Warlock Talent Tree Updates on Dragonflight Alpha - Blue Post and Datamined Changes

Dragonflight Posted 2022/08/17 at 3:34 PM by Squishei

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From today’s Alpha update notes:

Soul Conduit refund chance reduced to 10% at max rank (was 15%).
Destruction

Backdraft now affects Soul Fire.

Datamined Changes

Class Tools

Affliction

Talents

Demonology

Talents

Destruction

Talents

Corruption is now permanent and deals 15% increased damage.
Duration reduced to 24 sec against players.

Darkglare increases its damage by an additional 3% for each damage over time effect active. Darkglare lasts an additional 5 sec.
Rank 1: Darkglare increases its damage by an additional 3% for each damage over time effect active. Darkglare lasts an additional 5 sec.
Rank 2: Darkglare increases its damage by an additional 5% for each damage over time effect active. Darkglare lasts an additional 10 sec.
Effect #2 REMOVED Effect #3 Apply Aura: Overrides Actionbar Spell Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 387278
Affected Spells:

NEW Effect #3 Apply Aura: Effect aura # Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 387278

REMOVED Effect #1 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 0

Effect #2 Dummy
Value: 666333

REMOVED Effect #4 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - % (Label) Modifies Effect #1's Value (Label)
Value: 100%
Affected Spells:

NEW Effect #3 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - % (Label) Modifies Damage/Healing Done (Label)
Value: 0%
Affected Spells:

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 75

Tear open a portal to the nether above the target location, from which several Bilescourge will pour out of and crash into the ground over 6 sec, dealing (23% of Spell power) Shadow damage to all enemies within 8 yards.

While your Felguard is active, your Wild Imps and Dreadstalkers have 7% increased Haste and deal 5%deal 10% additional damage.
Rank 1: While your Felguard is active, your Wild Imps and Dreadstalkers have 7% increased Haste and deal 5%deal 7% additional damage.
Rank 2: While your Felguard is active, your Wild Imps and Dreadstalkers have 15% increased Haste and deal 10% additional damage.deal 15% additional damage.
Effect #2 Effect #1 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - Flat (Label) Modifies Effect #1's Value (Label)
Value: 710
Affected Spells:

REMOVED Effect #2 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - Flat (Label) Modifies Effect #2's Value (Label)
Value: 5
Affected Spells:

Havoc lasts 2 seconds longer.
Category changed from Specialization to Uncategorized

Rain of Fire deals 10% additional damage.
Category changed from Specialization to Uncategorized

Your Infernal Awakening deals 100% additional damage on impact.
Category changed from Specialization to Uncategorized

Conflagrate reduces the cast time of your next Incinerate, or Chaos BoltChaos Bolt, or Soul Fire by 30%. Maximum
Flashover
4
2 charges.

Increases your critical strike chance by 2%.3%.
Physical attacks against you have a 12%25% chance to make your next Incinerate instant cast. This effect can only occur once every 6 sec.
Rank 1: Increases your critical strike chance by 2%.
Physical attacks against you have a 12% chance to make your next Incinerate instant cast. This effect can only occur once every 6 sec.
Rank 2: Increases your critical strike chance by 4%.
Physical attacks against you have a 25% chance to make your next Incinerate instant cast. This effect can only occur once every 6 sec.
Effect #2 Effect #1 Apply Aura: Mod Crit Chance % - All Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 23

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Add Modifier - Flat (Label) Modifies Proc Chance (Label)
Value: 1225
Affected Spells:

Effect #1 Dummy
Value: 05

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Dummy Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 153

Commands your demon to perform its most powerful ability. This spell will transform based on your active pet.
Demonology
Felguard: Axe Toss
Felhunter: Spell LockDevour Magic
Voidwalker: Shadow Bulwark
Incubus/Succubus: Seduction
Imp: Singe Magic

Increases your movement speed by 50%, but also damages you for 4% of your maximum health every 1 sec. Movement impairing effects may not reduce you below 100% of normal movement speed. Lasts until canceled.

Sacrifices 20% of your current health to shield you for 250% of the sacrificed health plus an additional (Spell power * 5) for 20 sec. Usable while suffering from control impairing effects.

Reduces the cooldown of Shadowfury by 15 sec and increases its radius by 2 yards.

Your Soul Leech absorption now passively recharges at a rate of 0.2% of maximum health every 1 sec, and may now absorb up to 15% of maximum health.
Rank 1: Your Soul Leech absorption now passively recharges at a rate of 0.2% of maximum health every 1 sec, and may now absorb up to 200%12% of maximum health.
Rank 2: Your Soul Leech absorption now passively recharges at a rate of 0.5% of maximum health every 1 sec, and may now absorb up to 500%15% of maximum health.

