Friday, July 13, 2007

QQers 198987, Warlocks 0

Incoming nerfs! It's a mixed bag in the test patch notes, but it is a definitively net negative for 'locks in PVP.

Lock related highlights:
General
  • Resilience Rating: The reduction to the percent chance to get a critical strike now also reduces the damage dealt by damage over time effects by the same percentage.
Warlocks
  • Banish, Seduction, Enslave Demon and Fear duration against PvP targets has been reduced to 10 seconds.
  • Drain Life: The tooltip for this spell will now update correctly when a Warlock is affected by spell haste.
  • Inferno: This spell will now cause the Infernal's attacks to put the Warlock into combat with neutral town guards.
  • Intercept (Felguard) will now cause damage to targets that are immune to stun.
  • Nether Protection: This ability can now trigger while the Warlock is sitting.
  • Nightfall: This ability can now trigger while the Warlock is sitting.
  • Rain of Fire: This spell is now affected by area damage caps. Its bonus damage coefficients have also been increased.
  • Seed of Corruption: Dead targets will no longer be erroneously counted toward the damage cap on this spell.
  • Shadow Embrace: The effect from this talent will no longer last indefinitely if applied while charmed by an NPC.
Radikal Noise has thoughts on what the resilience change will mean for lock vs. mage matchups.

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