09-30-2005, 08:14 AM
savaughn,Sep 30 2005, 12:52 AM Wrote:If Blizzard truly believes what they're saying on the forums, to wit: that in raids Warlocks are using combinations that are creating excessively high damage... my point is that changing Ruin does not fix this problem. It nerfs Warlock damage across the board. If Blizz is stating that synergies are excessive, nerf the synergies. If shadow weaving didn't increase shadowbolt damage and ISB was tracked on a per warlock basis you've eliminated the bonuses inherent to a raid without significantly reducing overall warlock damage. This is not the solution that was chosen. Instead, it was decided to reduce warlock damage across the board rather than correct the specific raid based condition.
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Now that I've thought about it, I agree. I never thought the Ruin nerf was the right solution, but now I'm fairly certain that it's the wrong one. Warlocks are doing excessive damage in raids, and something needs to be fixed about that, but changing Ruin isn't going to do much other than reduce lower-level Warlock DPS.
Just as a note as to how much damage warlocks can do: I witnessed an impromptu "test" one day on Sulfuron. The whole raid DPSed the marked priests and a warlock, a tank, and a healer went off with another flamewaker priest to a corner and let the warlock do the DPS. The warlock just about killed his flamewaker in the same amount of time it took four rogues, six mages and three hunters to kill three. Yes, the warlock was well-geared, but not better geared than at least two of the mages and two of the rogues. Nonetheless, he managed at least a third of the DPS of thirteen other people.