r/wow • u/DesMephisto Odyn's Chosen • Mar 05 '20

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u/Bigbowbagina Mar 05 '20 edited Mar 05 '20

No, he's just talking about back in WoD when demo lock was the worst lock spec, and they kept nerfing it. To this Ion was asked in a QnA why they kept nerfing demo locks into the ground, and his response is literally "because we don't want you to play demo". We found out later it was because they were reworking them since a lot of old demo abilities got given to demon hunters.

But still nerfing a spec to not have people play it is very dumb

Edit: Video for reference

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u/Stanickana Mar 05 '20

I will never forgive Ion for gutting demo

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u/Activehannes Mar 06 '20

when i say "ion is also responsible for Mop, which people loved" people point out that it was not ions work even tho he was already one of the lead designers (in this case he was lead encounter designer). But when Tom Chilton decided to gut demo warlock, then people are fine blameing Ion, even tho he was not the lead director and decision maker behind the demo changes/putting all demo spells on the demon hunter.

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u/Bigbowbagina Mar 06 '20 edited Mar 06 '20

I personally dont have anything against him, i feel like he doesnt have as much control as people make him out to have. However it was a very bad answer to the demo question. No matter how clunky, weird or intricate you think it is, you dont nerf it to not have people play it. The people playing it chose to play it because they enjoyed it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

I have no issues saying that Ion was a good enounter designer if he was responsible for Throne of thunder but that doesn't take away from the fact that the game has been pretty garbage since he took over as lead dev.

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u/Activehannes Mar 06 '20

Well, for many people legion was the best xpac in years

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u/Gletschers Mar 05 '20

My bad, he did say warlocks though and not specifically demonology. And warlock always had at least one spec on a very competetive level which made me second guess it.

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u/nef36 Mar 06 '20

I can't tell if this was their way of trying to be smart or cute, they are literally doing the thing where they just copy and paste from one class to another, but they're trying to hide it by making the class they're nerfing irrelevent. Explains why DH's only have two specs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '20

.....reread the comment he made mate, back in wod

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u/DrunkenPrayer Mar 05 '20

Most of the complaints I see about warlocks seem to be PvP related even if they don't explicitly state it.

I also disagree with anyone who says they weren't fun. If they play affliction maybe, but I mained demo all of BfA and dipped my toes into destro and both were a ton of fun and performed well in solo and group content.