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Destro seems fun, too - at least it's finally a more modern spec and you're not just pressing 3 buttons anymore. Could use some tuning ofc, maybe revert the nerf to ritual and put the CDF synergy with soulfire back in.
I wonder how far SB and SD are apart from each other for Soul Harvester. If it is kinda close then I can totally see SB being played more in raid with movement 🤔 I know the opinion on this is quite split in the WL community but I wouldn't mind playing SB for once 😅
You are the reason I am playing warlock! its to easy with these nice video’s of you, very simple and clear, always up to date. Im playing Team destruction here 🔥 🧙
really hope they dont overdo it, Destro to me is not the most fun of the 3 specs, and really dont want it to be the top of the 3 lol, make it competitive but not like far and beyond the best spec
Destro needs real rework bring back searing pain as a filler with a way to detonate it i feel like having procs would be nice as destro that allows you to choose how to consume immolate. I have played a fire mage in higher tier arenas and i have to say destro has always just been a slower weaker version of it.
Ive been lock since vanilla wow . Gotta say I love the changes changed to demo once it got the spec change the real pet build . But would love destro to be good again cause that was my go.too since vanilla. Needs aoe love . St is pretty good I find . But aoe definitely needs a change around or fix
There is a bug with Crashing chaos - I have reported it, but probably worth you tracking it as well. When you have a ritual of ruin proc, it will consume 2 charges for some reason (It also doesn't buff the overfiend's CB). Does the same with ROF. This shouldn't matter in the opener since the change to 15 SS for ritual, but it does affect your other infernals
For harvester aff, I hope they tune it so ds and sb are about the same tuning wise so you can go with whatever you want. Ds fits much better thematically. I mean cmon, soul harvester = drain soul. However playstyle wise sb being able to dump nightfall super fast with how many procs you get is so much better feeling. As someone who's been enjoying harvester aff by far the most of any of the 6 all of beta, it being top is really cool
I think the only way nerfing Shadowburn would be justifiable is if it was reverted back to how it used to be where it only had a shard requirement and didn't have charges / CD. It used to be the iconic destro ability and has spent years being a joke ever since they trie to redesign it, they've finally hit a design where it's at least worth pressing, let's not go killing it before the expansion launches.
All else equal, as we get access to more secondary stats (crit), I wonder if hellcaller will pull ahead in later patches if left untouched. It seems like SH is really good out of the box because it has alot of interactions that do not scale as heavily with secondary stats unlike Hellcaller. Also, SH is less dependent on soulshard generation due to soul rot, while hellcaller will feel clunky until a good amount of haste allocation. My prediction for the future is that hellcaller will be eating good by the end of the second raid tier.
as a casual warlock only player, I am a bit concerned because it seems the WoW community consensus is warlock is currently behind Mage, Evoker, Shaman and S Priest when it comes to ranged dps and the overall meta when considering utility. What that sounds like to me is its going to be very difficult to get into pugs.
Yeah, currently. In pre patch. We have no idea how each spec will be tuned, what damage profiles amongst every class will look like until the meta defines itself
@@Beraninthere is literally public information readily available that very clearly shows that to be false. In 10+ level keys over 400k locks are represented which is more than all specs of warriors, rogues, dks, shamans, mages, monks, and evoker. Is about even with hunters.
As much as im disappointed by destros current performance and cdf/soulfire interaction being nuked, i guess i wouldn't mind aff being on top for once for a tier. I did miss playing it. They can fix destro for the tier after i suppose
When I first saw that every warlock spec is getting somewhat reworked I was kinda hyped tbh, but every single spec has the same gameplay as before, affliction just got simplified. The state of warlock is not good at all. We are more or less like warriors (only talking about m+). If we don’t do way higher damage than other specs who actually have utility we are mid
I just want them to make Hellcaller Destro competitive. It would be the perfect Hero Talent distribution. Soul Haverster + Affliction; Diabolist + Demonology; Hellcaller + Destruction. Absolute banger
I planning on maining warlock in tww! But im not a very good wow player and pretty new to warlock, what spec should i try to start with? And what is the easiest?!
I was in the same boat as you. I tried destro first and found it quite fun. Not too many buttons to press. Demo is also fun but was a little more complicated but not by much.
