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etelgrin
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Hello, I patched preview today and take a look at first changes done to SW, there isn't much done yet and I still hope they improve the cast times and tweak it a bit but I still like what I see here.
General feats:
- Soul Reaping increase life steal by 1%/2%/3% instead of increasing life steal rating by 1,5/3/4,5 per character level.
Fury.
- Killing Curse does 15% of weapon damage when attacking cursed target up from 5%,
- Daughter's Promises - when slay cursed target, you deal 100% of your weapon damage as necrotic damage to 3 targets nearby the slain one. Buff but still useless.
- Critical Promise does 50% of weapon damage when criting up from 10%
Damnation (the perma ghost SWs)
- Parting Blasphemy does 50% of weapon damage when curse is suspended up from 6%
- Syphoning Curse, when you kill cursed target, the slayer of that target is healed for 100% weapon damage for 3 seconds, it used to heal just once.
- Sparkbinder gives Immolation Spirits 25% of your hit points, it didn't do that previously,
- Spiritfire hits for 75% of weapon damage everything in an AoE around the ghost, up from 50%,
- Mocking Spirit increase ghost HP by 50% of your hit points, it didn't do that.
- Wrathful Souls siphon some damage done by ghost healing warlock (10% of damage done).
- Relentless Curse - when curse is removed from the target you have 20/40/60/80/100 % chance to afflict lesser curse on target.
Temptation
- Hope Stealer, increases your life steal chance and rating by 5%, huge buff, up from 700 life steal rating on level 70, rank 5, works same on crit and for 4 seconds.
- Aura of Cruelty has increased radius to 50' up from 20'
Core class components:
- Shadow Slip grants 60% damage resistance upon activation, this value decreases by harshly 5% every 0.5 second till it drops to 40% where it stops dropping. The power still ignores control effects though.
Class features reworked:
Shadow Walk - base run speed increase is by 10% and life steal and deflection by 2% then 2.5% every rank, + life steal & deflection chance +1%, movement speed increase is 17,5% down from 40%[/color]
Dark One's Blessing - heals when the cursed target dies and, life steal chance and severity is increased by 4% + 2% every rank.
Power Changes:
- Brood of Hadar - significant increase in damage,
- Dreadtheft - damage resistance debuff is -5% per rank of DT up from -3%, if DT is cast on perma curse such as WB or TT and it hits one target it will give only 1x DT stack not 5x like it does now. 2 targets would give two stacks, 3 targets hit that has curse on would give 3 stacks. I don't think it possible to go beyond this, unless last one is TT, read below.
- Tyrannical Threat is a target based spell, it doesn't change your warlock curse icon to tyrannical, it can be cast on a single target and will spread damage from that target on. HUGE NERF ON PVE WARLOCKS.
- Immolation Spirits - they now have 50% chance on attack to give soul spark.
- Blades of Vanquishied Armies - each rank grants +5% deflection chance for BoVA duration.
- Hadar's Grasp - when casted on cursed target, lifts for 50% longer and target takes 15% more damage from cursed, soul puppets WHILE they are Stunned (lifted).
- Infernal Spheres - gives 5% DR per sphere and when spheres hit they heal for small amout (because it hits for small amount -1.5k-2.5k damage around) .
Impression at first sight:
They implemented defensive mechanics for SW however he is losing his primary asset (IMHO) which is incredible movement due to Shadow Walk changes, it now grants harshly 22,5% speed less.
I didn't notice any more changes but I could certainly miss some.
General feats:
- Soul Reaping increase life steal by 1%/2%/3% instead of increasing life steal rating by 1,5/3/4,5 per character level.
Fury.
- Killing Curse does 15% of weapon damage when attacking cursed target up from 5%,
- Daughter's Promises - when slay cursed target, you deal 100% of your weapon damage as necrotic damage to 3 targets nearby the slain one. Buff but still useless.
- Critical Promise does 50% of weapon damage when criting up from 10%
Damnation (the perma ghost SWs)
- Parting Blasphemy does 50% of weapon damage when curse is suspended up from 6%
- Syphoning Curse, when you kill cursed target, the slayer of that target is healed for 100% weapon damage for 3 seconds, it used to heal just once.
- Sparkbinder gives Immolation Spirits 25% of your hit points, it didn't do that previously,
- Spiritfire hits for 75% of weapon damage everything in an AoE around the ghost, up from 50%,
- Mocking Spirit increase ghost HP by 50% of your hit points, it didn't do that.
