From the affliction thread, appropriate here as well
So let me see if I understand this correctly...
Fel flame is now a 2-school scorch (double lockout on interrupt? another spell with cast time for destruction? How does this affect void ray?)
Fel flame has a cast time of 1.5 seconds and can be casted while moving (was instant with 1.5s gcd, now interruptable and has cast/flight time)
Fel flame DoT extension is removed. This means proc refreshes after a pandemic refresh will cost us 3 gcd's instead of 2 for affliction.
Fel flame damage will be buffed, but the amount of damage will not sway you away from your spec's filler.
DoT damage receiving a compensation increase. DoT damage was previously reduced to balance multi-target cleaving, so either the compensation isn't very much or it will eventually be reduced once the patch goes live.
Malefic grasp damage reduced and redistributed into Haunt/DoTs. Will Drain soul follow with the same redistribution and will GoSac be balanced to compensate for the damage loss to MG?
Haunt's damage compensation won't be enough to make up for the loss in Haunt+MG uptime.
Haunt not castable while moving just means you can't move for the next 9.5 seconds or your damage tanks.
The 10/60 change for KJC/MF is a change to balance cooldowns with raid mechanics. Its still terrible.
MF now affects fewer spells (doesnt include HoG, Chaos Wave, Carrion Swarm, Void Ray, FnB) and there is no way the 100% damage increase makes it to live (RoF and Hellfire/IAura DPET makes them part of the single target rotation).
Nothing yet on ember compensation for the RoF nerf.
Nothing yet on UVLS being inevitably nerfed.
Nothing yet on shifting soul shard use from soulburn soul swap to something else
Nothing yet on a fix for Agony soul swap snapshot.
Nothing on nerf to Soul Leech capping at 30% hp on the PTR (bug perhaps?)
I'm still not using Archimonde's Vengeance, which goes against blizzard philosophy of taking damage to do damage...
I personally have no confidence in my class at the moment. I've played my lock since vanilla, from the glory days of SL/SL to the dark days of "Global the warlock". KJC was one of the greatest quality of life changes blizzard made to this class since they removed soul shard farming (hopefully they don't read this and get an idea), and casted movement will be missed. Just a reminder though:
Greg Street @Ghostcrawler
#Xelnath2013!!!!!!!