Genuinely curious if any of my fellow warlocks are having fun in pvp these days.
I’m definitely not. Chaosbolt builds are unplayable in pvp since we neveeer get to freecast long enough to get value out of the build.
Huant/affliction is sometimes viable. But the playstyle is to be an annoying mosquito in the sidelines, tickling the enemy and being a nuisance.
Metamorph builds are the most viable. Our damage is still terrible but at least we can run and gun and instant cast very weak 300dmg searing pains. We aren’t as cool as all the other casters who can instant cast 1700dmg bursts with no setup. But at least we have this big illidan knockoff model that blocks 80% of our screen and makes us a target for everyone. Also getting banished alot. Alot and alot. It’s good.
Anyone of my fellow warlocks having fun with our terrible class in pvp?
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Yes I do. I want to say that I can feel your frustration because Warlocks dont feel as powerful as other classes and on top of it we didnt even get cool runes (like unstable affliction or dot crits), we dont have death coil and cant run souls link with instant coruption.
That being said I still have fun. If I go questing Meta affli is the best option for me to go. In bgs/STV event I run destro tho and its quite fun when you can take someone from 100 to 0 in one combo. But that requires positioning which is a key in teamfights as lock. It is fun but kinda wrak compared to others. Hope better for next phase.
Having a blast on my lock. Deep destro /w conflag in meta with drain life + succubus. Globalled some people with seduce > CoE > incin > immo > conflag > shadowburn.
I find searing pain spam to be great if you can get the incin buff off, hits more than my druids starsurge and crits a lot.
Yeah that’s what I run too. It’s fun when it’s fun but people are starting to get geared now.
I had a rude awakening yesterday when I met a geared warrior and he 2 tapped me with slam+mortal strike + execute. I was at 1700 hp. Instantly dead even tho I had drain life on him lmfao.
It’s getting harder and harder to stay competative every day.
Warlocks are the only balanced casters, that’s why it feels underwhelming. You either do good damage but have counterplays, or you’re a raid boss with weak damage. Whoever decided that SW:D should deal 1000 damage non-crits should take note of that.
its mind boggling to me that you need Soul Link, Meta, and Life Drain just to be viable
anyway spamming searing pain is not my definition of fun
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I am playing Affliction…yes its not as good as destruction in pve, but I honestly don’t care and for me it’s about playing the spec you enjoy! Plus all I do in pve is just use incinerate rune and lake of fire, won’t be as high but won’t be bottom either and with my affliction build I have nightfall so it really requires no casting. I do wish Blizzard would give Affliction some love considering they buffed void plague and mind spike for SP and void plague was already doing 200+ per tick before the buff… Destruction to me is just so boring, incinerate, immolate, Rain of Fire Rank 1, cancel, chaos bolt and repeat…It’s just as boring as the tank where you just spam Searing Pain, there’s no inspiration behind it, could’ve atleast given us a fun rotation rather than spamming one button to keep aggro…how is that even challenging…cast, tab, cast, tab, cast, tab, cast…