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Good evening, good morning and good afternoon, it's Izen here.
I am a gamer with an unspecified european accent and overly dry humor who enjoys making videos about World of Warcraft.
When you hop in here you'll find content from discussing the state of the game, the choices of the Developers, the reactions of the community, as well as my thoughts on many of the current events going on in the game as well as a few off topic things.
I am a gamer with an unspecified european accent and overly dry humor who enjoys making videos about World of Warcraft.
When you hop in here you'll find content from discussing the state of the game, the choices of the Developers, the reactions of the community, as well as my thoughts on many of the current events going on in the game as well as a few off topic things.
The Best DPS Class in The War Within Beta....So Far
The War Within Beta: BEST Performing DPS Class after Raid Testing is over!
All 3 Warlock Specs have gone through some reworking in the Beta and for now, the results are looking pretty good!
00:00 What the Beta is for
01:48 Affliction
07:56 Destruction
15:19 Demonology
19:59 See you tomorrow!
DISCORD INVITE LINK!: discord.gg/RbkxdsxsDg
You can Follow me on Twitter at: Izen_Hart
You can support me on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/izenhart/membership
Find my WeakAuras, Plater+VuhDo Profiles and currently used Addons HERE: pastebin.com/u/izenhart
All 3 Warlock Specs have gone through some reworking in the Beta and for now, the results are looking pretty good!
00:00 What the Beta is for
01:48 Affliction
07:56 Destruction
15:19 Demonology
19:59 See you tomorrow!
DISCORD INVITE LINK!: discord.gg/RbkxdsxsDg
You can Follow me on Twitter at: Izen_Hart
You can support me on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/izenhart/membership
Find my WeakAuras, Plater+VuhDo Profiles and currently used Addons HERE: pastebin.com/u/izenhart
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The War Within | Everything About Delves (Tanks Are OP)
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The War Within Beta: Not just Mythic and Raid are testable this weekend, but also the next entry of endgame activities: Delves! We looked at how they work, how hard they are, how is the balance currently as well as everything there is to know regarding this Solo Activity coming in The War Within! 00:00 Delves Testable! 01:26 New Endgame Pillar 02:40 Your Delve Companion 04:22 Delve Playstyle 06...
Beta Hunter Rework | Marksmanship: Cleaner! Smoother!...But you still use 3 Buttons
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The War Within | Hunter Rework | Marksmanship: Cleaner, Smoother, Better...But you still use 3 Buttons 00:00 Marksmanship General Tree 01:40 Discounts & QoL 04:02 AoE and Single Target 05:58 AoE Playstyle 07:31 Single Target Playstyle 09:29 Smooth, Clean, but Simple 11:29 See you tomorrow! DISCORD INVITE LINK!: discord.gg/RbkxdsxsDg You can Follow me on Twitter at: Izen_Hart You can...
The War Within | All NEW Consumables | Flasks, Potions, Gems & Enchants
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The War Within Beta: All the changes, additions, new entries to Player Consumables, with the complete list of the available Gem Sockets, Enchants, Flasks & Potions in the upcoming expansion 00:00 Consumables 00:40 Gem Socket Changes 02:18 Enchants 03:49 Flasks 06:10 Potions 07:55 Mana & Health Potions 12:45 See you soon! DISCORD INVITE LINK!: discord.gg/RbkxdsxsDg You can Follow me on Twitter a...
The War Within | HUNTER Rework | BM is a DOT Spec Now?!?!
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The War Within Beta: Hunter REWORK! - Looking at the Talent Changes for the Hunter Tree as well as Beast Mastery. It looks like Blizzard wants a new Dot Spec?? 00:00 Beast Mastery Hunter 00:48 Hunter Talent QoLs 02:11 Hunter Defensives 04:36 Hunter Utility 06:08 Beast Mastery Talent QoLs 07:28 Beast Mastery DoTs 09:12 Here's the DoTs 10:38 You Can Still Be Old BM 11:50 Overall, Improvements 13:...
