Blade's Edge Arena and Melee Cleaves

PVP Arenas
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I’m playing as Demo and I legitimately don’t understand what I’m supposed to be doing versus certain specs. The damage is so lackluster in comparison to pre nerf. Tyrant constantly gets confused and does absolutely nothing on Blade’s Edge. Utterly pointless spec. Nether Portal sucks, so telegraphed and predictable and easy to stop the Pit Lord

I have Gate, I have port, and that’s it. How am I getting away from a Monk and DH? I’m genuinely asking. I have Exhaustion up constantly with Amp Curse on a reduced CD and they never run out of mobility. It doesn’t matter how good my defensives are if they have 85% uptime on me the entire match. No one peels at all and I just get smoked

Windwalker Monk parries all of my pets every like 15 seconds. Its stupid. Feels like such a hard counter, he can port/roll away when my CDs are up or parry everything. Completely rips through my dark pact, feel like I can’t even survive the damage. DH it’s the same thing he can Blur/Darkness all of my CDs, Glimpse, Netherwalk, etc while completely out damaging me in every aspect and sticking on me 24/7. All while never casting or really doing anything but hitting two buttons

Why do people even complain about Demo? I feel absolutely helpless versus certain lobbies

I just tanked over 100 rating getting DH/Monk/BM Hunter lobbies and people still complain Demo is “broken”. Idk those specs feel way more broken in every capacity.

Am I missing something? Never claimed to be the best but I’m certainly not a bad player. Anyone else tired of feeling completely helpless as certain caster specs versus melee? It’s mind numbing

EDIT: I also feel like this map just sucks. It used to be a dream as ranged, since there weren’t SO many gap closers for melee. You could play the Z axis. Now its like I can bait them downstairs and port back up but how does that do me any good? My pets have a brain aneurysm and can’t connect.

Why does my Tyrant stare at my kill target and do absolutely nothing? Why does he run so slow?

Can anyone explain why DH’s have a Fear, ranged stun, pseudo ranged interrupt, AOE stun, and imprison?

Like I really wanna know about these peculiar design decisions. Here’s a thought, can Demo just have 2-4 pets instead of 20 and then fix the AI? Or, can we retune Demo into a Demonbolt build for PVP? That way summoning pets still matters but its to buff your own damage, not watch your braindead pets throw the match and do absolutely nothing

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It is imperative we remember at all times that the myth of c%ster weakness in pvp is a carefully designed and orchestrated psyop by Big Warlock to shoehorn c%sters into a position of extreme relative strength in the first season of an expansion (which hasn’t happened at the beginning of an expansion since Wrath) thereby making the power gap between C%sters and Melee even more staggering in C%ster favor at the end of the expansion.

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1)this map sucks for everyone so you not alone
2)play long gate and drop your gate from one side of the bridge to the other.
3)abuse the y axis

that’s about all i got

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I don’t support your complaints about demo, but I do support your complaints about Blade’s Edge… even though you should actually do pretty well on that map.

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This should help

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Fair enough but I’d really like for them to just completely rework Demo. I don’t want thirty freaking pets, I’d be fine with like four that don’t have a broken AI. Or better yet, just buff the Demonbolt build

No one wants to play Tyrant at all. I mean absolutely no one. And no one wants to play Nether Portal. It’s predictable and stupid (and also broken if ignored)

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You’re gonna get trolled by all of the most boring losers on this site who spend their days farming likes, but as a demo player I’ll give some thoughts about the issue.

I def wouldn’t take big gate as others suggest, but I’ve started to kite around the bottom. Against some comps the bridge is troll to stand on so don’t be afraid to kite along the bottom. Also remember to PUSH out into mid away from your healer (if on the bridge) stacking increases the damage and CC your healer takes. Jump down and use ports and such only when your healer is in cc. Also you have stuns, use them defensively if you need to.

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Well, I do support this complaint. It would be nice you could replace Tyrant somehow.

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I’ve been advocating for grimoire of sacrifice for demo

They die and turn into their fel guard

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I’ll check this out, thank you.

Also Zanderthedog I’ll keep that in mind. I do tend to play the bridge too often because I’m afraid to LOS my healer if I try to play Z axis and they’re able to close the gap.

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Granted, but you lose it at the end of the expansion and DH gets 2h spec and this becomes its Metamorphosis

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Also I play fel lord into double melee sometimes. May be worth a try

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A lot of warlock play is all about positioning

This was made with shadowlands aff in mind but the principles remain the same

You basically kite in a big circle between your ramp, middle ramp, up, and down

Moving away from your port so you can use it in key moments

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