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.
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12-16-2007 @ 11:11AM
Greg said...
why couldnt this have made it to live....i mean shamans get free t6
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12-16-2007 @ 11:23AM
robodex said...
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
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12-16-2007 @ 11:38AM
Corrine said...
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
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12-16-2007 @ 11:41AM
Nick said...
Just another reason to nerf locks =D
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12-16-2007 @ 11:46AM
Rob said...
I guess that makes up for the fact that they also don't have any spells, ground mounts or PETS when you start!
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12-16-2007 @ 11:50AM
Tempestion said...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7xL6jjllza0
I recorded some of my antics on the PTR. :-D
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12-16-2007 @ 1:04PM
Poxus said...
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
12-16-2007 @ 12:03PM
PeeWee said...
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.
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12-16-2007 @ 2:13PM
Rich said...
True the damage wasn't much different, but the AoE was proc'ing on each tic too.
12-16-2007 @ 1:53PM
Zakk said...
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)...
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12-16-2007 @ 2:30PM
Verit said...
Lol - they should be soc sniped a new term :). (and make this change live asap!)
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12-16-2007 @ 3:00PM
Tarbh said...
Would of taken that opportunity to down every race leader..... and lots of gnomes.
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12-16-2007 @ 3:50PM
Liitz said...
wow, how did they let this happen?
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12-16-2007 @ 4:37PM
SJPadbury said...
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.
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12-17-2007 @ 3:46AM
Nevermind said...
LOL nice
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12-17-2007 @ 1:45PM
Coherent said...
That was a pretty damn funny video. "Warlock Godmode" indeed :)
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12-21-2007 @ 2:02PM
OvenMitt Bandit said...
I enjoyed his choice of Zelda music at the beginning. =D
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