You just stand there like a potato and everything dies
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As a healer, no.
If a warlock just stands there, he’s going to die. Nothing I can do about it. It’s just a matter of when, not if.
Meanwhile on the warlock thread:
No one cares about blitz buddy
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In defence of Affliction, it’s almost all rot damage. Having even gear and a unpressured healer helps mitigate whatever they throw at you.
It’s a caster with limited mobility without prior setup. Make use of interupting casts so they are also unable to setup their DoTs and they’ll have a miserable time.
Even better if you have a harsh burst window.
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afflict has some insane burst bro
No : C
Affliction is a punching bag, everyone hates it, everyone blame it, he has 1 big def cd for 8 sec.
If it has no dmg, ppl gonna hate them more.
Believe me, its really frustrating when healers at 2300 still grab and pull me out of my portal range and then blame them for not porting 
Im maining an affli and R shaman, i love both.
With resto shaman Locks go at least 3, cause I know how to heal them, and how to react them.
When Im with my lock, healers go out of the map, not getting help from teammate, healers stand in open and running everywhere but not around my portal. And they just cry when my only short cd def (the portal) gone and he is outside of the map and always go for a wrong place.
Maining an affli is really frustrating, its better to go with diabled chat and edited by a moderator
God bless everyone
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Is that an Affliction warlock at 1750 MMR and everyone’s dying?
In high-rated PvP, warlocks have a hard time surviving, and they’re also the only class that’s completely dependent on casting. They have to cast all the time - always, always, always.
Double Blink on mages is way scarier. They use it at the very first opportunity without thinking at all and still survive every time.
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All warlock specs should get buffs.
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Doesn’t feel like rot even exists anymore tbh.
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Affli feels only in shuffle strong, but not because of the dmg output more likely because of the low port cd + the opportunity to burn soul shards for the freemdom (if im not wrong lol)
- big map layouts
the difference if u face a affli wl in tol vir arena or mugambala compared to facing him in hook point or nagrand arena is day and night
only logic thing here what i could see is a nerf to port cd, but baseline buff to his defensive toolkit.
People complaining about afflock having the less mobility.
Afflock gameplay was always about standing still spreading dots and tanking damage. The easiest caster of all casters. The only skill you need as afflock is to fakecast and with precog now it’s easier.
People complain about affli while devourer exists, the only logical thing here would be to delete demon hunter.
Next I would remove spellwarding from retribution and call us even. Would even send my best wishes from the entire pvp playerbase who didnt luck fancying the favoured specs this expansion.
But warlock? Yeah those guys need a big buff across their every spec if we want to pretend to maintain some balance in the game.
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just delete this spec, same with aug evoker
just remove the specs what noone asked for.
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They both need to be deleted.
I’m done asking for balance, I proceed to ask total deletion of DH and Evoker.
And after they are done, a rework on MW would be nice. Now that they have shown to have no clue what to do with it, since they overnerf it 7 patches row and it is now below Prevoker in power level and have entered into boring level.
It is simply untrue to say that an Affliction Warlock just stands still and waits for others to die; you have to kite effectively—using Teleport and Gateway with precision—while hoping your teammates know how to play around them and that your healer doesn’t leap away just as you’ve created some distance and started casting. You need to pull off plenty of jukes and play around pillars
I’d also add that the Warlock is a pure DPS class, yet this season—across three specs and a total of six spec/Hero Talent variations—the only optimal choice (and the only one most players can actually make work) is Affliction Soul Harvester
Of course, if you want, we could nerf that spec too, and then just queue for PvP as healers with the other two, given their abysmal damage output
There certainly seem to be much more dangerous classes around
Fixed it for ya
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