Warlocks are getting ripped off compared to Hunters

[Baalsamael-turalyon (Baalsamael)]

@Aelora-wyrmrest-accord

In most cases of fantasy, the name of a being or object is what commands power over it.

Not like that. Plus that fantasy is based on real life occult practices wherein you need the true name of a spirit (demon, angel, ghost, otherwise) in order to command it or summon it. You cannot change the name of a demon within the Goetia of the Lesser Key of Solomon if you pretend to summon it to bind it to you.

Within WoW lore you need a demon’s true name to control/command it, and as such the name cannot change, as evidenced within this lore:

@Baalsamael-turalyon

Every time you enslave a demon it gets assigned a name you cannot change without dismissing that demon or enslaving the same mob again, following the same way all our default demons have assigned names and we have to pay to replace them. The only demons we could not “release” would be our default demons, maybe, I don’t know.

This would follow the logic that all demons are actually pre-existing beings. Our Wrathguard is an Eredar; he lived on Argus and had a family. They each have a “True Name”.

And canonically, knowing a demon’s true name gives you power over that demon:

• `https://wow.gamepedia.com/Illidan's_Pupil
• `https://wow.gamepedia.com/Not_Just_Any_Body
• `https://wow.gamepedia.com/The_Name_of_the_Beast

@Baalsamael-turalyon

Infact, within the lore and earlier versions of WoW, grimoires were within the Warlock fantasy, whether was quest items where we enslave demons to learn them, or to empower some talents/spells:

• `https://wow.gamepedia.com/Grimoire
• `https://wow.gamepedia.com/Warlock_quests

Within the narrative, the only thing that prevents a warlock from enslaving a demon is our power. In Legion, we enslaved the Eredar Twins via a Bloodstone (which canonically is a fragment of Old God power), in the Legacy of the Masters questline (Green Fire quest), we enslave a Pit Lord when fighting Kanrethad at the end scenario, and to begin with as it stands we already enslaved an imp, a succubus, a mo’arg (Felguard), eredar (Prince Malchezaar, Demonic Tyrant, Wrathguard), a darkglare, an observer, a shivarra, a fel imp, a voidwalker, a voidlord (separate from the Void Lords that in canon cannot manifest in reality), a felhunter, an infernal, and an abyssal, and a variety of other demons through the Demonology Talent Demonic Portal (including Ur’zuls, and Felbats, and more)

@Corlia-amanthul

The fact the company doesn’t even address the issues in game play or even admit there are issues should say a lot how blizzard feels.

Yup, I mean we’ve been pointing out the necessity of an interrupt on felguard AT LEAST for over a decade now and instead we get some stupid “Axe Toss interrupts stun immune targets”

@Corlia-amanthul

I’m actually surprised they listened to all the shadow priest feed back this time.

They listened to us too, just not as closely.

@Bordello-goldrinn

yes, it’s that time of day again that I stop by to ask for #DemonStables now

Amen

@Aelora-wyrmrest-accord

When I read that hunters will be able to tame Elegon, it was a serious “Huh?!”

Yeah taming what’s basically a Library Artificial Intelligence is just… lol

@Comanchë-zuljin

…just lol

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