Axxel

anyone heard about are new AAs in TSO? i havent heard a word......guess i should join the WW warlock channel

Humi

AA's gota love em

Saltaf

It is beta, nothing is set in stone... that's one of the major purposes of the NDA, so that they can change stuff and people don't get all emo about what was changed.
I'm not impressed with this... it is a boost, it will be helpful, but from what these "leaks" show this is on the weak side.

hopefully everything can get balanced or at least help class balancing

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Ballads

Wanna see a good AA for a warlock? Go look at troub tree end line - upbeat tempo -. With a 66%+ improvement to cata will it become your best spell? With harmonization and your end line poison mastery It will be 5 ticks in just over 2 seconds.

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Zahne

Our end ability in each grouping should be damage related. Why they decided to give us all these hate tools is beyond me.

I would have rather had the option to opt out of them, and take more damage related abilities.

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Spetz

SoE definitelly have a lack of imagination. Warl and Wizzy AAs are pretty the same, just take a look side-by-side:


The only noticeable difference - is the Surge of Ro (possible +10% base damage to all spell landed on mobs affected by Surge?) and Warlock's Gift. And no any other differences at all! No emphasis - something for Jack-of-all-trades. Even final ability for both classes is single target DD (for warl) and DoT for wizzy. Is this intended to balance DD to DoT ratio for both classes? Give me a break!

avsmw

Surge of Ro sounds like it only should increase the base damage of the area spell itself - otherwise it's gonna be insanely powerful and completely broken if it would boost any spell landing on the enemy standing in the Surge. Although considering how they hate warlocks as compared to wizards...

As for the final abilities (DD for Locks and DoT for Wizzies), it would be nice to see some real numbers, in comparison with a couple of staple spells (basic nuke, for instance). If this is the spell damage for a "naked" lvl 80 character - it still doesn't look good enough to me, but if it's for a geared character, when a Distortion lists 6K+ spell damage оn high, these abilities are a silly joke.

Spetz

It's for level 80 wizard/warlock, naked. No AA's spent in any tree. So we can expect some noticeable increase of this spell damage - about 100%. But is still does not look good.

Trishnya

One thing I noticed is Heat Mastery vrs Poison Mastery. Wizards get Fireshape to help with this while Warlocks have nothing comparable.


Trishnya

avsmw

Not sure, but this should likely affect only spells which are inherently heat-based. Like the first miracle of Ro - it wouldn't work with Ice Comet under Fireshape, since it wasn't a "real" heat-based spell. Although I could well be mistaken.