(WoW) Patch Day! 4/19/05

[Duppin]

Originally posted by Cybsled
Curse of Tongues was never supposed to alter instant-cast spells. IMO they fixed a bug. It wasnt really a nerf.

Regardless of whether it was a "bug" or not (there's some debate about whether arcane explosion is really an 'instant' spell or not since it's only made that way with talent points, similar to Corruption), it's still a substantial reduction in a warlock's ability to counter the #1 most spammed spell in PvP.

So it's a nerf.

[Tuco]

Bleh.

Of all the spells I cast in PVP, I think one or two of them have timers: Flash Heal and Mind Blast.

The rest: Dispel, shield, renew, fear, Pain etc, are instant.

Curse of Tongues gave Warlocks a very viable role in large scale PVP, because they could ruin a mage's fun.

They need to nerf AE's in large crowds. Give it a limit to how many players can be hit by AE.

[Cybsled]

Limiting AE targets just makes it a waste of mana though. I dunno about mage AE costs, but warlock AEs take quite a bit of mana. I only cast it if there are alot of people clustered...it's not something I spam.

[Tuco]

I could be wrong, but I think once there are three targets, AExplosion is more mana effective than most of their other nukes.

[majeo]

In reference to the curse of tongues change - what's to complain about?

0 sec + 0.6(0 sec) = 0 sec.

[Duppin]

Originally posted by majeo
In reference to the curse of tongues change - what's to complain about?

0 sec + 0.6(0 sec) = 0 sec.

Take this argument back to the WoW general boards, please. That's where it belongs.

Regardless of how you do the math (and I won't get into what you should've learned in second grade about order of operations), this was a drastic change in warlock vs. mage PvP balance, and frankly, warlocks are already a pain in the ass to try to do well with in PvP due to not having much in the way of burst damage/instas.