Like most warlocks, I cannot wait to get out of this phase with this class. TBC locking was immense fun and it seemed like we were finally in line with the rest of dps. But now im seeing that locks will be “nerfed” in a sense from what they were back in the day. can anyone confirm this or bring some light to the matter? If they neuter locks in TBC, that will be my final breaking point with this game.
elaborate?
no class changes will happen on any classic iteration
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How are locks being nerfed? Shadowbolt spam and talents should remain the same but i am curious to what information you are talking about.
The only thing that could possibly look like a nerf is that you will have mana intensive classes pushing you since the fights will not take nearly as long. Your numbers should also increase but arcane mages, boomkins, and elemental shaman will increase more. Melee will probably also see a nice bump. That’s not a nerf or a buff, it’s better handling of mechanics of the game allowing for faster kills. Locks will be fine.
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I didn’t hear this, nor read this. I think warlocks are going to do some serious damage and from my understanding they are going to be in line with the same class change that was made back in TBC years back. Unless you can point me to a link or something that says different.
If they didn’t nerf dps warriors or mages in classic they won’t nerf locks in BC. A lot of the top end guilds in classic were running 20+ warriors because they were just that good with world buffs.
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When warlocks/druids and priests end up 85% of the PVP arena, I bet they’ll probably each get a small nerf.
Rogues will probably be left alone because they aren’t amazing at raids.
Warlocks will be fine. Not sure what “nerf” you’re talking about?
there will not be any class balance on a 13 year old meta
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I don’t know you are talking pvp or pve; but in pve you are spamming shadow bolt and you are good and in pvp warlock is pretty solid…
I remember playing a Warlock in TBC and them having been nerfed in PvP at some point when IQD was already out. I think it had something to do with their ability to drain tank people in PvP, but looking back through the TBC patch notes, I don’t see any specific note about that.
I remember thinking Warlocks were nerfed in PvP in late TBC, but I can’t find the actual patch notes or evidence to support that 
I can find random posts saying things about soul link being nerfed in 2.4.3, but the actual patch notes I looked up don’t mention it. It was reduced to 15% in WotLK pre-patch from 20% but it was reduced to 20% from 30% in 2.0.3, so I’m not sure what happened in 2.4.?.
Yeah. Spamming shadowbolt is so much fun
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Warlocks nerf is with soul link, which only matters in pvp. Otherwise, warlocks will be super OP as DPS for raids.
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It really is tho.
The big nerf in tbc pvp was dots being affected by resilience.
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Shadow Bolt go brrrrr
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This didn’t hit until wotlk I’m pretty sure. Resil only effects mana drains and crits.
What is this warlock nerf everyone is talking about tho lol
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- Damage taken from DoTs reduced by 1%.
It’s in tbc and it’s not actually a nerf. They had a weird idea that there were gonna put on pvp gear and instantly kill people while being god like.
It’s rose tinted glasses or whatever.
resilience only affects the components of an attack directly related to a critical strike and DoTs.
It might of not been this way on pservers if I had to guess by the amount of confusion.
You mind linking me where you found that dot damage reduction?
Resilience was introduced with The Burning Crusade as part of the new [combat rating system]. Previously, no such resilience mechanic existed — as a result, resilience rating only appears on items available to players over level 60, with some rare exceptions. Formerly, resilience reduced the damage taken from critical strikes and spell critical strikes, reduced the chance of suffering a critical strike, and reduced the effect of mana drain spells. Each point of resilience would give a player about 1% less chance to be critically struck
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Resilience
Never mind I found it. It was changed in patch 2.2, I thought it was later. So basically half of tbc had resil with no dot reduction and half of it did.
So I guess they probably will start off with the resil change obviously.
And yeah p servers (most) did go patch by patch so they must have changed these part way through.
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