nobbie,Aug 15 2005, 04:54 PM Wrote:ideal, rare case
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Hunt. Stalk. Pull. Don't ever shoot yourself in the leg.
Facing world enemies, you either clear or find ways to trap enemies to open areas for fear kiting. If you're facing multiple enemies, strike them all with dots, pets and AoE fear. Heck, with the right talents, you can simply AoE Kite them.
Quark & Lissa was mentioning Elite Bosses. Area bosses, not just regular elites. Those can be pet-tanked, or simply annihilated with firepower and sparse fear-bandages.
In PvE instances where instances are linear, fearable enemies are numerous and dangerous, you pull backwards. Showed off fearing in sunken temple in my 50's.
Pre-60 equipment, lock dps is fairly balanced. It isn't mind numbingly slow, nor falls behind too far from gear dependency, but its not blazing fast and pre-buffed damage either.
All things locks can do require a lot of micromanagement multitasking. CoR? Uhh.. Didn't I have a different curse on him. Oh curse gone, swallowed by time limit or other debuffs. Darn. CC? Nothing that's can be pre-buffed, more attention required by me. Gotta watch invisible timers. Doom? More timers. Oh boy, where'd that CC target go? Come here Warp bug!
Half the things locks can do strongly require talent specialization and attention to use. AoE? When we're hit, we're interrupted. Its still comparatively strong aoe, but requires either 17 pts into destruction for uninteruptability, partying with a paladin (not possible for horde), or spending 31 points for soul link and negating a chance to get "Ruin" to absorb damage done to self at a slower rate--or more importantly damage done from grabbing all that aggro.
So. . . Warlocks get pimped from equipment pretty darn well at endgame.
Quote:What do Warlocks lose when they go into groups/instances?
Dots, Fear, Limitations on pets (sometimes), invalidated talents.... who am I kidding? I love instances--even though I lose half my utility spells, and the other half are useless most of the time, there's always at least one utility spell used when needed.
Most of the time though, its just shadowbolt spam.