You dispell chains of ice.
Put on instant dots while running and load up a fear, which they will deathgrip off.
Shadowfury em and load up an immolate, which should land.
Hardcast a chaosbolt in their face, they silence, dispell their silence and redo it.
Always trinket the stun.
You can deathcoil and fear now, which ofcourse means load up a fear while the first fear goes, as they will trinket.
If they sit in a fear that lasts long enough there is little downside to draining life before you break your own fear.
From here on it become less formulaic, shadowfury will come off cooldown again and you can do a lot of things. You will get to backdraft here and they will certainly pop their anti magic shield now, if thats all they do Chaosbolt em for a bazillion dmg.
Use your shadow ward to shave of some dmg.
Never put devour magic on auto in bg.
Fear em out of their nerdzone tent
Try to LoS the gargoyle.
It’s perfectly doable, and I do believe you have a strong upper hand on DK’s if you get your portal later on. (and also soul link!)
Well on anything really.
I tossed my warlock as my main in the original WotLK because it just had become too damn easy.
Destro warlock with portals is one of the strongest 1v1 classes in WOTLK and can beat DKs if they portal away from deathgrip. 1v1 PVP is not balanced around 70 values and abilities.
WOTLK is a lot more even and classes are less hard-countered than TBC though there are certain rock-paper-scissors interactions. Affli warlocks hard counter Shadow priests for example.
Some of the abilities right now will blast you off your feet because they have significant baseline damage and the lifepool is pretty much nonexistent.
But guess what most of these abilities have very bad scaling so yeah you get hit for 3k now when you have 10k hp, but by the end of wotlk same ability will be doing 5k damage when you will have 30k hp. There are outliers here and there but you get the idea
Dont let the clown fiesta that is prepatch to discourage you from playing the class you love
Not just the portal but the soul link talent that you can’t reach in affli/destro rn unless you make an hybrid build without haunt/chaos. That talent is game changer in pvp.
There is no point to these theorycraft duels, in reality warlock has answers to DK plays and vice versa, some answers are easier and more reliable but overall they exist. Player that has easier and more reliable answers tend to have an advantage but the side that manages to do their play will win. Destro lock vs. DK is definitely winnable by both sides because neither side is playing perfectly at any given moment and there is certain amount of chance involved.
Most people play pretty bad and I have really good gear plus a lot of experience. I have always been full destro, not just now when its actually really good.
just admit that u are regurgitating what some streamer told u to say about warlocks being amazingly broken because they made a big crit with chaos bolt lmfao.
pro tip before u start a conversation with someone actually spend some effort understanding the context so u dont make a fool of yourself and have some integrity.
If you like playing Warlock, just stick with it… don’t let pre-patch pvp taint your view on a class, the balance is a bit wonky, and there’s an excessive ammount of dk’s at the moment wich are a hard counter.