Amazing. After yesterday's video, I was a bit concerned as I was going to main Warlock for the first time and was second guessing my choice. But now I'm back to being super hyped.
so true, i had spent so much time gearing my warlock that i havent touched in like 6 months because of how fun hellcaller and soul harvester were looking (especially for afflic) and the video made me so scared that i had wasted so much time and was gonna have to play something else in TWW
One thing for Overfiend - since his damage is based on you Chaos Bolts damage, I would imagine that the coming buffs to Chaos Bolt will mitigate the nerfs to Ritual of Ruin
As a long-time Destruction fan there is only 1 thing that annoys me: That you can currently not spec into Dimensional Rift without taking Channel Demonfire. I used to never play Dimensional Rift until that one time when our tier set revolved around it, but I really like it now because it gives Destruction more things to cast while on the move. I never liked Channel Demonfire, though, but I guess now I get no choice if I want access to the Rift. Kinda blows (and yes, I know that neither is currently the BIS choice, but that could literally change tomorrow).
Has anyone else noticed the problem with demonic healthstones?: That’s is that they disappear from your bag as soon as you enter a portal, instance or anything else related to that. Really annoying to resummon all the time.
This bug exists since pre patch came out . As soon as you get into an instance , they vanish . I'm pretty sure they will fix it but i guess its not top priority atm
The dog core changes means you will get, on average, 0 cores 25% of the time (down from 42% of the time), get 1 core 50% of the time (up from 44%), and get 2 cores 25% of the time (up from 12%). You will get at least 1 core 75% of the time, up from 56%. I did truncate instead of round, but it's a substantial buff to core generation without being a guaranteed 2 cores every 20 seconds.
We are grateful to you and all other people who spend their time on finding bugs and have a voice into the warlock pve community . I really think you make a difference. Also, i am a big affliction enthusiast but i think many people are kinda sleeping on soul harvester demolock in m+ . These changes will shake things though
I just got to work and this is the first video that popped up. It says I've already watched it, guess i was craving that juicy lock content even in my sleep lol
Just switched to desto lock for raid for TWW and I’m really enjoying it. First time main DPS spec in raid since early BFA so I’ve been pouring through your videos and it’s really helped me out a lot
Honestly, the only thing they need to do for Aff is remove the UA restriction and that talent with refreshing UA will likely be taken. Also, fix general tree
Amazing to see all these buffs, much needed! Only disappointing thing for me with Demo now is playing 3 points in Doom/Doom Guard row for something that's a total < 3% contribution to damage. That does not feel good for the bottom choices in the tree, they should make Doomguard a 100% chance again to make it a really cool ST option.
Love the changes. Still think our glaring problem is lack of mobility, especially with destruction, and then our defensives really being lack luster now, especially compared to other classes going into TWW.
Did you unintentionally uncover a bug doing the demonology combat? If you look, the second coven lady and pit lord attack the dummy behind you and not the target one
It's been a long time since I played Affliction. It used to be so much fun. Dot, dot, fear, die. It used to burn through enemies like butter. I love demo but would be nice to go back to affliction.
For me they are not buffs, they simply left simply ridiculous damage and only after a long time that we pointed it out did they rebalance the damage. The fact that some spells had increases over 800% gives an estimate of how they work on the blizzard. Luckily they have at least tried to remedy the horror of the 35% proc from dogs. I am very resentful of the fact that affliction "master of shadow over time and drains" is increasingly a spam of malefic rapture interspersed with shadow bolt (with terrible graphics that they insist on not wanting to change) and with the definitive loss of the most iconic of the warlock, the drain life, which can now be removed from the game bars in any content
DUDE - I cannot keep up, I think ima walk away, the Olympics are on, Ima a Baseball fan... I cannot keep up with all this, Ill come back to the game when it settles down. keep doing you do, that will let me know when.
While this all sounds cool, there’s no way this goes live. Ruination would be a literal one-shot. As long as you didn’t have it targeted onto a pally in bubble or a mage in block, you would literally 100 to zero someone every @ 45 seconds in PvP. The whole ladder would be demo locks from top to bottom. Maybe for 1 week that would be fun, just to see it, but it would be ridiculous.
I hate how they semi-ignore Aff all the time, forcing us to play the other two specs. Blizz if I wanted to be a Destro lock, I would be already!!! Aff dammit, we want Aff love (at least equal please!!!).
