Nerfs ftw!

[David Cavalheiro]

Shadow Bolt damage has been reduced by 29%.
Soul Harvest no longer regenerates soul shards.


Demonology

Hand of Gul'dan had damage reduced by 25%.
Mastery: Master Demonologist had damage increase by 50%.
Metamorphosis: Chaos Wave had damage reduced 23%.
Metamorphosis: Demonic Slash had damage reduced 17%.
Metamorphosis: Doom had damage reduced by 20%. Now has an additional effect: When Doom critically strikes, a Wild Imp will be summoned to attack the target.
Soul Fire had damage reduced by 38%.


It seems they will continue nerf Demonology into the ground, tbh I don't care if they do such thing... I only hope that they let us a strong spec to compete with the other classes on PVE. I played Demonology on Firelands and Dragon Soul almost all the time, would be nice if they make affliction the strongest spec, or Destruction even.

[Ziarre]

It's beta. Numbers are going to get tweaked both ways, and often.

[Jessicka]

Mastery: Master Demonologist had damage increase by 50%.

Big nerf. It's just a rebalancing of output between stances.

That said, I do wonder why they're putting so much effort into the numbers when the mechanics seem so bad.

[Fallensaint]

Soul Harvest no longer regenerates soul shards.

http://www.wowdb.com/spells/101976-s...st#15689-15699

Read the actual tooltip and not just the short summary next time. Soul Harvest is being changed to regenerate shards, which it doesn't on the current build.

[Deleted]

Forever nerfed!

[Pull My Finger]

Destroy Warlocks!

[Micke]

I don't see any nerfs.

I see balancing.

[Deleted]

I do wonder why they're putting so much effort into the numbers when the mechanics seem so bad.

You know why.

[Ikrekot]

They give back 13.8% passive damage taken reduction to DA. I have hope they repair mastery in DA and problem with freezes. I miss tanking warlock.

[woly]

They give back 13.8% passive damage taken reduction to DA. I have hope they repair mastery in DA and problem with freezes. I miss tanking warlock.

How can you miss something you never had?

[Count Zero]

How can you miss something you never had?

If by "never" you're not counting the very early portion of the beta .. then, yeah, "never".

[Deleted]

It's funny they give back the old DA reduction, even with no one being able to test the 3.8% version.
Looks like the previous nerf was a mistake, or they just have no idea what to do with that spell.

We could already tank the new MoP dungeons with the buggy DA at 0% reduction, so if that version is now working, we'll have around 17-20% passive reduction, they'll realize it's clearly too OP/not intended and nerf it again.

[woly]

If by "never" you're not counting the very early portion of the beta .. then, yeah, "never".

Hmm, yeah more like something you were never supposed to have.

But I guess you can miss that...

[Deleted]

My biggest concern is that we'll end up with a number of awkward gimmicks combined with a mediocre damage output compared to what other DPS classes are dishing out.

[Kivimetsan]

Betas is beta my friend.
They're just testing the differences.
They'll buff again, dw.

[psoodkel235]

awesome nerf !

thanks blizz

[Deleted]

What do you think?
How long will beta process last? (Now, they spent up to 2 months.)

[Laqweeta]

I really hope Warloks don't end up being a "Black Sheep" of the Clothie DPS. Warlocks are so much fun to play, and I absolutely LOVE Demonology. Here's hoping.. :/

[vecnuh]

I think this comes with beta process... but i cannot stop from noticing that they increased SB damage like couple weeks ago by 30% so that it can keep up with shadowcleave if we forced to range instead of staying close. And now they are nerfing back 28% does not make so much sense to me.

[chazus]

into the ground

to da ground