When Soul Leech absorbs damage, 5% of damage taken is absorbed and spread out over until canceled.5 sec.
Reduces damage taken by 1.5%.
Rank 1: When Soul Leech absorbs damage, 5% of damage taken is absorbed and spread out over until canceled.5 sec.
Reduces damage taken by 1.5%.
Rank 2: When Soul Leech absorbs damage, 10% of damage taken is absorbed and spread out over until canceled.5 sec.
Reduces damage taken by 3.0%.

Let loose a terrifying howl, causing 5 enemies within 10 yds to flee in fear, disorienting them for 20 sec. Damage may cancel the effect.

Horrifies an enemy target into fleeing, incapacitating for 3 sec and healing you for 20% of maximum health.

Affliction, Destruction, Initial:
Your primary pets gain a bonus effect.
Imp: Successful Singe Magic casts grant the target 4% damage reduction for 5 sec.
Voidwalker: Reduces the cooldown of Shadow Bulwark by 30 sec.
Felhunter: Reduces the cooldown of Devour Magic by 5 sec.
Sayaad: Reduces the cooldown of Seduction by 10 sec and causes the target to walk faster towards the demon.
Felguard: Reduces the cooldown of Pursuit by 5 sec and increases its maximum range by 5 yards.
Demonology:
Your primary pets gain a bonus effect.
Imp: Successful Singe Magic casts grant the target 4% damage reduction for 5 sec.
Voidwalker: Reduces the cooldown of Shadow Bulwark by 30 sec.
Felhunter: Reduces the cooldown of Devour Magic by 5 sec.
Sayaad: Reduces the cooldown of Seduction by 10 sec and causes the target to walk faster towards the demon.
Felguard: Reduces the cooldown of Pursuit by 5 sec and increases its maximum range by 5 yards.

Dragonflight Alpha

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Blueposts

Comment by RuneRWI wonder if they'll finally make us want to pick Nether Portal. In its current iteration, it leads to degenerate gameplay with casting 1-shard Hands becoming the optimal (and very Feels-Bad-Man) play while it's up. Hope they change thatComment by izaulBig sadge.Comment by DrdotshehePretty poor tbh on the Demo side of things. Granted, it will be nice to have an increased passive damage on the felguard with Fel Sunder etc. and have dog build back with FTS and Grim Inquisitors, but man.... it's so boring! I can safely say that we were expecting AT LEAST Thal'Kiels Consumption in the mix right? Tyrant with DCon is good but again.... boring and so buggy? (From a PvP perspective). Just my opinion of course.Comment by ControladoHow hard is it to change how Nether Portal works?

It's been 4 years since they added this talent and they never listen to the players. It's so horrendously bad to use it, but surely they know better than thousands of Warlock players.Comment by Nerza87really? Dark Soul: Misery is removed so now they are removing our burst CD?Comment by DeezleI really wish they'd change Nether Portal to count the shards used as opposed to what it currently is, but I guess that would be too powerful considering you will be able to have both Portal and Tyrant in Dragonflight. Guess that's why they decided to increase the cooldown by 30 seconds. Maybe it's too hard to make Portal Demons not count towards a Tyrant?

I was really hoping to be able to make a build with Portal as my big cooldown, but I guess us Demonology Warlocks will still be stuck picking Tyrant...Comment by DreadspiteI'll be the happiest if they decide to give some form of Metamorphosis back too Demonology Warlocks. It don't have to be the same as the Metamorphosis that Demon hunters have, it could be the original one maybe with updated graphics and renamed as Demon form or something. or similar to what Gul'dan does in phase 2 and 3 of Nighthold raid. Considering you have classes that have similar animation style of cooldowns, but different names, like Pillar of Ice and Icy Veins. Since they are the "frost" spec of their classes, you could do similar to Demonology and Havoc. But overall I like a lot of the new things and some of the changes as well.Comment by PolishBunnyI cant belive they are nerfing immolation aura from infernal, when you are not going to play rain of chaos with wilfreds, you can only play 1 of them. So it's either 3 min Infernal for big aoe, or 2 min infernal, in any case, the immolation aura will do A LOT less than... on live(after nerfs ofc)

The conduit that is brought to the talent tree, that boosts immolation aura has been nerfed to 3% down from 15.
(in live game, the same conduit is basically 4.6%)

oh gee, I wonder what destro locks will do with their lives when an expansion releases and they dont have acces to 35%++ haste, but only 10.

Thats gonna be so nice to be on bottom on dps meters for 2/3 of the expansion againComment by RuneRWI'll be the happiest if they decide to give some form of Metamorphosis back too Demonology Warlocks. It don't have to be the same as the Metamorphosis that Demon hunters have, it could be the original one maybe with updated graphics and renamed as Demon form or something. or similar to what Gul'dan does in phase 2 and 3 of Nighthold raid. Considering you have classes that have similar animation style of cooldowns, but different names, like Pillar of Ice and Icy Veins. Since they are the "frost" spec of their classes, you could do similar to Demonology and Havoc. But overall I like a lot of the new things and some of the changes as well.