I would say destro is quite easy to learn myself. Demo has a lot more planning going on. Destro is just spend when you cap, press shiny buttons, slam your cd. And keep immolate up as the only dot
Please keep in mind how marginal many of these numbers are. The difference between Diabolist and Soul harvester Demo is roughly under 1% dmg. Thats nothing.
So, how wrong will the sims be. They almost always are. Frost Mage was the highest simming spec all throughout shadowlands and yet it was absolute trash in practice. So why do we even pay attention to sims then?
Feels to me like a lot of specs are on the edge of button bloat, both aff and demo feel better with AC and no GFG. I hope in midnight we get a small pruning pass.
It's mostly a talent tree design problem. Aff with Absolute Corruption feels very empty outside of cooldowns. With Siphon Life it was quite annoying having to recast dots all the time. In TWW Destro absolutely takes the cake in design problems. Depending on the tuning it could run with Shadowburn, CDF, Soul Fire AND Nether Portal making the rotation an absolute mess. But it could also run without any of those abilities making it incredibly boring.
@@Soma91iI really don’t want to see Nether Portal. Felt super awkward to use and didn’t really fit the Destro design in my opinion. I doubt that DemonFire will be coupled with Shadowburn, or at least I hope it’s not. The current meta playstyle Destro has is super fun for me. I really like hitting Shadowburn but like Kalamazi said, Chaos Bolt feels underwhelming. I miss the days where Warlock had the most massive crits by far out of any class
I get why he does it but it is a bit too much tbh. I've gotten to the point where I stop watching a lot of the videos because there's just too many ads without adblock on my phone. Its a shame but I'm not sitting through that. Way more ads on this channel than on others for some reason For context usually I just stomach it on other channels because they gotta eat. But this is too much
For me personally demo has always been the mid tier spec ever since locks went to 3 specs. I've looked at it as demo is the draft horse, destro is the Arabian horse, and aff is the Shetland Pony, lol.
Those idiots nerfed ruination and overlord. The difference between having your middle talent on demonology or not having them is around 200k damage, i mean come onnnnnn
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Everytime I switch classes I'm reminded how good kalamazi is, then go back to warlock. I'm sure there are other good ones but I havnt found them
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Affliction seems to be getting the most value of hero talents, demo most fun and destro doesn't seem to be ready for the expansion.
It was then they nerfed the wrong stuff
Demo fun 🥲🙄
Destro seems fun, too - at least it's finally a more modern spec and you're not just pressing 3 buttons anymore. Could use some tuning ofc, maybe revert the nerf to ritual and put the CDF synergy with soulfire back in.
I wonder how far SB and SD are apart from each other for Soul Harvester. If it is kinda close then I can totally see SB being played more in raid with movement 🤔 I know the opinion on this is quite split in the WL community but I wouldn't mind playing SB for once 😅
You are the reason I am playing warlock! its to easy with these nice video’s of you, very simple and clear, always up to date. Im playing Team destruction here 🔥 🧙
Thank you for the updates you’ve been pushing!! Few more nights sleep.
Destro is probably getting that 25% overall dmg tune soon
really hope they dont overdo it, Destro to me is not the most fun of the 3 specs, and really dont want it to be the top of the 3 lol, make it competitive but not like far and beyond the best spec
I hope it gets that massive buff.
@@awwwwwyeahhhhh1110 SAME, been playing destro since legion
Destro needs real rework bring back searing pain as a filler with a way to detonate it i feel like having procs would be nice as destro that allows you to choose how to consume immolate. I have played a fire mage in higher tier arenas and i have to say destro has always just been a slower weaker version of it.
Ive been lock since vanilla wow . Gotta say I love the changes changed to demo once it got the spec change the real pet build . But would love destro to be good again cause that was my go.too since vanilla. Needs aoe love . St is pretty good I find . But aoe definitely needs a change around or fix
Thank you for all the hard work Kalamazi! Also thank you for including a cast sequence addon!
There is a bug with Crashing chaos - I have reported it, but probably worth you tracking it as well.
When you have a ritual of ruin proc, it will consume 2 charges for some reason (It also doesn't buff the overfiend's CB). Does the same with ROF.
