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Large Undocumented Change for Warlocks on 9.1 PTR - Pets Benefit From Bonus Damage Effects
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11/05/2021 a las 01:35
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In the latest 9.1 PTR, a large undocumented change was added for Warlocks that will increase their DPS - pets now benefit from bonus damage effects!
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Undocumented Damage Increase
The most recent build of PTR brought with it a few documented changes to Warlocks but there was also a large undocumented one that has not been discussed much. The same undocumented change was also present for a few builds in 9.0.5 PTR but was then removed with no acknowledgement from Blizzard.
Previously, effects like
Abrazo de las Sombras
,
Poseer
and
Erradicación
acted as a bonus to the Warlock's damage only. They would increase your DoT damage,
Descarga de caos
damage and even Damage based trinkets or procs as those effects were tied to you, the player. They however would NOT increase the damage of your main pets (Imp, Felhunter and such) or your main cooldown (
Invocar infernal
,
Invocar tirano demoníaco
, and
Invocar miradaoscura
) whatsoever. While this has never been a large issue it did sort of leave players wondering at times what is considered "your" damage as trinket based effects and such scale, but pets and guardians do not.
In a late 9.0.5 PTR build, we suddenly noticed that SOME pet damage was now scaling with these effects as well as
Desde las Sombras
for Demonology. Your main pet (Imp, Felhunter and such) would now deal 10% increased damage if
Erradicación
was applied to your target, but Infernal damage remained unaffected. The same could be said for Affliction with both
Poseer
and
Abrazo de las Sombras
which led to your main pet dealing roughly 20-23% more damage with both effects active on a target, but once again Darkglare remained unaffected by the change. Arguably the biggest power gain was to Demonology with
Desde las Sombras
now affecting your Demonic Tyrant's Demonfire Damage which makes up anywhere from 20-30% of Demonology's average damage breakdown. Then in a later build all of this scaling vanished into thin air without a word. By that point in time the change was pretty well known but never acknowledged by Blizzard. This removal left a lot of players wondering if it was merely a bug or a system that was just not finished.
However, in the most recent version of 9.1 PTR this undocumented change has returned in an improved form!
Abrazo de las Sombras
,
Poseer
,
Erradicación
and
Desde las Sombras
are all once again increasing pet damage like previously but they are now ALSO increasing the damage of our main cooldowns! That means that our Infernal, Darkglare and Demonic Tyrant (as well as your main pet) are all benefiting from the bonus damage effect! Previously, it was mostly just a flat damage increase as your Imp or Felhunter did not really have any scaling traits tied to them but now that its affecting your main cooldown well...this changes things and very well might spawn a few new builds!
Overall this undocumented change appears to be roughly:
A 1%-1.5% DPS increase for Affliction
A 1%-2% DPS increase for Destruction
A 3%-5% DPS increase for Demonology in single target playing the
Desde las Sombras
Latigazo aterrador
build.
How This Changes Affliction
Affliction is hands down the Warlock spec that has undergone the most changes so far on PTR.
Abrazo de las Sombras
is now a talent on the 45 row and
Invocar miradaoscura
is now a baseline ability which is learned at level 58. The fact that your Darkglare is now affected by the bonus damage of
Poseer
and
Abrazo de las Sombras
sounds great, but there is more to it. With
Abrazo de las Sombras
becoming a talent once again it means that you have to make the choice between
Abrazo de las Sombras
or
Poseer
as they now share the same talent row in 9.1. You no longer have the option of playing
Poseer
with
Abrazo de las Sombras
being a baseline ability so technically they 20-23% bonus scaling that Affliction WOULD have access to in 9.0.5 if this change made it live is now either 9% or 10%. Sadly
Invocar miradaoscura
is also a very underwhelming cooldown when it comes to its own raw damage. While it will cast Eye Beam on your main target, the damage Eye Beam does is miniscule. It amounts to roughly 3% or so of your total damage in a single target encounter. While having a 2 minute cooldown on
Invocar miradaoscura
and the new damage scaling it now has will make it more impactful, we aren't going to see it jump to being 10% of our damage breakdown.