Revert This ABOMINATION | The War Within M+ Affix Changes
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The War Within Mythic Affix Changes! Blizzard Announced the removal of 5 Affixes from the pool of M in The War Within for the addition of 4 brand new ones. However, it's a disaster. 00:00 Mythic Changes 01:00 Affix Changes 02:25 Not That Big 03:28 Community Perception 05:53 New Affix Combos 07:45 Toxic Environment 10:10 Revert Soon Hopefully 11:35 We'll see each other soon! DISCORD INVITE LINK!...
TWW Release Announced | Is $40 For Early Access Worth?
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The War Within Release Dates ANNOUNCED! We're getting the proper dates for the Early Access to the Expansion, the official release, the release of Heroic Week as well as Mythic Week. We're looking into WHICH features will become available at which time, as well as how worth are the extra $40 for the Epic Edition of The War Within. 00:00 Early Access! 03:08 Official Release 05:07 Heroic & Mythic...
The War Within Will REMOVE Dracthyr Class Restrictions! | However...
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The War Within Beta: Dracthyr For ALL! Shortly after the release of Season 1 in the next Expansion other Classes will be able to play as Dracthyr. However, some questions emerged, both from a cosmetics perspective but also in a more Combat related sense, like Racials 00:00 Dracthyr Open 01:29 Dracthyr and Transmogs 04:40 Dracthyr and Racials 08:55 See you tomorrow! DISCORD INVITE LINK!: discord...
The War Within Weekly News: DPS Trinket Nerfs, M+ Key Level Rewards Change & More
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The War Within Beta: MORE NEWS After Beta Release! On Today's Menu is info about the Raid Story Mode Difficulty, limited time rewards for Delves, Myhic Rewards now requiring higher Key level, DPS Trinket changes & more! 00:00 Self Highlight Mode 00:59 Story Mode & Early Access 02:30 Limited Time Delve Rewards 03:48 Crest Key Level Changes 04:45 Dragonriding 05:45 DPS Trinket Nerfs 08:28 Hunters...
The War Within Tier Sets REVEALED! ......Aaaand I'm Falling Asleep
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The War Within Beta: TIER SETS for the First Season of the next Expansion have been revealed! The noticeable change is how most of these Tier Sets are, however....pretty bland. We're taking a look at all the Tier Sets as well as Blizzard's explanation as to why they were designed this way. 00:00 Meme Tier Sets 01:10 Death Knight & Demon Hunter 02:38 Druid & Evoker 04:48 Hunter & Mage 06:03 Monk...
What Are The BIGGEST Problems Of Specs To FIX in The War Within?
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Dragonflight Season 4, Patch 10.2.7 & The War Within: What issues you would like to see resolved for your Spec? What are the problems to iron out in The War Within? More Utility? More Defensives? Better damage profile? More identity, better rotation, less bloated action bars or more buttons? 00:00 What to Fix? 01:04 Demon Hunter 02:00 Death Knight 03:05 Druid 04:50 Evoker 06:04 Hunter 07:23 Mag...
Season 4 Mythic+ & Raid META Recap | The War Within Has Some Problems...
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Dragonflight Season 4, Patch 10.2.7 & The War Within Expansion; Mythic and Raid Meta Performance and Popularity of Specs. How do things look like for The War Within? Which problems in the Meta in 10.2.7 look to be coming back in the next Expansion? What should be done about it? 00:00 Season 4 Is Still Useful 01:23 Mythic DPS 02:34 Mythic Meta 03:58 The Tank Problem 05:52 The DPS Problems 09:13 ...
Does Being GREAT at Mythic+ Help in Raid (and vice versa) ?
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Dragonflight Season 4, Patch 10.2.7: How GOOD would a Mythic Player be in a Mythic Raid, and how GOOD would a Mythic Raider be in a Mythic Key? Is the Skill Level of the 2 PvE Activities comparable and exchangeable? 00:00 Mythic VS Raiders 01:57 Strong Independent M Player 03:25 Raiders' Knowledge 05:35 Not Really Comparable 07:53 Staying Alive 13:12 HOWEVER 17:12 TY PATRONS! & Free ways to sup...
The War Within Balance Tuning | Beta Coming In 5 Days!
