Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
Do you want to solo raid or box raids?

Anyway, without playing one myself, but as raid leader for my guild: have 3 mages in my roster who are playing since vanilla and have a hardcore raid track record. With hc dungeon gear and some boe's they have been doing really poor so far. Poor as in at the bottom of the dps. In frost spec they seem to do more damage. However fire seems to get way better with gear. Only seen 1 arcane mage so far and that was quite a drama (below feral tank on dps).

Lock on the otherside is among top. Both affliction & destruction seems to be pretty close with survival hunter & unholy dk's.from what I've seen so far. Not sure where demon lock stands though.
I think there's a massive difference to cover here. Since he wants to box them. Which is quite a lot of different then solo players reaching X or Y dps.

I do not know about warlock's dps at lvl 85 in Hc. But i do have a mage. Mainly playing arcane in PVE and it's extremely basic and simple. So awesome for boxing I'd say.

I pull out ~8k dps with itemlvl 341 With gear focussed on PVP. Lacking hit for example. I have no constructive experience with locks at 85. Saw some exeptional good ones and average ones in Pugs etc. Not sure how capable they're for boxing high dps atm.