https://www.twitch.tv/videos/315261304?t=07h20m04s
What you are going to see:Cataclysm Warlock Arena gameplay. A time when skill mattered. A time when duels were decided by the better player, not the better class. When you watch this, keep in mind that the warlock is way better than his opponents and they misplay really badly, thats why it looks so easy.
When I watched this today, I did not understand how we could end up where we are now... so sad.
Enjoy.
Agreed 100%
I mean like we don't have to go back to Cata or MoP.
All we want right now is some surv and mobility, upgrading a talents tree and few baseline spells.
Not that much.
remember WOD Demo lock omfg. Also destro in MOP the good days.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/9jda6t/how_demonology_warlock_died/
27/09/2018 13:54Posted by
Sensx Agreed 100%
I mean like we don't have to go back to Cata or MoP.
All we want right now is some surv and mobility, upgrading a talents tree and few baseline spells.
Not that much.
Nah we want MoP Wod gameplay. Legion and Bfa is flat out boring all lock specs have 0 identity we both use the same resource for unknown reasons
I can add my own clips to the mix.
I really wish I had the time back then to get into video editing and stuff because I would've really liked to do montages and guides.
https://youtu.be/u0LZywMR4WA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzudbqo5hs&ab_channel=Sh4d0wch40s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66yQqfddpk&ab_channel=Sh4d0wch40s
These are sadly the only recordings that survived :(
I can add my own clips to the mix.
I really wish I had the time back then to get into video editing and stuff because I would've really liked to do montages and guides.
https://youtu.be/u0LZywMR4WA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzudbqo5hs&ab_channel=Sh4d0wch40s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66yQqfddpk&ab_channel=Sh4d0wch40s
These are sadly the only recordings that survived :(
didn't realise how much blizz destroy'd warlock in all those years. already unsub, im done
Especially the BG clip makes you wonder.... you had total control, all the time. Granted, in all honesty, MoP destro was quite OP but a lot of other specs were, too.
The main difference was that you immediately knew to tell very good and experienced players apart from the bad/ inexperienced ones.
It makes me sad every time I watch these clips. I gave up advocating for all the stuff we lost 2 years ago, I was very active here in the forums aswell. But to no avail.
There's a reason Cobrak quit, and even now that he's back he mainly does Iron Man challenges and still doesn't agree with destro's state.
Its horrible.
Additionally, it's not even all the stuff we lost I'm mad about but the overall structure and everything that made sense that is now lost. Just watch the video again, and pay attention to the damage numbers of MSBT. You see that even your "filler" spells like Incinerate and Fel Flame were quite dangerous and had a big impact. Nowadays nothing really matters anymore, there's no danger to facing against a caster anymore. Chaos Bolt hits like a noodle and costs double what it used to, with a longer base cast time.
I could go on and on about it....
i dont think doting someone every 10sec while running till they die is "balanced"
It's really messed up indeed, feels like Blizzard devs have lost their connection to the playerbase.
Its do sad... that wow involved from this to BFA..........
Cata Lock was imo the most balanced and fun to play.
WoD and MoP had some retarded op abilities... hi@ havoc chaosbolt taking 80% opposite dmg, Rain of Fire spamm/incinerate spamm for only Chaos Bolts, Ember Tap insane self heal, blood fear or Seed of Corruption soul swap spamm in RBG's.
...was still funny but also broken af and felt kinda stupid. Not talking about other classes from those 2 addons.
I am not sure why it feels like the game developed backwards... sure lots of abilities got pruned but I feel like almost every class lost its unique identity. All classes play super boring and there is no depth. Back then you were almost guaranteed to win against a less skilled player but now it is almost impossible for some classes to beat others, even if you play like 1000 rating higher than your opponent.
I re rolled lock at the end of Cata. This is the first expansion I couldn't even bother to reach max lvl. Just cruising by the forums to see if things have gotten better.
When warlock was enjoyable...
https://youtu.be/MsAz2dcxY8g
https://youtu.be/FRXK02b4Teg
https://i.imgur.com/UDzGF6p.jpg look at the 3rd hot key.
Wow, how low have we have fallen if we consider Cataclysm warlock to be good.
I do agree it was more interesting, but let's not play ourselves.
Only competetive pvp spec was affli, and even then we did not have kill potential without dampening. 2v2 matches lasting for 40-50 minutes on high ratings until enemy healer goes out of mana.
3v3 where we were useless damagewise outside of cooldowns, where single druid hot healed for more than any of our dots.
Also, destro was gimped only becoming good by the end of Dragon Soul. Don't let us forget a fantasitc mechanic with IMPROVED !@#$FIRE.
Demo was competing with Affli in PVE, but it was insane how many buttons we had to press to do good DPS. There were dots, there were cooldowns, there was a shadowbite mechanic that made us go melee to improve DPS.
MOP was a great improvement.
It literally made me sad watching this. There really is much i don't miss from the old days but lock gameplay was so much better back then..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nmIl77Kx3E&t=64s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfPtF81jCtc&t=244s
All of these videos from previous expansions are just making me super amped on Classic to be honest.
It also really highlights just how bad the pruning has been.
I remember whenever new expansions came out, every class would actually get new spells. Now an expansion comes out, and you actually LOSE spells. Its pathetic.
just enjoy, and try not to cry, the next time you play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXZ9ChWk7M8