Warlock has so much pre-pull utility that it amounts to pre-pull chores

Some people will probably knee jerk say that advocating for changes to their class (especially as someone who doesn’t play the class) is bad but if you’re objective about it warlock simply has so much utility it amounts to an active annoyance to warlock players. Warlock has:

  • Summon Portal
  • Warlock Gate (When needed it must be used on every pull, in the proper location)
  • Lock Rocks (Usually every single pull during progression)
  • Soul Stone (Every pull during progression)

So looking at that, if a Warlock is progressing on a boss like Smolderon, after a wipe the lock has to get food buff, put out a Soulstone, drop a Soulwell, then run around the room to drop the gateway. More than a little excessive. While some other classes have prepull rotations they have to do to maximize their hps or dps but if they miss one of those items rarely will anyone other than themselves know they missed it. Wheras a Warlock misses something they always get called out, “Lock rocks plz”, “Where’s the gate?”, “Where was the soulstone?” which after a while would get significantly grating.

Given blizzards stance on raid buffs I don’t think removal of the utility would be the best choice but I definitely think they need some quality of life changes. For instance, there is no reason for a lock gate to disappear after each wipe, it’s just a time waste to drop it in the exact same spot, rather it should remain up until it’s dropped somewhere else or the warlock leaves the group. Lock rocks, when in a raid could just last until the warlock leaves the group, keeping the one use a pull CD but only requiring one pull a dungeon. Soulstone could remain a per pull ability since other classes have not issue with using a single ability to buff the raid group before pull. These wouldn’t be changes that impact the power of warlock at all but they would make it nicer to play in a raid group, removing the pre-pull chores that you either do or you get whined at after the pull for not doing.

I mean lucky you have all this prepull utility some classes would love to have any of those. Some fights yea it sucks like sark was where you running to the other side to put it down but a weak aura makes it easy enough.

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Yeah, we are awesome like that.

I do think the OP has a point… Some QOL on those would be pretty good…

I say this from a non-warlock player perspective, often if for whatever reason the warlock in the group is tabbed out or went for a quick restroom break or whatever it might be…

There’s the whole party sitting around waiting and asking for the lock to do his thing, usually closet or cookies…

The only QOL they can do is give these things to other classes that probably dont need them or they remove them from the warlock. Neither of those options are good options.

Nah it’s a “fantasy” game, there are lots of ways they could implement some changes to increase the QOL on theese…

From very basic ones like increasing charges of healthstone, or making them auto-refresh if the warlock is in the group. Or having the gateway stay for (lets say 1-2 hours unless replaced)

To more creative ones like having the pet work as a “butler” for this sort of utility, similar to the Kyrian squires but group-wide, interact with it to get a healthstone or to start the ritual for the closet.

it’s like four globals at max lol it’s really not a big deal

Soul Burn + DG is not only excellent group utility, but solo mobility too.

Well, you could always quit and then not have any chores to do :). But seriously, utility is king. I’m very happy to be able to support my group like that.

The prepull utility is the part I like tbh. It feels like I bring more to the group than just my dps numbers.

I’m just glad it’s not the old amp/dampen magic levels of absurdity.

I love having all this stuff to do, it’s part of why I play warlock, it’s a class that rewards thinking ahead and preparing.