GC et all, here is a short list of some of the major bugs that Warlocks are seeing/dealing with. A comment about these or what else you would like from us (WWS, screenshots, etc) for these problems would be nice as these are hurting our performance in raids.

These are primarily the Aff bugs since that is what I have the most experience with, although some of these are cross-spec issues.

1. Shadow Embrace:

well documented and I think you are aware so hopefully that fix is coming along. Unless this is the magic 'stop bringing aff locks and eating up all the dubuff slots' check you have implemented :D The bug mirrors the Unholy Death Knight's problem with Ebon Plague. Only one Affliction Warlock is able to gain the Shadow Embrace debuff per target.

2. Immolate:

When Immolate is clipped (meaning a new Immolate will land on the target before the old Immolate has expired on the target), the new Immolate sometimes does not land and it forces a recast. This is reported as happening even to people that are hit capped (myself included) for Immolate. We are then forced to waste mana on a recast once we finally notice that it did not land. Most of us are precasting to refresh it so that Immo should land right as the old one is expiring so that the timing is very precise. Immolate 'missing' the target like this is becoming quite a large problem and nuisance.

My personal Immolate uptimes vary from Unstable Affliction, anywhere from 2-13% and this is absurd because I'm casting them back to back 100% of the time, so their uptimes should be next to identical. Any large variance is due to Immo not landing (UA is always higher).



Tested and Found not a bug. 3. Corruption: At times, even while Haunt is on the target, people are noticing Corr falling off the target for what seems to be no reason at all. This ends up having the same implications as the Immolate bug from above.

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4. Drain Soul:

While attacking multiple mobs, if while casting DS on one target, one of the other mobs happens to die first, DS is then canceled on your current target.

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After more testing we are showing that there is no bug with how Corruption falls off. Seems the way to correct it is to ensure that haunt is refreshed before the last tick of Corruption happens. How we do this...seems that we will still have issues with it falling off. Old bug 3, while listed is invalid now.

5. People are reporting issues with how pets engage targets, in that they do so early and usually resulting in their death. While we can say that we need to manage our pets better, and this may be partly true, we are left wondering what changed that we have to micro manage our pets more now. More testing is required for this issue.

6. Pet Pathing:

A handful of patches ago pet pathing was improved in that, for example, if you were to jump down a ledge, the pet would teleport right next to you. Now we are back to it trying to find a proper 'run' path to you, usually resulting in the pet despawning. ie. Thaddius ledge.

7. Corruption and Everlasting Affliction:

When a Corruption is refreshed via Everlasting Affliction it reverts the base coefficient from 120% back to the original 93.6%. This results in a quite dramatic DPS decrease.

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Those are the main bugs that bother me the most night in and night out of raiding. Also in regards to making the Aff rotation less of a science. Remove the Siphon Life spell and add the healing to another spell, ie. Corruption also heals for X% when talented.

We have a discussion on EJ going on about this thread as well. Plenty of more examples and evidence to these bugs.

http://elitistjerks.com/f80/t38963-warlock_bugs/

Multi target Haunt doesn't work in any situation. (healing)
When Haunt gets the killing blow it doesn't work in any situation. (healing)

As far as affliction bugs those would be the 3 id want fixed as well. The immolate one is especially annoying.

Any more additions from other locks?

The Felhunter is bugged currently - he stands around for a while behind a mob not attacking. Also I think the imp's mana regen is out of whcak.

I was wondering what the heck was going on with immolate.

Fix this >< lol

I haven't noticed the corruption bug, are you sure it isn't just falling off while your haunt is airborne?

demons gettin stuck in place

and immolation dot not refreshing

There's definitely problems with the corruption refreshing talents. It often takes over a second after haunt or drain life does damage for it to refresh, and several times I've seen the refreshed corruption fall off when it's supposed to have two or three seconds left. I've even had it fall off several times while in the middle of channeling drain life.

Sometimes, I can't reapply a Corruption just before it's up...I'll get, "There is a more powerful spell currently on the target." This doesn't happen every time and once the Corruption is up, it can be reapplied with no problem.

These bugs have been around for months, and they're still not being addressed. While it's nice they buffed destro, working out bugs really should have gotten priority.

I'm not even convinced blizzard has even acknowledged the bugs mentioned above.

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Q u o t e:
Sometimes, I can't reapply a Corruption just before it's up...I'll get, "There is a more powerful spell currently on the target." This doesn't happen every time and once the Corruption is up, it can be reapplied with no problem.

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I've also noticed that happening, i believe it has something to do with damage procs.

I'm pretty sure the everlasting affliction problems are more of a server latency problem though, the same thing happens when you try to conflag right after you apply immolate or conflag off of a shadowflame.. It seems to take a while for the server to recognize the added debuff and act accordingly.

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I haven't noticed the corruption bug, are you sure it isn't just falling off while your haunt is airborne?

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No, it's a bug. I've seen it fall from 3 seconds to 0 with the haunt debuff refreshed during that time, ie not airborne.

Fear makes people go through the doors in Strand
They can immediately win the game then.



Demonic Empathy only works on cleave (not sure if intended)...
Making the uptime way less than Demonic Pact


Malediciton tooltp says it increases your spell damage by 3%.
Doesn't actually increase your spell damage.
Seems like it increases the damage of spells by 3% (better) but only for affliction spells

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Those are the main bugs that bother me the most night in and night out of raiding. Also in regards to making the Aff rotation less of a science. Remove the Siphon Life spell and add the healing to another spell, ie. Corruption also heals for X% when talented.

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I disagree only because I think this will be a DPS loss. I've been averaging 1K SL ticks--that's 10K dmg for 1 GCD. If you take that away and just add healing back thru talents, it's surely a DPS loss.

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demons gettin stuck in place

and immolation dot not refreshing

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Addition to this:
Demons cannot swim. (Maybe VW specific?)

I remember doing those murloc quests and having my vw sink to the bottom of the lake then disappear.
Either that or he would stop half way and despawn.

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Addition to this:
Demons cannot swim. (Maybe VW specific?)

I remember doing those murloc quests and having my vw sink to the bottom of the lake then disappear.
Either that or he would stop half way and despawn.

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Felguards can't swim either. They stand on top of the water and won't move no matter how many times you call them.

Also: In archavon they won't attack no matter how many times you tell them. (You can instant summon them down by the boss and they will work)

Also, I too have had the "there is a more powerful spell active" bug.

Something that is annoying me is the fact that i cannot recast Corruption at times if say Haunt gets resisted. I get hit with a more powerful spell is currently active. It is quite the pain although it does not occur often.

Blizz should be ashamed of the Shadow Embrace bug atm. This is a blatant whoopsy and I have seen no effort on there part to correct it.

That also being said I have noticed that if Haunt is cast with relatively little time left on corruption the Dot falls off. I cannot say for sure wether i get the last tick of corruption but if that turns out to be the case it is quite bleh.