Sham wrote:
For pally - maybe. For my dwarf priest it was exact opposite. No way in hell lone warlock could kill me or even threat somehow except cc, while I could kill them pretty easy just by swp+mindblast+wanding. Also having ward helps vs fear.
But twink hunters, especially full agi build like Buffalojack, were real pain. Huge dmg on cloth which requires to heal almost non stop under preassure, and its hard to get close for fear if hunter knows what he is doing. Warlock you can solo kill fast, with hunter who always has 2k+ hp its so long and mana consuming, usually just not worth it, so you have to run from them.
Armor pots yo, having a priest running around with 1600 armor meant the only kill pressure on a priest was when completely oom. Warlock isn't about killing you, though stacked they will, it's about CoTing you while dot draining everything else with extra pressure from the 300+ damage insta cast shadowbolts they crap out, or just mana draining you which actually was pretty strong if they were persistent. Dispel costs what, half the full drain so your only option was to take it or get zoned. CoT in vanilla is probably the most powerful cc in the game, since it wasn't til what, mid TBC? early TBC? when they gave CoT PvP duration cap and lowered it from 50%.
I dunno, it never happened here thank god, but a lock stacked team with fury wars peeling rogues off them is pure canceraids. Even worse when you have a shadow specced support troll priest spamming rank 1 pain and hex to cover dots and fear with weaving. Hex cuts like 40 healing off a 250~ healing pally per cast and that +healing isn't free. It's just no one ran DPS mages and very few shadow locks or they coulda been globaling me pretty consistently.