Warlocks are serious business
Warlocks are getting a major overhaul to their class resources. Currently, they have to harvest soul shards from slain enemies, but this can become tedious while managing bag space and constantly draining souls to keep up their stock. In Cataclysm, Soul Shards will no longer be items and instead be a discrete resource, like Death Knight runes. By using the new Soul Burn skill, they consume an automatically regenerating Soul Shard to power up an ability. A bunch of these buffs are revealed in this new update from Blizzard, such as increasing movement speed after using the teleporter or making spells instant cast.
Perhaps purely to fuel the Warlock/Mage feud, Warlocks are getting a version of Frostfire Bolt. It’s called Fel Flame, and it’s an instant cast green fire bolt that does fire or shadow damage, depending on the target’s spell resistances. It also refreshes Immolate and Unstable Affliction in the process. This is an incredible ability that should make Warlocks a little bit more mobile in PvP. Another Mage spell that Warlocks get to steal is Focus Magic, called Dark Intent, which increases the target’s critical strike chance and increases the Warlock’s damage coefficient when the Dark Intent target crits.
Other highlights include Voidwalker’s Tormet generating more threat, as well as AoE threat. Warlock’s DoTs will also scale directly from Haste and Crit.
Check out the full list of changes after the break!
