buff the shadow!

[Keosen]

Our dots are fine. Shadow has the weakest dots in game because long duration dots, especially Vamp. Touch, are not intended to be our main dmg source anyways. They play more of a support role. We're (sadly) not affliction warlocks.

Would you think giving us one more dot would solve any issues or not?

[Urmac]

Would you think giving us one more dot would solve any issues or not?

Technically we have a fourth dot, its called Shadowfiend/Mindbender. Even if you don't consider this a real dot, if they were to give us a fourth dot, they would just nerf our other 3 to compensate.

What Shadow lacks right now is high sustained damage during heavy movement encounters. If Lei Shen did not have ball lightnings for us to halo/mind sear, we would be absolute garbage.

A buff to MB or MS would be the only real solution for increasing damage during heavy movement fights, Shadow has always been competitive on multi-target fights (Not including lolchainlightning) but this leaves us to be average for single target, and below average with heavy movement. That 4pc tier for next patch looks alright, but I find it lackluster.

[veiledy0]

Would you think giving us one more dot would solve any issues or not?

We already received a new dot in 5.2, Insanity, and it fixed our single target issues, but it also created a new one. If you've, for example, done any Challenge modes, where you can hardly get over 10k haste, you'd realize how it made us even more haste dependent, and just how Insanity is a useless spell at low haste. Adding even another dot would just do the same.
What we need is an increase in value of other stats, namely crit and mastery, in some way. Either making VT Apparitions baseline, and make it spawn them on crits, same way SW: P does, or adding some other mechanic that makes those stats worth more than nothing. I think that's what they're trying to do with our new set bonuses, but once we get rid of that set the issues will be back again. Hopefully we get an overhaul by then tho.

[Deleted]

Priests with Dragonwrath always did good numbers.
The time of priests have ended... Time for the Warlocks has come!

[Drye]

Priests with Dragonwrath always did good numbers.
The time of priests have ended... Time for the Warlocks has come!

I don't recall a time where warlocks were not top 3. And the only time mages were not top was start of cata, when you had to scorch weave for mana.

[Cerbz]

When did the tier 2 piece bonus get changed to 40% instead of 100% bonus damage on critical?

http://ptr.wowdb.com/item-sets

Over a month ago.