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Warlocks in 10.1.5, Fractures in Time: Demonology Reparations

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Blizzard have given players a preview of the upcoming 10.1.5 PTR build where they are giving Demonology some buffs after the very bad reaction the community had to recent changes.

While Affliction and Destruction are also getting some changes, Demonology is the star of the show, as it will be receiving many changes to compensate for the recent massive nerfs. Let's take a look!

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Greetings Warlocks,

We’ve been reading through the feedback provided over the past week and want to provide an update with a look at the changes you’ll see in the next PTR build.

Affliction

Demonology

Destruction

Ripped through the Portal

Regarding Demonology, these adjustments are being made to compensate for Ripped through the Portal Ripped through the Portal not returning to the Demonology talent tree. We want talents to be competitive options against one another and, given the synergistic value of Ripped through the Portal, it’s very difficult for us to adjust it in a way that it becomes an option rather than the right choice.

Demonic Cores

The removal of Demonic Knowledge Demonic Knowledge, Demonic Meteor Demonic Meteor, and Ripped through the Portal Ripped through the Portal was too much of a push in the direction of reining in Demonology’s mobility. Demonbolt Demonbolt is a cool spell that enables Demonology to be reactive. We don’t want to create a drought of Demonic Cores, but at the same time we don’t want it to be the only generator you cast. By re-adding Demonic Knowledge, the cadence of Demonic Cores should be in a healthier place.

Conclusion

The feedback provided has been extremely helpful and we appreciate the community’s thoughts on the changes we’re making in Fractures in Time. Thank you for the insights provided and we’ll continue to watch for further discussion.

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Just make the main damage profile for affliction be dots and not some (haha totally not the main damage component... nothing to see here) builder/spender in malefic rapture.

Dots should carry the damage in affliction.

Reading the demo stuff... didn't they just put it back to what it was??

lol :'D

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1 hour ago, Prophet001 said:

Just make the main damage profile for affliction be dots and not some (haha totally not the main damage component... nothing to see here) builder/spender in malefic rapture.

Dots should carry the damage in affliction.

Right? I get why they moved away from UA stacking. That model falls to apart without the artifact/azerites to prop it up, and in SL something had to change. It's insane though that DF doubled down on MR rather than just making DoTs better again.

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The mastery for aff is wear they screwed up, it incentivizes having a bunch of dots on a target that do no dmg to use a spender that hits hard. If they would change the mastery back to legion mastery that just increased the dmg of your dots and just make MR scale of primary stat it would prob feel a lot better. That means it prob wouldn’t feel so shitty when you can’t get all your dots spread out. Plus MR really only dies big dmg to 1 or 2 targets.

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