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    MoP Warlock talent calculator

    I was browsing some of the abilities and talents, and I noticed something interesting. First, Dark intent offers 6% spellpower to the recipient, but also Demonic Portal "Create a demonic gateway between two locations. Stepping into the gateway causes any party member to be transported to the other gateway." Does this seem more like mages teleport?

    Also, this sounds cool. "Metamorphasis-Carrion Swarm. While in metamorphasis, your shadowflame knocks any enemies away from you"

    And "Unending Resolve-The warlock hardens his skin reducing all damage taken by 50% and preventing his spells from being interrupted for 12 seconds." o.O

    And the Illidan talent has been replaced with "Mannaroth's Fury"

    http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/mis...t-calculator#V!




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    And a handy-dandy list of all the changes, because oh boy are there changes.
    Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
    • New - Curse of Enfeeblement - Level 17 "Combines and replaces Curse of Weakness and Curse of Tongues to cause the target to deal 30% less physical damage and cast 30% slower for 30 seconds. Less effective on dungeon and raid bosses. Instant. 4% of Base Mana."
    • New - Unending Resolve - Level 64 "Hardens the Warlocks skin causing them to take 50% reduced damage and prevent spells from being interrupted for 12seconds. 3 Minute Cooldown. 10% of Base Mana."
    • New - Demonic Portal - Level 88 "Creates a demonic gateway between two locations. Stepping into the gateway causes any party member to be instantly teleported to the other gateway. Limit 5 charges, grants 1 charge every 15 seconds. 5 Second Cast. 70 Yard Range. 10% of Base Mana."
    • Shadow Ward is being replaced with Twilight Ward. Twilight Ward is learned at Level 34 and absorbs 4026 Shadow or Holy damage, lasting 30seconds. Instant. 30 Second Cooldown. 4% of Base Mana.
    • Fel Flame has been changed and now no longer increases the duration of Unstable Affliction or Immolate. Fel Flame now deals 311 Shadow damage to an enemy. Instant Cast. 40 Yard Range. 2% of Base Mana.
    • Dark Intent has been changed and is now a raid wide 6% spell power buff lasting 1 hour. Instant. 30 yard range.
    • Drain Life is now under the effects of Empowered Channeling. Empowered Channeling increases the duration of a channeling effect if the effect is recast before the initial one expires. 40 Yard Range. 2% Base Mana.
    • Demon Armor has been removed.
    • Fel Armor has been changed and now partially includes the current Demon Armor. Increasing Armor by 2603, Stamina by 10% and health generated through spells and effects by 10%. Passive.
    • Health Funnel is now under the effects of Empowered Channeling. Empowered Channeling increases the duration of a channeling effect if the effect is recast before the initial one expires. 45 Yard Range.
    • Demonic Circle: Teleport now removes all snares as a baseline effect.

    Affliction
    • New - Soulburn: Health Funnel - Level 27 "Grants Soulburn empowerment to your Health Funnel causing it to instantly heal your pet for 36% and reduce all damage they take by 30% for 10 seconds. Passive."
    • New - Malefic Grasp - Level 42 "Deals 1052 Shadow Damage over 3 seconds, in addition all damage over time abilities tick 100% faster whilst the target is affected by Malefic Grasp. Recasting Malefic Grasp before it expires increases the duration of the channel by 3 seconds, stacking 5 times. Channeled - 40 Yard Range. 2% Base Mana"
    • New - Soulburn: Fear - Level 47 "Grants Soulburn empowerment to your Fear causing it to instantly horrify the target, making them run in horror for 4 seconds. Passive."
    • Nightfall has been changed slightly, it now causes Corruption and Drain Life ticks to have a 4% chance to make your next Malefic Grasp instantly deal damage and increase the tick rate of all damage over time abilities on the target by 100% for 9 seconds.
    • Soulburn: Demonic Circle: Teleport now removes all stuns and snares from the Warlock, increasing their movement speed by 50% for 8 seconds and making them immune to all snares and roots for the duration.
    • Soulburn is now exclusive to Affliction.
    • Drain Soul is now exclusive to Affliction.
    • Seed of Corruption is now exclusive to Affliction.
    • Bane of Agony is now exclusive to Affliction and lasts 1 minute, up from 24 seconds.
    • Haunt has been removed.