This shouldn't matter in the opener since the change to 15 SS for ritual, but it does affect your other infernals
For harvester aff, I hope they tune it so ds and sb are about the same tuning wise so you can go with whatever you want. Ds fits much better thematically. I mean cmon, soul harvester = drain soul. However playstyle wise sb being able to dump nightfall super fast with how many procs you get is so much better feeling.
As someone who's been enjoying harvester aff by far the most of any of the 6 all of beta, it being top is really cool
I'm not abandoning my destro I love her ..But again I'm not raiding. Or doing mythic plus..as long as I can survive delves tier 8 then I'm good..
Hmm. Diabloist destro build is about 3.3k behind top HC destro build. Still might play it anyways. It just looks cooler visually..lol
I am obsessed with the headband you wear that makes it look like you've got your hair braided
Like 10 bucks from Amazon
Head band?
I'm glad people still enjoy wow and I'm glad people still like Kalamazi.
I just want to be competitive with demo. Sad times in S1 ahead.
Demo all the way babyy
This guy cannot be stopped
When playing Soul Harvester Aff, how much would we actually lose if we wanted to play Shadowbolt for more movement?
from my feelycraft you don't lose THAT much, but you should get used to playing drain soul anyways, specially in m+ for shard sniping
@Kalamazi Destro andy here. 100k down ain't anything I can't play around. Cheers to starting another xpac as the worst lock and still owning.
I think the only way nerfing Shadowburn would be justifiable is if it was reverted back to how it used to be where it only had a shard requirement and didn't have charges / CD.
It used to be the iconic destro ability and has spent years being a joke ever since they trie to redesign it, they've finally hit a design where it's at least worth pressing, let's not go killing it before the expansion launches.
All else equal, as we get access to more secondary stats (crit), I wonder if hellcaller will pull ahead in later patches if left untouched. It seems like SH is really good out of the box because it has alot of interactions that do not scale as heavily with secondary stats unlike Hellcaller. Also, SH is less dependent on soulshard generation due to soul rot, while hellcaller will feel clunky until a good amount of haste allocation. My prediction for the future is that hellcaller will be eating good by the end of the second raid tier.
yeah i think a few hero trees are in this situation and i don't think its too bad tbh, same thing happens with spec trees
Soul Harvester Demo is very smooth have to say. Diabolist looks awesome though =-)
as a warlock main I guess im not comming back
Good thing Warlock is my favorite class because I can't fathom playing a class that doesn't have a Kalamazi
Regardless of current numbers, what synergies do demo locks have for m+ comps? I'm a bit unsure what kind of team you would be looking for as one.
as a casual warlock only player, I am a bit concerned because it seems the WoW community consensus is warlock is currently behind Mage, Evoker, Shaman and S Priest when it comes to ranged dps and the overall meta when considering utility. What that sounds like to me is its going to be very difficult to get into pugs.
Yeah, currently. In pre patch. We have no idea how each spec will be tuned, what damage profiles amongst every class will look like until the meta defines itself
I think warlock will be stronger than a shadow priest
Yea will be non meta yet again. M+ utility and group contribution is just way too weak.
Warlocks are far and away the least popular class in pugs in DF, I rarely see them
@@Beraninthere is literally public information readily available that very clearly shows that to be false. In 10+ level keys over 400k locks are represented which is more than all specs of warriors, rogues, dks, shamans, mages, monks, and evoker. Is about even with hunters.
As much as im disappointed by destros current performance and cdf/soulfire interaction being nuked, i guess i wouldn't mind aff being on top for once for a tier. I did miss playing it. They can fix destro for the tier after i suppose
So just how meta is Lock looking? I'm torn between leveling my Lock or Shaman first.
Reverting the incinerate nerf would fix this
When I first saw that every warlock spec is getting somewhat reworked I was kinda hyped tbh, but every single spec has the same gameplay as before, affliction just got simplified. The state of warlock is not good at all. We are more or less like warriors (only talking about m+). If we don’t do way higher damage than other specs who actually have utility we are mid
This
Do other classes have reliable youtubers like locks have Kalamazi? Luckily, I am a lock main xD
BUFF DESTRO BLIZZ
pls no
are there any ready talent imports anywhere to find ?
