PTR Warlocks gone wild
by Dan O'Halloran 
Dec 16th 2007 at 11:02AM
When the PTRs came back up later in the evening, the spell was removed and all premade Warlocks had their talents and spell lists wiped. So not only do new Warlocks have to drop 350g to repopulate their empty spellbooks, they have to run all the quest lines to reacquire their pets. Needless to say, there aren't many premade Warlocks on the PTRs this week.
Still, it would have been fun to have seen the PvP matches before this mistake was caught.
EDIT: YouTube vid after the jump!
Thanks to reader Tempestion for the vid.
Filed under: Warlock, Patches, Bugs, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Greg Dec 16th 2007 11:11AM
why couldnt this have made it to live....i mean shamans get free t6
robodex Dec 16th 2007 11:23AM
haha, the best is the people complaining about this.
It'd be a problem if it was on, say, live realms, but it's the PTR. Suck it up and deal with it :P
Corrine Dec 16th 2007 11:38AM
I'm guessing they gave 'lock's Seed of Corruption's explosive effect rather than the base spell. Since the explosive effect is only supposed to be triggered by the game (rather than by the player) when the target takes enough damage for the SoC debuff to explode, it doesn't have those nice, balancing limitations like a reasonable max range, a global cooldown, a mana cost, and a requirement for the warlock to still be alive like normal abilities do. :-p
Nick Dec 16th 2007 11:41AM
Just another reason to nerf locks =D
Rob Dec 16th 2007 11:46AM
I guess that makes up for the fact that they also don't have any spells, ground mounts or PETS when you start!
Tempestion Dec 16th 2007 11:50AM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7xL6jjllza0
I recorded some of my antics on the PTR. :-D
Poxus Dec 16th 2007 1:04PM
lol my Orc Poxus was one of those guys that killed you while you were at that graveyard camping people...other than that I think you smacked me around the rest of the time
PeeWee Dec 16th 2007 12:03PM
2x-3x more powerful? What are you smoking and where can I get some of it? Judging by the video posted by #6, it didn't do any more damage than the ones I can cast, and my lock is a newb in sub-par pre-kara gear.
Rich Dec 16th 2007 2:13PM
True the damage wasn't much different, but the AoE was proc'ing on each tic too.
Zakk Dec 16th 2007 1:53PM
Lol, that was fun. I remember somebody was asking in trade or general or something why the auctioneers kept dying randomly. I believe the response was "OMG MAYGAHBUF SOC!!1", or something along those lines. I guess the name I chose for my premade Lock was fitting (Omgtotallyop)...
Verit Dec 16th 2007 2:30PM
Lol - they should be soc sniped a new term :). (and make this change live asap!)
Tarbh Dec 16th 2007 3:00PM
Would of taken that opportunity to down every race leader..... and lots of gnomes.
Liitz Dec 16th 2007 3:50PM
wow, how did they let this happen?
SJPadbury Dec 16th 2007 4:37PM
Aw, man, I was going to use this as a try-out of end-game warlocks before I leveled one all the way up. Oh well.
Nevermind Dec 17th 2007 3:46AM
LOL nice
Coherent Dec 17th 2007 1:45PM
That was a pretty damn funny video. "Warlock Godmode" indeed :)
OvenMitt Bandit Dec 21st 2007 2:02PM
I enjoyed his choice of Zelda music at the beginning. =D