The disparity between live and tourney realms is also interesting to note – I suspect there’s some truth in the cited article’s opinion that full, optimally gemmed Deadly PvP gear makes warlocks in particular a lot more popular. Baseline requirements of >800 resil and >25k hp are just harsh, but I guess healers don’t have it much better.

It was, very very briefly – not even patch noted, and reverted in the following build. UA and immolate are now mutually exclusive on the same target, but immolate is pretty low priority in pvp anyway (and the extra damage and crit on corruption/UA should make up for it).

> -Warlocks not being able to use Demonic Portal unless it is in LoS come 3.1 will also hurt the survivability of warlocks in this comp when being trained.
Uh, wtf. Haven’t seen THAT one anywhere. Pretty sure I’d have noticed it, too (Dem Circle from the lock trainer basement in SW up through the floor cuts transit time to the dummies, okay <_<)

Anyway apparently it’s quite normal for the DK to outdamage everyone else (on both teams) put together. Balanced?

UA was single-target-only on the PTR for a bit, but I think they’ve reverted it now? I haven’t really been keeping up with the lock changes.

¹ Serennia’s “Shadow Cleave” article is here, filefront link to the video (about 60mb iirc) is here.

(In before UA nerf. Stacked dots with that kind of protection must be hell to heal over.)

I wonder what the numbers would look like if Ring of Valor was still in the map rotation…