Mage vs. Warlock

[Ualaa]

Affliction is great for bosses, or anything that is going to be up long enough for the Dots to start ticking away.
If your only measurement of DPS is on the boss, then Affliction is up there.

However, on trash their DPS is not going to be that good in comparison to a Demo/Destro Lock or an Elemental Shaman or a Mage of any spec.

[Mercurio]

Affliction is great for bosses, or anything that is going to be up long enough for the Dots to start ticking away.
If your only measurement of DPS is on the boss, then Affliction is up there.

However, on trash their DPS is not going to be that good in comparison to a Demo/Destro Lock or an Elemental Shaman or a Mage of any spec.

And there is SO MUCH trash in the heroics these days - I'd much rather have a toon that could get me to bosses quicker even if it took longer to get the bosses down.

[Ghallo]

I have a Pally, Lock * 3, Shammy team, and then a Pally, 2xMage, Lock, Priest team

I don't even know what I would do without the Warlock - but oddly enough my 2x mage team does better than my all lock team.


Destro Lock is the way to go - you still get 2 instant and 1 cast DoT (and Improved Corruption and Bane are low enough to get for Destro) but you also get Improved Immolate for some truly lovely DoT damage.

DoTs are uber for grinding/leveling. My 3 lock team doesn't even fight non-elites. I just run into the area and start tab spamming Corruption/Agony on every quest mob I need to kill - run in a big circle always tabing and spamming the next one, and then stop to loot.

The other thing to note - Glyph of Voidwalker doesn't really make you miss out on a DPS glyph ... so even going Destro your VW can still take some damage and OT for you. My BRC strat on the second boss uses VW tanking to keep me alive instead of having to do some nasty dancing. Very helpful!