Warning for kaib: General Idiocy

• Aldriana · 10/12/08, 3:40 PM

Post: [Warlock] WotLK Talent Preview / Discussion
User: kaib
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 0

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

This is a sort of generally mediocre post. It's kind of whiny, doesn't really add much to the discussion, and has some questionable grammar ("atm") snuck in for good measure. Only a warning this time, but I'd ask you to try to be more constructive in the future.

Original Post:

Affliction being top dps spec is nice and all, however it won't do us any good as any given 25 men raid can NOT afford more then one Affliction warlock. Anything else is just completely desillusional. Shadow Embrace, Haunt, UA, Curse, Cor, SL - that is six debuffs already, out of 40. A solid 16% of the avaible debuff slots. There are no other six debuff slots avaible for a second affl warlock if they do not increase number of debuffs.

Other then that I am getting a bit frustrated, I was hoping they'd fix some stuff but it seems to mainly get worse. I copied a premade hunter, removed resil gems and used some hit gems instead, replaced the pvp trinket with a lvl 65 green one, picked some spec that looks roughly like a lvl 70 BM spec, used the silly wolf they give you instead of actually making use of my 51 BM talent to tame a special pet and ... did more dps then my warlock in pretty much every nax encounter, while my lock has very good swp gear and 5-6 lvl 80 epics.

In general the destro tree just looks really gimped right now, hunter pets have about twice the HP then warlock pets (not counting felguard and voidwalker, which should not see pve raiding ever, other then getting sacrificed for a shield) and the one tree they actually care about and put some work in is doomed to be a pve failure due to the limit of debuff slots on boss fights.

I figured they will fix it and everything and shrugged it off and then they posted the class panel stuff. For pretty much every class they looked at their main nuke/attack or just in general at dps and for warlocks, it is:

Pet diversity
More interesting rotations
Demonic Circle
Metamorphosis

Let's say that that sounds about as unexciting as it gets, I have tried to use dem circle while kiting on gluth once and never even bothered to test meta and I am lvl 80 since about 6-8 weeks on beta, it just looks that awesome for someone that does not care much for pvp.

In general I am a much bigger fan of destruction for pve, hopefully that gets fixed and can keep up with dps. But atm it's clearly affliction on lvl 80 for 10 men and then for 25 men, you need to coordinate with other warlocks.