With The War Within expansion arriving soon, the devs are busy balancing all of the classes and in-game systems in preparation for Retail's next journey. World of Warcraft has seen a lot of expansions and it seems that it is not going away anytime soon.
Having that in mind, we will go over all of the Warlock class changes that were added to this week's development notes so we can get an idea of how the class will perform during WoW's newest expansion.
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WoW The War Within Beta Warlock Hero Talent Changes
Diabolist (Destruction/Demonology)
- Felseeker damage increased by 360%.
- Chaos Salvo damage increased by 420%.
- Wicked Cleave damage increased by 830%.
- Ruination damage increased by 70%.
- Infernal Bolt damage increased by 70%.
- The duration of Diabolic Ritual is now 14 seconds (was 20 seconds).
Hellcaller (Destruction/Affliction)
- Wither damage increased by 15%.
- Wither damage increased by 35%.
- Fixed an issue where Wither was benefitting from the Destruction effects of Socrethar’s Guile and Mark of Xavius.
- Blackened Soul damage increased by 45%.
Soul Harvester (Demonology/Affliction)
- Soul Anathema damage increased by 35%.
- Demonic Soul damage increased by 35%.
- Wicked Reaping damage increased by 50%.
- Fixed an issue where Succulent Soul would persist after changing specializations.
- Fixed an issue where Feast of Souls would not grant a Succulent Soul when granting a Soul Shard.
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WoW The War Within Beta Warlock Changes
- Fixed an issue where Lifeblood was giving Leech higher than the intended amount.
Affliction
- Unstable Affliction damage increased by 45%.
- Summon Darkglare damage increased by 55%.
- Fixed an issue where Phantom Singularity was not correctly applying Infirmity to secondary targets.
Demonology
- Wild Imp damage increased by 15%.
- Demonbolt damage increased by 55%.
- Demonic Core now has a 50% chance to grant a Demonic Core when your summoned Dreadstalkers fade away (was 35%).
- Fixed an issue where Shadowtouched did not benefit Felseeker, Implosion, Gloom Slash, or Guillotine.
- Fixed an issue where Demonic Brutality would not increase the critical strike damage of your demons.
Destruction
- Chaos Bolt damage increased by 20%.
- Shadowburn damage increased by 25%.
- Conflagrate damage increased by 25%.
- Incinerate damage increased by 15%.
- Ritual of Ruin now activates after spending 20 Soul Shards (was 15).
- Fixed an issue where Rain of Fire could damage enemies through walls.
And that covers all of the class changes for this round of development notes as The War Within is setting up to be quite the expansion in terms of balancing. Not only do most of the classes have some core adjustments to their specs but it seems that the new Hero Talents will also shake things up in terms of the identity of each separate class.
You can check out the full development notes, here.
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