Kalgan confirms the Lifetap fix on Patch 2.4 PTRs
Kalgan made an appearance on the Warlock forums to explain a little bit as to the drama going on with Lifetap and how Blizzard was knocking around locks in general. He goes into further detail as well about arena statistics worth reading.
Q u o t e:
1st page.Big win if it makes it to live untouched, but I’ll reserve judgement on 2.4 till it’s finalized. Who knows what other nerf they might decide to toss on us to compensate for reverting back lifetap. Hell, they might even consider it a warlock buff, justifying nerfing us somewhere else.
No other warlock nerfs are planned for 2.4. One of the things we look at is class representation in arenas (although normalized for class popularity). In this particular chart, a value of 100% means the class is represented as we’d expect, a value over 100% means the class is represented that much more often than we’d expect, a value below 100% means they’re represented less than we’d want (obviously this chart doesn’t include a spec breakdown in any way).
2v2 3v3 5v5 Druid 276.0% 184.0% 80.5% Hunter 43.0% 50.2% 43.0% Mage 8.7% 96.0% 96.0% Paladin 19.7% 29.5% 147.4% Priest 113.3% 164.8% 185.4% Shaman 37.8% 50.4% 138.6% Rogue 144.2% 175.1% 61.8% Warlock 149.2% 93.2% 111.9% Warrior 130.4% 90.7% 79.3%
Locks are doing pretty well overall, but what had us worried was that it appeared to us a month ago or so as though warlocks were on an uptrend. However, the evidence is strong that that trend is reversing, which means significant nerfs aren’t really what we want right now (we really don’t know where those numbers will settle down).
Edit: one other detail regarding the chart, this one is set at 2200+ rating.[ Post edited by Kalgan ] (src)
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