Hey all,
My main is a Warlock and I've been reading a bit lately with regards to the implementation of resilence to DoTs, so naturally, this will have an effect (albeit how large we do not know) to my style of gameplay. Just wanted to read some reactions with regards to the fairness of such an idea. Now before I get flamed to death, this is not a qq thread - I am not complaining about it. I posted here in the hopes of finding a level of maturity that well, can be said to be lacking in the regular WoW forums. I just wonder how this would be done in such a way that would be considered as fair to the classes that rely on DoTs. My logic is simple; take it as you will - and yes, realize that like I said, my main is a Warlock, so of course I'm a bit biased.
Affliction warlocks, and to an extent some Soul Link warlocks, rely on DoTs as their primary source of damage in PVP combat. A resilience buff to fight mitigate DoT damage seems to be in line with direct nerf. I can see how running by a Warlock in a bg and getting tagged with 3 DoTs only to lose 50%+ health can be very frustrating, or having DoTs kill after the said Warlock has in fact been killed. With this I agree, something should be looked into. My problem is that when resilience was implemented, it was done to prevent the classic 2-3 shots that were notorious to many classes. By simple logic, DoTs do not kill within 5 seconds with a character at full or even half health. If DoTs were to be affected by resilience, how could Blizzard implement such a system as to balance out this problem (beyond making DoTs crit), and so it wasn't singled out as a nerf to Warlocks (and Shadow Priests)?
With this in mind, how would it be fair to Warlocks (and Shadow Priests) that their main source of damage is 'nerfed' while other classes that do not rely on DoTs primarily for damage walk away scotch free? I guess the only answer I see is that those classes saw their end of the nerf with the implementation of resilience on a whole, and now its time to share this with all specs.
Please keep comments informative, we'd all pull much more from it.
- Nuch