Yeah. ‘locks uset to be overpowered. Now, against most classes they’re not, and against Rogues, Warriors, and to some extent Paladins, it’s not even worth trying. Especially if they’re undead.

There is no need to hold back having a permanently summonable doomguard it seems when compared to a frigging devilsaur with its ferocity tree: blood thirsty, rapid, heart of the phoenix and charge

Anyway… any decent (SL/SL) lock will own a mage and every other caster class. We can kill melee classes, but that’s only because DoTs keep ticking even after we’re dead (which will btw get removed simply cause it’s too much fun, but that’s for another topic). They simply have too many tools at their disposal to lock us down.

Mages need help vs. casters, and you’re getting plenty in Wrath. Locks need help vs. melee, and we’re getting screwed.

I am a warlock at heart been playing exclusively on my warlock for over two years. I leveled destruction (I know, I know, I was a noob!) but then went Demo the moment I leveled to 50 for the felguard. That moment, I went pure felguard PVP speced and grinded hundreds of hours in BG and Arena. I, before season 4, I had every full set of season 3 gear (excluding the shoulders, which I was able to get but decided to wait for season 4. Biggest mistake I ever made. My ratings came from my 2v2, my partner being another Lock. speced and geared equal if not better then myself.

The night that patch came for the amplified Demishing returns nerf (that no one is owning up to! this is the same patch of the level 30’s get mounts) We lost every game we played (hello that was a first, we usually won 8 of 10 on average) We then first thought it was our abilities or some new trinket that was causing the word “IMMUNED” to pop up everywhere.

So needless to say, my guild let me use them as test dummies. This affected everyone the same. It does not matter WHAT warlock puts one of the follow on someone it is considered a count; deathcoil, fear, howl of terror. first one only last 50% (a fear is suppose to last 20 sec. so now it only 10 seconds. plus what pvp’er does not have the trinket to get out of it?). The next one is diminished another 50% now the fear is cut to 5 seconds (this is the best chance you have for any real fear, make it count), then the next is diminished by another 50% (wow a whooping 2.5 second fear. Hello, it took me 3 seconds to put it on them, the next one 50% again 1.25 second (hello what is the point) and finally lets add insult to injury. Now the target will be IMMUNED for 6 cast of the fear spells! Again remember it does not matter what warlock does the spells. for example if run across a rogue in the BG’s and use the last three seconds I have to cast a fear, if that rogue had already ran into another warlock he may already be immuned!

This is also why I have had to find myself another pvp partner because with us both handicapped against another there is no point!

This last NERF has now caused me to retire my beloved Felguard “Haaroon” and my pvp spec. I have respec’ed to destruction for full time raiding, before I get so aggravated and delete my warlock! Which I have had a blast doing also. But I am still disappointed since I am a pvp’er at heart! Now, I am a shadow bolt spammer! OH JOY!

So I sit here patiently waiting to see what turns out from the Expansion, before I decided to finally calling it quits on WOW/blizzard.

im not saying skill plays absolutely no part, but let’s be honest here.

any day of the week if a lock challenges me to a duel, unless he is lower level or geared in total crap, i wont even consider it. especially since so many of them think beating a mage is a matter of skill and not class dynamics.

Rogues are disgusting. if they really want to make good on that “does lots of damage, but is easy to kill” thing, they should all turn in 75% of their HP at the door… Put a 2k cap on it at level 70. Let ‘em kick my ass…. Buff all their other abilities… As long as we don’t see them coming they should be able to kill us… If we do see them, though, they should be dead before melee range.

Iceblock isn’t supposed to be like Pally bubbles; it’s meant to be a oh-shit button for defensive purposes.

While I will admit it is fairly easy to kill a Mage as a Warlock, I do acknowledge that there are plenty of Mages out there who can and have wiped the floor with me. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by many a Mage who knows that the hell he’s doing.

Don’t get me wrong, Mages need some PvP buffs… But “compensation for not having fears?” Come on…

besides, sure it removes debuffs, and the second im out i get hit with them again, so whoopy.

IB and blink are very one time use items, frankly by the time my blink is cd’d im halfway dead.

Mages are far from rooted; you have blink. You can avoid melee far better than locks can. Also, you can slow/freeze melee very efficiently without talents. Let’s not even talk about iceblock…