Warlock's talents building

[Lissa]

Summon a different pet, dolt. That's assuming you can even get the HIGH RESIST felhunter banished. I'd sure like to watch you try to attack with that low hp of yours to get the +crit necessary... What if you don't add to +crit equip? Talents only? Your battles will depend on crit rolls. Mine will not.

Oh, for imps, they should never come out of combat immediately against locks. They'll attack when you're feared and cannot banish. DP locks can still have all they want.

As for demon specs, I can still hit hard and fast with nightfall procs or shadowburn depending on the spec.

Raid scale damage is Rain of Fire from range, and focus fire. Only the second is served by SM/Ruin. How much damage is really going to be done to warriors charging in fully bubbled and constantly healed? Hmm? Dps is not king.

5-10 man engagements, heck, I sometimes hellfire suicide bomb because it doesn't do me any serious damage.
Skan, only high agility hunters have 3.5k hp. Even rogues have been going to 4.4k, and I've been fighting them just fine.

There's a little thing called fear which can be cast before someone runs away, an enchant called minor speed increase on boots, snares and roots from your other party members and CoEx affliction talent investment, and epic mounts.

Your kill from damage is never guaranteed because there are so many forms of mitigating damage. Facing warlock? If he's any good and has mana, his shadow ward will absorb 600 damage every 30 seconds.

Why do you think mages cast blizzard from range? Snare and roots. That's what kills.

As for flash heal. Three words, fear, mana drain and spell lock. You absolutely need felhunter facing any decent shadow priest. Your searing pain is not faster than their flash heal, bubble, renew, especially when mind-flay slows your casts.

I'll take the bandaging as an oversight, as you should at the very least have rank 1 IC corruption on the enemy. If no IC Corruption, rank 1 agony is acceptable for dotting, but CoEx will snare enemies using escape skills, and Corruption wears them down. Ice mages will use their block to remove those dots, but that gives you time to chase, bandage yourself, or start casting fear for when they pop out of ice.

If you cannot get close enough to do this due to a large number of enemies in the way, they're simply not going to be killed by you alone without ranged stun/snare. They can out-heal and out-damage you, crit or no. When you coordinate focus fire with stuns/snares/interrupts and finally damage they'll go down regardless, but its the stuns and snares that win the battle, not the dps.

Small scale, there's all forms of burst damage. Chain-gun full improved imp comes to mind.

When CTF'ign with more mage guildmates, especially the awesome pvp mage d-lo who also has 5 pieces of arcanist epic, CoEl is superior to CoS.
That's highly suspicious as dots will finish the enemy. If its a druid, we'll be mounting up to finish them. If they're in range to begin with, you can use fear and chase them down. If they're a priest, they'll have to stop to heal outside of bubble--or if holy, might not be fighting at all.

If using an escape skill as you've said, warlocks have an easy time wearing down runners to death by dots.

If the battle was raid scale and at range, you'll sometimes be able to RoF, sometimes cast a few spells, and sometimes only be able to get shadowburn or death coil in without being attacked yourself. Dps doesn't even matter sometimes. Alterac Valley has fast GY player respawns. Its more than just damage skan, and you know it.
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Now you're just rambling. You still don't get it and I don't think you ever will.

How do you propose to summon another pet when the one is Banished and COUNTS against your limit of pets and you can't sac it while it's under Banish? Come on Drasca, you call me a dolt and them make that kind of statement? Who's the dolt now?

What's the highest non-crit you've ever done with your Demonology build and what items where you using at the time? I can tell you for a fact that the highest non-crit I got with an SM/Ruin build with a measly +55 damage (7/8 Dreadmist and Skyshroud Leggings, the +34 damage to all) was giving me NON-CRIT Shadowbolts with CoS up of 1036 (this is without the debuff from Improved Shadowbolt crits as well, crits with Improved Shadowbolt debuff were in the 2.2k range). Tell me Drasca, can you match that damage with only +55 damage and no SM/Ruin build, no, you can't. Will you're 10k health (with Link which can be gotten around) matter if I am able to dish out that damage before you are able to do 6k to me?

You seem to think that just because you play on a PvP server you know more than others, the fact is, you don't. You haven't a clue about what really ends a PvP confrontation. You sit there and say, "well I'll just keep adding +damage and keep on rocking" and you will be sacrificing Health and Stamina or Mana and Int to achieve that. You know, I know it, so quit making it look like you can lay out a lot of bull#$%& and I'll fall for it. I know the Warlock probably better than you do because I have tried the various options available and I've seen the whole. I also pay attention to what other Warlocks are saying and I laugh anytime someone is like, "Link is the greatest." Here's a tip, it isn't. I only prolongs the inevitiable. If you cannot take down your opponent in a short amount of time, you're going to die. You have to drop the other person quickly, Warlocks have no out and thus have to take them out.

You're little comment about fear shows just how out of the loop your are. Just about all classes out there have an anti-fear trinket, especially all caster classes and rogues. Others have outright fear immunity abilities like Warriors and Undead. Do you honestly think that if someone is running away you're going to be able to use fear to stop them? Please...they're gonna use that trinket and keep on going.

And DoTs finishing someone off? Only if they're stupid.

Learn to live without the crutch Drasca, you'll be a better Warlock for it if you do.