How hard can it be to turn Vile Taint into a 15 secs cooldown? We have been asking for this quality of life change, FOR YEARS….. and still it won’t happen… I honestly can’t get it
okay cool can they just not overnerf it to hell again and just keep all 3 specs being good lol I hate this ping-pong nonsense they're doing. it's not cool when people are trying to figure out wtf they wanna play
Warlocks get buffed while elemental shaman ( while a nerf was needed ) got murdered. They went a little to hsrd on ele. Locks looking like they are going to be super powerful now tbough.
its not buff, thats what it looks like when things are brought up to date. and still warlocks are lacking compared to others. nerfs come within first week after launch as usual.
Quick reminder, this is the "up-tune" warlocks will probably see quite a few percentage drops in the upcoming week or two. Blizz often goes down, then up really high, then tightens it in. Just look at DK. 🙂
These are pity buffs to coddle warlocks after they eviscerated their durability, again. The soul leech and fel armor nerf is disgusting. Why even play the class, they removed the class identity.
i really really dislike playing shadowburn . whana use my shards for cb. not shadowburn.. dno feels cluncky and annoying and also have a fast cd. so u have to use it on cd.and gets wierd when infernal is not out. and every soul shard u generate u use it on shadowburn and not save for CB
As I recall affliction was pretty good in S1 SL, destro was really good for the start of S3 SL, and then pretty good for S4, and demo was good (but horribly boring) in S2 DF if and only if you got BiS gear and a ton of externals. Outside of those times it's been extremely average. In other words if you are a warlock who is willing to switch to the best spec, you have a decent chance of being good in any given patch, just like every other class with three DPS specs. If you just like one spec then historically you're out of luck most of the time, just like everybody else who only plays one DPS spec.
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Amazing. After yesterday's video, I was a bit concerned as I was going to main Warlock for the first time and was second guessing my choice. But now I'm back to being super hyped.
Same here! Thank god Blizz came through.
so true, i had spent so much time gearing my warlock that i havent touched in like 6 months because of how fun hellcaller and soul harvester were looking (especially for afflic) and the video made me so scared that i had wasted so much time and was gonna have to play something else in TWW
@@prep3544you wasted time anyway because you wil replace that gear with green quest rewards after 3h of playing in TWW.
Bro, its like Blizzard watched your video yesterday and immediately fixed all the bugs you mentioned and buffed Affliction exactly as you suggested
And that happened multiple times this beta. Actually clutch
Sounds like they are doing there job of this is true, they should always watch the community class pros
Delete this video before they watch it again and nerf everything
Im positively sure warlock devs watch these videos
Good! Blizzard clearly needs help
One thing for Overfiend - since his damage is based on you Chaos Bolts damage, I would imagine that the coming buffs to Chaos Bolt will mitigate the nerfs to Ritual of Ruin
Voted for you! You're so nice and you always answer our questions!
Demonology needs METAMORPHOSIS again👌 Take away a few pets to unclog the screen, and just give us metamorphosis back.
TY our warlock overlords! The people are pleased :)
AFFLICTION ENJOYERS WE ARE SO BACK :D
What about destro pls?
we aren't. If this tuning doesn't change it's demo expac #3 :)
@@bongolostu :( My boy destro is lost.
@@bongolostuSims first, then we judge, i think aff will be a lock powerhouse this expansion 😊
Uh you have seen Sims right? Its down there with the last 5 specs of smth. Aff is dead even after buffs today.
I'd rather get 100% chance for 1 Demonic Core from dogs instead of 2 50% rolls. No RNG please.
thats a nice option dude
As a long-time Destruction fan there is only 1 thing that annoys me: That you can currently not spec into Dimensional Rift without taking Channel Demonfire. I used to never play Dimensional Rift until that one time when our tier set revolved around it, but I really like it now because it gives Destruction more things to cast while on the move. I never liked Channel Demonfire, though, but I guess now I get no choice if I want access to the Rift. Kinda blows (and yes, I know that neither is currently the BIS choice, but that could literally change tomorrow).
I've been saying it forever, CDF needs to be castable on the move. Zero reason we can't have SOMETHING that works while moving.
@@Flysh24 Dude, yeah, that would literally fix it !
Has anyone else noticed the problem with demonic healthstones?: That’s is that they disappear from your bag as soon as you enter a portal, instance or anything else related to that. Really annoying to resummon all the time.
Yes! This happened to me last night and I was very confused. Certainly a bug that needs to be fixed too.
This bug exists since pre patch came out . As soon as you get into an instance , they vanish . I'm pretty sure they will fix it but i guess its not top priority atm
Now that's how chaos bolts should have been.
The dog core changes means you will get, on average, 0 cores 25% of the time (down from 42% of the time), get 1 core 50% of the time (up from 44%), and get 2 cores 25% of the time (up from 12%). You will get at least 1 core 75% of the time, up from 56%.
