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[Skandranon]

Because you have no clue how time consuming shards take. How would you like it if there were no meat/fruit/fish vendors?

This is reminiscent of a lot of warlock complaints that I see. "We have five times the capability of any other class...but damn it, soulshards are annoying!" I'd accept that drawback for warlocks' versatility any time.

With long preperation times, the longest cooldowns, and backloaded damage, warlocks are starving for such adaptability. It takes at least a minute to gain one soul shard in ideal conditions (battle 30 seconds / eat/drinking 30 seconds). Add 5 minutes travel time each way to and from farming areas on top of that.

I agree with you that warlocks need some PvP attention. However, Blizzard has to do this while holding the line on, or even scaling back, warlocks' PvE dominance.

The dichotomy in this case is between the ease of acquiring shards in PvE and the inability to do so in PvP. You can't seriously argue that getting shards is a hassle in group instance play, PvE. On all the initial trash pulls you can pick up a shard on each one if you want, and I see many warlocks do.

With warlocks, you get great single-target DPS, a pet (which can be offtank, CC, or just provide a huge stamina buff), healthstones, the best wipe recovery in the game in both soulstones and summoning, and AoE damage in one package. No PvE party can afford to go without this.

I've said it often before, but I'll say it again here. The only reason mages still get high-level groups is because most high-level players have no idea what a warlock can do. Even that's changing: in IF General I've seen far more "LF Warlock" calls...as well as "Mage LFG".

Our class board admin totally ignores us, gives us nil in concent when he does answer, and openly plays a mage as his main and preferred class. Anyone who does half a whit of digging shows he gives "I love mage" detailed posts on the mage forums, and redundant robotic like responses stating various broken talents are working as intended, ignore core issues with the warlock, and is simply absent in the warlock forums as a participator.
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On the one hand, I agree Eyonix should be more responsive. On the other hand, I do think the mage class needs more attention than the warlock class. Warlocks are useful...right now. All of the issues are annoyances. The mage's problems are far more than just annoyances, as are those of hunters and paladins, at least. And to be honest, the mage got even less help than warlocks did in the patch (plus some significant nerfing to frost).

Oh, and Eyonix hasn't exactly appeared on the mage forums in the last month, either.