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I honestly am quite shocked to see people surprised they are getting a nerf. Fear it, coming 5.2 locks will be nerf, and not lightly. The afflict spec is OP, there is such a huge gap between this spec and any other in the game I am actually very shocked it wasn't nerfed in 5.1. Currently I have a lock with 488(tsulong sword in nm and still some crappy blue gear) and a 501 SP(bis weap elegon trinket hm 4p etc). And I am doing more damage on the lock. Not by much, and on a couple of fight I did better as a SP but not so much. It is a complete joke that a a class with 13ilvl difference can outperform the better geared(and no I am a way better SP than lock, good deal of good ranking).
Locks damage will be nerf on a great deal of areas, if not its gona be my main in 5.2. The class is absurdly strong in every aspect of the game(single target/ aoe/ heavy mouvement etc). I honestly would not have minded if we were in a t11 situation were skill was the factor between the 3 best specs at the time(locks/sp/boomkin), but it is no longer the case, affliction had a massive revamp and are the number one dps on single target(and by far when movement is included) where the other 2 "multi doting" specs were still pretty weak(moonkin not so much, but sp is really crappy on single target fights). I say locks will be nerfed, not by rage, but because it will be so. In t11, they were nerfed(with the other 2 dotters) for a weaker gap.
Honestly a 5% nerf on something that represents less then 20% of your dps is a joke(haunt/mg/drain soul) and should be much more. Currently locks in full bis is the only caster to have INTEL rated so high. Siming intel with a full bis list will rate intel at nearly 5. The best second caster would barely go past 4. This is a huge scaling problem, meaning intel scales better on a locks than any other caster:S
Anyway whats to be understood is that you should expect nerfs, and not get your heads up for 5.2(apart from green fire). If you do not believe me, go to raidbots.com and see the current spec score(best indicator of the effectivness of a spec) and see for yourselves how much of a gap there is.