Soul swap delicious nerf

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Well that's it guys,the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for me.Nerfing lock selfhealing so much that rogues and warriors selfheal for more,nerfing almost every good ability we got in Cata,and now,glyphed soul swap giving it a 10 sec cooldown(NO MORE PESTILENCE EFFECTS DURR).Brb rerollan mage.

[Simca]

Well that's it guys,the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for me.Nerfing lock selfhealing so much that rogues and warriors selfheal for more,nerfing almost every good ability we got in Cata,and now,glyphed soul swap giving it a 10 sec cooldown(NO MORE PESTILENCE EFFECTS DURR).Brb rerollan mage.

Because a major glyph that gives a huge boost to a class and has no downsides is a good major, right?

No, they had to make it a double-edged sword or make it a prime (and nobody would have been happy with it as a Prime).

Were you really going to Soul Swap more often than 10 seconds in PvE? Can you not see how OP it would have been to DoT up one target and then Soul Swap all over their entire team for extreme damage and debuffing in PvP? The class would have to have its damage balanced around DoTs being on the ENTIRE enemy team at the same time.

I can tell you from the PTR that it was -stupidly- OP, and now it's fine.

[Deleted]

I'm going with my DK.

Warlocks just aren't the same without a thought-out Affliction. Honestly the only way I'd consider staying with my lock was if Affliction completely blew me away.

Atleast I can pretend Frost fever is corruption now and then. Parting from my 200 days played lock will be hard, but I think it's time. /wrist.

Edit: This nerf was completely justified though. Anything else would've been extremely unbalanced. Everything about Warlocks would've been completely gimp if the game were to keep any sense of balance simply because we would destroy everything in major scales battle.

[Simca]

Good luck.

Ironically, the DK camp is complaining way harder than the warlock camp atm, so that's an interesting pick.

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Edit: This nerf was completely justified though. Anything else would've been extremely unbalanced. Everything about Warlocks would've been completely gimp if the game were to keep any sense of balance simply because we would destroy everything in major scales battle.

Exactly. This was like Pestilence on crack, and they nerfed the hell out of Pestilence.

[Inshabel]

Warlocks do not need Pestilence (hurdur) we have enough AoE.

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Ironically, the DK camp is complaining way harder than the warlock camp atm, so that's an interesting pick.

The DK camp has stopped complaining now that the stupid nerfs they got were reverted(unholy presence not reducing GCD's).

And with pretty much everything about the warlock class nerfed(selfhealing,soul swap,felhunter losing defensive dispel)give me ONE reason as beta stands right now(and before BETA IS BETA qq it's pretty clear that locks are pretty much finalized)to roll a warlock for competitive pvp anymore.

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No, they had to make it a double-edged sword or make it a prime (and nobody would have been happy with it as a Prime).

It was a Prime before and it is now.

[Simca]

It was a Prime before and it is now.

http://db.mmo-champion.com/i/42466/glyph-of-soul-swap/

I don't recall a time at which it was a Prime. It's definitely a Major now, though.

[Shampayne1985]

I'm going with my DK.

Warlocks just aren't the same without a thought-out Affliction. Honestly the only way I'd consider staying with my lock was if Affliction completely blew me away.

Atleast I can pretend Frost fever is corruption now and then. Parting from my 200 days played lock will be hard, but I think it's time. /wrist.

Edit: This nerf was completely justified though. Anything else would've been extremely unbalanced. Everything about Warlocks would've been completely gimp if the game were to keep any sense of balance simply because we would destroy everything in major scales battle.

You mean like in season 8 right now...how Affliction locks are one of the most faceroll specs to play other then Elemental Shamans?

[adynn]

Considering Soul Swap originally had a 45 second cooldown without the glyph, I assumed the lack of cd in the recent builds was just an oversight by blizzard. As 10 is much better than 45 seconds, I'm really not complaining, in fact I'd say it needs to be pushed again. If our dots are easy to put on the target (especially while moving), I imagine blizzard won't want them to have as high a dpct as they do today. Having a 10 sec cooldown on such a powerful ability really lowers the skill cap of affliction imo.

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i just assumed it already had a cooldown, so effectively no change from my frame of reference ^ ^ no cooldown would be insane in pvp so its reasonable, or we'd be in bg's chain casting soulswap constantly. you can still get a some nice corruption spread with talented seed if you time it right with enemy positioning.

[Bakis]

You mean like in season 8 right now...how Affliction locks are one of the most faceroll specs to play other then Elemental Shamans?

Cos now the gear give warlocks enough resilliance to live more than 2 seconds which wasnt the case pre-Wrathfull, go troll someplace else.

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Locked for pointlessness.