needs to be addressed is clearly AI pathing routes.
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Agreed that there should be an option to have the interrupt on felhunter or yourself. I like being able to spell lock without interrupting my own casts.
I’m really happy with this change now I don’t have to worry about fel hunter, however I understand the problem with the interupt not being at to be used while casting. But we can still do the los thing if you have a hunter, who will be huge in arenas and rbgs since they seem to be getting a spell that removes los issues from your group/raid so you’ll still interupt and dps from behind a rock.
That’s some Olympic level of hoop jumping. By that logic you can remove the interrupt all together and you would say “You can still interrupt if you have a mage, mage will be huge in arenas and rgb’s since they seem to have an interrupt .”
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no. this is a terrible terrible terrible idea.
now if we had an option between kick on us or kick on ANY pet, im with ya. 100% but kick on us or kick on dog is not a smart or good idea. it’s a bad one and blizzard should ignore calls for it and force the kick on us personally.
kick on dog exclusively is what we were championing against for years now. don’t backtrack progress.
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I think you miss my point but w/e I’m just giving my opinion.
Nah truthfully the line of thinking there was wacky as hell.
No, thanks, I’d rather have more functionality as a caster in the format the vast majority people in this game play than be forced to pay a talent point to keep it that way because of some garbage gimmick format a few people play.
It’s bad enough warlocks and hunters had to pay the price of having instant pet summons removed and replaced with 4 second casts on a 2 minute cooldown spell to make it 0.5 seconds cast courtesy of your garbage format.
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Lots of people have suggested or supported the idea of a choice node for spell lock on player or spell lock on felhunter.
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Alright I’ll give a bit better answer. We don’t need an interupt all together, we already bring a group teleport with gateway, we bring battle res with soul stone even thou we are not a healer but a pure dps class, we also bring our cookies which is a free 25% heal. On top of our dps which is far from bad in most expac aff was top 3 if not top dps in legion for most of the expac. Aff may not have been top in bfa but it was not bad and destro and demo are in almost every m+ great push team. But I do like having an interupt, I do think that us losing the interupt on the pet is not a super big deal since a lot of casuals like me don’t really use it like you all are complaining about. I’m actually happy to lose it on the pet since now I can use succubus in bgs without worrying about fel domination swapping just to have my demon die in a bg and not have one for awhile. I also like the idea of being able to use my imp in pvp to self purge fears on myself without having to use my trinket.
kick on pet is better. kick on just felhunter doesn’t even move the needle. the kick should be on any/all pets from the choice node so imps/succ/felguard/etc can take it.
So why not give the option and then everyone’s happy…
I’m in for Personal Kick/Felhunter Kick choice node. Personally, That’s what I’ve used Observer for Destro. A kick.
Having all demons have kick sounds a bit too good.