    Demonology
    • New Resource - Demonic Fury - Level 10 "Shadowbolt, Corruption, Soul Fire, Drain Life and demon attacks grant Demonic Fury. Demonic Fury increases the damage you deal by up to 10% (Affected by Mastery)"
    • New - Wild Imps - Level 32 "Summons one Wild Imp that casts five Firebolts at the target. The cost and number of imps increases as your Demonic Fury increases. Each Firebolt grants 10 Demonic Fury. Instant. 30 Second Cooldown. 40 Yard Range."
    • New - Metamorphosis: Carrion Swarm - Level 86 "Whilst under the effects of Metamorphosis your Shadowflame ability costs Demonic Fury and knocks back targets infront of you. Passive."
    • Metamorphosis: Immolation Aura has been slightly changed. "Whilst under the effects of Metamorphosis your Hellfire ability costs Demonic Fury however no longer requires channeling and no longer deals damage to the Warlock. Passive."
    • Hand of Gul'dan has been significantly changed. Hand of Gul'dan no longer refreshes the duration of Immolate, however Hand of Gul'dan is now an instant ability with a unique spell cost.
      Hand of Gul'dan now summons a meteor at the targets location dealing damage after 2.5 seconds within a 6 yard area. Anyone hit by the meteor is then affected by Curse of Gul'dan.
      Curse of Gul'dan decreases the movement speed of the target by 35% for 10 seconds, stacking 3 times.
      If the target isn't affected by Curse of Gul'dan already the Warlock will gain 25 Demonic Fury.
      Charges for Hand of Gul'dan are passively gained once every 15 seconds and cap at 3 charges. Instant. 40 Yard Range. 5% Base Mana.
    • Decimation has been changed. It now flat out reduces the cast time of Soul Fire by 2 seconds, however when dealing damage with Soul Fire to a target above 25% HP the cast time of Soul Fire is doubled for 30 seconds.
    • Demonic Freedom has replaced Demonic Empowerment and causes your pet to regain 25% of its HP, remove all snares, stuns, fears, banishes, horrors and movement impairing effects for 15seconds. Instant. 1.5 Minute Cooldown. 50,000 Yard Range.
    • Demonic Leap no longer requires Metamorphosis, however it will activate Metamorphosis. Instant. 10 Second Cooldown.
    • Hellfire is now exclusive to Demonology.
    • Shadowflame is now exclusive to Demonology.
    • Bane of Doom is now exclusive to Demonology.

    Destruction
    • New Resource - Infernal Embers - Level 42 "Infernal Embers is a hidden aura that gives you an alternative resource bar. Infernal Embers are obtained by casting Incinerate on targets affected by Immolate and consumed by Conflagrate and Soul Fire. Consuming Infernal Embers causes your Conflagrate or Soul Fire to deal more damage based on the amount of Infernal Embers obtained."
    • New - Fire and Brimstone - Level 62 "Fire and Brimstone empowers your next Immolate, Incinerate, Conflagrate or Soul Fire causing it to hit all enemies within 15 yards of the target. Instant. 10 Second Cooldown."
    • New - Destructive Influence - Level 86 "Your demons attacks reduce the cast time of your Soul Fire by .1 second, stacking 40 times. Passive."
    • Rain of Fire has been changed and now deals an additional 50% damage if the target is affected by Immolate.
    • Bane of Havoc has been changed and now banes the target for 15 seconds causing the next 4 single target spells cast on another target to affect the baned target also. Instant. 2 Minute Cooldown. 40 Yard Range. 4% Base Mana.
    • Shadowburn has been changed. Shadowburn is now only useable on a target below 20% health and if the target dies within 5 seconds of the cast and yields experience of honor the Warlock gains 5 Infernal Embers. Instant. 15 Second Cooldown. 40 Yard Range. 5% Base Mana.
    • Immolate is now exclusive to Destruction.
    • Rain of Fire is now exclusive to Destruction.
    • Incinerate is now exclusive to Destruction.
    • Chaos Bolt has been removed.

