12-14-2006, 04:44 AM
PVP on WoW is not intended to be balanced for One on One. Its for groups.
Also, I get tire of "omg nerf warlocks" posts when most people have no clue what they are talking about, imaging that we can instant cast a fear that is unbreakable and trails them for thirty minutes till they randomly die, and think that Death Coil autokills them, things like that. I've heard so many gross exaggerations that it gets annoying. Warlocks have a lot of weaknesses that those of us that played the class above 40 learned about. The patch actually gave us some PVE viability b/c until then we had severe issues with PVP.
Most people, when thinking about Locks, seem to say things similar to the following:
"OMG, I was walking around and suddenly This warlock's Felguard attacks me, stunning me while he dots me up with things like UA and crap. I try to hit him, boom, Shadowfury to stun me. I finally shake that while the demon is beating on me, boom, noobcoil hits me completely rehealing him and leaving me nearly dead, plus I'm now running around with fear. Then he conflagrates me. God forbid I try to cast anything, he spell locks me. God forbid I manage to hit him, poof Seduce. NERF LOCKS"
Simply put, that is absolute stupidity when posted on the WoW forums. That example, and yes, I see it all the time b/c people have no idea what actually happened, which is why Warlocks always tell people to learn to play against them and stop expecting us to not play it out. Like any game, you learn the strengths and weaknesses and play around it. The above example literally requires me 41 points in every tree at once, and to have three pets out at the same time.
In all honesty, there's a number of times a warrior or rogue catches me while I have Felhunter out. I'm screwed, unless I can play fast. The only reason I win is because people get so caught up on "omg a warlock I'm screwed" that they panic the moment they are feared, punching their keyboard and going "I HATE LOCKS".
Mages tend to always hit me with a pyroblast when I'm not expecting it or have Succy out. What happens then? Instant, or damn near close, Fireblast for the last hit. TWO hits. From one of our best matchups. What does that mean? It means we have no room for error, so if we fuck up, we are dead.
What should you do as a warrior? Charge stun me, then get into Beserker Stance as quickly as possible and try to keep using your "immune to fear" abilities. You'll beat the shit out of me while I'm spamming fears not knowing what you are doing since I don't play a warrior.
Warlocks don't have advantage against 80% of the field. I named 3 classes I beat in the above example, and to be fair, last night I was flat dry raped by a Shadow Priest. I couldn't do a damn thing to this guy that was just eating me over and over alive. He outplayed the crap out of me. Warriors and Mages are some great matchups, but the thing is it took me a long time to have any idea how to play against them. I was getting mopped for many levels before hand, especially if cooldowns are still going.
Also, I get tire of "omg nerf warlocks" posts when most people have no clue what they are talking about, imaging that we can instant cast a fear that is unbreakable and trails them for thirty minutes till they randomly die, and think that Death Coil autokills them, things like that. I've heard so many gross exaggerations that it gets annoying. Warlocks have a lot of weaknesses that those of us that played the class above 40 learned about. The patch actually gave us some PVE viability b/c until then we had severe issues with PVP.
Most people, when thinking about Locks, seem to say things similar to the following:
"OMG, I was walking around and suddenly This warlock's Felguard attacks me, stunning me while he dots me up with things like UA and crap. I try to hit him, boom, Shadowfury to stun me. I finally shake that while the demon is beating on me, boom, noobcoil hits me completely rehealing him and leaving me nearly dead, plus I'm now running around with fear. Then he conflagrates me. God forbid I try to cast anything, he spell locks me. God forbid I manage to hit him, poof Seduce. NERF LOCKS"
Simply put, that is absolute stupidity when posted on the WoW forums. That example, and yes, I see it all the time b/c people have no idea what actually happened, which is why Warlocks always tell people to learn to play against them and stop expecting us to not play it out. Like any game, you learn the strengths and weaknesses and play around it. The above example literally requires me 41 points in every tree at once, and to have three pets out at the same time.
In all honesty, there's a number of times a warrior or rogue catches me while I have Felhunter out. I'm screwed, unless I can play fast. The only reason I win is because people get so caught up on "omg a warlock I'm screwed" that they panic the moment they are feared, punching their keyboard and going "I HATE LOCKS".
Mages tend to always hit me with a pyroblast when I'm not expecting it or have Succy out. What happens then? Instant, or damn near close, Fireblast for the last hit. TWO hits. From one of our best matchups. What does that mean? It means we have no room for error, so if we fuck up, we are dead.
What should you do as a warrior? Charge stun me, then get into Beserker Stance as quickly as possible and try to keep using your "immune to fear" abilities. You'll beat the shit out of me while I'm spamming fears not knowing what you are doing since I don't play a warrior.
Warlocks don't have advantage against 80% of the field. I named 3 classes I beat in the above example, and to be fair, last night I was flat dry raped by a Shadow Priest. I couldn't do a damn thing to this guy that was just eating me over and over alive. He outplayed the crap out of me. Warriors and Mages are some great matchups, but the thing is it took me a long time to have any idea how to play against them. I was getting mopped for many levels before hand, especially if cooldowns are still going.
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