Quote Originally Posted by 'vindicated',index.php?page=Thread&postID=82945#po st82945
I guess your arguement is hinging on the spell rotation of spamming frost bolt - or coa, immolate, shadow bolt spam, refresh dot/immolate, shadow bolt spam(refering to destruction locks)
I'm comparing the classes as a whole.

In general, destro locks are referred to as "shadow mages".

It's just the playstyle in general -- a mage in a PvE situation will likely be spamming spells with cast times which require facing the target. In general warlocks will be more of a drain class, using DoTs (though the destro spec or demo/destro -- do people actually run that? -- are exceptions) or drains (mana/life). Warlocks also have some casted DoTs and direct damage spells, but in general when you think "lock" you think "MOAR DOTS!"

Priest and Shaman are the "slimmed down" hybrid versions of the above two classes. Shaman are spamming spells with cast times that require facing the target. Priest is using dots and channeled spells (flay) while also using direct damage (mind blast/death) though you typically think of the dots/drains first.

It's a comparison -- if priests and shaman had the CC that warlocks and mages, then they wouldn't BE priests/shaman. They would be warlocks/mages. There are similarities and there are differences, but they are the closest comparison I can think of.

It's just a contrast of playstyles. If you make the lock destro it will very much be like the shaman in that it relies on cast times and crits. I agree here. I hadn't really thought of destro locks since to me, they're just "shadow mages".