WoW Warlock

Poor warlocks and trying tp tag mobs to them in Northrend. I have to say that I’m not entirely sympathetic since the world first Lv. 80 was a warlock so it can’t be all that bad, but I will agree that accidentally I’ve pulled a few mobs away from warlocks because their dots be slow [...]

Hunters and Warlock might have noticed that when your pet is set to defensive he will automatically go attack your target without prompting as soon as you fire off that first shot. Also he’ll switch targets sometimes when adds join the fight and try to keep aggro on them as well.
Some folks think this is [...]

As promised earlier this week to Darthspectre, I am putting a fan-made map of Azeroth for lore reference into this Daily Spoon. Recap of today’s posts at the end.
Here’s some general news updates I didn’t want to lump into tiny individual posts. Wrath of the Lich King will NOT be available for download on the [...]

Little warning that due to the nature of my trauma over the weekend this is kind of a long post (as the Paladin one will be)
Warlocks (at least the original poster in this thread) are pissed and feel cheated this time around. I can’t comment and am thus staying out of the argument since my [...]

There are a lot of changes coming up including the great Paladin nerf (I really don’t think it’s so bad honestly) as well as the Hunter changes to aspects and such.
Death Knights got a little tweaking in the way of DPS increase in Blood. Druids got some barely noticeable drops in their DPS for feral [...]

Druid
Consequences of 10% armor increase on bosses for feral druids
It will hurt Feral dps, but we also needed to hurt Feral dps a little. Cats with a cat spec really hurt stuff now.

It will be a slight threat nerf to bears and warriors (and DKs and paladins slightly less) but tank threat is so enormous [...]

We have finished a fairly comprehensive look at the dps of various classes and specs and are concerned that warlock dps isn’t quite where it should be. It’s not abysmal by any means, but we think it should be a little higher.
To give warlocks a little extra nudge in PvP, we increased Soul Link up [...]

Some good news and some not so good news in this batch of Blue posts. Druid healing not so much nerfed as just forced off easy mode.
Lifebloom nerf
Even if you only consider PvE, the reason we changed Lifebloom, as I have said before, was it became the correct answer to any situation a Resto druid [...]

Once more presumably these changes will be coming in Patch 3.0.3 for the Live servers in preparation of retail release of Wrath of the Lich King. Credit to MMOC for pooling this info off the talent builders and skill lists.
Death Knight
Skills
Frost

Targets affected by Chains of Ice now regain 10% of their movement each second for [...]

This is coming from MMOC and the Official Wrath of the Lich King forums. Now in the title I say that they’re possible class changes because anything can happen; they could push these as hotfixes, they could come out with 3.0.3, they could come out on Nov. 13th with the retail Wrath of the Lich [...]

The Felguard magic damage reduction now extends to Holy. I believe this was hotfixed yesterday.
Typically we don’t change Holy resistance (which this is not), but it’s consistent with other damage reduction abilities (which this is) to reduce all magic damage. This should help warlocks stand up to paladins in particular in PvP. (src)
I’m not [...]

DoT Crits
Originally, we liked the fact that dots didn’t crit. It’s one of the things that made them different from other types of spells. In turn, it meant that classes and specs that focused on dots cared about different stats than other classes. We think it’s interesting when say a ring drops, and the group [...]

Warlock
Eradication might need a few changes
Thanks. We’ll take a look at it. (src)
Demonic Circle recast
If you cast a new one, it should just cast a new one. We’ll look into it. (src)
Demonic Circle isn’t intended to be a pew pew spell. Not every ability has to be. (src)

Shadowflame buffs?
Shadowflame is something we’re looking at. (src)

Warlock
Destruction

Molten Core duration has been increased. Your Shadow spells and damage over time effects have a 5/10/15% chance to increase the damage of your Fire spells by 10% for 12 sec. (Up from 6 sec)

Affliction

Improved Corruption now Increases the damage done by your Corruption by 6/8/10% (Down from 12/16/20%), and increases the critical strike chance [...]

Developer Q/A (src)
Firestone/Soulstone – Will there be a Crit/haste swap? Will they be useable in arena?
Firestones and Spellstones should be usable in Arena. We’ll get that fixed.
Is there more ‘polish’ coming to the trees? Destro is pretty odd in terms of skills and rotation still.
We will continue to polish the trees. I want to be [...]

