The counter to Cyclone is focusing the Druid so he's forced to heal, or Counterspelling/Earth Shocking/etc the cast. It also requires 3.5 seconds of casting time to last as long as blind. I realize you're not being completely serious in that objection, but Blind and Cyclone are very different, despite sharing DR and being unremovable.

Shadow sight to protect against Blind / Poly is great. Beats BoSac anyday!

Spec'ing Felguard was definatly a step in the right direction. We only lost to one PMR out of seven over the course of the night.

For any other similar line-ups struggling with PMR; have your Warrior split his damage on whatever is closest to him. The key is to have your Warlock timing a perfect death coil that will let your Warrior intercept for 5 seconds of breathing room. During that time, we would abolish crippling poison and hamstring kite the Rogue through his sprints and trinkets.

as pmr has priest the sight can be dispelled, so thats about it. I find it problematic that this setup doesnt have any real counters and in 2.3.1 when mages get icy veins its allmost 1-shotting ppl when the healer gets locked. Imagine this cs druid/priest/pala/any healer, PI to mage pop elemental and IV rogue pops ar and blinds the last guy. How you survive that? With loads of defensive/offensive dispel they can drag it to wait game at some point that cs will be eaten.

Just makes me anxious to join the train in s3

Hrmmmm, I could have sworn shadow sight couldn't be dispelled. Either it wasn't classed as a magic buff or it was classed as a debuff, so only an ally could dispel it. I may just be crazy though.

Shadow Sight

Can't go and check it within the next few hours, but i think Shadow Sight is a) a debuff and b) not dispellable..

Have the warlock respec SL/SL - affliction only makes sense as a build in the context of protecting other classes DoT.

You will be able to outlast them, but with the changes to the mage class, i think the team with the mage will be the winner (counterspell, icy veins, good usage of PI, poly).

Sooner or later the priest will eat a poly, and when he uses his trinket, he is vulnerable to blind.
Within that timespan, the hunter will be in serious trouble...

Atm, SL doesn't begin to mitigate the burst that new-improved rogues and PIed mages are dishing out.

Charging into the midst can open up a fear blind combo on you, which is good game.

It's a multitude of dilemmas here. Charge and you might get chain-CCed, don't charge and the warrior gets sheeped. Cyclone and you might be CSed, don't cyclone and your healing might not keep up. Expose to heal and you get mana burned, heal conservatively and your hots/abolish gets dispelled.

Stupid question here- but is it the case, therefore, that one SHOULD purge spam against druid healing? I was always of the impression that spammed lifebloom being continually purged made this more than selfdefeating? Especially as lifebloom is insanely cheap and heals for a big chunk on each dispel?

As a warlock, I finished season 2 at 1992 rating with a rogue, druid, warlock group in 3v3. I definitely recommend that warlocks try out felguard spec for 3v3 and 5v5. It has good synergy with warrior & rogue teammates, as the felguard benefits from battle shout and hemorrhage. More importantly, the felguard allows the warlock to continue to do DPS and thus apply pressure to opponents while the warlock himself is being locked down by a melee class.

The felguard's melee and cleave attacks together causes a good amount of spell pushback when put on a priest or mage. If the warlock also maintains CoT on that target, it effectively locks them down to casting nothing but instants. A felguard will cause a mage a lot of trouble, as its Avoidance ability gives it a 50% chance to resist AoE effects - that includes frost nova, which is one of the few ways a mage can get away from a felguard. It's very hard for a mage to cast polymorph when he has both CoT and a felguard damaging him causing spell pushback. Ice barrier might help a mage against spell pushback against a felhunter, but a felguard will do enough damage to drop the ice barrier in short order. Especially on a team without any defensive dispels to remove a mage's CC (ie if you use a druid or shaman healer yourself), the felguard will put a lot of pressure on the mage - just be sure to keep CoT up on all times on the mage as well.

My felguard has about 225 resists to all spells in arena, thanks to the Void Star Talisman trinket and my druid teammate's mark of the wild buff. With the exception of the 2v2 bracket, I think felguard will really start to shine as one of the better specs for warlocks in arena season 3.