Pally Changes

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It's often said warlocks are balanced by frustration and they too suffer from the mercy of the prng at times. [right][snapback]93991[/snapback][/right]

You're right that warlocks have control over their damage (mostly).

Its not the prng that bothers me. Its the skills and talents that are bugged, don't work as advertised or devs completely neglect through CM response "Working as intended" or we can't be smegged to care.

You're familiar with the CC warping bug, yes? It isn't lag snapback, the local client inherently reports wrong position from the server, and when the mob breaks out of CC, they're in a different position--usually right on top of you. This bug makes good arguement for warriors to purposefully pop sheeps rather than wait for them to eat non-tanks. Unfortunately, when combined PvP and a requirement to 'face your target' for spellcasting, and the fact that fear randomly chooses a direction for the feared target to run in, it is impossible to direct a spell toward a feared target. Enemies are essentially invisible until client/server's corrected.

That's one example. About 2/3 of our skills, including 31 pt talents are dispellable or cleanseable (so glad pallies can't offensively dispel).

Difficult to use what's available, and bugged available talents. Gee. Great.

You have no control over your DPS, I have little control over any abilities actually bloody working. I feel like a tinker gnome. I try to cast, and it blows up in my face. Goodbye proc, goodbye 6 seconds trying to cast. Spell interrupted? Where from? They didn't use any abilities on me. Oh bugger. Pet does something odd (which I have almost no control over), and I get punished for it.

Yes, I can stack the deck, play it safe, and change my playstyle... but the fact is, the bugs shouldn't be there in the first place. Warlocks are punished for difficult to avoid bugs that shouldn't exist.

Did you know Life drain and mana drain are dispellable? You can cleanse them off yourself. Is starfire and arcane missles dispellable? Mind flay? (Not that anyone with half a wit uses starfire, or AM much in pvp) But the fact it is dispellable is sick and thus makes it unreliable. What works? Duh.... Make it a challenge for warlocks! Yeah.

I don't approve of relying on prng with Ruin builds, but I wholeheartedly supported one-two shotting mounted foes with 3-4k shadowbolts. Why? Rogues, Hunters, and Warriors, heck even Mages, attempt it all the time. Its a means to fight back. Not reliable, but the most of warlock abilities simply aren't. When haven't I been ambushed/backstabbed? Aimed shot from shadowmeld & pet sent at me, frost trap / aimed shot from distance when I have no felhunter out, fear immune warrior charged and mortal struck.

Where is the means of reliable retaliation? That seems to be the question.