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Will mages out-dps locks without even trying?
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chelupa
No.
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Kalken
Mages are intended to have slightly higher damage than warlocks as stated by blizzard reps. Mages have more glass than locks and less cannon so it has to be balanced somehow. Mage itemization naturally has little stamina and we lack the capability to heal ourselves in anyway besides consumables (HS's in particular are useless for a mage in raids). And warlocks have infinite mana mechanically possessing an ability that turns life into mana, Life Tap, and a self heal, Drain Life. Lately Mages have a lot more mana capability but we can run out of mana eventually. And Warlocks have the fel hunter which just freaking sucks to go up against as a mage.
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Eveigh
lemme get this straight...ima lock at lvl 33 right?
Keyword.
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MrFredII
At current time you cant trust the numbers what classes sqeez out, because alot of calculation and balance is still to be done. Even heared blizz developer speak of unitended 8k dps that they got with a mage.
Yes this statement was made discussing the result of a simulation using internal tools at Blizzard with a specific spec. The spec has not been revealed. The results have never been duplicated in Beta.
Mages are intended to have slightly higher damage than warlocks as stated by blizzard reps.
This is a reference to a statement made by Koraa in the beta forums. She actually said that a warlock without their pet out should do less damage than a mage. Later in this thread she made a statement which seemed to back away from the notion that mages should inherently out DPS warlocks.
While blizzard claims that they still have to balance the classes and statements have been made by class designers that a correction to mage talents is still in the works, you would be highly optimistic to expect that we will out DPS warlocks when WotLK goes live. Blizzard is heavily focused on DPS balance, its a safe bet that we will not out DPS any damage class "without even trying".
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Post by
Ryuken
now u say im 2 low lvl eivgh?
eat this!
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=192
Are you like 5? lol.. the OP I'm assuming is talking about damage in a raid environment. I have both but I have my money on mages. But we won't know what it really will be like until a patch or two into after release.
Post by
relloc
ooookkkkk....
lemme get this straight...ima lock at lvl 33 right?
i battle fully geared mages my lvl or higher in bgs...right?
kay...soooooooo
mage's spells hit the box-office at no1 at dmg...buuuuuuuuuuuut
locks dots can take out enemy while their attention is so focused on my felhunta killing their buufs.
the mages then realise they are slowly losing health from the dots...
they begin 2 focus their fire on me soo...
they die from dots at round the same time mages out-dps my lock
EVEN
edit: be nice or ill use my thunder pwrs on u!
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=192
now u say im 2 low lvl eivgh?
eat this!
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=192
/wrist. right now.
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