Warlock hero talents

Righto. Dump your unfounded ideas here.

What three Hero specs do you see being shared?
Aff/Demo - Ritualist. Add ‘enhancements’ to your minions/dots that cleave/haste/chaos dam/leech/

Demo/Destro - Felstorm. ST cd damage spells can trigger echo/fel dam swirly/1sec stuns/

Destro/Aff - Dark-Sworn. You’re damage increases as your health decreases? Etc.

Can you think of three ‘lock styles / heroes / themes that would transition across two specs?

Idk. Have at it.

Probably depression.

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Demo= transform into a demon. Maybe call it demon form or metamorphosis.

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Lol. Thats Classic+ :frowning:

Never getting it back.

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Necrolyte - (aff, destro)
Dreadlord - (aff, demo)
Felseeker - (demo, destro)

Big guesswork but in the end i just hope we get a necrolyte styled one, as it’s also referenced by the deadwind harvester

Felstorm sounds great for Destruction. Maybe it could add damage over time components to Chaos Bolts and fire spells that could refresh and boost Immolate and call down Infernal swarms to punch and burn everything in sight.

I honestly have no idea. But I guess I’ll throw out…
Summoner perhaps between Destro and Demo. Focused on buffing summons, which ties in to Infernals for Destro.

Witch between Demo and Affliction. Basically for Curses, Hexes, defensives.

Cultist between Affliction and Destro. Which is a more offensive DoT stuff, buffing Immolate etc.

I just really really hope they get these details out ASAP.

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Confirmed Hero Talents:
Soul Harvester
Hellcaller
Diabolist

This is all we know.

I’m assuming
Soul Harvester is Affliction + Demo, focused on Soul Shard generation.
Hellcaller is Demo + Destro focused on buffing Hounds/Infernals
And Diabolist is Destro + Affliction, Not too sure what it would entail, damage amps?

hoping they bring metaback with these hero talents.

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Honestly both Hellcaller and Diabolist seem too niche of names, they are references to some wc3/open world mobs, but they were never important titles.

I would really like to see Necrolyte, this is very historic title (original Horde WC1 caster), opens space to give some undead flavor warlocks and it’s the title of the 1st wielder of Ulthalesh. If anything deserves a warlock hero name, it’s this.

Another I would like to see is Felsworn, the flavor of infusing fel into our bodies for strength, think Gul’dan in his fight in Nighthold, as well as countless other NPCs (Skovald, Cordana, etc). This also opens space to give us a meta-like form without infringing in DHs aesthetic.

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I am hoping beyond hope that Soul Harvester is Warlock finally cannibalizing the caster necromancer identity.

It should, however, 100% be renamed Necrolyte.

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I hope it’ll change to Plaguebringer. Also, Hellcaller sounds so tame, maybe Hellraiser sounds better.

Think Clive Barker and/or those making the Hellraiser films might frown on that.

I’m hoping the subspecs comes with some new summons

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I was hoping for Demoniac as a call-back to the Zandalari warlocks who empowered themselves by absorbing demons, although a drust-inspired Witch focused on curses and blood magic could be a strong theme as well. The warlock hero talent names don’t really evoke the same level of class identity as Farseer, Sentinel, or Dark Ranger.

I wonder since we have soul harvester, if they’ll bring back reap in some capacity. Nothing quite like it back in legion, a dynamic ‘cooldown’ of sorts you could manipulate and choose your buff windows. Though given affliction’s current playstyle it might be … tricky to implement than simply when we had UA stacking

i 1000% agree soul harvester should be replaced with Necrolyte.
it fits perfectly lore-wise, the first necrolyte was the wielder of ulthalesh.
ingame, it would be affli+demo with affli being able to use souls to power itself (please make these proc soulflame and wrath of consumption so they dont suck outside m+), and for demo it would either be sacrificed to buff pets or summon ghost minions.

Fel Lord sounds really badass. it overlaps with the demo pvp talent but who cares. would be destro+demo with focusing on green fire or fel empowerment to our demons.

for the last one im kinda out of ideas, but wish it revolved around shadowflame magic for affli+destro. here are options i could come up with (no deep basis in lore that i can see, but some mobs/items has these names here and there). please let me know if any of these are any good.
Harbinger of Doom or Doombringer
Defiler of the Dead
Umbramancer
Wakener of Dread
Hellfiend

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The problem I’ve noticed with Warlock hero talent ideas (both from Blizz and the community) is that they sound so generic. I think there should be more of a focus on selling an iconic fantasy.

Here’s my thoughts on iconic fantasy ideas:

Destro - Aff : Litch. I know Litches are usually associated to frost magic but they demonstrated with warriors they don’t mind changing the visuals. I think it’d be really cool to focus on the overwhelming direct and dot damage that destro and aff bring as a litch. It’s a super iconic traditional fantasy both in and outside of WoW. Also major bonus points for providing Aff with more than one school of magic for pvp balance.

Demo - Aff: Necrolyte or necromancer themed. I think this is the one idea I’ve seen bounced around that really nails a fantasy that warlock is lacking.

Destro - Demo: I don’t have an exact name for this but Diablolist/hellcaller/etc is alright. Something that focuses on the very traditional hell/demon themes with fire and monstrosities. Burning souls and sending people to eternal damnation through burning legions. This is definitely the one I’m the least sold on, but does seem fitting.

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Hello Fellow Humans,

WoW in general needs more Tanks. We need more players to have access to tanking to let them see how hard it is for the rest of us. To see how much pain it is to deal with 4 or more people who want them to quickly run as fast as you can through an instant. Ultimately we need more classes to have access so more people tank. To give some of us a rest and Warlocks, Shamans, Evokers are perfect for a Tank Spec.

Now maybe WoW can use the Hero builds to test out new ideas like a tank spec for warlocks. It would obviously be for Demo specs and maybe affliction since two specs get access to one shared hero spec. Essentially a single talent that allows the warlock to transform into a demon permanently and gives them a taunt and boost to armor, def and whatever else. Just like my druid when he goes bear form. So it isn’t hard to do. Blizzard has a Demon look already and spells they can easily use to tank.

I would also like to see Warlocks have more than one pet out. I want a warlock to be a one man army. To have a Tank/DPS pet with a healer pet and a range DPS pet. I know you can cast pets but I am talking about permanent pets out along with other pet spells. Also we need permanent Inferno’s as pets.

Warlocks should be masters of death. Give them life tap a spell that drains a % of life and transfers that life to them and their pets.