Outside of the Eye Beam damage increase to your Darkglare you will also have a 9-10% damage increase to your main pet of choice. The damage breakdown below is from a recent single target PTR test with the newest version of Affliction. You will notice that our imp did 80.6k damage and accounted for 6.9% of our damage breakdown. Eye Beam checks in at roughly 49k damage and 4.5% which is certainly an increase from where it is in 9.0.5 both due to the Dark Caller change as well as
Poseer
modifiers. Accounting for
Poseer
having close to a 100% uptime, our imp dealt an extra 8,060 damage and our Darkglare had an extra 4,910 damage from Eye Beam. Running some quick Florida math, the
Poseer
damage change was roughly a 1.1% Damage/DPS increase total in pure single target.
A 1% damage buff might not seem like a very large amount but taking into consideration the loss of
Abrazo de las Sombras
baseline and the damage loss that in itself brings (compared to
Invocar miradaoscura
taking its place) it is a welcome change.
How This Changes Destruction
Unlike Affliction, Destro's main cooldown (
Invocar infernal
) actually does damage! Destruction does still suffer from having its
Invocar infernal
be a 3 minute cooldown with
Alma oscura: Inestabilidad
being 2 minutes, but you can technically reduce the cooldown of your Infernal to about 2 minutes with the help of
Sigilo de invocación superior de Wilfred
. While
Recuerdo de las cenizas de Azj'Aqir
is also a strong option for Destro Warlocks, having
Erradicación
now increase the damage your Infernal does when active (both Immolation aura and its melee damage) it certainly adds a bit of value to the 2 minute build. The fact that you can pair your
Alma oscura: Inestabilidad
with every
Invocar infernal
brings with is an exceptionally strong damage profile every 2 minutes.
When looking a bit beyond legendaries there is another important key to this build and that is the
Marca infernal
Conduit for Destruction. This Conduit increases the damage of your Infernal's Immolation Aura by a certain % whenever it melees the target and the effect stacks 15 times! If you were to say...pair that conduit with the
Lluvia de caos
talent on the 45 row and well...things can get pretty crazy. You have the chance to proc multiple Infernals that all have their own individual damage increase from
Marca infernal
which is further amplified by the
Erradicación
damage effect now. There is an extreme amount of potential with this build and that is not even taking into consideration the damage increase your main pet gets from
Erradicación
either. It is also important to keep in mind that while in a Havoc window you can apply
Erradicación
to two targets at once by casting
Descarga de caos
.
Here is a damage breakdown from both a single target pull as Destruction with
Erradicación
and a two target pull with
Erradicación
. It is important to keep in mind that
Lluvia de caos
is RNG. At times you will get multiple infernal procs early on which snowball into even more infernals and at times you get literally zero in the entire window...
Single Target
Two Target
You can see that the melee damage for both is very close, but the difference mainly lies in the Immolation Aura damage. The extra shards that you receive during your
Lluvia de caos
window help fuel more
Descarga de caos
casts, which applies
Erradicación
. At certain points you might even be able to weave
Descarga de caos
s between both targets depending on the shard generation from
Lluvia de caos
.
Erradicación
uptime can vary a bit in single target encounters but anywhere from a 60-75% uptime is certainly obtainable. Taking a 70% uptime on
Erradicación
into account for the single target damage breakdown, it amounts to 2,900 extra melee damage, 5,100 Imp damage and about 7,000 extra Immolation Aura damage for a total of just over 15,000 damage. That amounts to roughly a 1.5% damage/DPS increase from both imp and infernal damage. It is also important to keep in mind that there is a good bit or RNG when playing
Lluvia de caos
. With this affecting both pet damage as well as EVERY Infernal's Immolation Aura/melee attacks,
Erradicación
is looking like it could be a real contender come 9.1.
How This Changes Demonology
Demonology's place in all of this is a peculiar one. Unlike Destruction and Affliction, Demonology does NOT have a "flat" damage increase talent like
Erradicación
or
Poseer
. What it DOES have though is
Desde las Sombras
which increases Shadowflame damage by 20%. What spells are Shadowflame damage you might ask for Demo locks?
Mano de Gul'dan
,
Descarga de demonio
and
Implosión
are the ones the player themselves casts but the BIG one is
Fuego demoníaco
which is cast by your
Invocar tirano demoníaco
and further amplified by the
Consumo demoníaco
.
