Changements à venir concernant les sorciers dévastateurs

• Beaucoup d'améliorations sur le lancement des sorts (temps d'activation réduits et moins d'interruptions)
• Un petit nerf pour "Hadar's Grasp"/"Étreinte de Hadar"
• Un bon 'nerf'/'correction de bug' pour "Vol effroi"/"Dreadtheft" car maintenant impossible de lancer un autre pouvoir en cours
• Le bug d'efficacité de "Brood of Hadar"/"Essaim de Hadar" permettant aux sorciers de pas être trop loin du meta est corrigé. Donc les sorciers sont officiellement PROPRES mais ils n'ont jamais été aussi loin du méta
• Tentative de résurrection de l'arbre Damnation : long à chauffer, un peu buggé et au final un moins performant que l'arbre Furie mais plus complètement horrible
• Des buff pour la voie "Soul Binder"/"Lieur d'Âme" : d'après ce que j'ai lu c'est mieux mais pas encore la joie

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ils ne sont pas obligés de le faire, et le font uniquement parce qu'ils en ont envie.

• Pour nettoyer les mobs (multi-cibles) le nouveau pouvoir qui fera de gros DPS sera [Curse *Quiiiiiick*/Morsure Maudite] qui a été correctement buff.
• [Dreadtheft/Vol Effroi] sera maintenant cantonné pour du Tentation en équipe, car il n'est plus possible de lancer d'autre pouvoir durant son exécution (générant une forte baise des DPS personnels).

• Elle reste moins performante que la voie Furie, mais n'est plus abyssalement loin
• Longue à chauffer et perd son chauffage au bout de 25 secondes
• Mal finalisée : nombreuses statistiques mal/pas transmises à [Soul Puppet/Esprit asservi]

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Message de balanced, développeur chez Cryptic studios :

Salutations sorciers dévastateurs,

Scourge Warlock has historically had some clunky gameplay issues with power rotations and long animation times. A good amount of powers have been re-tuned to be slightly faster and to chain into other powers in a more smooth way. There were also interactions, like with Malédiction du sorcier, where trying to use another power while one was activating would cause the initial power to be canceled before it was cast.

Other than animation times, we wanted to spend some time cleaning up the Damnation tree and really focusing on the Soul Puppet for the theme of that build. Along with this came many improvements to the Soul Puppet and how it interacts with the warlock, which can be seen below.

For Damnation, we really wanted to focus on making a viable Soul Puppet encounter based build. We also wanted to make Soul Puppet more reliable at lower levels, and just in general. To do this, we have made it so that the Soul Puppet no longer dissipates after 5 attacks and instead does so after 20 seconds. This time also does not count down while you are not in combat and summoning another soul puppet refreshes the duration of your current one and heals it to full. This should make your Soul Puppet much easier to maintain and a lot more manageable to keep alive.

We also saw some bugs, weird behaviors, or player requests in powers that we wanted to touch on and get fixed. Flammes tueuses was a common complaint in that it didn’t do enough damage against high health targets. As a result, it now deals less damage based on the target’s current health, but hits harder at a baseline. Other powers, like Brood of Hadar, have had small adjustments in an attempt to fix a bug (but let us know if it’s still happening!).

Changements concernant les animations

• Malédiction du sorcier
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Flammes tueuses
  
  • Activate time slightly reduced
    
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Vol-effroi
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Trait ardent
  
  • Activation time slightly reduced

• Morsure maudite
  
  • Activation time slightly reduced
    
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Immolation de l'âme
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Tempête infernale
  
  • Activation time slightly reduced
    
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Ombre d'Esprit asservi
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers
    
  • No Longer shows a cast bar when used

• Marché du sorcier
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Étreinte de Hadar
  
  • Activation time slightly increased
    
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Lames des armées vaincues
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Âme maudite
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Flammes de Phlegethos
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Malédiction tyrannique
  
  • Now has priority in being cast, will not be interrupted by other powers

• Portes de l'enfer
  
  • Activation time reduced

Changements concernant l'Esprit asservi :

• Esprit asservi
  
  • Duration reduced to 20 seconds.
    
