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[nysalor]

**Affliction**

Skills

• Curse of Weakness (rank 9) now increases time between melee and ranged attacks by 20%.
• Curse of Recklessness armor reduction lowered for all ranks.

Talents

• Shadow Embrace (Tier 5) changed to: Your Corruption, Curse of Agony, Siphon Life and Seed of Corruption spells also cause you to gain the Shadow Embrace effect for 12 sec, increasing Shadow damage dealt by 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Frailty (Tier 2) changed to: Increases the amount of attack power reduced by your Curse of Weakness by 10/20%, and reduces the amount of attack power granted by your Curse of Recklessness by 50/100%.

***Demonology***

Talents

• Demonic Pact (Tier 10) changed to: Your pet's criticals apply the Demonic Pact effect to your party or raid members. Demonic Pact increases spell power by 2/4/6/8/10% of your Spell Damage for 12 sec.

[Ryltar]

There will be a new talent in Affliction in an upcoming build.

Keywords: "DoT" and "Crit" (Well, sorta)

WoW Forums - The Devs are listening (maybe)

Fel Fire at the end of the tunnel?

[Muberikntyl]

Originally Posted by Ryltar

WoW Forums - The Devs are listening (maybe)

Fel Fire at the end of the tunnel?

woah. hell yes

[Absalom]

Yeah. there was mention of this when they were addressing how Mind flay for priests was going to be able to crit.

[Ryltar]

I just brought it over since it was a post in the Warlock's forums. I'll be interested to see how this will work...

[Morganfaey]

Good bye Dr. Boom.

The beta currently has target dummies implemented in certain cities. I believe thjey have always been there in some form but now you can attack them.

The cool thing comes from a post from Kalgan today: (He has to be good for something!)
"In an upcoming update one of the dummies will be level 80 with normal level 80 mob stats, the other will be a "boss" dummy with normal level 80 boss mob stats.

Enjoy! "

WoW Forums -> Thanks for the training dummies!

Should be a handy way to try out different spec/gear/rotation combinations.

[Valimir]

Finally an acknowledgement that Metamorphosis needs a hell of a lot of work:

WoW Forums -> Metamorphosis Feedback

Pity I can't post on US forums.

[CKaz]

For the first time I have a glimmer of hope Meta might not be an Epic fail

WoW Forums -> Metamorphosis Feedback from Ghostcrawler
[blue near the bottom]

Thanks for all the ideas and feedback.

While this is not final and could absolutely change, here is what we're thinking about for the new design:

You keep your pet.
You keep your spells.
It buffs spell damage (for that "blow your cooldowns" feel).
It buffs mitigation (you could even tank for a bit).
It provides the current snare reduction for PvP.
You'll still get a few fun demon abilities, but you can just use your normal spells if you'd rather.

Not my ideal, frankly I've never been a fan of Meta... but some hope there

[Tragik]

WTB Summon Pitlord instead of Metamorphasis.

[Khaf]

That's... the idea I posted on the official forums.

Originally Posted by Khaf

How about instead of turning us into this other demon, it slightly changes our base character model's appearance to look more demonic, and buffs our pet, making it look bigger and meaner. For whatever the duration of it, we get damage buffs, maybe haste or stun removing effects or higher resilience.

We keep our pet, we use all our talents, we look uber cool for a few seconds and we get a lot of pve, raid and pvp utility out of it.

If only this meant Blizzard owes me money.