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Zoner · 04/26/07, 8:46 AM

I've tried every spec, they all fail in various ways.

Destruction is abolutely horrible in the arena, which makes me rather sad considering its always been considered 'the real pvp spec' and by far my favorite tree. Basically line of sight, lack of a true range advantage, and mana consumption in a finite mana environment make it really bad. Its only good against shadow priests really, and only because of nether protection. Basically the more people there are aware of you the less destruction works at all.

Affliction is considerably better but in many ways is only good against 2v2 and 3v3 teams without healers, since you can melt them all at once. It pairs up with a paladin ok for concentration aura stacked with fel concentration for drain life (which is useful against mortal strikes somewhat, at least until they pummel you). The dispel resistance is nice, but in the presence of healing its pretty worthless. I was in a 3v3 with shadow priest, myself, and a paladin against 2 rogues and a priest. I got onto the platform next to the bridge and dotted up all the rogues until CLOS, fully dotted them again when that passed, kept a full suite of dots on the priest. Our shadow priest went OOM killing their priest, we lost, even after me having done about 75000 damage. The only good thing about affliction is its a good spec to play the attrition game when your opposing team's dps is made up of a mage or mages; at least in the 3v3 bracket.

Demonology is a bit weird. It has none of the punch of destruction or the dispel protection of affliction. All for what amouts to more health. Good against some teams (3v3 vs caster dps), useless against others (3v3 vs melee dps). Just as useful as the other specs in 5v5 (i.e. not very) since the difference between the specs in how long it takes to die is less than a second.

As for 3v3, good teams will focus fire my felhunter first thing, so I can't devour things like sheep or hammer of justice off our paladin. If the team is smart enough to do that they pretty much win the match.

5v5? I merely pray I get matched up against a bad team, because even the average ones can kill me in just about any spec in about 4 or 5 seconds (* from 15000 hp) once the match gets going. I doubt we will ever break out past 1750 rating without adding more paladins and removing myself and/or the druid on the team.

04/26/07, 8:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
Zoner Piston Honda Zoner Human Warlock <Vereor> Kalecgos	I've tried every spec, they all fail in various ways. Destruction is abolutely horrible in the arena, which makes me rather sad considering its always been considered 'the real pvp spec' and by far my favorite tree. Basically line of sight, lack of a true range advantage, and mana consumption in a finite mana environment make it really bad. Its only good against shadow priests really, and only because of nether protection. Basically the more people there are aware of you the less destruction works at all. Affliction is considerably better but in many ways is only good against 2v2 and 3v3 teams without healers, since you can melt them all at once. It pairs up with a paladin ok for concentration aura stacked with fel concentration for drain life (which is useful against mortal strikes somewhat, at least until they pummel you). The dispel resistance is nice, but in the presence of healing its pretty worthless. I was in a 3v3 with shadow priest, myself, and a paladin against 2 rogues and a priest. I got onto the platform next to the bridge and dotted up all the rogues until CLOS, fully dotted them again when that passed, kept a full suite of dots on the priest. Our shadow priest went OOM killing their priest, we lost, even after me having done about 75000 damage. The only good thing about affliction is its a good spec to play the attrition game when your opposing team's dps is made up of a mage or mages; at least in the 3v3 bracket. Demonology is a bit weird. It has none of the punch of destruction or the dispel protection of affliction. All for what amouts to more health. Good against some teams (3v3 vs caster dps), useless against others (3v3 vs melee dps). Just as useful as the other specs in 5v5 (i.e. not very) since the difference between the specs in how long it takes to die is less than a second. As for 3v3, good teams will focus fire my felhunter first thing, so I can't devour things like sheep or hammer of justice off our paladin. If the team is smart enough to do that they pretty much win the match. 5v5? I merely pray I get matched up against a bad team, because even the average ones can kill me in just about any spec in about 4 or 5 seconds (* from 15000 hp) once the match gets going. I doubt we will ever break out past 1750 rating without adding more paladins and removing myself and/or the druid on the team.