    • This time now only counts down while in combat
  • No longer vanishes after 5 attacks
    
  • Summoning another Soul Puppet will now refresh the duration of the current Soul Puppet and heal it to full.
    
  • Now gains Critical Strike chance equal to your critical strike chance
    
  • Now has a base critical severity rating of 50%
    
  • Attacks can now critically strike

Pouvoirs

• Flammes tueuses
  
  • Base damage increased by 20%
    
  • Damage based on hit points reduced to 2x damage when the target is at/below 25% hit points (from 2.4x)

• Trait ardent
  
  • No longer deals increased damage to enemies around the application target
    
  • Damage increased by ~20%

• Étreinte de Hadar
  
  • Damage increased by ~20%
    
  • Base duration increased to 2 seconds (up from 1.5)
    
  • Rank-up duration reduced to 0.5s (down from 1s)
    
  • (Curse Consume): Duration changed to be +1.5s (instead of +50%)
    
  • (Curse Consume): Curse and Soul Puppet damage increased to 25% (up from 15%)

• Immolation spirituelle
  
  • Removed a 1-2 second delay that would cause the spirits to delay their initial attacks
    
  • Fixed an issue where these would deal increased damage in certain cases

• Essaim de Hadar
  
  • Fixed an issue where these would deal increased damage in certain cases

• Morsure maudite
  
  • This power now has 2 charges

• Vol-effroi
  
  • Fixed an issue where Vol-effroi would deal 0 damage multiple times
    
  • Fixed an issue where Vol-effroi would not allow you to use powers for a small period of time after it was finished being cast
    
  • No longer allows you to sometimes activate other powers while casting
    
  • Activating and cancelling this power should now be much more responsive
    
  • Now deals damage 10 times (down from 12)
    
  • Damage increased by 20%

Aptitudes de classe

• Malédiction dévorante
  
  • Critical Strikes now apply lesser Curse 100% of the time (at rank 1)
    
  • Now increases Lesser Curse damage by 20%
    
  • Now increases Lesser Curse damage by 10% per rank

Talents

Damnation

• Esprits gardiens
  
  • Now causes 5/10/15/20/25% of the damage you take to be transferred to your Soul Puppet
    
  • Now increases your Soul Puppet's maximum hit points by 10/20/30/40/50% of your maximum hit points
    
    • Note: Having 5 points in this feat means that your Soul Puppet has as much Maximum Health as you do

• Esprit moqueur
  
  • No longer increases the Maximum hit points of your Soul Puppet
    
  • The damage Resistance of your Soul Puppet is increased by 5/10/15/20/25%

• Maître de l'horreur
  
  • This feat can now critically strike
    
  • This feat should now correctly scale with power / damage bonuses
    
  • Damage reduced to 5/10/15/20/25% (from 15/30/45/60/75%)

• Profanation de l'âme
  
  • Your Soul Puppet no longer dissipates after 20 seconds and its attacks now recharge your encounter powers by 1 second on each hit. Your Malédiction du sorcier now corrupts targets, causing them to spawn a Soul Puppet when killed and when Malédiction du sorcier is Consumed. Soul Investiture now increase your encounter power damage by 10% per stack. Additionally, if you do not have a Soul Puppet active, you will automatically summon one, this effect has a 15 second cooldown.

Furie

• Flammes meurtrières
  
  • Now causes your fire-based single target at-will and encounter powers to deal 5/10/15/20/25% of their damage to all enemies (split equally) within 20 feet of the primary target. Does not trigger from DoT effects.
    
    • Pouvoirs inclus : Flammes tueuses, Sphères infernales, Réprimande infernale, Immolation de l'âme, Décharge occulte