05-09-2005, 01:58 PM
Skandranon,May 6 2005, 06:06 PM Wrote:If your group is warrior, priest, rogue, warlock, the obvious choice is paladin: if it's priest, paladin, druid, hunter, you might think about the mage. But in just about every case where you might want to fill the slot with a mage, a warlock fills the slot better.My mage is lvl 43, so I won't pretend I understand mages more, but I happen to a bit different opinion.
Group 1: Warrior, Priest, Rogue, Warlock
If you added Paladin to this group, you're basically giving up AoE alltogether (except those low-hp mobs intended to be AoEd), because one AoEr will get depleted mana on the typical 2 elites+3 non-elites group causing a lot of downtime. But Mage+Warlock will tear through the non-elites easily with quite a leeway. Paladin can't cure curses, and you have rest of debuff removal covered by priest.
Group 2: Priest, Paladin, Druid, Hunter
In this case mage would not do anything special. Single-source AoE is inefficient except for pulls with many non-elites (4+) and the low-hp trash mobs, curse removal is covered by druid (who is quicker with it), there's AI+drinks sure, and mage has okay single-target DPS at the cost of downtime (unlike Rogues).