Warlock 5.4

Warlock

General

• Corruption damage has been increased by 10%.
• Demonic Gateways are no longer attackable once more. The debuff from using a Demonic Gateway has been increased to 60 seconds (up from 15 seconds).
• Fel Armor no longer reduces all damage taken by 10%.
• Fel Flame now deals 13% more damage, costs 2% less mana, and no longer increases the duration of damage-over-time spells.
• Immolate damage has been increased by 10%.
• Rain of Fire now has a reduced chance to generate Burning Embers.
• The Codex of Xerrath now infuses additional spells with fel magic (green fire effect).
  • Summon Felsteed, Summon Dreadsteed, Summon Abyssal, Demonic Fury, Dark Apotheosis, and Demonic Leap.

Affliction

• Agony damage has been increased by 16%.
• Drain Soul no longer energizes Soul Shards from the pets and guardians of players, and now deals 34% less damage. If other periodic Affliction damage effects are triggered by Drain Soul, they now deal 60% of their normal damage (down from 100%).
• Haunt now deals 50% more damage, and increases damage done by all of the Warlock’s damage-over-time spells against the target by 45%.
• Malefic Grasp now deals 34% less damage, and causes all of the Warlock’s other periodic Affliction damage effects to instantly deal 30% of their normal periodic damage (down from 50%).
• Nightfall now gives Corruption a 10% increased chance to generate a Soul Shard on the most recently applied Corruption.
• Soul Swap no longer does any damage, and now copies damage-over-time effects instead of just moving them without needing a glyph. Copied effects now once again preserve their power and duration. Duration has been reduced to 3 seconds (down from 20 seconds).
• Unstable Affliction damage has been increased by 21%.

Demonology

• Dark Soul: Knowledge now increases the effects of Mastery: Master Demonologist by an additional 30%.

Talents

• Archimonde’s Vengeance has been redesigned and renamed into Archimonde’s Darkness.
  • Archimonde’s Darkness gives the Warlock’s Dark Soul spell two charges.
• Grimoire of Sacrifice no longer affects Drain Life.
  • For Affliction Warlocks, Grimoire of Sacrifice now increases the power of various single target spells by 20% (down from 30%).
• Harvest Life no longer replaces Drain Life. Harvest Life is now a passive talent that increases Drain Life’s damage by 50%, and healing by 150%. The talent no longer turns the ability into an area-of-effect spell.
• Howl of Terror is no longer a talent and is now a baseline skill for all Warlocks.
  • Demonic Breath is a new talent replacing Howl of Terror. The Warlock sends out a cone of Shadow damage, snaring targets, has a 20-second cooldown.
• Kil’jaden’s Cunning no longer reduces movement speed, and will now allow the Warlock to cast Incinerate, Malefic Grasp, and Shadow Bolt while moving.
• Mannoroth’s Fury is no longer a passive ability. Mannoroth’s Fury now has a duration of 10 seconds with a 60 second cooldown, and increases the area of area-of-effect by 500% and increases damage by 100% for Hellfire, Immolation Aura, Rain of Fire, and Seed of Corruption.
• Soul Leech can now also activate from Shadowburn, and caps out at 15% of the Warlock and their pet’s maximum health (down from 100%).
• Soul Link now transfers 20% of damage taken by the Warlock to their pet, and 3% of all damage dealt by the Warlock will be returned as healing for the Warlock and their pet. This ability is always active while the Warlock’s pet is active.

Glyphs

• Major Glyphs
  • Glyph of Dark Soul has been replaced by Glyph of Curse of the Elements.
    • Glyph of Curse of the Elements causes Curse of the Elements to hit 2 additional nearby targets.
  • Glyph of Everlasting Affliction has been replaced by Glyph of Eternal Resolve.
    • Glyph of Eternal Resolve: Changes Unending Resolve into a passive ability that provides a constant 10% reduction to damage taken.
  • Glyph of Fear no longer causes Fear to have a cooldown.
  • Glyph of Imp Swarm now summons 4 Wild Imps (down from 5 Wild Imps).
  • Glyph of Shadowflame has been replaced with Glyph of Unending Resolve.
    • Glyph of Unending Resolve reduces the damage reduction of Unending Resolve by 20%, and the cooldown is reduced by 60 seconds.
  • Glyph of Soul Swap has been replaced with Glyph of Havoc.
    • Glyph of Havoc: Havoc gains 3 additional charges, but the cooldown is increased by 35 seconds.

Class Armor

• Warlock Tier-14 4-piece set bonus now reduces the cooldown of Unending Resolve by 20 seconds.
• Warlock PvP 4-piece set bonus now reduces duration of the debuff from using a Demonic Gateway by 15 seconds.