3.1 Warlock changes - Are you fucking kidding me?

[Plow]

Except that it requires 3 casts of arcane blast, a snare on the target, and has the potential to lock you of the the tree that you operate on, which is begging to get stunned/rooted and raped, you won't be doing that in arena unless the opposing team is absolutely retarded.

Well for one thing, no, that's how arcane works (hell that's how the game works). It's not hard at all to get 3 casts off within 30 seconds to set it up.


For another thing, all of what he did requires procs, some of which requires allowing melee to hit you. If you think he's just walking up and hitting 1 instant for 20k dmg in arena, not sure what to tell you.

[Korietsu]

Well for one thing, no, that's how arcane works (hell that's how the game works). It's not hard at all to get 3 casts off within 30 seconds to set it up.


For another thing, all of what he did requires procs, some of which requires allowing melee to hit you. If you think he's just walking up and hitting 1 instant for 20k dmg in arena, not sure what to tell you.

Hitting 20k on a raid boss dummy unbuffed is a little out of the scope of things. Understandably arena conditions are different, but if the same amount of setup time for mage burst like PoM FFB shatter + AP or triple stacked abarr, that rarely broke ~10k under the most optimal PvE conditions, or even +60% damage setups in WSG, it needs to be looked at.

Its best for both warlocks so they don't get completely fucked on their specs and scaling (Hi2u sunwell mages), and so that the current "OMFG" nerf burst trend continues for the better of PvP.

[Ramor]

Be decently good and you'll win 99.999999999% of all 1v1's in bg's regardless of class/gear/etc.

you say that but 1v1s against paladins and warlocks always end badly for me, either it ends up as a 3 minute standoff where someone gets an ally to come in and finish it up (versus paladins) or just versus about any warlock i almost always die, unless they're just some rabid monkey with downs syndrome who casts 2 dots and then sits there flinging their shit around, of course i've really only done melee classes which is probably why i hate locks a lot (mages too)