Game is more fun when warlocks are not S tier
Bro u q with spriests
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Should I queue ret warr or ww warr instead?
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spriest borderline tank spec atm
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Idk game feels more lively when aff/demo feel super viable. Doesn’t have to be S tier, but a solid A tier.
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Good thing they are then I guess. Did you see the shadow play spank that Kitty cleave in the awc? Could believe I was seeing affliction.
This is called personal bias
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Not really, just looking out for the betterment of the game. Hate to see locks/boomkins so limited with comps while the others classes are running rampart with a multitude of options. Plus all the great & enjoyable seasons had all 3 lock specs deemed as S-tier or A-tier with a variety of comps.
I mean you’re basically broaching 2 of the most versatile & tanky casters paired with locks, so ofc they’ll be good. And its evident that these 2 comps are all that locks have. WW/lock may be decent at best. Idk where you’re seeing ww/lock comps emerge, but if its on ladder then my guess is that its probably nowhere close to r1 range and it lingering around in the glad mmr. And the comp is probably really good at the mercy of WWs ridiculous dmg rn.
I wouldn’t really say this honestly because the ladder meta rn (which is infested with melee cleaves that can end the game within seconds even through appropriate cds) does not favor warlocks - and I doubt this is the case on TR as well excluding splay. The fact that a lock player has to play x100 better than most of the meta-defining comps and still has a good chance of losing speaks volumes imo.
I queued into ww destro at 28mmr looked like a pretty solid comp
Locks have to much mobility and defense to lose game within seconds
If you lost you didn’t play 100x better than the other team
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Days since someone makes an unnecessary thread about warlocks and the comment section gets filled with terrible takes: 0
I think our record this season is like 5 days, maybe not even that.
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b…b…but BFA
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It doesn’t matter when melee have a plethora of gap closures and ways to keep up.
You’d never see this in a tourney btw. Works on ladder due to the virtue of the game rn and, as I’ve said before, the unreal dmg WWs can put out periodically.
Was a slight over exaggeration, but the implication was that you’d be better off taking a mage or a sp over a lock and produce better results by playing worse.
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The melee connect to you, you night fae away. Oh no they connected again? Press dark pact and get 2 health bars then coil them into shadowfury and fears? They connect again and break your dark pact? Press port. While all this is happening your partner is going to town on the enemy team. Ok now they chase you and connect to you for a third time you simply take your gate from Alaska to Afghanistan. Oh no they chase me across map and connected to me again let me just press wall and take half damage while free casting fears and shadowfury.
Ok now wall is over what do I do now? Hey look night fae is off cd let me run like a racecar again.
Yeah because people only play the best possible comps in tournaments which is why you see MLD
Yes mage and spriest are more forgiving defensively but playing with a warlock requires almost 0 setup so you can play worse offensively and win easier.
There’s only 1 team that plays MLD. I can assure you no one can really play it like them, therefore you won’t be seeing it anywhere else. We’ve seen 2 teams play splay because that’s actually a selective comp you can punish with vs teams on large maps.
I mean on paper, this sounds good, but to employ it is another story lol. We’d legit be seeing every lock main abuse they can just follow the telegraphed kiting approach. There’s so much depth to the idea of “connect” in this variation of WoW because of melee having an abundance of resources to mitigate a caster’s way of creating distance. Obv map picks are crucial too, but at the end of the day kiting a melee that isn’t completely deficient at managing gap closures and mobility-hindering cds is a lot easier said than done.
Yes these are the bis warlock comps which is why people play them instead of ww destro.
It does sound good and it is good. In arena you aren’t a 1 man army using all ur cds to live by yourself. You have 2 teammates peeling for you and rotating their cds to keep you alive on top of your own cds.
Night fae dark and port are all short cds if you are getting clobbered and dying instantly to melee then you aren’t playing right
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I just love queuing into high xp geared afflic locks with rdruids… it’s the best
Yeah we saw the shadowplay beat the kitty cleave, it was the only matchup they won in the EU cup and they came in last place overall.
We also saw their lock, wallirik, desperation swap to an unholy DK.
It doesn’t matter though anyway. AWC stats and comps don’t translate to the ladder, and here’s why:
99% of the people in AWC are really good at the game, while 99% of people on the ladder are really terrible at it.
Our time is coming ;D
yall melee cleavers best get READY
the kabul airport is going through heck right now thats a wild hyperbole it’s more like gate from afghanistan to germany okay?
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Locks are crazy strong on the ladder, what you all been smoking. This is the first pretty much EVER that locks have actually had a high skill ceiling which is something of beauty.
The only thing they could possibly tune is increase the damage of dots slightly and it would be what ever other caster should be.