03-15-2005, 07:05 AM
Treesh,Mar 14 2005, 09:44 AM Wrote:And when I'm a priest with no mage in the party, I am really not going to give up my found drinks to a warlock. They can still be effective even with low mana.
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The only times a warlock is not effective is when interrupet by constant attacks and dead. That's it.
Seriously, I've used life tap when my health was below 30-40%. I'm the one usually giving our priest drinks.
If I'm not under attack, I can self-bandage, lifetap, life drain, run around and cast instants, direct my pet to pickup aggro against priest, self or mage. My warlock is non-stop.
I still ask for drinks from mage though. However. . . warlocks have a synergistic relationship with mages. (Mage + WL ftw btw). Trade hconjured healthstone for conjured water. Curse of element/shadow increase damage. Soulstone the Priest. What's not to like? Poly, seduce, burn, fear off caster. Healthstone saves life... or extends life. Lots of "Oh snap" boons.
I keep and ask for drinks because its more time efficient to eat and drink at the same time, especially if I'm freshly rez'ed. I have dark pact, so I can do the following skill order: Lifetap twice, just enough to summon imp, dark pact to drain imp of mana, which is enough to buff, conjure stone, or summon a new pet. At this point I'm back to very low health. Its eat and drink time, because everyone's doing it, but I have my pets summoned.
Warlock mana drinking is still a necessary downtime reducer. A warlock cannot be "full" by lifetap and dark pact alone, and sitting down to just eat or just drink is a waste for warlocks. Best to empty both health and mana first with lifetap, and eat/drink for increased overall regen. No point to eat and not drink. If that low on health, ask for a heal, consume a healthstone, or bandage up. Why lifetap to full mana bar, when overall downtime is reduced?
My typical inventory overhead is a minimum of two stacks of drinks and two stacks of food (did I mention I'm a cook too?), plus 2-3 stacks of bandages of various types, and their associated clothes. While not space efficient, it is time efficient. I cannot imagine this not lasting through several hours, my equipped items will long poop out before my supplies do.
Asking Mage for conjured water just make's everyone's lives easier, especially if you're the priest. Faster mana gain, buffs back faster and more often, heals back, mana topped off, the works. Don't hestitate to politely ask for water!
As for shamans not carrying ankhs... soulstone reinc rez sick bug stinks. However having two warlocks in the party = almost never ever completely wipe, if you rotate the soulstone castings on a priest. Shaman self-reincarnate should be wipe prevention, but it also causes durability loss, which just stinks too.
As a warlock, I'm considering buying a stack of ankhs to carry just so shamans have no excuse to wipe if my soulstones run out. They can only do it once every hour iirc, but should be used. Maybe that new engineering pop up repair vendor item willl become crucial. Maybe backup equipment. I have some myself.
Some of the behaviour here seems foreign to me, because its the norm on our server. I've played with priests who MC boss bodyguards all the time. I tend to unsummon/sac my current pet and enslave enemy demons in middle of mobs too.
Demon suddenly enslaved in middle of large mob = distracted mob, and one less enemy to deal with---although my demons generally survive to turn on me. However, they've almost always turned while my group is resting and ready to take on a singular elite demon. Possibly less loot if the enslaved demon is killed while under my control, but the safety factor is astronomical. Very fun to do in Maraudon--and I imagine Jadenyr fortress when I get to it.
The groups shouted in Ogrimmar all seem to want 5 man groups, not giant raids. My guild as well. . . and on the power leveling note: Karnage, one of our most experienced players, made a character go from 1-20 in 4 hours. Sick.