While testing i noticed that none of the demons that you spawn as demo, actually do something.(except for imps)
what?
tbh im not worrid since warlock is blizz golden child
Soul Rot granting shards should be baseline
Sad for destro....😢
Same brother..
Still feels bad that big pets are so low for demo.
best lvling spec u think?
Are all the specs haste/mastery again?
I just want them to make Hellcaller Destro competitive. It would be the perfect Hero Talent distribution. Soul Haverster + Affliction; Diabolist + Demonology; Hellcaller + Destruction. Absolute banger
I planning on maining warlock in tww! But im not a very good wow player and pretty new to warlock, what spec should i try to start with? And what is the easiest?!
Demo
I was in the same boat as you. I tried destro first and found it quite fun. Not too many buttons to press. Demo is also fun but was a little more complicated but not by much.
I would say destro is quite easy to learn myself. Demo has a lot more planning going on.
Destro is just spend when you cap, press shiny buttons, slam your cd. And keep immolate up as the only dot
When Kalamazi chooses the talents you've been trying for last few weeks, big brain moment lol
Blizzard please stop hating destruction
Which lock spec are you maining @kalamazi?
I think he is usually playing Affliction
hes lvling as destro and not sure about @80
I think he is destro bias hahahah 😂😂😂
He has said he likes affl. He's leveling as destro bc huge instant soul burn and other casts that can burn down mobs fast.
Rip my destro fantasy :(
Please keep in mind how marginal many of these numbers are. The difference between Diabolist and Soul harvester Demo is roughly under 1% dmg. Thats nothing.
Buff Demoooo
It’s sad how bad Destro is.
had fun with demonology in dragonflight, but TWW will be affliction.
So, how wrong will the sims be. They almost always are. Frost Mage was the highest simming spec all throughout shadowlands and yet it was absolute trash in practice.
So why do we even pay attention to sims then?
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Am I the only one who is totally annoyed by that blue soul rot button?
Feels to me like a lot of specs are on the edge of button bloat, both aff and demo feel better with AC and no GFG. I hope in midnight we get a small pruning pass.
It's mostly a talent tree design problem. Aff with Absolute Corruption feels very empty outside of cooldowns. With Siphon Life it was quite annoying having to recast dots all the time.
In TWW Destro absolutely takes the cake in design problems. Depending on the tuning it could run with Shadowburn, CDF, Soul Fire AND Nether Portal making the rotation an absolute mess. But it could also run without any of those abilities making it incredibly boring.
@@Soma91iI really don’t want to see Nether Portal. Felt super awkward to use and didn’t really fit the Destro design in my opinion. I doubt that DemonFire will be coupled with Shadowburn, or at least I hope it’s not. The current meta playstyle Destro has is super fun for me. I really like hitting Shadowburn but like Kalamazi said, Chaos Bolt feels underwhelming. I miss the days where Warlock had the most massive crits by far out of any class
Destro needs Flame Rift
destro down horrendous, sad
The thing that sucks is that i want to do the best dps out of the 3 but i hate affliction rather play demo.
Dude I hate Aff too
@@awwwwwyeahhhhh1110ikr like i rather change to another class then play aff tbh.
@@marcelrodriguez2067 yep!
@@marcelrodriguez2067 hahaha me too.
please buff destro blizzard gods
Nightfall(Drain Soul okay but SB??) and Malefic Rapture being so much damage on historically "THE" dot spec is just weird as hell.
Does Affliction play smoother and better now. i played it in dragonflight and it was pretty hard to get the best out of this spec for me
destru really need help!
3 minute ad every 5 min of video. Why?
I get why he does it but it is a bit too much tbh. I've gotten to the point where I stop watching a lot of the videos because there's just too many ads without adblock on my phone. Its a shame but I'm not sitting through that. Way more ads on this channel than on others for some reason
For context usually I just stomach it on other channels because they gotta eat. But this is too much
For me personally demo has always been the mid tier spec ever since locks went to 3 specs. I've looked at it as demo is the draft horse, destro is the Arabian horse, and aff is the Shetland Pony, lol.
You talk to fast. I had to check my video playback speed.
Those idiots nerfed ruination and overlord. The difference between having your middle talent on demonology or not having them is around 200k damage, i mean come onnnnnn
79k 🫡👍🏻