GC please read, 4 quick fixes for Warlocks

#0 - Dec. 4, 2008, 9:15 p.m.

Q u o t e:

We talked about locks just this morning, but I don't have any upcoming announcements yet.

This has to be the worst news i have heard since i read and experienced all the nerfs you gave locks in the beta that were then carried over to the expansion.

First the rant: ( skip the first two paragraphs if you want, I want the 4 fixes read the most please )

You know we have huge problems in pvp and even in pve, ( demo especially ) and you say a comment like this? My biggest issue with it is that you say it in a way that gives off the vibe that you guys go days maybe even weeks without talking about warlocks. Now if our class had small problems then that would be acceptable, but we have huge problems, and if the warlock outcry you are experiencing right now is not enough to warrant it, when will it be? 100 pages of posts on the Warlock arena thread? 200? 1000? This should be a priority, i understand the game is huge but this should be right up near the top of things to do. We have not been waiting weeks, its been months, and started during beta and nothing has changed.

I really hope you aren’t just waiting for the Arena season to start and let us accept defeat in hopes that we just all go away giving you 4+ months to work on our problems. But im afraid you know this will happen as soon as the season starts and you guys are just waiting it out.

Here are some very quick fixes that could band-aid us through this season and would not take much work on a dev's end to finish before season 5.

1. Armor, upgrade all of our level 80 pvp gear with armor equal at least to the % of mitigation we had with the pvp armor at level 70 in season 4. Not the armor set value, but the % because of level scaling. Right now the best level 80 pvp gear has like 35% less armor then the level 70 season 4. I don’t understand why we would lose armor when the gear is ten levels higher?? We already lose like 50% of the mitigation just leveling the extra ten levels.

2. Give pets 100% of our resilience, or 100% scaling of our stamina.

3. Demon circle remove stuns/silence, instant cast, increase the range, give it a 50% mitigation to melee buff while standing in the circle, but allow the circle to stay on the ground for only 10-15 seconds after the warlock teleports to it, so we can’t just sit in it.

4. Give ShadowFlame one of the following: knockback, disarm, or a bleed effect with a snare

These four changes are simple to add, effect all specs and not game breaking in anyway, but would fix most of our problems in pvp. At the very least would be a nice band-aid till you guys figure out what you want us to have if we need more than this through season 5.

Please, please, please consider these suggestions with the time you have left before season 5

-Torahdane

#2 - Dec. 4, 2008, 9:27 p.m.

You shoulda left the first two paragraphs off then.

If I have announcements of upcoming class changes, I will post them. I'm not going to wait for an invitation or a post to ask about it. So you are almost never going to see a response to a list of concerns include "Okay, here are all the changes we're making." I do that sometimes, but usually just because I see a convenient spot to list the changes.

When someone asks "Do you know about these issues?" sometimes I will respond that yes we are looking into it. Most of the time I don't even respond at all because I can't answer 200 threads a day.

Our answer is almost always, ALMOST ALWAYS, going to be one of the following:

-- We don't think it's a problem.
-- We are worried it might be a problem, so we're gathering more information. <-- the warlock issues you do mention are somewhere between here and the next bullet at the moment.
-- We think it is a problem, so we're trying to figure out a solution.
-- We think it is a problem, and we have a solution, but now is not the right time to release it (perhaps it is technically difficult or a later change will fix the problem anyway).

So it is disheartening to us when you take our announcement of "we're looking into it" as disheartening because most of the time, that's what the answer will be. :(