WotLK Warlock Changes - Major Talent Buffs
September 10, 2008 by Zuggy · 13 Comments
The following is a guest commentary submitted by Menagus of the Zug Gaming forums.
Now everyone and their dog knows that warlocks are already ridiculously OP in PvE, as well as PvP. So what does Blizzard decide to do for Wrath of the Lich King? ……buff them, apparently.
Corruption is now instant cast without talent.
We’re going to make Corruption base instant cast. The Improved Corruption talent will now increase Corruption’s damage by 4/8/12/16/20%.
In an upcoming build we are changing Ruin to a 5-point talent. However, it will swap places with Devastation. Devastation will become a 1-point talent (5% spell crit). This will be a minimal change to the Destruction Warlock, while opening up Ruin to other builds without having them sacrifice their 51-point talents.
We recently re-designed Metamorphosis for an upcoming build. Some changes:
- It will no longer remove your pet (your pet remains)
- It increases your armor by 600%, up from 360%
- It increases all your damage by 40%
- You can still cast your regular Warlock spells
- You gain access to a few new unique Demon Form abilities that can only be used in Demon Form
Among some other improvements. It will be changed back to a 5-minute cooldown, however (with a 45 second duration). With the changes to Ruin, you can also get Metamorphosis and Ruin in a build if you wish.
Going to be changing the visual and some other aspects of the talent soon, not going to have the Shadow Bolt graphic.
Seriously, I wish I had a lock about right now. Metamorphosis looks absolutely amazing. If I had to fathom a guess, this ability is going to have to be nerfed pretty hard in order to balance it accordingly. In fact, I have heard from a few sources that some of the warlocks in the beta think that this is even a bit too much of a buff (yeah, hard to believe, huh -.-). In any case, the change to improved corruption has been a long time crying – many warlocks have called for that for who knows how long.
Looks like everyone will be stacking warlocks in raids if these changes stay, their dps is going to be off the charts.
Warlock Macro Guide
If you play a warlock then you know how difficult it can be to manage all of the abilities required of the class. Between nuking spells, DoTs, curses, debuffs, and multiple pets…well, it’s enough to drive anyone keybinding crazy. However, a few well placed macros can dramatically ease your pain.
Also, if you’re looking for focus macros make sure you check out my warlock focus macros guide.
Trinket + Shadow Bolt
/use Hex Shrunken Head
/cast Shadowbolt
Make sure you change “Hex Shrunken Head” to your current +damage trinket
DoT Rotation Macro
/castsequence reset=10 Immolate, Corruption, Curse of Agony, Siphon Life
Warlock Buff Macros
/target <self>
/castsequence Fel Armor, Soul Link, Detect Invisibility, Unending Breath
/castsequence Detect Invisibility, Unending Breath
First macro is just for your self buffs, and the second is for buffing your party / raid members.
Amplified Curse + Curse Macro
/cast Amplify Curse
/stopcasting
/cast Curse of Agony
You could also create one for CoE, simply change the last cast line, or try this trinketed version below.
Trinket + Amplified Curse + Curse Macro
/use Hex Shrunken Head
/cast Amplify Curse
/stopcasting
/cast Curse of Agony
Devour Magic Macros
/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Devour Magic; Devour Magic
The above macro will devour magic on your mouse over target if you have one, otherwise it will devour magic on you. You might also choose to use this more specific macro.
/cast [modifier:shift, pet:Felhunter] Devour Magic; [pet:Felhunter, target=player] Devour Magic
This macro will devour magic on you when clicked or your target when shift clicked.
Spamable Drain Macros
/cast [nochanneling: Drain Life] Drain Life
/cast [nochanneling: Drain Mana] Drain Mana
Simple, yet effective macro. Allows you to spam your drain abilities without accidentally spamming them on and off.
Life / Mana Drain Macros
/cast [modifier:shift] Drain Mana; Drain Life
Pretty simple, casts drain mana with shift and drain life without shift. Nice way to consolidate action bar keys. Below I’ve listed several iterations you may find helpful.
/cast [modifier:shift] Drain Life(Rank 1); Drain Life
/cast [modifier:shift] Drain Mana(Rank 1); Drain Mana
This next one is a bit more complicated, but you may find it useful.
/cast [modifier:shift] Drain Mana; [mod:alt] Drain Soul; Drain Soul
Of course, as with any of these macros you can change the modifier key to what ever you prefer. You can choose between shift, alt, or control.
Instant Pet Summon
/cast Fel Domination
/stopcasting
/cast Summon [name of pet you want to summon](Summon)
An absolute must macro for all your PvP locks out there. Just insert your pet’s name in there and you’re good to go.
Totem Killing Macro
/petattack [target=Healing Stream Totem]
/petattack [target=Windfury Totem]
/petattack [target=Mana]
/petattack [target=Tremor Totem]
/petattack [target=Grounding Totem]
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