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The War Within Alpha & Beta News: MORE Alpha Tuning for The War Within, but this time it's more important! Why? Because TWW Beta comes out in 5 days, and everyone who preordered the Epic Edition of TWW will have access to the Beta, meaning more things to test and try out! 00:00 Beta Very Soon! 01:40 Healer Changes 02:40 Affli & Arcane 04:02 Discipline Nerf 05:02 Blood DK 06:00 Unholy Cool Talen...
NO NERFS to Item Upgrade Bronze Costs | Your 3 Ways Of Earning Bronze
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Mists of Pandaria Remix: BIG Ward of Salvation Nerf...or is it??? Blizzard also confirms no plans to REDUCE the Upgrade costs of Items in WoW:Remix: Here's why they think that and also what are players doing differently to avoid this "problem". 00:00 More Gem Changes 01:28 Ward of Salvation...Nerf? 03:30 Blizzard's Statement 04:50 NO Bronze Upgrade Discounts 05:50 The 3 Ways To Earn Bronze 09:0...
WoW Remix's ONE-SHOT Raid Strat: How does Ward of Salvation Work?
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WoW Remix's ONE-SHOT Raid Strat: How does Ward of Salvation Work?
WoW Remix: HOW TO Save As Much Bronze As Possible | Easier & Harder WoW:Remix Rewards To Get
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WoW Remix: HOW TO Save As Much Bronze As Possible | Easier & Harder WoW:Remix Rewards To Get
Bronze Grinds Nerfed? ALTS Are Your Best Friend Now! | MoP Remix
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Bronze Grinds Nerfed? ALTS Are Your Best Friend Now! | MoP Remix
Season 2: Exodia Boogaloo? | Raid & Mythic+ Results - Season 4 Week 4
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Season 2: Exodia Boogaloo? | Raid & Mythic Results - Season 4 Week 4
WoW Remix BEST Bronze Farms | POST Frog Nerf!
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WoW Remix BEST Bronze Farms | POST Frog Nerf!
WoW Remix Players Are ANGRY | Frog Farm, Scaling & Rewards
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WoW Remix Players Are ANGRY | Frog Farm, Scaling & Rewards
DPS Specs AoE Power | AoE DPS Was Not Created Equal
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DPS Specs AoE Power | AoE DPS Was Not Created Equal
The BEST Links To Keep Track of Rewards | MoP Remix Live NOW!
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The BEST Links To Keep Track of Rewards | MoP Remix Live NOW!
The SAVIOR of Shaman?? | MORE The War Within Alpha Changes
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The SAVIOR of Shaman?? | MORE The War Within Alpha Changes
It's Mage But It's Not Fire? | Raid & Mythic+ Results - Season 4 Week 3
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It's Mage But It's Not Fire? | Raid & Mythic Results - Season 4 Week 3
NEW Race Change Item! | Soloable BfA Raids! | Dragonflight Patch 10.2.7 & The War Within Alpha News
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NEW Race Change Item! | Soloable BfA Raids! | Dragonflight Patch 10.2.7 & The War Within Alpha News
Destro? Destroyed | Demo? Demonic | Ele? eLMAO | The War Within Alpha Spec Changes
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Destro? Destroyed | Demo? Demonic | Ele? eLMAO | The War Within Alpha Spec Changes
Mythic+ DPS Types | What Makes A Spec Have Good DPS?
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Mythic DPS Types | What Makes A Spec Have Good DPS?
What Are 🔴 & 🔵 Doing There? | Raid & Mythic+ Results - Season 4 Week 2
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What Are 🔴 & 🔵 Doing There? | Raid & Mythic Results - Season 4 Week 2
Buffed Tier Sets & Copium VDH Nerf | FIRST Balance Tuning Of Season 4!
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Buffed Tier Sets & Copium VDH Nerf | FIRST Balance Tuning Of Season 4!
Those squeaky door noises scared me half to death, I live alone 😂
what in gods name are those numbers. Are we going to actually have those numbers?!
