How do you guys handle vanilla PvP, I cant lie, it makes me rage so hard. It makes me want to smash my keyboard. how do you guys kill shadowpriests warlocks and bm hunters as a 54 mage , will TBC be more “fair” ? Group PvP seems kinda balanced but 1v1 in Classic makes me hate my life
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ive played every expansion and vanilla has by far the best pvp
as for your question it depends. there’s a bunch of different builds for warlocks but really only one of them can make a mage hate themselves. i main lock and let me tell you smart mages can cause you problems.
if they’re soul link (the hard spec for you) you have one major advantage over them ; they’re slow as hell and you can keep them slowed forever while they struggle to get close enough to cast fear which has a very low range. if you can kite a soul link warlock for long enough and make them really work to get to you the warlock will kill himself from life tapping. the other choice is to kill their pet twice (if succubus or felhunter) then the SL is like punching a baby (their only advantage is high resistances and dmr but they lose it when their pet is dead and soul link warlocks do not do any damage and have lower range than the glass cannon specs)
shadow priests you can kill them once you get good gear with a nade > shatter combo
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Thanks this is helpfull
i said voidwalker but i meant felhunter. never try to kill a voidwalker because the lock will just sacrifice it before you manage to do it 
if you’re facing a conflag warlock spam them down with arcane explosion which will stop them from casting and kill their pet at the same time. only kick fire spells (this is their main source of dmg) unless you don’t have iceblock.
if you’re facing a sm ruin warlock kick only shadow spells i.e fear/drain life. drain life is very important to kick because they’ll get instant shadow bolt procs
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don’t worry about hunters they’re super easy for you at 60. BM is insane while leveling because of pet frenzy but nobody plays BM at 60 because pets dont scale with gear
OK, yea this pet right now eats me alive lol
Play on a PvE server.
No thats to boring in the long run, i usually like PvP but need to get used to Vanilla
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ok, mage is broken but it is CD dependent.
dueling with hunter - blink in stay in dead zone, jump frost nova ( to increase its range ), frost bolt kite him, nothing hunter can do.
dueling with warlock - open your ears when you hear he cast death coil you ice block, sheep him than kill pet with shatter combo, nuke him down.
dueling with shadow priest - shatter combo + shatter combo with cold snap, nuke priest down.
mage is strong, but you need cold snap and ice block cooldowns.
use frostbolt rank 1 to catch someone or kite him, use fireball when dueling with rogues after you sheep them. ( use 2nd sheep on rogues coz they can trinket your sheep ).
mage become very fragile after naxx, rogues gonna fap and one, two shot you no matter which items you have, but you are strong at the moment.
don’t forget using your silence / interrupt. Jump before casting arcane explosion , frost nova, cone of cold (for more range).
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only thing to do against (a good) rogue who uses FAP is: u have to LIP and sheep. if you are horde and rogue is alliance magic dust also can help.
(assuming both mage and rogue do everything else correctly - like trading blocks for blinds)
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Yeah doing wsg makes you mad sometimes 
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But felhunter is unkillable i feel like, succubus is easy i noticed
felhunter is highly killable unless, again, the warlock is soul link which is definitely a not so popular spec among better players.
keep detect magic on him when going for the pet kill and any other magic debuffs that won’t break sheep, that way theres a very low chance he’ll dispel poly off himself.
theres another very griefy method against locks - summon pets! barov, the skele book from ony/strat that summons a skele immune to fear and has alot of hp 
pets are the most broken thing in this game vs casters it can literally prevent someone from casting permanently which is one of locks weaknesses. fear can go from a 1.5s cast to 4-5s and the skele can easily do 2k dmg over the course of a fight. lock has no choice but to tank it
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Once you realize that 1 vs 1 pvp in classic aint balanced there is nothing to rage about.
Depending on what you play, you dont beat some classes. Unless there is a huge skill and item gap.
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Some classes just are stronger? Why rage when you lose against a strong class?
In general I dislike my own team communication more in Alterac Valley, player from a PvP realm being condescending to players from a PvE realm why playing exclusively the “pvp classes”.
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Thanks that is helpfull, detect magic i didnt realy use lol
Berny can defeat lowbies 1 vs 5.
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