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Why play a lock now after 3.0
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I was on my lvl 70 hunter with some S2 gear farming around when BAM! a lock ganks me. Now I am not the best at pvp but this guy took me out quick, like 2 seconds quick and I say gank because he hit me like a 70 does when im on my lvl 30 alt. Where is the Dot? as i'm doing my corpse run. I really think the new changes and trees are tuned towards lvl 80 and if this lock is a sign of things to come, the class will have no issues topping the dps meters.
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So locks have been reduced to hsing a raid and soulstones with a buff from imp or felhound for raid. Nerfed and just made the weakest dpses in the game a pallies consecrate does more damage then locks. While things were good in thought, being this is my first 70 and i worked damn hard on him been only playing since january 08. It was easy to lead the dps meters and domanate all if i wasnt first i was real close to it. As a destro lock. Now every1 i was beating gets to have their cake and eat it to. Where locks have to rework spell rotations watch when your special buffs happen and hope u can kill something while u have them or at least be able to switch fast enough to use them. and affliction while good for lvlinf and pvping it sucks in raids. even if u dot everything up hunters with their new shots and mages with just haveing to worry about casting 2 or 3 spells still domanate u. This sucks so bad i might have to lvl something else be4 wotlk just to be useful. Meanwhile all my friends that have other classes are happy as hell now they can beat me and i dont even pose a threat to them. AND CAN BLIZZARD PLEASE MAKE A LOCKS SPELL ROTATION ANYMORE COMPLEX!
Oh one more note why they hell do we have to rely on spirit now and yet all our T5 or T6 gear have no spirit in them. Mages gear is better for us now same with healer gear.
I would be intrested in anyones thoughts on this.
Barqs
wtf are you talking about consecrate does more dmg than locks are you retarded?
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Here is how you have to look at it. Coming from someone with a 70 hunter, 70 pally, 70 druid, 66 shaman, 62 mage, this is what I am finding consistant.
On trash, my pally and shaman pwn. They have such great burst damage that there is no waiting to see the damage. The pally also has AoEs, and can wreck up the damage quickly if the tank has more than one mob on him. Basicly it's the same with my shammy, I can stay ahead on damage until the boss fights. When we have a pull consisting of more than one mob, and MW procs, I get an instant cast chain lighting, adding up my damage alot.
When the boss fights come, I can't even touch the casters. They get their DoTs up, blow their CDs that they weren't using much on the trash, and the damage is HUGE. On my mage, when I pop my elemental, hit icey veins, trinkets, then cold snap and do it all over again, I bloe the burst damage classes out of the water.
Same with Locks, they can cast their debuffs, rack up the DoTs and let them run their course as they spam immolate/shadowbolt.
Try this. If your tank is good and can grab aggro well on multiple mobs, try using an AoE on some of the pulls. If you are geared really well, I am not sure I would suggest this, but if you struggle to keep up, then you should be safe. I use blizzard every chance I get if it's more than 2 mobs. As a lock, and there is a big pull, single target for a bit, then throw a SoC in there. be sure to check your Omen before doing so and make sure the tank is ok with you doing that too. He might be better [prepared knowing you will do it. All tanks can AoE tank now, and their threat has gone up alot, so this shouldn't be an issue if you wait a bit to do it.
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BTW, I forgot to add this. If blizz implements the ability to change specs in the middle of a raid, the spell casters will do even more damage in a raid. The fact that a lock could go Destro for trash, then switch to a more mana conserving spec for a long boss fight, would be pretty amazing for the spell casters. Same with mages, they could go arcane for trash, then frost for the bosses if they don't ahve the mana pool to pull off arcane for a boss fight.
As for the comment about affliction, again, it's hard to get dps on trash with affliction, but on a boss, it's one of the best dps specs atm.
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