Skills
Affliction

Curse of Doom now summons a Doomguard only if the target yields experience or honor.
Haunt now heals you for 100%. (Down from 200%)
Drain Soul now causes four times the normal damage if the target is at or below 25% health

Demonology

Demonic Circle now lasts 6 minutes.
Inferno now summons an infernal under the command of the caster [...]

It wasn’t too long ago that GC said if a talent was too much like something that needs to be base trainable for the class then changes would be made to reflect that. Now easily Ruin is one of the most useful Warlock talents out there and now that it’s more accessible I’d be hard [...]

Not much to say really but it’s nice to see that Blizzard is aware of most issues being reported.
Affliction tree
Haunt - It should be more than 20%. Haven’t settled on the right number yet. Should be “coming back” when you apply a new Haunt or when the effect ends, will check on that.
Pandemic - I’m [...]

Here’s a list of all the undocumented class changes that have come through in this patch. Very interesting stuff here and I’ll have to play around with it to really have an opinion but right now on paper, I see Death Knights finally getting some damage buffs and survivability nerfs which might put them BACK [...]

Warlock
Chaos Bolt damage increased
Damage is being boosted in the next build. (src)
Pet and Master sharing hit %
We do have a plan to let pets use the hunter or warlock’s hit. Certain talents would need to be adjusted to reflect this change. (src)
Pet and upcoming talent changes

We’ve increased the scaling of pets for this expansion. All [...]

My hat goes off again to Darksniper form Ask a Warlock with this little short flick he put together showing all the new “beams” such as Health Funnel, Drain Life, Drain Soul, and Drain Mana. They look, AWESOME.

Darksniper over at Ask a Warlock is back with a vengeance after a little hiatus. He has a new spin on his normal lineup where you can ask any and all Warlock BETA questions over on his site. In this video he’s showcasing the famous Training dummies in the Sewers of Dalaran. The video ends [...]

This is list of documented and undocumented class changes for the latest build of the Wrath beta, 8926. A lot of changes went through and for your convenience here are jump links to get to your specific class.
Classes: Death Knight - Druid- Hunter- Mage- Paladin- Priest- Rogue- Shaman- Warlock- Warrior
I’ll give you the short version [...]

UPDATES: There were some more changes and other updates I am putting here so by all means check those out.
Something for my Boomkins out there. There’s a lack of decent mana regen for Balance Druids in the Naxx raiding gear so that’s being addressed and I foresee more Boomkin in the future.
Nobody seems to be [...]

Blizzard’s doing a few passes on all the classes at this time and their individual specs. Warlocks are on the list of course and so it’s time to work on the 51pt talent for demonology.
This is kind of a specific request, but please give us any feedback you have on Metamorphosis, the 51 Demo talent. [...]

The brilliant and hard workers over at MMO-Champion put together this very comprehensive list of the undocumented changes that hit classes this latest Wrath Beta Build (8905) It’s a very long list as there were MANY changes which you would do well to check out, here are some shortcuts that should get you to the [...]

New ranks of totems/enchants are incoming - Just built all the new ranks of totems/enchants etc., should be up in an upcoming build. (src)
Good to have this setup before Naxxramas obviously.
New Affliction talent inc - There will be a new talent in Affliction in an upcoming build.
Keywords: “DoT” and “Crit” (Well, sorta). (src)
No idea what [...]

As the title says, this is a very short update as there is little to report. Not to say in the least that this is not significant because I know the Priest one in particular is a really big deal.
Cower for Moonkins? - Back on the main EU English forums comes a suggestion for a [...]

Not much for now, perhaps that will change later today.
Affliction

Frailty changed: Increases the amount of attack power reduced by your Curse of Weakness by 10/20%, and reduces the amount of attack power granted by your Curse of Recklessness by 50/100%.
Shadow Embrace changed: Your Corruption, Curse of Agony, Siphon Life and Seed of Corruption spells also [...]

This strikes closer to home than most other posts because I was once a Warrior (still am mostly), currently have a Lv. 70 Shaman as my main (and am about 100 kills from 30,000 where I will throw a party) and my wife plays (and loves) a Warlock. So without further delay, here’s the scoop.
Shaman. [...]