Legion - Warlock Tier 19, Flame Orb, Blue Posts, Tweets, Overwatch Returns February 9

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Legion - Warlock Tier 19
Today we are taking a look at the Warlock Tier 19 sets. They go nicely with the Warlock Artifact weapons!

Legion - Flame Orb
A recent build updated the model used for Flame Orb. This orb follows players at all times while they have Felo'melorn equipped unless they have spent all of the charges.

Blue Posts

Greater Blessing of Might
Maybe the developers themselves could chime in here, but it seems obvious to me that both Rets and Enhance shaman will have their own damage output reduced to account for the extra damage they are providing to other players. That just seems obvious to me, since if the specs do as much damage as other melee DPS while also providing 10% more damage to other players, people will stack only those melee classes to the exclusion of all else.
Stormlash and Greater Blessings are indeed intended to be numerically valuable contributions to group success from Enhancement and Retribution (part of their fantasy is in buffing their allies). Their damage or other effects should be attributed to the Enhancement/Retribution player, as far as contribution to the group's damage goes. We'll ensure that the combat logging events are there to allow this to be done.

EDIT: We still welcome feedback/discussion on these abilities, of course. Just wanted to clear up the question of how their effects should be attributed. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.

Curious: How many expansions in advance did you work on? Do you know what comes after Legion for example?
At the end of MoP, we had WoD mostly planned and Legion discussed. (I found out its name when you did though.) (OccupyGStreet)
I don't know what comes after Legion. (OccupyGStreet)

or continued to do, WoD was announced 11.8.13 you left in December, you saying you didn't work on WoD?
I did but very little. I playtested a few quests. We had some rough ideas for garrisons. (OccupyGStreet)

Sort of relevant, but why is bring back eyes of the beast so hard? Why can't they program it now when you...
It's not hard. It's just not free. A week of that engineer's time is a week she's not working on something else. (OccupyGStreet)

Overwatch Returns February 9
Overwatch is coming back next week, with progression, new maps, balance updates, and more!

[Nerraw]

Warlock stuff! Gotta love some warlock stuff.

[haticK]

Blizz making it very hard for me not to come back to WoW with this lock set.

[Ulgrim]

I'm really loving a lot of the mythic tier sets, but the normal/heroic sets are so underwhelming.

[Keile]

I assume the top two sets are the Mythic version and the rest are the non mythic.

If that is the case....the nonmythic set looks like crap this time around (imo: looks like LFR gear, not a tier), but the Mythic looks freaking amazing.

[dd614]

lol the Normal/Heroic set looks like hot garbage compared to the Mythic set. Blizzard knows how to stick it to the majority of their playerbase once again.

[EyelessCrow]

I disagree about the non mythic gear, I think it looks pretty neat. Mythic obviously looks better but since not everyone will get it everything else is "hot garbage" by default apparently. I'm really liking the tier sets this time around for just about every class so far.

[Tenjen]

the non mythic looks great. people are making false associations here. the mythic is supposed to be growth over the normal, a visual upgrade but the normal is great to start with. Otherwise mythic wouldn't be either

Its something for people who can get to that level to work towards and obtain. Looking unique for your place is something people have asked for ages, but people are too busy being venomous when they do get it.

[pixelated senpai]

I'm really loving a lot of the mythic tier sets, but the normal/heroic sets are so underwhelming.

Pretty much this, some of the mythic sets just completely out do the normal/heroics sets like priest or lock. Then other mythic sets look like a subtle upgrade from normal/heroic such as Shaman,rogue, or pally.

[Deleted]

ok, so the warlock set is the best thing like ever?!

[Jasper Kazai]

Looks like Warlock T5 but with bug eyes.

Disappointed that fire mages are going to have some orb following them around. I really dislike (combat) pets and was looking forward to being able to escape frost and the water elemental in Legion. Now I learn I'm going to be stuck with some other thing following me around...

[Sixnalia]

Those non-Mythic sets for Warlock look atrocious. They're like quest or LFR equivalent.
Some of the other sets have a decent "upgrade" like a promotion. Warlocks look like they're paupers that suddenly win the lottery.

I much prefer the subtle/slight upgrades.

[Fearsom1992]

the left side of the warlock tier sets look sickkkkkkk!, the right side shulders suck -.-

[Tezha]

That poll, where is the 'I want to hear about MMORPGS, and not only 99% WoW' option?

[Ausr]

I know some people are curious but man, it's been like a year or some shit since Greg has been gone. Get over the WoW stuff.

[IIamaKing]

Bit of the t5 look to that set, sans the bad ass wings.

[KrotosTheTank]

Love the mythic tier complainers. It should look better. Besides, it's not exactly a limited time item. What if you REALLY wanted the Heroic Tier colors from a previous exp and you weren't a heroic raider? You just go back and solo farm it now. It's no different now, just that there's an extra visual. There should be reasons to push harder...

This is of course hyperbole, but would you rather just have the best looking stuff handed to you day 1 when you log in?

[toxicrusader]

While both Mythic and Elite version are awesome, all the rest seems so... Incomplete!
Check out other classes for example, Death Knights got the whole armor even in normal, and not a shitty version of it. Sadly, the green one would look awesome with those big horns...

[Dashwood]

Soooo it still sounds like they are making Enhanc Shaman and Ret Paladin damage less then everyone else because they bring those buffs. The damage added by the buff to the group will be attributed to them, but if they are by themselves, their dps will be less. Please clarify.

[Tjur]

It's not hard. It's just not free. A week of that engineer's time is a week she's not working on something else.

You can tell Greg Street no longer works at Blizzard. Blizz has been running like hell away from the "You will lose a raid wing if we do X too" excuse for the past year. It really made them sound like a weak, behind the tech curve, inept company and horrible at their jobs.