I’m seeing a lot of posts from people complaining about warlocks when it comes to everything from damage and survivability.
I just started lock this expansion, and I really like their playstyle and the amount of damage they can dish out if done correctly.
Even the mobility we have makes them a fun class. Demonic circle, gate, soul shape.
Slows for everyone.
I’m not very highly rated by no means, I’m still learning. Especially about positioning and kiting.
I feel like it has a pretty big learning curve compared to most rofl stomp melee classes.
Pulling off bursts are extremely rewarding. It’s just about learning how and when you have the window of opportunity to do it. For example, running around kiting and surviving their initial burst, get all dots up, bait interrupts, pop singularity, soul rot, ds, rapid, darkglare and MR spam. I doubt there is any classes out there that can deal more damage than a lock with full dots, popping cds. And they have no chance of surviving it unless they use almost all their def cds or manage to get behind a pillar.
Also reading up on guides, what spells enhances what and learning to cast them in the right order, and learning dps rotation in m+/raid helped a lot.
Only thing I’d like to change really is to have a slightly higher damage reduction from things like demon armor. If they connect with offensive cds and I used a teleport incorrectly and can’t get away, I’m extremely punished, compared to most classes which have some kind of really strong “I messed up button”.
Hate the game when I see a rsham in opposite team though. Those teams are the only ones I can’t manage to get my burst out properly at all. Triple interrupts, tremor and grounding is just too much, on top of things like spell reflect, hunter legendary, reverse magic and that wwmonk dispelll.
You should add to your title that you’re a fairy affli lock running meta. Not everyone likes affli, nor having to be pushed to go night fae to be viable.
You Jumped on bandwagon affli…enjoy till nerfs(sure its coming toping Pve and PVP sooner or later Hammer will drop).Then when you join to All mediocre specs u will see perfectly executed rotation or even decent kiting and positioning IS still not enough.
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I’m seeing a lot of posts from people complaining about warlocks when it comes to everything from damage and survivability.[/quote]
There is a reason for that , multiple reasons actually.
The playstyle is clunky , immobile turret depending on hard casts (not able to be cast on the move) 2) In PvE you are likely correct, but in PvP everyone can do better even if they do not do so “correctly”
What mobility ? do you really compare the pre-setup requiring portal and gate with huge CD to anything else , every single other class has ? , Good luck escaping a warrior with your 2 escapes (even if you have set them up already) , or any demon hunter or any death knight and his 3 pulls.
Everyone can go fairy , not just locks
Wish you the best of luck, but I do not think you can kite anymore with all the tools everyone has to get to you and stick on you
Exactly, you have to play 300% better to win vs a 300% worse player.
It is in PvE, in PvP you need to cast : corruption , Agony ( that deals a wooping 32 dmg… yeah 32… not 320, thirty…two.) and then 1,5 second UA , and then you have to spam MF for 1,5 second each. not a single organism that has more than 70 functioning brain cells will just allow you to free cast like that , while you are “juking” they are pummeling you , while you are silenced , they pummel you , while you loose casting time due to damage, they are pummeling you , and while your dots literally tickle their bubbles , they do x2-x3 the dmg your CHAOS BOLT does , with AUTO ATTACKS.
Try to get the bubbles of almost everyone with your dots off, tell me how that went, I will wait. Oh and while at it , try to kill a hunters PET 1 vs 1 , no interrupts, let me know how fast you did so.
No doubt there
Armor reduction , yeah ok you would survive approx 0,8 to 1,2 seconds more, If you miss your “juke” you are dead, if you get stunned while you have trinket on CD , you are dead , your dots tickle while melee auto attacks punish you harshly and dude, do you even know how many “oh I got 10 dots on me, let me push THIS skill and remove everything LMOA” abilities are there? almost everyone can remove your dots time and again while /spit on you and your 32 dmg.
Name one class that can not completely shut you down dealing 8 to 12k instant abilities and if you survive stun / silence / pull and/or become immune magic , again I will wait.
I really do not know, but there is something to be said when I am time and again the only warlock in 40 vs 40 , that is 80 players , full of warriors/shamans/hunters/paladins/rogues, druids a few monks but almost no warlocks at all (think the record of locks in 40 vs 40 to date is 5 , that is my experience)
TLDR: everyone does what you do better, has more survivability / better escapes, way more dmg mitigation.