dem warlocks
the warlock level 50 pbaoe spell is now useless imho.
the other pbaoe casters received a new spell with 100 points extra delve. awesome. making pbaoe great again. 30 % increase in delve, nice.
warlocks received a snare and an uninterruptible component. different, but equally great. not sure what the point is in the snare though, but the uninterruptible component is cool. 30 % less damage when both cast normally, but almost equal damage to other pbaoe who use moc. good trade off imho after the last nerf to uninterruptible primer which made all the secondary spells worse in damage output and power consumption. so nerf secondaries and boost the pbaoe by making it uninterruptible instead of raising it's damage with 100 delve, yes, cool. i can live with that compromise.
but BS, in their infinite wisdom, took away the uninterruptible component, which leaves us with just a snare ... and to even get that we lose the level 22 uninterruptible primer and have to use the level 12 primer. so instead of doing 65 % of normal damage at a cost of 25 % powerpool for each cast, it's not 60 % of normal damage at a cost of 32 % of the powerpool... to get a snare effect.
Garbage. that's not even an improvement in my book, but making it a worse spell to do pbaoe. add the increase in outright resist rate by making the pbaoe a combo spell and ...
Garbage. this isn't pbaoe love, this is a middle finger to warlocks and a joke.
the other pbaoe casters received a new spell with 100 points extra delve. awesome. making pbaoe great again. 30 % increase in delve, nice.
warlocks received a snare and an uninterruptible component. different, but equally great. not sure what the point is in the snare though, but the uninterruptible component is cool. 30 % less damage when both cast normally, but almost equal damage to other pbaoe who use moc. good trade off imho after the last nerf to uninterruptible primer which made all the secondary spells worse in damage output and power consumption. so nerf secondaries and boost the pbaoe by making it uninterruptible instead of raising it's damage with 100 delve, yes, cool. i can live with that compromise.
but BS, in their infinite wisdom, took away the uninterruptible component, which leaves us with just a snare ... and to even get that we lose the level 22 uninterruptible primer and have to use the level 12 primer. so instead of doing 65 % of normal damage at a cost of 25 % powerpool for each cast, it's not 60 % of normal damage at a cost of 32 % of the powerpool... to get a snare effect.
Garbage. that's not even an improvement in my book, but making it a worse spell to do pbaoe. add the increase in outright resist rate by making the pbaoe a combo spell and ...
Garbage. this isn't pbaoe love, this is a middle finger to warlocks and a joke.
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When we do run into towers, all we see are warlocks. If they were that terrible I suppose you would only see SMs?
last weekend, it actually took herorius some time and tactics (sending tanks and sojo's through the lord room to the roof to clear that out and kill support, really smart of him) before he could tackle the lord room and win (but even last weekend, with the uninterruptible warlocks, he won all keep fights and took relics), now with anna bg and even more mids online, he just waltzed in and wiped us. only when the irc showed up last night at glenlock did he say '**** this', i'm out. and unfortunately the irc crew is a game changer for whatever realm they decide to defend a keep on.
i predict very few people playing curse warlocks in the future. atm, it's not worth playing a curse lock.
last weekend, we were able to hold keeps and get some rp for some time before hero took the keeps (and relics), now, we just get overrun while we have our own BG defending and communicating. it's hopeless from our perspective now. and the 2.0 speed was imho a bug that needed fixing, yeah. no reason for an extra 20 % cast speed and hence 20 % extra damage on top of the uninterruptible pbaoe, after that was fixed, it was 'reasonably' balanced imho.
for all i care, get rid of the snare and if needed make the level 50 pbaoe a non secondary spell (so no more range/radius bonus + no more powerless pbaoe spam at a 20 % cast speed penalty) and bring back the uninterruptible component.
OP said nothing about hero.
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this actually makes no sense, if they make it a non-secondary spell then you can't use the UI primer for it either.
why not just get moc5 like every other caster?
Getting to fiddle again with my warlock over the weekend, it just reaffirmed how crap the UI primer is. It could use a second look given all the changes the class has suffered.
I think this is a fair criticism. We could all do better, and we ourselves are probably capable of more than we realize.
But, at the same time, it does sound a bit like your solution to everything is "just get good" or "get good like me". I hope you could appreciate how vacant such reasoning is.
The particular issue I see with EUTZ and Midgard is too many from Mid and Alb both just have given in and play Hib during that 3-4 hour timeframe. It's just simpler. Even the allegedly elite players do the same thing, because their egos can't take the bruising of dieing to inferior players in greater numbers.
After Hero logs, 10-2- Mid magically appear and I've observed a similar number on Alb - although the two hours between Hero sunset and Rescu sunrise does tend to be Mid dominant.
For the long term sustainability of the game, you can't just have black holes like this where it's only feasible to successfully play one realm (or two at most of the three). This doesn't mean anyone needs overpowered classes. But perhaps some objectives could be introduced which favour smaller realms defending against larger numbers. Or further restrictions on freedom of movement may be needed.
@Mctana I think you're aware that Hib NA prime was a deserted wasteland a bit over a year ago apart from defending relics that Hero captured. It became the most populated realm over time because of consistent leadership. The best part is, we have 3 BGs (one in each Realm) during NA prime for most of the week and I'm not involved. This means other people have stepped up and filled in the voids when needed. It can be done during EU prime, it just takes consistency and patience. I've done my part and shown it pays off if you care for RvRvR.
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Witchcraft warlocks still very nice, for cursed a little better spec-dd would be more then enough compensation for the lower PB, uninterruptable primer well.. thats a different spec-offspec tbh, there was a reason it was separated (same reason as taking away UI PB now).
Edit: or build in like 10-15% resist debuff in lower value PBs instead of snare, that would be similar.
Im not gimp with that sep as i can rupt a ton nonstop wile being hit do i need to pb in a defense no i just aoe everything that inters sight and wile doing that most bgs cant do a thing with casters even if they moc the cant stop me.
Warlocks are not the poor class that got the nerf just look at hib 3 out of the 4 casters can stun. You just need to know how to play them right its not all about dps leave that to the others
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You only see locks because it was the lone pbaoe class on Mid for 10 years. (SM was never viable) That's all there was and nobody has an SM for rvr (except the one guy who doesn't play anymore and several 8maners). At least the SM spec now gets a DD, so someone might roll one, but it's still much more fun to play wiz/cab/eld/chant pbaoe specs.
I won't rehash the OP concern because I raised it several times prior to the patch.
like i said before, give back the uninterruptible component, make it a non secondary spell and lose the snare. no reason for the hidden bonus of being able to ignore powerleak with the powerless primer on it or to have increased radius on it with the range primer.
failing that, just get rid of the snare and make it the same delve as the other pbaoes.
do you play one ?