    Talents

    Level 15
    • Dark Regeneration now heals the Warlock for 50% of their HP over 20 seconds, down from 25 seconds. In addition, it now also increases healing received by 25% for the duration.
    • Soul Leech now heals the Warlock for 15% of the damage caused by Shadowbolt, Incinerate and Malefic Grasp, down from 25%.
    • Harvest Life is no longer affected by the Empowered Channeling effect.
    Level 30
    • Howl of Terror cooldown is now reduced by 1 second every time the Warlock is struck by a damaging ability.
    Level 45
    • Hour of Twilight has been removed and replaced with Spell Drain.
    • Spell Drain has been moved and is now a Level 45 talent.
    • Sacrificial Pact now deals 50% of your demons health in damage to your demon in exchange for 10 second damage immunity, down from 100% of demons health. Cooldown is now 3 minutes, down from 5minutes.
    Level 60
    • New - Blood Fear "Your Fear is now an instant cast however costs 10% of your maximum health to cast."
    • New - Burning Rush "Your Life Tap now increases your movement speed by 25% for 8 seconds."
    • New - Dark Bargain "Absorbs damage equal to 20% of the Warlocks maximum health, lasting 30 seconds. Any shield still remaining when the spell expires is dealt as damage to the Warlock. Instant Cast. 30 Second Cooldown."
    • Bloodstone has been removed.
    • Nether Ward has been removed.
    Level 90
    • New - Mannoroth's Fury
      "Passive: Your Shadowbolt, Incinerate and Malefic Grasp deal 10% splash damage to all enemies between the Warlock and their target.
      Active: Splash affect is increased to 100% splash damage for 20 seconds, however the passive is dropped after this until the cooldown is reset. Instant. 2 Minute Cooldown."
    Last edited by Penguin FTW; 2011-11-23 at 10:08 PM.

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    more fun stuff like BoA being affliction only, BoD demonology only. ( which makes me wonder what the destruction warlocks doomguard will be attacking, since that tooltip still says ' the target with BoD' )

    Still needs lots of work and will probably be hell to balance, but it sure got me all kinds of excited for MoP

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    ... I hate to cause issues, but does anyone else notice Metamorphosis does not have a duration in the spell description? >_>

    EDIT: Looking at the other Demonology skills like Demonic Leap SUGGESTS that Metamorphosis is going to be a permanent form.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Last Starfighter View Post
    And the Illidan talent has been replaced with "Mannaroth's Fury"
    It's nearly the same talent, except now has an activatable component (which is very cool I might add).

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    What worries me is I can't see Haunt. I'm fully willing to play affliction without any ''easy mode refreshes'', I thoroughly enjoyed it with immolation as part of the rotation, but I've grown to love haunt - timing lifetap around those self heals was a nice little "mini game".

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    Meta probably doesn't show a duration because the duration is based on the amount of demonic frenzy you had built up. But these are some wicked talents!

    ---------- Post added 2011-11-23 at 08:24 AM ----------

    Dark Intent is now a 6% sp raid buff, I guess the current incarnation is too hard to balance (not for locks, for the classes we use as targets)

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    This is THE most awesome thing happened to Warlock over all these 7 years. Why can't I hold all this new cool talents and spells?
    That's why you need me.... Need someone to punish you for your sins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Inshabel View Post
    Meta probably doesn't show a duration because the duration is based on the amount of demonic frenzy you had built up. But these are some wicked talents!

    ---------- Post added 2011-11-23 at 08:24 AM ----------

    Dark Intent is now a 6% sp raid buff, I guess the current incarnation is too hard to balance (not for locks, for the classes we use as targets)
    They stated Meta would work so that you could use it pretty much at any time, and that indeed the duration would be determined by the build up of your new resource.

