Confirmed 1.9 Patch Notes

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Warlocks get hit with the nerf bat every patch as well.  This time it is the overall damage of Warlocks that has been nerfed.  A lot of Warlocks tested out how much additional damage negative resistance gave over a number of casts and found that it gave around 20% additional DPS.  With the change to Curse of Elements/Shadow, Warlocks now lose around 15% of their sustained DPS.
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On the bright side, they increased the Searing Pain damage for all ranks by 1 point. Whoopie!

As for Curse of Shadows/Elements, I think we should wait and see how it actually works. Have you tried on on Test yet? I'm out of town right now, or I would. The new versions of the spells supposedly make up for the lack of negative resistances by increasing damage by a percentage.

I think the buff to Infernal/Doomguard armor of 10% and damge by 30% (!) is quite significant, at least for the infernal. Considering neither of them have diminishing returns on Enslave as of 1.8, and Improved Enslave 5/5 almost guarantees a 5 minute enslave each cast, the Infernal should be quite powerful. At the very least, I'll be using him for farming Felcloth, where a bounty of shards are to be had. This is the reason why I wanted to pass on the Sash of Whispered Secrets (which also got buffed this patch, I just dont know how), I wanted to save up for one more piece of Felheart to get the -1.5s casting time 3/8 set bonus. But I am happy with this amazing belt. :)

Voidwalker Demonic Sacrifice for major health regen, and buffed Infernal+Soul Link for major killing and staying power. Hope it works out as well as I'm hoping :)

Shard Bags. The forums are ignited with outrage over the 20 slot shard bag. Funny thing is, we have yet to see how good the 30 slot bag and 40 slot bag (from MC) are. We don't know if they have any effects aside from a large amount of space, or if they even "behave" like normal bags by residing in bag slots. Ages ago, the devs said we would be very happy with the new bags and they would have nice bonuses, suggesting something besides lots of space.

Regardless, here's to hoping the MC bag is BoE. Our warlock corps would be very happy very quickly. I'm also praying that it's epic! Think of the glory, an epic bag! All I know about the bag is that it's name is Core Felcloth Bag, and it is rumored to be 40 slots.