Demonology Warlock Development Notes for War Within Alpha
Blizzard has posted a substantial breakdown of the Demonology Warlock changes in today's War Within Alpha build going over Demonic Cores, Resources, and Cooldowns!
- Reduce the amount of resources Demonology generates.
- Redesign Doom to be an attractive talent choice.
- Reduce the amount of major cooldowns Demonology has access to.
Over the course of Dragonflight, we’ve wanted to and tried to reduce the number of Demonic Cores available to Demonology warlocks to rein in their mobility, resource generation, and reduce the amount of rotational time spent going back and forth between Hand of Gul’dan and Demonbolt only.
In addition, we want Demonbolt to return to being a moment rather than be your primary rotational button.In lieu of these goals, we are removing Demonic Knowledge to reduce the frequency of Demonic Cores and will make further adjustments down the road if the rate of Demonic Cores remains too high. Over the course of alpha and beta we will be tuning Demonology to compensate for this change.Doom
This is our first iteration of Doom going into The War Within and will be iterating based off feedback we receive.
We wanted to try bringing back a castable version of Doom, rather than a proc, while avoiding making it required to cast Doom multiple times before being able to perform your rotation. At the same time though, we want you to think about how you use Doom and when it is cast rather than bring back an effect like Hand of Doom that makes it largely passive.Nether Portal
In this alpha build of The War Within,.