This is torghast all over again... I wish they had a horrific vision approach to this, where you get 1 mythic item per week and then it lowers for each run you do.
do it on proper dummies, giving some of the viewers false numbers lol
Can anyone send a link to these logs? Wanna see the others
wtf are these numbers man? 63 million? Is that a lot? I can’t even tell anymore.
Lock can be good as blizzard wants (it’s one of their love childs) but for the sake of everyone’s good time do not make demo the best spec. I legit have more respect for tanks in pvp than a spec based around standing in one spot, do nothing, and letting NPCs carry you offensively
Mhh for now I roll the dices for voidwaver priest
Wrong MM Hunter is the best, literally multi shot rapid shot 2mm dps, 1.5mm sustained on 4 targets it’s wild
blizzard golden child mages and warlocks.
Retitle video: LoCkS R BeST. K LAWL
maybe not attack a legacy test dummy to showcase dps also dmg right not means nothing as tuning has not been tuned yet so numbers right now are irrelevant do not make decisions based off of numbers right test the playstyle of the spec. 1 more thing you had the st build doing aoe for destro
I’m so happy you do these. I do a lot of beta testing on classes I know but impossible for me to test all classes and a great gauge for when things go live
Not warlocks not mages i think its hunters after the rework
the numbers make me physically sick, its time to do the 10th squish or alternatively end the game lmao
It’s a WoD target dummy that takes like 10x damage… Have you not watched any other content besides this single video lol
Yoo what setting or weak aura using to get the big cooldown numbers
those WoD target dummies got that thicc dmg
bleh how are frost dks and surv hunters?
Eveyone needs to stop worrying about numbers and worry about how the spec/hero talents plays. Currently rogue,warrior, and maybe dh Imo feels kinda bad to play. Their hero talents dont feel impactdul. All other specs feel pretty good. If you are playing beta voice your opinion on the forums with CONSTRUCTIVE feedback tell them why it feels bad and how to fix it. Its crazy that everyone is just ZOMG THIS SPEC IS OP. Do you ever wonder why? Those who voice their feedback in the correct way get heard.
Remember that one time warlock was bad? I don’t. Look at all these warlock cry babies in your comments LOL
no the best spec is WW monk
how is it a surprise firemage is the best dps? firemage is a mid dps in df. you always hate fiermage for no reason. stop hating my class without justification you ape
Until they get rid of rapture for affliction i will not play warlock. Its a terrible ability and fights with the spec do much that they keep adding instant cast procs to it as a bandaid fix.
Shadowbolt hitting almost as hard as a Chaos Bolt is kind of dumb. Affliction has multiple issues with how they designed Hellcaller including, for some unknown reason, they made Wither the same base damage across Destro and Aff. That means it is based on Immolate’s base damage rather than Corruption’s base damage which is already much higher in damage than it should be. Then it gets amplified by their mastery. Currently Hellcaller Warlock is still bugged for Overfiend. For whatever reason they get free procs of Overfiend if they are Hellcaller Destro. Those free procs don’t take away from the stacks you already have so Hellcaller Destro procs Overfiend twice as much as they should. Blizzard knows about this and it will be fixed. Wither doesn’t actually deal a lot of damage by itself. Other than multidotting which is problematic for Aff, Wither isn’t that strong compared to the better Hero Talents.
So... Burning Crusade DPS tiers all over again. Got it.
It's the beta. All expansion betas have been like this. So...yeah.
@@Frawt to be fair with the exception of original vanilla, warlocks have had a decent spec in every expansion.
@@blackyvertigo More than decent, always one to two specs top performing.
I get tricked every time by warlock in the run-up to an expansion. Not gonna do it this time.
Oh its warlock ? 385th patch in a row ? Who would have thought.
what XD
I miss the time when melees were in the game.
u see that overfiend? u see that damage? if the nerfs did not come i delete wow pronto.
what a surprise - looks like shaman dps is garbo once again xd
Elemental - Yes (totally being reworked soon *copium*) Enhancement - top half of the results so far, not great, not terrible
@@Izenhart we all know shaman dps will be dead in m+, in raids enh will have 1 spot for windfury regardless of its dps prolly. ele is hands down the worst ranged dps spec now not only from numbers and gameloop wise. hopium!
