Did they revert the "cast time but cast while moving" nature of ff?
They did. I try to keep the first post of this thread up to date with the latest changes, both datamined and official. Keep an eye on it if you've been out of the loop for a bit. http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...5-4-discussion
The whole point in changing our talents at all is based around making AV/MF/KjC closer together and actually have a choice for them. The change to Fel Flame helps this out by raising our movement DPS while not talented into KjC. This means it's less painful to not take KjC making it easier to get the 3 talents closer together, and thus accomplish their goal.
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The debuff from using a Demonic Gateway has been increased to 60 seconds (up from 15 seconds).
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If they tune the new AV where it should be, good use of FF should be a DPS increase on light-moderate movement encounters, whereas KJC will be more a QoL thing and heavy movement ability.
Further note, the nerfs to Gateway and Soul Leech are not unexpected when they're leaving KJC tuned higher than originally intended.
They had best keep threat off us for 60 sec then because soloing is ruined if not.
This. When I read about the voidwalker threat buff I was baffled since we never complained on this. And then portal nerf came :P So the reason is either to stop raids from avoiding some raid mechanics they are not supposed to avoid, or PvP. They tried to keep soloing as is...
Now we have to admit that an AV change like this (take damage to buff my output) is very warlock like. We are supposed to give life for a greater purpose (like killing mages etc).
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I doubt it, there was a huge outcry from pve'ers to get KJC remaining strong, you can't have that and not get any backlash when it causes pvp connotations, though frankly I don't think that's the case.
The new KJC in pvp is something I expect to be amazing, first time I've been looking forward to stepping into a BG / arena on my warlock this entire expansion. And soul leech is NOT a pvp concern, most warlocks take DR from what I'm aware, and even if they don't, it's not as overpowered as it is for pve since you're regularly taking damage, as opposed to in pve where you can just ignore horridons calls and absorb 100% of what should be a huge raid hit. That's 100% a pve concern.
Gateway is disputable, but seems stupid in both cases.
I really enjoyed casting soulstone and soulwell on the move (and summon pet, but that also has pvp consequences), so including those in KJC would be a great QoL change. I'd even pay a glyph slot for it.
I admit KJC on live is a bit OP, so I think the new KJC is a good deal. We can cast while moving, but we can't use all spells.
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