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Would the imbalance between destro/afflic PvP cause Blizzard to nerf/buff one of the specs?
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mindthegap5
At the moment PvP has become very one sided as far as warlocks are concerned. With most of the warlocks I see PvPing ingame specced destro, and a few people specced affliction. I myself jumped on the bandwagon when I heard just how powerful destro is at PvP. My question is, whould this imbalance cause blizzard to either nerf destro or buff affliction in order to attract people to the affliction spec?
Just something i've been thinking about for a while.
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mindthegap5
True, destro has recieved nerfs such as the FnB nerf, but afflction is still lacking in the burst department and blizzard need to understand this. Maybe some buffs to direct damage spells such as shadowbolt and haunt could be whats needed to supply this burst (maybe a reworking the nightfall talent). I really liked PvPing as affliction but it just isn't as good as destruction at the moment.
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hashmel
yes because it'd be something to keep them occupied and avoid the subject of bringing demo in line with affl and destro
allow more demo talents than just soul link to benefit special summons and enslaved demons and that'll make a world of difference...kind of a shame affl gets the most benefit from the special summons due to its being least reliant on demons while already being comparably in line with destro
and since the fun was removed from RoD change the talent around a bit to meta your currently active demon into a more powerful one for 15 mins every hour...maybe 5 mins every 20 mins as a good portion of the 15 min duration would be spent going through readychecks and crap
felguard---doomguard
felhunter---hound of culuthas
imp---beholder
succubus---mistress of pain
voidwalker "texas ranger"---infernal
would make a nice cataclysm change for locks especially demo
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mindthegap5
Take a look at alot of the top ranked warlocks. ALOT of them play affliction, because in top end arenas, you don't just WOTLK people down (unless your running hurfadurfcleave or some variant), you wear them down over time.
Look at the ratings for Warrior/Warlock/Druid, or DK/Lock/Healer (2 good lock comps off the top of my head). You play them by wearing things down. Once a lock can get 1 or multiple UA's up, in addition to any damage the other dps is putting out, they become very threatening, since if one of the enemies dispels, they risk taking a ton of damage on top of a silence.
You are going to see a lot more warlocks play destruction over affliction until about 2k+, and above that, there's a solid mix of Affliction and Destruction locks. Some people even dual-spec to keep mixing things up, because BOTH specs are viable and good.
And in regards to Aff or Destro in bgs. I personally go in as destruction, just because big crits on people with little to no resilience are
FUN
. Affliction is perfectly viable for bg farming, but when I'm trying to farm honor for offsets, I don't want to get bored going corr>coa>ua>haunt tab corr>coa>ua tab corr>coa>ua. I like being able to go Immo>chaos>conflag OOOOOOOHHHH CRIT FOR 20k WATTTTT? <~(2 spells critting for 10k each on low-nonresil targets, so INB4 NERFLOCKBURSTQQQQQQ)
Half a wall of text sorry, it's 6am and I'm in ramble mode :]
Yeah I was commenting more on the BG side because I rarely arena really because I suck at it. And your right big crits are fun. I was once in a AB and the top 5 where warlocks (all destro aswell).
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Infleto
I hope the new soul shard system will give aff some on demand burst,
The real reason for destro poor showing in +2k is Immo has no dispell pretection.
Demo can be played in 3v3 in the same way as a Bestcleave team. then after Meta's burst. cc is there only job. Demo will do better if 2 things happend,
1, add more anti-cc to meta.
2, add more cc capabilty's out of meta.
for # 1, I think changing it to make you still human, and reduce the time of all cc my 1/2.
for # 2, I think giving your next fear a horror efect after using demo port, will help a lot. this should be done as a talent point in deep demo to stop aff or destro form picking it up. it is not as OP as some mite think, it is a 10sec cc on what is beating your face in even if DR has kicked in. this will make up for demo's low burst out of meta.
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abulurd
if you have any gear or skill you can do awesome in bgs, hell the fel guard sili leveling/soloing spec does well there.
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mindthegap5
if you have any gear or skill you can do awesome in bgs, hell the fel guard sili leveling/soloing spec does well there.
I know it's good, I never said it wasn't i'm just saying that at the moment the large amount of burst destro provides is causing (almost) everyone to spec destro.
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abulurd
I know it's good, I never said it wasn't i'm just saying that at the moment the large amount of burst destro provides is causing (almost) everyone to spec destro.
i was actually speaking to krazy right there, your fine mtg5
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hashmel
LOL affliction give me a break not a chance im a destro lock at 80 and i pawn all in AV or AB and dueling psshh dont get me started if your use to afflic and you tried destro and say fail u have no clue whatso ever on playing a destro lock
will someone pillar hump this fool
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Arcage
LOL affliction give me a break not a chance im a destro lock at 80 and i pawn all in AV or AB and dueling psshh dont get me started if your use to afflic and you tried destro and say fail u have no clue whatso ever on playing a destro lock
will someone pillar hump this fool
There's always one clown in every crowd.
I personally go aff for pvp, i have the gear for destro and would probably like it, I jusy find it more antagonizing for my enemies to be kept at distance and have the life sucked out of them.
I havent tried arena admittedly yet, waiting for more pvp bits to make the minimum 800 resi i keep hearing about.
It's all good, just a different play style, I'm a bit disappointed demo has been kind of ruled out in pvp, I see a few doing it, just not many.
Anyone demo users having fun with this spec or getting owned?
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