I did truncate instead of round, but it's a substantial buff to core generation without being a guaranteed 2 cores every 20 seconds.
I'm glad I had hope that they would make a tuning pass, especially after yesterday's video
Excited to play affliction!
We are grateful to you and all other people who spend their time on finding bugs and have a voice into the warlock pve community . I really think you make a difference. Also, i am a big affliction enthusiast but i think many people are kinda sleeping on soul harvester demolock in m+ . These changes will shake things though
I just got to work and this is the first video that popped up. It says I've already watched it, guess i was craving that juicy lock content even in my sleep lol
Just switched to desto lock for raid for TWW and I’m really enjoying it. First time main DPS spec in raid since early BFA so I’ve been pouring through your videos and it’s really helped me out a lot
What is the ascension ability he hits at 10:38?
Let's all enjoy that moment before we get the 300% dmg nerf in one week dear demo locks !
lmao demo has been good for YEARS now
I'm ready to play something besides demo haha
Honestly, the only thing they need to do for Aff is remove the UA restriction and that talent with refreshing UA will likely be taken. Also, fix general tree
Yea make ua atkeast 3 targets
Yay, Destro Diabolist is here!
Finally some well deserved love from bliz to us locks, no complaints here :)
Good to see legit Destro buffs, and not just a 5% aura buff
Amazing to see all these buffs, much needed! Only disappointing thing for me with Demo now is playing 3 points in Doom/Doom Guard row for something that's a total < 3% contribution to damage. That does not feel good for the bottom choices in the tree, they should make Doomguard a 100% chance again to make it a really cool ST option.
lets gooo, was let down by state of affli but now I have hope, so far I love it
Hey Kala, been using your WA pack. I notice the aura for dreadstalkers doesn't track when the dogs are active. Is there a way to change this?
Ill fix it!
@@Kalamazii
Locks looking good af let's go!
Felguard its not prioritising Soul strike on pre-patch like it used to
Love the changes. Still think our glaring problem is lack of mobility, especially with destruction, and then our defensives really being lack luster now, especially compared to other classes going into TWW.
At last Soul Harvester buffs, cant wait to try it as Aff
can you maybe make a m+ guide for pre patch warlock? So many changes in specs and builds
FYI you get an average of 1.5 shards per dogs with an 87.5% chance of getting at least one shard.
I wish they fix the buggs in both the affy hero talents that have been there since alpha
Did you unintentionally uncover a bug doing the demonology combat? If you look, the second coven lady and pit lord attack the dummy behind you and not the target one
as a destro player, I cannot overstate how happy I am right now 🙂
Are all the talents still bugged for warlock on pre-patch? I haven't seen anything in the recent hotfixes referencing it
#BuffWarlock
whats ascension ?
AFFLICTION STONKS RISING
let's see after the patch hits, but I'm scared for affliction to be honest... another XPAC for demonology ???
Affliction shard starvation doesn't look fun to me, hope destro changes makes them want to use Chaos bolt again in ST instead of Fire rain
Any plans to work on drain life? It s not relevant at all and we have a 2 node buff in the class tree for it.
sigh I cannot keep up, ima wait till the dust settles.
Loving it Kala! Thanks for all your hard work man! What is the 2 min ascension CD you are pairing for with your main rotation is that a race ability?
Just a trinket, but it prob won’t be that good
this better not be a clickbait, sir!
No sir! lol
"Challenge to make Vile Taint a 15 Second Cd" Blizz Devs: Impossible
they should make caos lord tank with good agro again
It's been a long time since I played Affliction. It used to be so much fun. Dot, dot, fear, die.
It used to burn through enemies like butter.
I love demo but would be nice to go back to affliction.
I was waiting for this video😂 glad locks got some buff for once
I hope they plan to fix warlock spell "Healthstone" this sht.. is full bugged,that thing dont charge unless you logout or die
Is Ascension a trinket?
The issue is that they even buffed hunters which are already doing great and also arcane...
Just found your videos as a returning player, what are the WA's you are using (or can somepoint point me to a video that this is discussed). Thanks
All the WA's and such are in my discord and on twitch with the !wa command
@@Kalamazii perfect, thanks for the quick response !
