04-27-2005, 12:39 AM
nobbie,Apr 26 2005, 04:47 PM Wrote:Can you elaborate a bit on that? :)
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Drasca's advice isn't going to be useful for you. He has good points about the Warlock's lack of escape mechanisms in PvP servers, but you don't play on a PvP server, so his advice will be radically different from anything you can employ.
Warlocks are the premier soloists of the three cloth casters. They can solo anything that can be feared, do massive single-target DPS and have a pet to top things off. The trade-off is a play style which some people find irritating and tedious.
Of mage and shadow priest, talking solo play, the mage has only one advantage - polymorph. Shadow priests put out more single-target DPS than mages (especially after Shadow Form), but may have trouble taking pulls of more than one beast due to lack of poly. Humanoids, however, can be MCed and made to fight each other; undead can be shackled. Priests also need to buy water instead of getting it free.
DPS output is an argument for Priest over Mage, surprisingly enough. Mage benefits are basically poly. Teleports for convenience, but that doesn't really apply in combat.