Back in days I was a long-time Mage main, from WotLK private server and then through Pandaria to Legion, where Mages finally became dead to me from mechanical point. I’ve tried to stick to A LOT of another classes – DHs, Druids, Monks, Rogues, Priests, Shamans, Hunters…but they still doesn’t fit my previously beloved playstyle in form of «cast long – shot strong». I am a fan of slow-paced casters with big nukes and minimum of DoTs.
And this is when I finally came to idea of Warlocks. They always were «dark horses» to me – it was a class that I’ve barely touched (last time was back in Legion prepatch, when everybody was boosting their free alts via invasions). From current perspective it looks like Destro is the best spec I can find in game. Long and big Chaos Bolt nukes, pet to solo in open world, survivability, etc, etc…
So my question is – how it feels like to be a Warlock main in a long-time perspective? Is it really hard to find keys above 10 (because I want to complete KSM one day)? How good they are at surviving and fighting back in sudden PvP skirmishes? How good is their utility in PvE, both M+ and raids? After all, how good they are from perspective of you as a long-time mains?
Hard to talk about long term, since it changes from expansion to expansion.
As of right now we are just fine at anything really. Destro is a big hitter in raids, we have decent utility for M+ across specs (no interrupt for Demo though) and function in PvP.
It really comes down to class fantasy and being a resource based caster. It used to be more intricate, now it’s pretty straight forward. However one can always hope for Shadowlands.
Demo is pretty decent at everything atm. I’d say PvE wise demo is the best choice (excluding some niesh destro cleave fights) and in PvP if you want the easy road I’d say go destro but then again destruction is really just a shadow of what it used to be (like most warlocks specss but I think destro took the worst hit), I used to main destro for many years but the current version is just SO BORING to play that I don’t recommend it to anyone.
Destro is really good in raids, one of the best dps specs.
In m+ we struggle, mainly due to the fact that we lack utility and generally dont fit into the current dungeon design that requires people to constantly move out of swirlies.
That said getting KSM isnt imossible by any means
Warlock is a piece of (u know what) right now. Gameplay is obviously broken, and will be so until Shadowlands. Warlocks need complete gameplay redesign in my opinion. Just bring Mop or Wod warlocks back =(
For myth+ check this
Spoiler:
S: Outlaw Rogue, Havoc Demon Hunter
i would not recommand to roll a lock even to my worse enemy ! Although i loved it in the past its currently completely immobile and slow to cast anything. In PVP everyone around you use instant dynamic abilities and ultra mobility, when you are basically an immobile pillar trying painfully to cast anything after having been interrupted in your last 10 attempts
Can’t agree more.
Warlock class design sucks right now. Destro could be dangerous, but only because of stupidly overpowered raw damage numbers of Chaos bolt, and potentialy even greater borst via Infernal…but destro is easy to shut down for almost every class in the game.
Demo in the other hand suffers from tremendous amount of design and tech issues.
What type of keys are you planning to run?
Cuz warlocks are decent rn.
Highest rated warlock is playing demo and closing in on 4k rio.
Warlock wont be in mdi but doubt most of us will be either
! Although i loved it in the past its currently completely immobile and slow to cast anything. In PVP everyone around you use instant dynamic abilities and ultra mobility, when you are basically an immobile pillar trying painfully to cast anything after having been interrupted in your last 10 attempts