Is it worth it to change from human to another race and if yes which 1 will be good for locks? Thank in advance
For me they are not buffs, they simply left simply ridiculous damage and only after a long time that we pointed it out did they rebalance the damage. The fact that some spells had increases over 800% gives an estimate of how they work on the blizzard. Luckily they have at least tried to remedy the horror of the 35% proc from dogs. I am very resentful of the fact that affliction "master of shadow over time and drains" is increasingly a spam of malefic rapture interspersed with shadow bolt (with terrible graphics that they insist on not wanting to change) and with the definitive loss of the most iconic of the warlock, the drain life, which can now be removed from the game bars in any content
will you do guides for all 3 specs for st/aoe with both hero talents, so 12 builds? :D
DUDE - I cannot keep up, I think ima walk away, the Olympics are on, Ima a Baseball fan... I cannot keep up with all this, Ill come back to the game when it settles down. keep doing you do, that will let me know when.
Is the pandemic glow on the nameplates a WA or Plater setting?
Cheers, thanks!
I think it's Plater.
So the soulreaper build is not viable?
Man, making me worried they will think too much and nerf. Makes me happy to get some of these though. :)
Does Soul Anathema stack like devouring plague?
It does!
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Happy to see Diabolist getting buffed :) . My favorite warlock hero spec flavor wise.
They basically doesn't listen to warlock dc at all. They just watch Kala vids 🤔
I was flerting with SP, blizz brought me back
Thank God they increased the proc rate of Demonic Core! It just feels so damn bland without more Demonbolts.
Hi Kalamazi
Let’s gooo
Yeeeeeeeeeee
While this all sounds cool, there’s no way this goes live. Ruination would be a literal one-shot. As long as you didn’t have it targeted onto a pally in bubble or a mage in block, you would literally 100 to zero someone every @ 45 seconds in PvP. The whole ladder would be demo locks from top to bottom. Maybe for 1 week that would be fun, just to see it, but it would be ridiculous.
LESGO AFF BROS
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Which spec do you think imba to play this patch? Or which spec do you commend to play?
Too early to tell still sadly.
@@Kalamazii make a video for this later please:)
All these changes, and Shadow is just getting pooped on lol
I hate how they semi-ignore Aff all the time, forcing us to play the other two specs. Blizz if I wanted to be a Destro lock, I would be already!!! Aff dammit, we want Aff love (at least equal please!!!).
How hard can it be to turn Vile Taint into a 15 secs cooldown? We have been asking for this quality of life change, FOR YEARS….. and still it won’t happen… I honestly can’t get it
There were 666 upvotes, I didn't want to ruin it 😆
Now we wait for the nerfs in 1-2 weeks lol
okay cool can they just not overnerf it to hell again and just keep all 3 specs being good lol I hate this ping-pong nonsense they're doing. it's not cool when people are trying to figure out wtf they wanna play
Demo lock all the way..always top dps chart
Warlocks get buffed while elemental shaman ( while a nerf was needed ) got murdered. They went a little to hsrd on ele. Locks looking like they are going to be super powerful now tbough.
its not buff, thats what it looks like when things are brought up to date. and still warlocks are lacking compared to others. nerfs come within first week after launch as usual.
Quick reminder, this is the "up-tune" warlocks will probably see quite a few percentage drops in the upcoming week or two. Blizz often goes down, then up really high, then tightens it in. Just look at DK. 🙂
These are pity buffs to coddle warlocks after they eviscerated their durability, again. The soul leech and fel armor nerf is disgusting. Why even play the class, they removed the class identity.
Can’t wait for these buffs to be reverted or nerfed back down lol
Tbh this is so wierd. Affli was already top 5 dps. Blizzard only loves mages and warlocks in this game 🤡
bottom 5 u mean right ? aff was literally last by a 15% margin lol
i really really dislike playing shadowburn . whana use my shards for cb. not shadowburn.. dno feels cluncky and annoying and also have a fast cd. so u have to use it on cd.and gets wierd when infernal is not out. and every soul shard u generate u use it on shadowburn and not save for CB
why is aff always the suck.
Uhm, aff is pretty much gonna be top performing spec bt the looks of it
@@martinjp6792 you have seen Sims right? Its down there in the bottom 5 last.
@@davidw.5984 that was before buffs and because of wither bugs, that have been fixed and overall big buffs
^this
@@martinjp6792 bugfix is 45% nerf u know that right ?
Can we go just one video without mentionning florida math
The Florida comments are a political statement? Good videos.
"wait, warlocks aren't top? BUFF EVERYTHING"
Warlock was bottom 5 lol wdym
As I recall affliction was pretty good in S1 SL, destro was really good for the start of S3 SL, and then pretty good for S4, and demo was good (but horribly boring) in S2 DF if and only if you got BiS gear and a ton of externals. Outside of those times it's been extremely average.
In other words if you are a warlock who is willing to switch to the best spec, you have a decent chance of being good in any given patch, just like every other class with three DPS specs. If you just like one spec then historically you're out of luck most of the time, just like everybody else who only plays one DPS spec.