5 X Warlocks and ass kicked in WSG

[heyaz]

Even at 60, you're a clothy and pretty squishy. The moment you start drain life'ing you draw a giant bunch of lazerbeams at your position.

Your job is to hide behind a tree and throw DoTs, knowing that if and when you die (since you have no healer) you'll take your enemies down with you once the dots reach their duration. You pretty much have to play uber defensively, throwing fears and such when people notice you, while you run for safety.

SL/SL should help at 70 to negate the squishy'ness, and throwing SoC's is the reason why I rolled my locks. All the fun stuff is at 70.

Only problem with Sl/SL (my main's spec) is you hit like a bitch. I have to re-apply dots 3 times to kill geared 70s, and he's in season 3. If I had 5 warlocks I'd lean more toward speccing them all affliction. Drive by dot and kite.

The other HUGE problem with SL/SL is easily dispellable dots. You only have 3 instacast dots to deal with, and paladins and priests dispell them with ease. Going UA not only discourages dispelling the dots, but the talent (forget what its called) makes them hard to dispell also. That, and instant howl of terror.

Put your death coils and howls of terror on round robin as well, for tons of CC.

[blast3r]

Even at 60, you're a clothy and pretty squishy. The moment you start drain life'ing you draw a giant bunch of lazerbeams at your position.

Your job is to hide behind a tree and throw DoTs, knowing that if and when you die (since you have no healer) you'll take your enemies down with you once the dots reach their duration. You pretty much have to play uber defensively, throwing fears and such when people notice you, while you run for safety.

SL/SL should help at 70 to negate the squishy'ness, and throwing SoC's is the reason why I rolled my locks. All the fun stuff is at 70.

Only problem with Sl/SL (my main's spec) is you hit like a bitch. I have to re-apply dots 3 times to kill geared 70s, and he's in season 3. If I had 5 warlocks I'd lean more toward speccing them all affliction. Drive by dot and kite.

The other HUGE problem with SL/SL is easily dispellable dots. You only have 3 instacast dots to deal with, and paladins and priests dispell them with ease. Going UA not only discourages dispelling the dots, but the talent (forget what its called) makes them hard to dispell also. That, and instant howl of terror.

Put your death coils and howls of terror on round robin as well, for tons of CC.

but the priest would have to dispell 15 dots. I imagine he would be hurtin' for certain by that time.

I retired from Archimonde so my locks are sleeping now. However, I am on Mag now with a team of shammies X 5. Think I will wait until level 39 to go in there. I should be somewhat twinked and I won't have a huge goal of hitting 40 as much as 20 (ghost wolf and new totem) and 30 (mount). Who knows. Or I may be playing a team of druids..hehe..been thinking about that a lot lately.

[Vyndree]

The other HUGE problem with SL/SL is easily dispellable dots. You only have 3 instacast dots to deal with, and paladins and priests dispell them with ease. Going UA not only discourages dispelling the dots, but the talent (forget what its called) makes them hard to dispell also. That, and instant howl of terror.

I started out my locks as 1 demo / 4 aff, and in PvP (where I am less likely to be sending pets at people and more likely to hide behind a tree) I found the aff locks, thanks to siphon life spam, lasted longer.

That being said, there's almost never a time where I've had to really use UA. Normally by the time 1 or 2 sets of 5 dots lands on someone, they GTFO or try to suicide bomb me. The only people who last through the dots are mages (who iceblock) and pallies (who bubble) -- in which case UA is just as ineffective.

At 60, I respecced to 3 heavy demo, 1 SL/SL (almost -- she's got the soul link but not siphon yet... 1 more level), and 1 full aff. It's absolutely terrible when I went into AV (and ironically ran into another boxer -- for the life of me I forgot their names but they're on the forums and from Norgannon). Felguards in enemy lines just get pewpew'ed down and you waste more time resummoning/reapply'ing soul link than anything else. It's also very hard to lifetap for mana without a dedicated healer and with drain life being so noticable (and so ineffective... I kill things before the drain is complete, wasting MORE mana). I also ran into a bunch of AoE-happy mages and a SHADOWFURY lock (I hate shadowfury) -- who went after me and the other boxer with a vengeance.

I suppose keeping one as aff (for UA) and the rest as SL/SL might be the most effective BG combo -- UA to prevent hasty dispellers, and a bunch of siphon lifes to allow you to lifetap at will. Granted, they might not push the dps 1v1, but focus fired dots (and SoC at 70) should make up for that.

BTW: Macro your felpuppies to dispell you. It's a great anti-fear.

[tigger2577]

(and ironically ran into another boxer -- for the life of me I forgot their names but they're on the forums and from Norgannon).

horde or alliance?? what classes I might be able to help you hunt them down. :P

[Vyndree]

(and ironically ran into another boxer -- for the life of me I forgot their names but they're on the forums and from Norgannon).

horde or alliance?? what classes I might be able to help you hunt them down. :P

Pally/4 Shammies, alliance, from Norgannon...

They pst'ed me with their forum name but thanks to my horrible memory I can't recall what it was... It was after the hogger raid, I had finished getting my warlock epic mount quest done and wanted to try out some AV with my superfast horseys. I ended up getting into their AV, which had already started, and just played D the whole time.

[tigger2577]

(and ironically ran into another boxer -- for the life of me I forgot their names but they're on the forums and from Norgannon).

horde or alliance?? what classes I might be able to help you hunt them down. :P

Pally/4 Shammies, alliance, from Norgannon...

They pst'ed me with their forum name but thanks to my horrible memory I can't recall what it was... It was after the hogger raid, I had finished getting my warlock epic mount quest done and wanted to try out some AV with my superfast horseys. I ended up getting into their AV, which had already started, and just played D the whole time.

that would most likely be Azerial, he also has a lvl 70 horde team on norgannon

[Vyndree]

I probably should've also mentioned that they were in the 50-60 AV bracket.

[tigger2577]

I probably should've also mentioned that they were in the 50-60 AV bracket.

well then it is not azerial he is already 70 on his alli side

if is was that bracket then it must be Sarduci

[Tonuss]

I would just give the BGs a try anytime you get into the x8/x9 level ranges and see how it is. Yeah, there are lots of twinks in the lower brackets and if you're not twinked up as well you will be lunchmeat. The lower ranges are great for melee, there is not much +spell DPS or healing gear, so they get full benefit from the added health, as well as benefitting from enchants that provide them with some extra melee DPS and utility. Lifestealing or Crusader on a lowbie weapon (or weapons) is highly effective in those brackets.

[Bradster]

Holy crap how demoralizing yesterday was! I took my level 18 locks into WSG and it was total pwnage in a bad way. i don't even think I was able to get a full set of DoTs off. After the third wipe straight I just /quit. Not sure I will be taking my locks to BG for a while. OUCH! I'm sure it was partially do to mainly having crappy trash armor but locks are just soft and gooey anyways.

Just thought I would share my pain with the group. /cry

19 is a twink bracket, cloth at the level 19 bracket is a bad idea! I skipped this bracket and I suggest everyone pretty much do the same. The first 3 brackets contain the most twinks, the 19 being the worse. I had some fun in the 40-49 for a while. Its fun when you don't have to grind it. Wish I spent some more time grinding some tokens. I'm paying for it now!