@@Izenhart Before Elemental gets a rework there will be at least another 5 reworks for shadow, 7 for retri and 23816268 buffs for mages...
@@user-kb8kj4ro4x unfortunate because it's my favourite spec. If they had more survivability I'd still be playing them. Unfortunately the fact their damage is non-existent gives me a great excuse to play another class
I noticed the name halfway through the video "Womanlet" HAHA.
I recently tried to learn affliction wk I have tried the other 2 wk specs but damn affliction feels so much better for me I hope they will be good also for M+
It's the luxury of being a pure DPS Class! You always have the option to choose 1 of the best 3 available
Izen gets everything nerfed. So... youre time is up Locks. Hope you enjoyed the 1st week of Beta!
Don't worry, Warlocks are master gaslighters, they'll get nerfed, forgotten for 2 and a half months and then mysteriously buffed during Heroic week
That with the shadowbolt doing so much dmg could be the Tier- set 50% more shadowbolt dmg XD Warlock Demonology 11.0 Class Set 2pc - Your primary demon deals 5% increased damage, and your Shadow Bolt damage is increased by 50%.
It's also because of the new Rune of Shadows: Reduces the cast time of Shadow Bolt by 25% and increases its damage by 40%
I have a suspicion, my beloved rogue will not show up in this vid! 😭
You would be correct! Actually your Rogue will come up in tomorrow's video! Although on which terms I wouldn't be so happy...
@@IzenhartYeah that’s what I expect :/
love it in the First 1 min it was almost the same sentence repeading over and over
It is a necessary disclaimer to prevent people getting triggered as to why their particular Spec isn't being mentioned
Its hilarious that after all of the stat crunches we're still casually critting for 50+ million damage per hit
That's a WoD target dummy, numbers are much higher! Although we can expect S1 to have players around 6-7 million HP, tanks at 10+, and player critting in the millions still
These are ashran dummies bro
@@Izenhart haha jokes on you my fury crits 500k . Please send help
I dont care if they nerf them last second, playstyle looks so fun right now for Demo and Destro
What giving Destro a new button to press after 20 years does to a mf
@@Izenhart Ain't that the truth brother, I just hope that if they do decide to nerf, it will be a number game and not playstyle flow
every beta pass for the past decade warlocks dominate and then last second get nerfed to absolute dogshit for the first live patch
C'mon don't stoop as low as the Mages' propaganda machine of constantly pretending they're weak Warlock was indeed quite shit for DF release, however! Affliction was top3 dps in Nathria and best Ranged DPS in Uldir in BFA
@@Izenhart Affliction should be in top3 dps in raid in every expansion :)
As a warlock main since Vanilla, this comment stings. It’s like they won’t let go of how broken we were at the start.
Wrong
Has there been even one patch in WOW's history where you didn't have at least one of the lock specs being at the top?
Hey! Great video! With the luxthos WA how did you change the CD timers fonts? :)
I just picked the first WA I found for the Spec, so if it wasn't that then it's OmniCC
I hope they adjust Soul harvester to make it more AOE viable for locks, the recent nerf to its damage has basically just made it redundant against Hellcaller. Nerfs are definitely coming, just hope they don't over do it
I guess since Hellcaller feels tailor made for Affli and Diabolist for Demo, SH is kind of in the middle of both But yeah too much shadowbolt/nightfall synergy which doesn't do too much in aoe
Fuck you maybe? I dont want my class to get gutted
Nah, huge nerf incoming, survivability to dmg ratio insanely unbalanced.
