The Warlocks Den - WoW Warlock DiscussionsThe Warlocks Den - WoW Warlock Discussions



Please Register to Remove these Ads

The Warlocks Den - WoW Warlock Discussions » News » Latest Warlock News, Blue posts and more! » Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

Latest Warlock News, Blue posts and more! News posts highlighted for the front page and moved here for discussion. These are usually 'hot topics' or site updates.

Reply
Old August 21, 2009, 09:26 PM   #1 (permalink)

Character Info
Fizzik
80 Blood Elf Warlock
Dunemaul US PvP
Guild: Ghosts of Damnation
Profile: Blizzard Armory
Talent Spec: 0/13/58
Blizzcon Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

Latest news on the changes for Warlocks in the expansion from the class panel:

Warlock Changes
  • Soul Shards are no longer in your bags. The goal is to make them fun, not a hassle.
  • Soul Shards will be integrated to the user interface. (Just like Death Knight runes)
  • You get three shards per fight, they will regen very quickly out of combat.
  • It will be possible to get more for long fights or mistakes through Drain Soul.
  • Soul Burn (New Spell) : Cost 1 Shard, 30 sec cooldown, off the GCD. Empowers your next spell, many (not all spells) behave differently when empowered.
  • Empowered Searing Pain : Next 3 Searing Pains crit
  • Empowered Summon Demon : Instant Cast
  • Empowered Soulfire : Instant Cast
  • Empowered Fear : Instant Cast
  • Empowered Death Coil : Longer Horror, more healing received.
  • They are only used in combat, summons or demons won't use your shards.
Itemization / Stat Changes
  • Mages and Warlocks won't have to deal with Spirit on their gear anymore.
  • Spell Power is also gone. Intellect now provides mana AND Spell Power
  • Casters will finally get a Legendary item in one of the first raids of the expansion.
General Talent Changes
  • Cataclysm will change the ways abilities are learned. Abilities ranks are gone and ability will just scale progressively with levels instead.
  • Most of the Talent Trees will be changed dramatically, a lot of the passive bonuses will be removed and talent trees should be more fun. (No more "Hurray! Level up! I just got 1% more hit!)
Official post here and here

Last edited by fizboz; August 21, 2009 at 10:54 PM..
fizboz is offline   Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links

Old August 21, 2009, 09:41 PM   #2 (permalink)

Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

Screen shots of Goblin Warlocks.....
TPMdm is offline   Reply With Quote
Old August 21, 2009, 10:00 PM   #3 (permalink)

Character Info
Beowolf
80 Gnome Warlock
Laughing Skull Euro PvP
Guild: Ming
Talent Spec: 0/13/58
Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

wtf am i suppused to do with int i got LT and a healer:P
Beowolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old August 21, 2009, 10:01 PM   #4 (permalink)

Character Info
Hike
80 Undead Warlock
Blackwing Lair US PvP
Guild: Occam's Raiders
Talent Spec: 54/0/17
Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

they forgot this one:

"We have deleted every talent & stat. Everyone will now be able to do 18k dps simply by typing /dps"

..anyway.. i think the changes as a whole are too drastic and take a way from the "expertise" of the game. i'm not a fan of making it simpler. regarding the warlock in specific - i'm not necessarily opposed to the changes their making to the soul shard, but i would also prefer the name to change. "soul shard" lines up very nicely with what the "drain soul" spell does & produces. i don't understand how a warlock could just randomly generate pieces of someone'e soul out of thin air..... simply doesn't line up with logic.
RelaxMan is offline   Reply With Quote
Old August 21, 2009, 10:07 PM   #5 (permalink)

Character Info
Dunwich
80 Undead Warlock
Drenden US PvE
Guild: Kitten Soup

Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

MMO-Champion BlueTracker - [BlizzCon 09] Classes, Items, and Professions

MP5 is going away, but this indicates spirit is still going to be around at least for healers. Maybe a little less homogenization?
Dunwich is offline   Reply With Quote
Old August 21, 2009, 10:49 PM   #6 (permalink)

Character Info
Serbeus
80 Human Warlock
Sargeras US PvP
Guild: Avenged
Profile: Blizzard Armory
Talent Spec: destro
Blizzcon Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

i'm speechless to all the new stuff. I can't wait for everything. Only wish i could change my warlock's race to Worgen, who knows i might even be able to. They are making drastic changes to everything, hope they don't screw it up.
__________________
Serbeus
Serbeus is offline   Reply With Quote
Old August 21, 2009, 11:02 PM   #7 (permalink)

Character Info
Mortium
80 Human Warlock
Lothar US PvE
Guild: Dread Army

Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

not liking this at all...
Mortium is offline   Reply With Quote
Old August 21, 2009, 11:35 PM   #8 (permalink)

Character Info
Hexy
80 Blood Elf Warlock
Dalvengyr US PvP
Guild: Weapons of Fate
Talent Spec: 53/0/18
Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

I'll be as completely honest with my opinion as I can:

This is terrible.
Dignam is offline   Reply With Quote
Old August 22, 2009, 12:31 AM   #9 (permalink)

Character Info
DeathofShade
80 Undead Warlock
Vashj US PvP
Guild: killjoy
Talent Spec: 54/0/17
Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

Well! This should make everything so much easier. It was so hard to understand things like "spell power" and mp5. I won't have to worry so much about what talents to add, as it will be SO obvious (and fun!). It'll so nice to not even have to buy spell upgrades anymore! I had such a hard time remembering!


/irony
Flippy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old August 22, 2009, 12:41 AM   #10 (permalink)

Character Info
Sasztam
80 Human Warlock
Dentarg US PvP
Guild: Pure Energy
Talent Spec: 3/13/55
Re: Preliminary Warlock Class Changes in Cataclysm

removing spell power? er...

perhaps change the name from soul shards to void shards?
__________________
You don't need defenses, you're ranged!
Sasztam is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Tags
Cataclysm, class, preliminary, warlock

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:49 AM.
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
SEO by vBSEO 3.3.0