Infraction for Knasen: Whining

Kaubel · 02/23/08, 8:25 PM

Post: 2.4 PTR and Patch Notes
User: Knasen
Infraction: Whining
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Why are you pissing and moaning about the poor, mistreated warlocks in the 2.4 patch thread?

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Chirality

Warlocks have no escape. You stand there and take it, and watch your felhunter die to sweeping strikes. But this is a critical design issue...Warlocks are simply not meant to have an escape, and 3v3 makes this issue stand out more than it ever has.

And Armor Penetration on Season Three gear is a total red herring. I have all the armor pen you can get on pvp gear and that's around 500 total--about the same that your armor would change from season 2 to three. (Edit: I Rescind this comment I was thinking of something else, perhaps)

In s2 people thought SL was godmode of some sort and usually left the warlock alone, nowadays people has got enlightened and figured out that a warlock with a melee on him cant do anything but using dots, and since he cant get out of harms range either, using abilites like sunder armor/exposing armor/executioner enchant will increse the damage taken by up to 20%, nullifying SL right there.

Ontop of that issue most meleeclasses can take out a warlock pet in seconds, removing the one ability that the whole class seems to be built around in PvP. The pets just scale horribly, around 30% of our stamina is all too little, and with no resilence at all killing a warlock pet has become the everday ganking of a lvl 62.

The 3rd problem is that with meleescaling for each arenaseason goes up, but with no defense at all we just become more of a burden to the team each season.
Warlocks and Priests has been asking for a proper CC since the very early days. That finally resulted in the worst bandaid ever, happycoil. All of a sudden the class seemed to be perfect, unfortunatly that probably was the start of the decline. I very much agree with you that the warlockclass was a real powerhouse early on but at this time the whole class seems to do a free fall, and I guess I'm not alone with more and more gladiator locks going over to play their melee altcharacter.
What can they do the balance the class? God knows, how do you fix a totally broken yet very powerful class in the right hands? Given warlocks a proper defense at this lvl would probably overpower us again (Hi CC the melee and dot and fear at will), right now I just feels like a reinforced sack of potato when I play arena and it's as boring as it ever can be.
Sometimes you wished that blizzard gave some useful insight on where they wanted to take your class...