    I'm sad DI will change, there was much bitching about it but I liked the way it worked. Bit weird though to only get a spellpower buff that late, at level 82. Wonder if other classes get it that late too, or if we are just late to that particular party, like mages are late in getting timewarp compared to Shamans

    Really, really nice that ANY lock can now bring the buff instead of just Demo, I was secretly hoping for this, I admit.

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    Okay, color me impressed. Just finished looking through all of the ability lists and they're doing some very cool stuff with Warlocks. I'm glad I picked mine up again...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neichus View Post
    Okay, color me impressed. Just finished looking through all of the ability lists and they're doing some very cool stuff with Warlocks. I'm glad I picked mine up again...
    I agree. I think we will have to pretty much relearn how to play our different specs, they'll be so different, in terms of what to use when, priorities and general feel of what you are doing. I also think it will be FUN, it looks like they brought lock specs back to certain essences of the spec.

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    This is gonna be a torment! I see no spec to hate on and avoid playing it and I only have 2 spec spots! D:<

    No, seriously, EPICSAUCE CANNOT WAIT GIMME NAO? > Even if PvP is unbalanced and they'll eat our faces, PvE should be really fun with these changes. The only thing I don't like is that if you want to stack embers you cannot cast conflagrate :< Unless there's a way to choose when to use them

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    Quote Originally Posted by Equilibrioception View Post
    This is gonna be a torment! I see no spec to hate on and avoid playing it and I only have 2 spec spots! D:<

    No, seriously, EPICSAUCE CANNOT WAIT GIMME NAO? > Even if PvP is unbalanced and they'll eat our faces, PvE should be really fun with these changes. The only thing I don't like is that if you want to stack embers you cannot cast conflagrate :< Unless there's a way to choose when to use them
    I've thought about it before and I think if Blizz does it right it will be balanced enough that there is a certain point where it's optimal to use it, but you CAN save it for some extra OOMPH if the situation calls for it. Either with conflag or Soul Fire. I can also very much imagine that while soloing it will be pretty much optimal to just spend it as you get it.

    Unless of course the visual of burning is especially cool, in which case you'll just never use conflag or soul fire EVER

    EDIT: Just had a vision of the burning effect for Destro being just as cool as Meta is for Demo. >.< First time I'd actually like to be a Destro lock

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    It definetly feels like Warlocks are getting lots of love for pandaland.

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    with all these selfhealing talents are we getting the tank roll as well?:P

    wish the beta started already

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    Also while Demonology gets some flashy stuff, I like the overhaul on some of the Destruction talents:

    Aftermath: Your Rain of Fire does not need to be channeled and will to stun all enemies within it for 2 sec. Your conflagrate will daze the target for 5 sec.

    Fire and Brimstone: Your next Immolate, Incinerate, Conflagrate or Soul Fire will hit all targets within 15 yards of the target (instant cast, 10 second cooldown).

    Emberstorm (Mastery): Increases benefit of Infernal Embers by 4%.

    Destructive Influence: Your demon's attacks reduce the casting time of your next Soul Fire by .1 sec. Stacks up to 40 times.

    Edit: give or take the new tier of talents (Life Tap minisprint is awesome).
    E2: Sacrificial Pact now only takes half your demon's life rather than killing it.
    E3: Howl of Terror now has its cooldown reduced every time you're hit by an attack.
    E4: Dark Regeneration (T1) now has a bonus to all healing received in addition to the self healing aspect (looks like they rolled Bloodstone into it).
    E5: Rain of Fire does 50% more damage to Immolated targets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neichus View Post
    Also while Demonology gets some flashy stuff, I like the overhaul on some of the Destruction talents:

    Aftermath: Your Rain of Fire does not need to be channeled and will to stun all enemies within it for 2 sec. Your conflagrate will daze the target for 5 sec.