Consumo demoníaco
is your defacto go-to talent in the final row. It is the talent that makes the Demonology stamina scaling build a thing and has been the only real option in that row for years now. It has also pigeonholed us into running the same single target build all of Shadowlands due to how much it scales with extra pets out like
Invocar maligno vil
and
Grimorio: Guardia vil
. While I don't expect the single target build to make the swap to
Desde las Sombras
, the Mythic +/AOE version of Demonology is VERY interested in doing so. Combining
Desde las Sombras
with the
Latigazo aterrador
talent in the first row means that your FTS will now be applied to every surrounding target whenever you cast
Llamar a terracechadores
. Keep in mind that
Implosión
is Shadowflame damage and in an AOE setting,
Implosión
is a VERY potent spell which now has a 20% damage increase attached to it if playing said build. The Dreadlash/FTS "Big Dog" build gains a tremendous amount of value if you pair it with the
Acechadores carnívoros
Conduit as it gives each set of Dreadstalkers a chance to Dreadbite again, thus reapplying
Desde las Sombras
.
The main issue with this build previously however was that it's lacking in the single target damage department. You have a very strong, sustained AOE damage profile but when it came to Prideful mobs or Tyrannical weeks the build just felt subpar. This all changes though now that
Desde las Sombras
affects your Tyrants
Fuego demoníaco
damage! Even maintaining the FTS buff for 50% of your Demonic Tyrants duration (which depends on cast sequencing and
Acechadores carnívoros
procs) is a large increase to your single target output. That coupled with the fact that Demonology can have its
Invocar tirano demoníaco
ability be a 1 minute cooldown thanks to
Sigilo de invocación superior de Wilfred
and well...yeah. While the single target build of Demonology and the Dreadlash/FTS builds both see play in Mythic +, I would not be surprised at all to see a shift towards the Dreadlash/FTS build with this change being a thing.
Vilefiend and Grimoire: Felguard Demonology Breakdown
It is challenging to calculate the actual damage or DPS gain from
Desde las Sombras
now affecting your Tyrant. There is a bit of RNG involved with
Fuego demoníaco
crits,
Acechadores carnívoros
and stamina scaling effects but having a 20% damage increase to your Tyrant's Demonfire casts that is active anywhere from 40%-100% of its duration is extremely powerful. Remember that
Desde las Sombras
also affects your
Descarga de demonio
s,
Mano de Gul'dan
s and
Implosión
s which means you would prefer to cast them (if possible) during an FTS window.
From the Shadows Damage Breakdown
This breakdown shows the full value of Demonfire while playing the
Desde las Sombras
/Dreadlash build. You can see that the
Fuego demoníaco
damage is very similar to that of the Vilefiend + Grimoire build above but instead of Vilefiend and Grimoire, this build deals more
Descarga de demonio
, Dreadstalker and
Mano de Gul'dan
damage giving it a stronger AOE profile. We had roughly an 80% uptime on
Desde las Sombras
during out Tyrants due to
Acechadores carnívoros
reprocs and Dreadstalker casts. Factoring all of that into the equation you can say that the
Desde las Sombras
effect increased our Tyrant's damage by about 16% which amounts to roughly 44,000 extra
Fuego demoníaco
damage, or a 4.3% buff to this builds single target damage compared to 9.0.5. Keep in mind that
Desde las Sombras
also increases
Descarga de demonio
,
Mano de Gul'dan
and
Implosión
damage as well which was NOT factored into the equation. This build of Demonology is build around sustained AOE but with the changes to
Desde las Sombras
it is also now a pretty strong single target option.
Regardless of what happens with the builds mentioned above I find it very odd that this change is back once again on PTR and has once again, not been mentioned by Blizzard. It does seem to be a "fixed" version of the 9.0.5 iteration and with that being the case I do feel it has a pretty good chance of sticking around heading into 9.1. I do feel like Demonology got the best deal with
Fuego demoníaco
now being increased by
Desde las Sombras
but the
Lluvia de caos
Destruction build I also feel has a lot of potential looking at how the upcoming raid tier is structured. Oh and I suppose Affliction is happy with is 9-10% Darkglare/Imp damage buff as well. With all three Warlock specs looking solid so far throughout 9.1 and Sanctum of Domination testing I am excited to see what the next few PTR builds bring.
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Thanks Blizzard, a little love for the demon
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