Originally Posted by
Niberion
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Chaoswave was one of those abilities, but there are so many abilities where this is possible with; bladestorm for protection warriors for example;
I've said myself that chaoswave is very strong but it's not overpowered in arena, only baddies considered it as overpowered.
It would have been a lot better if they nerfed the aoe part of it instead of nerfing the spell soo badly that it's just plain useless now.
Also, I'm not saying that I like the way how demonology worked in PvP ( see my usage of past, demo is useless now), but it was the only thing that made warlocks viable in PvP. It's logical you are going to defend that last bit of viability.
I wouldn't have minded if they nerfed the damage and cost by say 20% and allowed us to cast it trice instead of twice. In the end it would still do the same amount of damage, but the chance of getting 3 crits in a low is pretty damn low so it would balance the damage out a bit.
Or instead of having x amount of targets being hit for 100% damage, have every target being hit for: dmg% = 100% / (1.25^x-1)
This way it's less punishing when you are stacked.
Instead they nerfed the whole ability by 33%, which is more like a 50% nerf due the way of how cooldownstacking works, rendering the whole spec useless.
EDIT: from what I've heard, it's not even nerfed because of arena but because of rbg teams stacking demonology warlocks and using dks and druids to stack people on 1 spot so the warlocks could finish them quickly.
So honestly, I still don't think a flat 33% nerf is justified. If they just nerfed the "aoe" of it, it would have been so much better, since really, some abilities should be allowed to hit that hard