Hi, what the hell is wrong with solo shuffles playning as warlock? Everyone just charging on you and all time u got stun and interrupts. Warlock is really unplayable class on solo shuffle. Cant do anything… I always meet stacked melee team… wtf???
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Warlock tends to thrive more in bigger battlegrounds when there’s room to sit back and cast. Arena isn’t terribly well balanced and strongly favours melee classes, unfortunately.
So we’re seen as an easy target to burst down.
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Arena is not designed right now for hardcasting or low mobile classes.
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One would assume that’s the case till they join blitz and see that teamfights in general are not a winning strategy and mobility/map rotations reigns supreme. Something warlock also lacks.
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not even mentioning the fact that 99% of warlock’s damage in bgs is pad dots which gets outhealed easily because no mortal strike on the class
also at higher rating(not that it matters because people are same in terms of their dumbness both at 1500 and 2500 mmr) people tend to focus warlocks because yet again low mobility and dks can just keep them in the middle of every fight with no issues
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Not to mention bugs of the class like Wild Imps keeping you in combat, or doom that doesn’t deal the damage if target is more than 80yd away.
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never had so many problems as in TWW in solos huffle with the warlock. Unfortunately statistically you get devastating comp melees very often and often in smaller arenas. Especially in the beginning before the Dk Unholy nerf, I often encountered two or three of them.
I did the 2400 a while ago but after trying a couple at the beginning of the season I had to stop queuing for my mental health
Play demo, full melee are best lobbies for demo, people stack up so nicely for aoe, also demo is a lot more tanky than affli.
Gotta learn to fakecast my man. Precog is life
I mean no offense here but there are plenty of warlocks on high rating atm. So yes, they are playable.
You just gotta learn how to play with melee in you.
You/people can’t just go to the forums complaining and begging for buffs because you can’t play the class good enough.
Just practice.
Most casters in the game can have a hard time with 2 Melees on you. But every caster gotta learn how to play in that situation.
Who? Mages doesn’t cast. Boomie during burst barely cast, shaman is a insta proc machine, with very little to interrupt.
Precog and fakecast is not an excuse for class being not well designed and not well implemented. It is not an excuse that Demo is the only warlock spec where your bust that requres farm more from the player than just pressing Infernal or darkglare is castable.
Precog is not an excuse for Dreadstalkers to be castable.
Not every player deserve to be above 2k rating, but not a single warlock deserve such crappy design treatment from Blizzard.
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Mate, the changes you would like to see won’t happen because PvE. Blizzard sees warlocks as a stationary damage turrets so that’s how it will be. Like previous posters already said either learn to live with it or roll something else.
If you look at PvE they clearly don’t see warlocks there at all. Bad state of class doesn’t mean that you should be ok or reroll, you as anyone else deserve to have a better designed class.
As a long time affliction player it has always been hard to play against 2x melee but now you suffer more than ever I feel because there are just too many ways melees can lock you out via stuns/kicks and various micro cc and regarding changes to some melee specs to get more mobile warlock has basicly not have anything other changed than a minor port cd reduction while being melee hit with all other melee has gotten some sort of mobility improvement.
and, most important of all, Drain Life has become purely cosmetic
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It became useless as eye of Kilrogg.
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Im gonna be honest, I would love instant dreadstalkers and tyrant instant, but only dreadstalkers is fine.
But I’ve seen people asking to redesign the whole specc and I don’t agree or want that,
I do insane DMG in shuffle and arena, 90% of the cases, I am top damage.
If they change, there is risk it will do less DMG. I can solo kill players real quick in shuffle at 2200MMR
Demo seems to be very reliable for arenas, especially against melee’s.
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I agree, it feels good against melee, compared to affli and destro.
You can shut down melee pretty well as demo
how? Can u explain?
Arena PVP only works if your character meets 2 simple requirements:
- you insta cast everything
- you are very mobile
If not, do not play arena because you will simply lose all the time.