Is there anyway to actually kill these guys? Out of every encounter I’ve had with them all they do is run at you, cast drain life, and spam searing pain, that’s it, that’s their whole rotation, they take next to no damage, but somehow deal 1400+ damage to me in 10 seconds. How am I supposed to kill them when I deal no damage to them in relatively good gear.
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You should be 100% staying at max range the entire time because of this. That’s why they are running at you because getting out of range breaks it and it is a 20 sec CD.
So don’t give them free healing by staying in range. Keep your own dots up, keep your pet on them at all times and try to just outpower them.
The key though is 100% negating Drain Life by not staying in range. It can be dispelled so if you have a priest who can dispel you then they should do that immediately.
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Even when not running at me using drain life, they still are able to get me down in 6 or 7 globals, me on the other hand are hitting them for next to nothing with melee or ranged attacks. Not to mention at times even when I’m kiting them with cheeta they still seem to be able to keep up with me no matter what.
Speed wise they could just have boon on. Meta lock is beefy vs physical. So you’re at a disadvantage there.
Some Shadow potions might help with those encounters to enhance survivability, but it other than that, it’s a slugfest.
Have a wind serpent. Otherwise the DR from armor is just too high. Same issue for other physical DDs.
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Don’t let them run at you? Stay max range outside of drain range… conc on CD and only do the damage when conc is up
If they feed of your pet then passive pet until then
You can out run them with cheetah
Dropping combat for trap is also insane
Requires range talent ofc for this to work
It’s not that hard
What you want to do versus all Warlocks as a Hunter is kite them like you would a warrior as they just run at you with instant cast spells for the most part while having really good healing and damage. You want to stay out of range of their drain life if possible and thats the key to winning, if you let them get full drains off you will lose the dps race.
If the meta warlock drains your pet pull it back to you so you can hopefully end the drain by outranging it. I’ve not played BM for a while but as MM I tend to win the 1v1 with a warlock if they don’t jump me when I’m tabbed out auto running.
Me and a friend Druid + Rogue, just got wiped in full bis/raid gear against a solo tank warlock. We even broke drain life the first cast. We managed to get him to half a bar of health, but we were just wiped with the amount of healing they had.
These guys are like fighting a healer in pvp, except they have a billion armor
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Chan master lock probably gets everyone in a 1v1 atm. I’d say your best shot is to pre-trap and try to out range the drain.
I would think meta would be easier to kill since they can’t fear your pet unless they come out of meta. That said, drain life it not quite a dot, since you can just run out of range of it, and the lock has to wait for the 15 sec cooldown. So anticipate that he will cast drain life right off the bat. Then be prepared to slow him down and run away (or just straight up run away – will likely be all you need to do), you and your pet. Get out of range. When drain life gets cut off, turn around and roflstomp him. Searing pain spam is like less dmg over time than the lowbie curse of agony we have.
This match-up is a free win for Hunters who play Hunter mechanics. Kite. Kite. Kite.
That said, I’ve never lost against a Hunter as a Warlock. Well, never lost against anyone, tbh. but that is more down to skill differences.
As a hunter, no you can’t.
And next phase it will be even worse for you against them.
Locks are the best 1v1 class, not you.
Anyone who says hunter beats lock is coping. Hunter couldn’t beat lock before meta rune in OG vanilla and definitely can’t now.
No hunter has won a duel tournament. So spare me your “but I killed some noob lock with my hunter” story.
No one cares what happens between two bads.
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You can’t beat a meta warlock unless that meta warlock is absolute dogwater.
Terrible advice. Searing pain hits for 120+ DMG in bis gear.
Even if you break the first drain life. Warlocks have health stone and health pot. Or a healt pot + swiftness pot. Your concussion shot will not be enough to break distance and you can’t cheetah since we can spam searing pain forever.
If you are a hunter and you see a meta warlock. Just run away. It’s not a winnable fight.
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a few tips as an exalted wsg hunter:
-as others have said, range is your class advantage. use it. drain life is 20 yards. the lock should not be that close.
-also importantly and not mentioned, move. a lot. you have ~2-3 seconds between autoshot casts. you dont need perfect dps–you need to take the least amount of damage to win. a few clips is OK.
-at the end of the fight, you can melee to weave, if necessary, but its almost always better to be max range.
-kill their pet. they do it to you. kite the lock and ruin the pet, gg.
-finally, use wind serpent and take LB off active, put on your action bar. put pet on passive. tie LB to pet attack and use it to burst the lock.
overall, locks are a free kill. less squishy than a mage but squishier than a warrior. you’re welcome
ps- one last tip. everyone gets into this weird, deranged tunnel vision mode and immediately feels the need to zerg upon engagement. if some loon pops consumes, just run away to your healer and then pop back in once the fight is even (or even to allow dots to fall off then go back)
How do you range a warlock who swiftness pots and searing pains you and dazes you in cheetah?
You lose.
No one cares how many stacked premades you have been in. You suck at PVP.
Hunters lose to locks. It’s always going to be this way.
Even if you range the lock if you send your pet at him he drains your pet. YOu can’t win.
The only possible way you can be a lock is burst. And hunters do not have the juice to do the burst to kill a meta lock.
In a longer battle you lose every time.
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there’s ur first error m8
You can’t range him unless you are in chettah.
How bad are you?
If he switfness pots he’s faster than you bro.
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chettah is a cheese.
aspect of cheetah can be toggled. it’s not a rune or a talent u have to respec. pls stop the trolling
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He’s spamming searing pains. You can’t toggle it on.
You are delusional right now.
This means he catches you.
whats the range on searing pain