Status on warlock improvements?

#0 - Dec. 3, 2008, 12:31 a.m.

Q u o t e:

Make sure locks do rogue / hunter / mage level dps at 80.
Make sure locks have enough survivability in PvP (since we nerfed a lot of it).
Fix some of those deep Demo talents that really aren't worth the investment.
Make shards more interesting and less of a hassle.
Get the Voidwalker (and possibly Succubus?) back out.
Look at the dps spells that cost shards.
Try and make more of the dots a consistent length, so that Affliction's rotation doesn't require such a big brain.
Get dots to either scale with crit or just crit.

It was stated by Blizzard that these were design goals for warlocks a few weeks back. What is the current status on not only these listed items, but also unmentioned goals that we may not have heard of.

Thanks go to Ghostcrawler for the updates on shards and rotations, and we appreciate the communication. Will there be any Winter Veil presents for the warlock community this year?

Ghostcrawler

#30 - Dec. 3, 2008, 7:34 p.m.

Q u o t e:
GC - We are pretty starved for news. Our rotations are complex and DPS lackluster. I'm not going to insult you by saying you don't know the issues when you clearly do. I can't speak for other locks, but it's depressing to see extremely "un-squishy hybrids" like moonkin and pallies out DPS us a "pure" spec with easier rotations.

Unfortunately I don't have any new news and I hesitated to post after the posts above that didn't want to see a claim that we're looking into something. (Sorry, man, that's what we do.)

Our goal hasn't changed and the bullets you posted at the top of the thread are still generally valid. We talked about locks just this morning, but I don't have any upcoming announcements yet. I'm sorry I can't always grace every thread with promises of buffs and new abilities, but we try to be careful with the changes we make. The fact that we still manage to break things sometimes suggest that we might not even be careful enough. Fear not, locks. We hear you.

Ghostcrawler

#33 - Dec. 3, 2008, 7:39 p.m.

Q u o t e:
This means...NOT the next patch doesn't it? And definitel no intime for arena :(

See, this is why I don't like to respond when I don't have new information.

Q u o t e:
OH man, so now we arent even allowed to fear???!???!!!!??

But this makes it all worth while. Well done.