As of 2/14/24 it seems the warlock phase 2 Dance of the Wicked feet rune has been hot fixed to match the tool tip, granting you and your demon 2% max mana when you land a critical strike. This rune previously seemed to scale with your crit % when granting mana back and was very beneficial when paired with Demonic Grace rune.
As it stands now the Dance rune is extremely week for mana regen and makes life tapping as a tank even more of a necessity which can feel bad at times. While this rune this pre-fixed rune may have been extremely strong at higher crit chances in later phases a reversion or rework would be a great quality of life for Warlock tanking.
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I was originally pretty bummed about the lock runes at first. Then I tested this one and loved the QoL of not tapping every 3 seconds, it felt great. It pretty much feels worthless now.
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Wish there was class forum sections or mods where some feedback could be sent as i just posted this after experiencing the hot fix today dinging 40th post hotfix
Going to wade into this conversation. A change was needed as i could get 100% mana back via a shadow cleave crit, but it absolutely gutted aoe tanking as a lock especially in dungeon grinding situations. Not sure now who the rune is even targeted to help. In the destruction line, the destruction crit node doesnt give spell crit to boost the dodge % nor does the rune gain from the searing pain node. Demonology also doesnt push this rune to be better.
2% mana on a spell crit is meaningless feedback for tanking as you spend many globals tapping now on aoe fights were threat can matter as the mdps auto dmg has massive ramps.
Can we simply get the buff to stack up to like 3 stacks while in metamorphosis form as it relates to mana gain? Or have the percentage upped?
Otherwise i dont see a function for this rune unless spell crit chance explodes on all gear.
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The synergy between this rune along with Demonic Grace and Demonic Tactics made tanking extremely fun, being able to dodge and get infinite mana if you were spamming heavy cost spells.
I am absolutely destroyed that this now only gives me back 44 mana when I crit with a spell that costs double or triple that amount.
I think it needs to do what it did previously and give you 2%, hell even 1% back per crit chance you have.
Most fun I have had with warlock tanking since launch. As well as made those unused runes useable.
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I agree, I am not sure where this rune fits in. On my BFD geared lock I get around 5% dodge on a crit. When you have Demonic Grace going it does jump to 35% but I believe if you crit during the 12 second duration after Grace expires the Dance buff snaps down back to 5%. The second part of the dance rune is now pretty useless. In my opinion it was meant to help Lock tanks not have to tap so much considering they are taking damage anyways, which is a great consideration, but it fails at this.