Infraction for Damphair: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.

• bartolimu · 02/24/09, 4:24 PM

Post: 3.1 Patch notes discussion
User: Damphair
Infraction: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Your post covers nothing new and whines besides.

Here's something to go with the whine. Try to bring something fresher to the table next time.

Original Post:

Warlock changes from the latest PTR notes:

Skills

* Curse of Elements Rank 5 now increases spell damage taken by the target by 13% (Previously 10%)
* Malediction (Tier 8 ) now increases spell damage by 1/2/3%. (Previously also increased the effect of curse of elements)

These two changes go as a pair. So now you get the 3% damage bonus on CoE from training. Malediction basically got nerfed a bit, but not a big deal. The Affliction locks will still take it. But now, if you are in a raid with no affliction locks, you can still get the 13% CoE from other locks.

* Curse of Recklessness has been removed from the game.

Meh. This is the only curse warlocks have to stop mobs from running away. It'll be harder to solo level in some areas without this curse.

* Curse of Weakness now reduces armor by 5% along with its previous effect.

People use this curse? tongue.gif

Talents

* Pandemic (Tier 9) is now a 1 point talent. It now grants the periodic damage from your Corruption and Unstable Affliction spells the ability to critically hit.

Ohh.... DoT crits? Hmm... much math to be done.

* Eradication (Tier 7) has been changed to: When you deal damage with Corruption, you have a 2/4/6% chance to gain the Eradication effect. The Eradication effect increases the critical strike chance of your Shadow Bolt spell by 30%. Each critical strike reduces the critical strike bonus by 10%. Lasts 30 sec.

So your Corruption has a 6% per tick chance of giving you 30% crit chance on shadowbolt, but if your bolt crits, each crit reduces crit bonus damage by 10%. There'll be lots of min-maxing on this.

* Shadow Embrace (Tier 5) now increases Shadow Periodic damage. (Previously increased all periodic damage)

So I guess Immolate is out of the affliction rotations then.

* Siphon Life (Tier 5) is no longer a spell. It is a passive talent that When you deal damage with your Corruption spell, you are instantly healed for 40% of the damage done.

Meh. Nerf bat on affliction. Siphon Life is about 6% of most affliction locks damage.

* Frailty has been renamed Improved Curse of Weakness (Tier 2).

Who cares.

* Supression (Tier 1) now increases chance to hit with all spells. (Previously only affected affliction spells)

Well at least this is a nice change. Sort of. We can skip Cataclysm now and put points in Improv. Shadow Bolt instead. I wonder what the 0/41/30 do? Probably just ignore Suppression.

Over all I am seeing a significant change to the affliction rotation: (1) no siphon life, (2) no immolate. Since Corruption is renewed by Haunt, the only spells that need to be tracked will be Haunt, Curse of X, and Unstable Affliction. A much simplified rotation. Boooo to that. tongue.gif

Also, the gearing changes seem to be a bit schizophrenic. The Pandemic change will say that you want crit so your DoT crits are good. But the Eradicate change will argue for haste over crit, since your crits are lower damage. Weird.

Also the Glyph of Haunt is decent. 3% more damage. Question is which Glyph can come out.