- Wrathful Souls siphon some damage done by ghost healing warlock (10% of damage done).
- Relentless Curse - when curse is removed from the target you have 20/40/60/80/100 % chance to afflict lesser curse on target.
Temptation
- Hope Stealer, increases your life steal chance and rating by 5%, huge buff, up from 700 life steal rating on level 70, rank 5, works same on crit and for 4 seconds.
- Aura of Cruelty has increased radius to 50' up from 20'
Core class components:
- Shadow Slip grants 60% damage resistance upon activation, this value decreases by harshly 5% every 0.5 second till it drops to 40% where it stops dropping. The power still ignores control effects though.
Class features reworked:
Shadow Walk - base run speed increase is by 10% and life steal and deflection by 2% then 2.5% every rank, + life steal & deflection chance +1%, movement speed increase is 17,5% down from 40%[/color]
Dark One's Blessing - heals when the cursed target dies and, life steal chance and severity is increased by 4% + 2% every rank.
Power Changes:
- Brood of Hadar - significant increase in damage,
- Dreadtheft - damage resistance debuff is -5% per rank of DT up from -3%, if DT is cast on perma curse such as WB or TT and it hits one target it will give only 1x DT stack not 5x like it does now. 2 targets would give two stacks, 3 targets hit that has curse on would give 3 stacks. I don't think it possible to go beyond this, unless last one is TT, read below.
- Tyrannical Threat is a target based spell, it doesn't change your warlock curse icon to tyrannical, it can be cast on a single target and will spread damage from that target on. HUGE NERF ON PVE WARLOCKS.
- Immolation Spirits - they now have 50% chance on attack to give soul spark.
- Blades of Vanquishied Armies - each rank grants +5% deflection chance for BoVA duration.
- Hadar's Grasp - when casted on cursed target, lifts for 50% longer and target takes 15% more damage from cursed, soul puppets WHILE they are Stunned (lifted).
- Infernal Spheres - gives 5% DR per sphere and when spheres hit they heal for small amout (because it hits for small amount -1.5k-2.5k damage around) .
Impression at first sight:
They implemented defensive mechanics for SW however he is losing his primary asset (IMHO) which is incredible movement due to Shadow Walk changes, it now grants harshly 22,5% speed less.
I didn't notice any more changes but I could certainly miss some.
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Tyrranical threat doesn't seem to work. I haven't been able to get it to redirect a single point of damage to nearby targets.
They "fixed" Murderous Flames by making it not proc at all.
The change to Hadar's Grasp is a big nerf, the debuff it gives on live is much better,
The "buff" to Dreadtheft is only a tooltip change, on preview rank 4 gives 25% damage buff same as on live.
I did however notice a few positive things. Some powers have a reduction in casting times, and Immolation Spirits starts attacking a little quicker after being cast.
Overall, this seems to be a big nerf to Scourge Warlocks.
Tabatha@rotters // Scourge Warlock // Co Leader // Civil Anarchy
We are looking for non elitist guilds to join our alliance.
Tabatha@rotters // Scourge Warlock // Co Leader // Civil Anarchy
We are looking for non elitist guilds to join our alliance.
Just wondering, how many sw player will be left if they make these "fixes" to live server.
Tabatha@rotters // Scourge Warlock // Co Leader // Civil Anarchy
We are looking for non elitist guilds to join our alliance.
Tabatha@rotters // Scourge Warlock // Co Leader // Civil Anarchy
We are looking for non elitist guilds to join our alliance.
I would love to see what's gonna be damage difference between gwf and sw fury in future. I guessing gwf deals about 10x sw damage.
All it does endgame is drop dead from 5 mph gusts of wind.
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Pillar of power should sustain even after an enemy walks over it ... would be ideal if it added defensive bonuses as well... just think about it, thanks!
One more power that could use some tweaking is Vampiric Embrace, it is not an effective spell once one reaches level 70, maybe a cooldown buff would be great... just think about it, thanks for understanding!
Seems like the gwfs cried loud enough. its been like a month SW where ahead of gwfs and now we get a 90% dmg nerf. Seems legit.
Fix Flames Fix damnation and it will be fine
The debuff didn't effect immediately the same tick that procced it, so it only stacked to 12 this time, but otherwise it's a 3% stacking debuff as before.