Affliction warlock. Can someone give me a step by step strategy on how to deal with melee. In bgs it seems I am always being focused. Dead in no time often without getting more than my instant casts off. Ty
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this is world of meleecraft, you just run away! Funny cause in the past when warlocks were real warlocks all other classes run away when they see a warlock.
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utilized ur port and gate and keep slow curse up for gap closers of others track em or port and dip
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Try to port away. If you get hit by a warrior kyrian spear, you just screech and hit your defensives. Maybe Mortal Coil.
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Step 1 (the most important step): get max pvp gear
In bg’s stay in the back lines, always keep a new port behind your team as the fight moves around.
Save your shield for stuns and rogue openers…save your wall for when your shield falls then pop your cooldowns and use trinket to get your damage off.
Burst the healer: get all instant dots up, ua, and curse of exhaustion then soul rot, pop your haste buff and on use racial if you have, singularity, summon dark glare and death bolt then into an immediate shackles (use your night fae blink as needed to get in range for the immediate shackles to follow up). It’s best if you have full shards first and use rapid contagion first. If there’s no healer around and just multiple melee then use drain life since soul rot will spread your drain life.
Kiting: gateway and portal are up and move away…you get swarmed and you pop your shield during stun. Howl of terror to buy time to dot. Port away and sit on your gateway as they close in (especially if they trinket and your shield is down). Use gateway when you get swarmed again. Use your night fae blink on dk’s grips or as needed to counter all the extra closers. Now it’s your time to burst everyone out of position.
Conclusion: get gear then it’s all about positioning and using your ports, blink, and shield and counter bursting out of position players. You’re playing a squishy class so don’t be a hero in the front or you’ll waste defensives when you’re already dead. Set up new ports as the battle changes.
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Run like the skinny, boney, girly armed lock you were born to be 
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Aff is about DoT-ing up, running away, and channeling drain life when you can.
That’s fine for Arena, but in BG"s it can be rough.
My solution is to keep reference to my teams whereabouts and run to them and pray they help peel.
Also, I’d recommend portal mastery as an honor talent over rapid contagion. The shorter CD and extra range is not to be under appreciated. It’s a huge life saver.
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I find Aff Lock much easier in bgs/RBGs than arena.
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