Funny how this is from the perspective of already tanky Specs who are still having problems Imagine finding M+ too bursty when playing Mage, Warlock, Spriest, Aug or Ret wtf are Shamans, non-Aug evokers, healing priests, balance druids even supposed to do
@Izenhart agreed, I thought the whole point was to create create more aoe dmg. Like they could make a splash dot dmg that stacks off bolts. Otherwise we are going to see two worlds in war within wrecked pvp and pve
Dude mage is only good on retail right now with elite Aug and spriest players, go pug some 12-15s and fire come back to us all before you act like mage is some good class, you will do 400k overall if your lucky, spriest for example will do 650k, ret will do 650k, Sin rogue will do 650k, fire mage is fucking trash right now
@@waxoncrypto9524nobody cares about low keys. Fire mage and spriest are breaking the game since s2 dragonflight. And it needs to get fixed. Fire mage is currently the most broken spec on beta. Only unholy dks and ww monks keep up with it.
I want to affliction to have their time in the light! I’m personally rerolling spriest. Looking forward to TWW!
Cue Affliction no longer being a scuffed SPriest after 3 expansions and becoming Meta just because you rerolled. It was your fault!
@@Izenhart needed a break from the DH, my boomer wrists can’t take it anymore 😂
"here's what's good on the beta so far" "but it's just the beta, and it's only so far" "yeah"
Tell me your angle on this Is your plan to have 0 players talk about what's happening in the Beta because "it can/will change" ? Are we just gonna tune out until the expansion is released then?
@@Izenhart i'm joking-the first quote is this video. the second one is the usual goofy reply that these conversations aren't useful (they are useful). the third one is "no shit sherlock, i said they're just early impressions from the beginning" but my joke was perhaps too dadlike due to father's day
@@VizerPS Don't worry I understood the joke it was funny, we can still laugh and appreciate the content!
Thank goodness Izen is here to let me know what I think
Can you tell Blizzard what I think about Shamans as well? So you get banned instead of me? lmao
i wouldnt care as much if tanks have the easiest time in those delves. what bothers me, is like in m+ playing a melee char is an additional affix. so f-ing annoying
No, that doesn't help anyone except you so that you have content to upload. As everyone knows, a lot of changes and/or adjustments are made up until shortly before the first season. The video has exactly zero added value.
According to your Mensa member logic then nobody should be discussing a single thing about the expansion until it's out, right? Oh wait, but we all know it doesn't matter until the Season actually opens so we have to wait until then? But wait, we all know Blizzard balances Specs after a couple of weeks of results so I guess that's when we're allowed to talk about the game? late September? I lost IQ reading this
Can you not read? The title literally says "for now"
Thanks, I was worried I wasn't going to find my clown of the day today.
Your comment added zero value to the universe. It actually subtracted quite a bit.
@@Izenhartit’s just typical brain rot comments. Keep posting mr izen king 👑
We all know what blizzard does to people that fly to close to the top of the dps meter. Besides mage.
I don't know, we know Blizzard has been a proud parent of their golden child, Mage, for years but I think Warlock might as well be an illegitimate child they still take care of...
Let us have our moment in the sun! 😁😁
Never forget Blizzard giving Destruction warlock a 5% aura buff the first week of season 3 of Shadowlands. But true, they have, at least, been a bit more vigilant about warlocks this expansion though, at least.
@@Izenhart is this what grand delusions look like? lol
There will be a ton of balance tuning and warlock will return to the mediocrity it saw throughout most of Dragonflight.
Mediocrity? Lock has been bis in full aoe with destro and in st with demo all exp lol, in fact lock has had at least 1 top performing spec at least every exp and the utility/survivability is crazy, you'll never have a problem getting in pugs...
I see you like starting the day looking on the bright side of things!
@@dariominiello9934 Since they gutted the Demo ST build at the start of S3 there wasn't a single fight where Warlock was a top performer in ST situations.
@@dariominiello9934I think you’re still living in Shadowlands. Aside from season 2, warlock has been mediocre in mythic raid. Check the data on Warcraft logs. This doesn’t mean they’ve been bad. Mediocre means middle.
@@krayt5875 i checked and it's true, looks like they got rekt in last patch lol, still destro is bis in aoe though it doest fit the "god comp" rn, but you see locks in almost all bosses top 100 in mythic raids, as almost every fight is cleave, a lot of bosses also have locks in top 10 or even r1. Let's be real, with that much, portal, healthstone, the crazy defensives, you cannot go wrong with lock in any expansion. Locks are mandatory.