Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
BG's are a whole other game from Arena.

In BG's, you can have a full stack of dots on someone, as they concentrate on killing someone else.
Then they start to curse and wonder where you are.
That doesn't happen in Arena much.

A team at 80th is worth having, they can run dailies and supply an upcoming team with 1000g a day, for under an hour of play time. A few days of dailies and a new team has gold for quite a while. Epic flyers in Burning Crusade (at 60th or 61st) makes that so much easier for leveling, as does Cold Flying at 70th in Wrath.
Yeah, burst damage is definitely needed, but affliction locks isn't the oonly way to go. Destruction has very good burst - and good CC, although I must admit I'm not sure on how diminishing returns work with stuns.