Warlocks Getting Buffed

[Raelynn]

You have fear.  Want to complain about no escape skill in PvP, please get in line behind the Paladins, Warriors, Hunters...
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The escape mechanism we need is something that is instant. Anything that has a casting time can't be an escape mechanism because you can't use it on the run (read: while escaping). The abilities we do have to survive are generally very situational, such as sacing the VW, mezzing with the succubus, or soul link with one of the only 2 effective pets. If you aren't specced right or don't have the correct pet out you're basically screwed, because just about every class has a way to stop casting in some form (most are stuns). At that point all you can get off is an instant.

The problem is, everyone has escape mechanisms of some type, but warlocks are the only ones that can be in a situation and not have any. For example, a rogue attacking an affliction specced warlock with the imp out for mana. There's nothing the warlock can really do to escape because all the fears will be either cancelled with the trinket, or imterrupted by the rogue (unless it's a bad rogue). He doesn't have the sac, mezz, or soul link options available, and casting times=no cast at all in most PvP situations.

To sum up, you can't call a class balanced that has escape mechanisms only some of the time. That's the big reason we call for this.

As a side note, when are they going to rebalance the mana cost of demon armor? It's worse than Ice Armor, which got dropped to about 500 mana. And don't bring up AI as a balance for it, because pets cost more. :P