    Fire and Brimstone: Your next Immolate, Incinerate, Conflagrate or Soul Fire will hit all targets within 15 yards of the target (instant cast, 10 second cooldown).

    Emberstorm (Mastery): Increases benefit of Infernal Embers by 4%.

    Destructive Influence: Your demon's attacks reduce the casting time of your next Soul Fire by .1 sec. Stacks up to 40 times.
    I actually said "Oh my" out loud when I read Fire and Brimstone, that has teh potential to be VERY over powered

    Compare that to the lame version Affli gets of Soul swap, and Affli seems to distinctly get the short end of the awesome stick. I was kinda hoping we would get old SS back.
    Last edited by xskarma; 2011-11-23 at 08:07 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xskarma View Post
    Compare that to the lame version Affli gets of Soul swap, and Affli seems to distinctly get the short end of the awesome stick. I was kinda hoping we would get old SS back.
    Is it any different to the current one? Blizzard haven't said they're removing glyphs, though they hinted that it was a possibility.

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    Yeah, they look like actual different specs

    Re: losing Haunt, we'll be able to pick up enough heals from other talents, such as Soul Leach on the first tier. And for the increase in damage, we'll have the new filler to help us out there.

    Have you guys seen the new rain of fire ability, given at level 54. Your ROF doesn't need to be channelled.... sounds jizzy

    But people are right, we're going to find it odd, when we really do have to relearn our class (i can't wait!!!1!)

    It's just a shame that we're likely to be raiding DS for a long time, indicated by the 1yr subscription i reckon. If DS was only set to be around for 7-9 months or so, they wouldn't need to "encourage" people to stay for that long, as by the time we'd have cleared DS, we'd be bombarded with MOP info, which will keep a lot of people in the game, and we'd know MOP was just around the corner. Instead, we have to get our tier gear from tokens, and there's a vast amount of gear we're going to need to get from vendors (for the hit rating sadly), making it all seem like we're going to be facing deathwing for some time to come. Unless i'm just being completely cynical maybe....

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    Quote Originally Posted by xskarma View Post
    I actually said "Oh my" out loud when I read Fire and Brimstone, that has teh potential to be VERY over powered

    Compare that to the lame version Affli gets of Soul swap, and Affli seems to distinctly get the short end of the awesome stick. I was kinda hoping we would get old SS back.
    I think it'll just retain the same glyph it has now. And I agree Affliction is the least flashy, but at the same time they commented they thought it was the closest to feeling right so I'm okay with that (I like Affliction as it stands, so I'm content to see it only modified a bit with Malefic Grasp and some nifty Soul Shard changes).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neichus View Post
    Also while Demonology gets some flashy stuff, I like the overhaul on some of the Destruction talents:

    Aftermath: Your Rain of Fire does not need to be channeled and will to stun all enemies within it for 2 sec. Your conflagrate will daze the target for 5 sec.

    Fire and Brimstone: Your next Immolate, Incinerate, Conflagrate or Soul Fire will hit all targets within 15 yards of the target (instant cast, 10 second cooldown).

    Emberstorm (Mastery): Increases benefit of Infernal Embers by 4%.

    Destructive Influence: Your demon's attacks reduce the casting time of your next Soul Fire by .1 sec. Stacks up to 40 times.

    Edit: give or take the new tier of talents (Life Tap minisprint is awesome).
    E2: Sacrificial Pact now only takes half your demon's life rather than killing it.
    E3: Howl of Terror now has its cooldown reduced every time you're hit by an attack.
    E4: Dark Regeneration (T1) now has a bonus to all healing received in addition to the self healing aspect (looks like they rolled Bloodstone into it).
    Holy shit @ Fire and Brimstone. AoE Immolate, plus the Aftermath talent PLUS RoF does 50% more damage if the target is Immolated. Destro just got some serious AoE capabilities.

    Also, Burning Rush: Your Life Tap causes you to move 25% faster for 8 seconds. That's like... amazing.

    I am so very glad I play a warlock, as we are FINALLY getting some much needed love.

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