Top 10 Removed Warlock Abilities

Over the history of Warcraft’s most beloved classes a great deal of buttons and abilities have had to be removed from the game. This can be due to them no longer serving a purpose, balancing issues, or just flat out giving the warlock too many buttons to push. In this list we’re going to discuss the top ten removed warlock abilities from their kit, varying from their iconism and usefulness when they still existed.

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├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10. Thal’kiel’s Consumption (0:18)
9. Deathbolt (3:32)
8. Unbound Will (5:50)
7. Hellfire (8:24)
6. Shadowflame (10:18)
5. Life Tap (11:57)
4. Fel/Demon Armors (13:49)
3. Grimoire of Supremacy/Demonic Servitude (15:25)
2. Burning Embers (17:22)
1. Metamorphosis (19:32)

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[metermaide]

hellfire was unfairly removed, even if blizzard thought it was useless, having an extra button to aoe farm in low level areas was infact very fun and useful.

[yoman]

The saddest part of metamorphosis is that there was a lore justification for it to be in the game.
Kanrethad Ebonlocke, the guy from the green fire questline, was amongst the heroes who assaulted Illidan in the Black Temple. Being a genius warlock, he was able to create an imitation of a demon hunter's metamorphosis just by witnessing it close and personal; later, he shared the knowledge amongst other warlocks.

Also, I was expecting Fel Flame in the list.

[terrydirks]

I CANNOT believe you left out the most important function of Hellfire.

Raid Leader: "Okay. Wipe."

All the Warlocks vigorously Life Tapping then Hellfiring at low health to save on repairs.

Dying to self damage didn't incur repairs. Now all we have is Burning Rush, and it turns itself off at low health and won't activate at all if you don't have enough health.

Also, I make this comment whenever Metamorphosis is talked about:

RP Demon Hunter: I'VE SACRIFICED EVERYTHING! WHAT HAVE YOU SACRIFICED?!?

Warlock: Metamorphosis. You're welcome.

[LadyTsunade]

Really surprised Kil'jaedan's Cunning, Mannoroth's Fury, and Dark Apotheosis aren't on here.
Kil'jaedan's Cunning and Mannoroth's Fury were so OP that they had to both be quickly reworked shortly after release. Originally they were both passives, but they were far too strong, so Bliz turned them into spells with short duration, long cd, and reduced effect instead, which ended up killing them both and making Archimonde's Darkness the only viable choice.
While Dark Apotheosis was just plain fun. Warlock Tank is something players have wanted to be an actual thing for years and years, and we even got an NPC bodyguard Lock tank in WoD.
MoP was peak Warlock class and spec design. The level 75 Grimoires and level 90 talents all were cool, each spec having a different fitting resource was great, Dark Apotheosis was fun to toy around with, all the iconic abilities like Life Tap and Demon Armor were still there.

[jesuisbon]

Honorable mention from me would be they eye of killrogg minor talent that allowed you to place your demonic circle where your eye would be WITHOUT Line of Sight.
I can understand why they removed it, but it was useful AF for running old raids/dungeons.

[jasonyoung]

In the old version of the game, life tap was invaluable.
I remember being at the altar of damnation at level 70, I summoned the elemental demon, who had 369000 health. This is back when you had a few thousand health as a player.
Health funnel - Drain life - life tap. meanwhile my pet was tanking the boss (i think i was using the voidwalker, he had better defense than the felguard).
It took me many tries, cos that quest boss would enrage, but i eventually did it solo. And felt like a god.

[charlesc]

the moment i saw the title i screamed METAMORPHOSIS 😭

[uncleterb]

Warlocks have the best theme in wow, devs always take from it just to regurgitate for 'new' ideas such as the infamous metamorphosis steal and now netherportal is gone there's no doubt a 'new' summoner class on the horizon... bliz can go to hell tbh

[daviddavidson]

In Wrath, lifetap was also part of your rotation with the empowered life tap glyph to convert 20% of your spirit into spell power on top of the 30% from fel armor which gives a huge amount of spell power to demo locks to then give 10% of their own overall spell power to the raid through demonic pact.

Being a demo warlock felt so good when you saw your buff just got so huge. I miss that part of life tap the most now going from Wrath Classic to Cata Classic.

[thisoneuy]

You know whats Malevolence talent that gives you a partial design of the OG Metamorphosis is only available under Hellcaller which is only for Affliction and Destruction and not Demonology.
I want to strangle something.

[itskhro]

I'll never forgive Blizzard for what they did to Demonology in Warlords.... Just omega-nerfing them because they *didnt want people to play it* before DH came out. Did they think we would forget the REAL meta? I hope it comes back some day (for demo) with the same ability-altering stuff, but maybe just with visible wings or similar to avoid too much overlap with DH.

[deepzz]

Never forget destro use to cover you in fire as your resource bar filled up

[somerandominternetdweller]

I miss metamorphosis and dark apotheosis. But with dark apotheosis, it’s mostly because I wanted the demon wings 😂.

[Vintagegaston]

It’s worth noting in Heroes of the Storm, Guldan does not regenerate mana, he has to Life Tap

[hoodbooger]

a decade later and we're still here asking for MoP lock to come back

[Skk]

Shadowflame exist in the game right now but only as a 70% Aoe slow for 6sec. and it have 15sec. Cooldown and its basicly the same animation of the old spell aswell.

[-Miasimon]

Was really hoping for an honorable mention for Dark Apotheosis. Was the first genuine incarnation of the Warlock Tank, and was some stupid fun.

[Scuuurbs]

Oh god this one is going to hurt to watch…

[AsbestosMuffins]

this kinda demonstrates why I stopped playing warlock, theres too many whole spec reworks per expansion for me

[chesterite]

Cataclysm version of dark intent. I used to use it on tanks all the time, it was probably one of the most subtle but useful ways to help tanks and. Just the way locks constantly heal. And the haste boost. It made it so valuable