Skandranon,May 7 2005, 08:06 PM Wrote:Tell you what. I'll start a warlock, and I'll play primary AoE. I will play to level 60 and take notes.
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Hellfire is great when timed against aggro, but it is simply not as verstatile as mage aoe. Take notes on the other differences between mage/lock as well and limitations of said warlock powers. Note we're the only class consistently nerfed every patch.
Borrow someone else's account for a few days if you can. Save the trouble, unless you genuinely want to try warlocks. You'll see what happens when your spells interrupted, your succubus killed from her own charm actions, your pets are out of position or go ballistic (even on passive), when your primary forms of CC are unavailable to you group is to near the next mob, or you don't have the right pet out.
Imagine if... oh, say pyroclasm backfired on you. Small % chance that instead of you doing damage, you'd get a critical failure and the damage would be done to you instead of the enemy. Except, many warlock skills and talents are bugged or designed this way.
My gripes above don't even account for the number of factual bugs
While pallies have some interesting abilities, like uninterruptable and no-aggro salvation, I'd rather not play alongside them given they're the anti-warlock in terms of their blessings but buffs aren't limited. Pallies, fun for alliance, but horde refuse to get near them.