PvP - 4x Mages or 4x Locks?

[accretion]

If you were starting from scratch on a new server and had to pick either Mages or Locks, which would it be and why?

[Abyssal]

free water

[Quix]

Cause I like mages.

4+ pom pyro is just fun.

Arcane explode all over people for that tingly feeling deep down.

I guess eventually i will roll some locs, but the mages are just too much fun.

Killed my 1st 70 at 45, Started oneshotting the bad ones by 60.

[Nitro]

Why waste time on dots with warlocks when you can one shot someone with mages.

[Rowdysattva]

x4 mages can be so omgwtfpwn

i actually fought x4 mages in wsg once on my single hunter... guess how that went. It was in the 29 bracket and my hunter was twinked to the max... STV gun and all... and the mages where just in really good gear. So odd as it is for a hunter... i needed to los them.

Post above mentioned the arcane explosion x4... ouch that is the memory. The mage didn't seem to be that good, but would spam AE a bunch and would really lay the smack down with it. They had a bit of a lag time switching if you killed the main. Not hard to figure out as they were all gnome and were snap, crackle, pop, and cereal master. If cereal master was not the main may have worked better. They were spelled a bit different but that was the basic idea.

Mages seem like such huge win with all the fun for them with a group. One reason i didn't do it is because i have really enjoyed the play i have had with a mage single (hunter too) some of the dynamic stuff i have been able to do with hunter and mage in single i haven't been able to do as well with mages or hunters in boxing set up... could be my learning curve. Blink seems like it could be a problem with boxing mages. Ice block seems awesome... whoever is getting focused IB and the rest pwn.

I would/and have still rolled locks. Locks don't have to be facing the opponent to target them which is a huge win. They have limited but still somewhat viable healing capabilities. Los issues are not as big a deal for them. having 12 dots on you in the space of 3 sec is really still omgwtfpwn. You still have good cc with locks... but fear does seem like peeps have more counters for it than for the freezes of mages.

One of my concerns with locks in high end is how much resilience affecting dots really hurts them... and then how much they get hurt from not getting any buff from crit or haste ratings. Really hurts me in my special place that crit and haste seem to be becoming such a big deal and blizz has not found a way to make them work for afflic locks.

This is assuming you mean afflic locks... i would say though... it is not the same as mages to have x4 destro locks but it would be quite fun and may play a bit like four mages for the burst damage. In wotlk destro looks really interesting. So with locks you may be able to respec to get the feel of both a bit.

[Naysayer]

Living bomb will be a lot more fun than Seed of Corruption in BG's, and blastwave will have a knockback effect making it even better than Thunderstorm. Mages look fun, fragile as hell, but fun.

[Stealthy]

4 Shamans! :P

Mages are fun...but a bit too squishy.

[Leon]

Come Wrath, 4 2min Mages or the Power of the Four Elemental(ists)

[Mercurio]

Funny, everyone who has posted has said mages, but the poll is a dead heat at this point with 12 responses.

Locks can't be bothered to post? People who play mages feel the need to be heard?

Odd... :whistling:

[slowcom]

I say locks. Nothing like spamming your DoT button while hitting tab. You can DoT up everyone in your area in a matter of seconds even if you are not facing them. Hell you never have to stop moving to DoT everyone up and when you die your still killing people.