I too don't understand what you mean by using shards wisely, Tovya. I always used one piece of the largest available shardbag and it never went empty in standard raids.
Rarely, in no-trash tries like Malygos, you will encounter a lack of shards - but that is a very rare case and can be treated as exceptional in my opinion. So, there is no "loss" of any gaming aspect by getting rid of a nuisance.

Everything would change, if using shards became an active stratagem in gaming, such as use of soulfire and other possibilities we have been musing about before.

Addendum: could someone please explain why ImpSL (Replenishment) ist Destro-Only? What did I miss?

Oh, blasted German Interface! Sorry, that has been a misinterpretation. Thank you for answering nicely, though.

Stupid me...

They are giving deep affliction and deep demon +5% raid crit which is just as useful if not more so as replenishment. I guess if you roll 0/40/31 or 0/31/40 you are out of luck, but its probably the price you pay for having good dps and an easy rotation. Anyway they aren't done with the changes.

Allowing shards to stack to 200 or whatever eliminates a large PITA factor to the class without removing the "flavor" in the same way the ammo changes will affect hunters.

Sure i can manage my shards right now, and I will still need to farm them and manage them if they stack to 200. The only difference is I get a bag slot back. basically, post-hunter changes, we're going to be unique as a class in that we're the only one that will in effect be required to use up a bag slot to play effectively. Lovely.

If we're going to be forced to keep the Abyssal bag, at least have it give us some buffs of some kind. How about haste similarly to the current hunter ammo bags.

I think it does matter. I can live with a bag less, but life would be a lot easier with 22/20 (21/19 assuming some kind of shard stack/device) slots. Think of the forthcoming dualspeccs and the needed equipment.

i stronlgy quote Chinsaw
we need more summoning spell, we are warlock, and we should have more demons to deal with.

we have like 6 demons, 1 is only with the talent, 2 are with a long cooldown, 1 (succubus) has no utility....

Shards are a constant problem for me. I'm usually only lock in raid. We are attempting 3D Sarth which means constant wiping with no trash to farm. I am deep destro and for me to DPS in the most effective manner I will also be spending shards on backdrafted soulfires. Between Soulstones, HS's, Summoning, you can easily see how I run out of shards. I can come with 40 shards and still run out.

Take soulfire off of shard use and I'd live. I mean can anyone really justify the use of a shard on a spellcast like Soul Fire? I mean I could justify it if it was a SERIOUS dps increase. However, the spell in its current state is only cast during backdraft+heroism or backdraft with CB on CD and Immo down. It is just more efficient during these specific states. For it to use shards i would expect it to be much better than incinerate much like incinerate is much better than searing pain.

Im not sure what to think about Blizzards idea of what a Warlock should be. I see some subtle changes that are making our class more homogenized with other casters like Mages and Preists (Gear and spec sharing). One aspect that I loved about the class was it's ability to bring some utilities to the table that were needed in certain raid situations (CoW, CoR, Fear, Banish, Enslave Demon) while still being a high DPS class. What I'm finding is that I rarely if ever use these abilities and have removed them from my hotbar. It's a shame that we have these abilities but don't have the need nor desire to use them.

I am most curious about the impact the spec changes will have on our class for both PvE and PvP. One example is the merging of Corruption and Siphon Life. I see it as both positive and negative, on one hand it will ease our DOT rotation but on the other hand, it might not be as high DPS or benifit if they gimp the Siphon Life portion of it. The changes to the talent tree has me a bit nervous as it will take some of us some time to work out what the best spec is for both PvE and PvP and I'm sure we will have to revisit the geaar and glyph choices as well.

This is my first post on here, but I'm just gonna copy and paste my first post on the Blizz forums so I can get some better opinions and feedback.

"In regards to the changes coming to soul shards in 3.1 (Drain Soul has a chance to generate a shard whenever it does damage to a target that grants experience/soul shards are limited to 32 in the inventory), I was wondering if Drain Soul could be changed into a buff/aura that has a chance to generate a shard from any spell that does damage? I know that doesn't solve the inventory management problem, but it would help out the problem of running out of shards constantly. Perhaps all shards could be put into a special slot separate from the inventory, like the key ring.

Reply from Bazeel on Darkspear: [Warlocks Drain Soul. A chance to get a shard on any damage would turn the shard system from an active system to a passive system and that would be bad imo. There are ways to tweak Drain Soul to give enough shards and indeed that is what they are doing. There are a very limited number of situations where we can't get enough shards anyway... unfortunately one of them is pvp/arena and that is pretty big.

As for inventory space, I wouldn't be surprised to see them eventually give Warlocks something similar to a key ring or extra slot on the character pane to equip their shard bags. They seem to be relaxing inventory restrictions all around.]

My reply: Yeah, you're probably right. I was thinking maybe there would be a penalty to having the buff up, e.g. it would replace your demon/fel armor, but that would probably be a step back in usefulness and create its own problems."

This is my first toon. I've been playing for about a year now but I just ding'd 70 last week because I couldn't play this summer.

Keep in mind this is only a bandaid. There is a major overhaul of the shard system coming. I'm sure we're all wanting the new content a bit more than the shard overhaul. We've gone this long with our current shard system, no reason we can't last a bit longer.

Actually, Boomkin get it too: Improved Faerie Fire