I’m used to play balance druid, warrior and lately I was an evoker.
The common theme on these class is to open with big burst right off the gate to force player to play defencively.
Prior bringing my lock to solo shuffle I’m trying to learn the roots of the class in skirmish but I just get destroyed without a healer.
I start by placing gates and demonic circle then instant dot everyones.
People just sit on me perma snaring my poor ars. On a good game I can cast Haunt, UA and a fear or two b4 getting killed.
use curse of exhaustion to create distance, use curse of weakness when a melee is beating on you. use gateway and portal to create distance. I recommend jinx pvp talent as for a soul shard it will put up a curse and 2 dots.
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yeah warlock pvp is pain. if affliction most especially is ever doing athing resembling well. it gets cratered as the floodgates open with every tom dick and harry screaming from the hills. So my advice is PVP on a lock? just don’t.
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that’s cause people don’t understand how affliction is meant to be played. people want everything to be burst spec and affliction is not a burst spec (and with any luck it never will be).
I would love love love more than anything on god’s green earth for affliction to be an actual rot spec and not whatever malefic rapture garbage they concoct. But it hasn’t been for a very long time and is unlikely to ever be.
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it is a rot spec if you play it right.
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You have no PvP on your lock, other than 6 blitz’s. Try arena or solo que then come back here.
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Going to give you the “real talk”, aff without a healer is a pain to play, even with a healer you’ll probably lose vs high mobility melee classes until you learn how to trade mobility properly to minimize enemy damage. Even then it’s sub-optimal in that bracket due to no mortal strike effect.
In general locks are better in 3v3/rbgs than 2s, for the basics check out some guides or a top lock streamer (chan and infernion stream regularly), besides that you need a lot of practice to get the ball rolling.
But bare in mind, lock is not a beginner class, no matter what anyone tells you it’s clunkiness is only momentarily soothed by the dedicated diehard fans of the class who have put in countless hours to bypass/mitigate the annoying quirks that class designers have forced upon us.
I wouldn’t pick a lock unless you truly love the theme of the class.
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[quote=“Ozimov-area-52, post:8, topic:1993608, full:true”] I wouldn’t pick a lock unless you truly love the theme of the class.
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Ty for your honest opinion, still I’ll keep playign mine just for the change of style. Normaly I’d main a fire mage but it is so far behind frost that I’d rather play a new class.
Aff is one of the top specs in pvp right now. Out of all the warlock specs itd exceptionally tanky. (Had a shuffle with a aff and destro and destro always died faster.)
Use ur ports and gateway to kite. Ur always going to be a kill target since everyone knows if ur left alone ull do massive damage.
What makes a good aff vs a bad one is positioning aince rotationally ur not doing much.
Always be behind pillars use gateway to jump between points, spam ur fears. And ull be fine.
P.s. i hate giving u this advice since im playing ww monk and ur always hard to down.
Respectfully , not sure why you’re trying to give advice for a class you don’t even play.
I have played aff. Enough to know the strengths and weaknesses.
Ive played most classes in some pvp capacity. Best way to learn how to fight against and its weakness. Thats pvp 101
Double melee is always a pain for casters, so apply Curse of exaustion on all melees and use your demonic circle on coldown with the pvp talent impish instincts.
If you play with less than 100ms you can try to fake cast, if not dont even bother.
As soon as they kick you or miss the kick, you can cast UA, fear, Haunts.
Keep in mind that malefic grasp is on a different school (shadowflame) of spell from all others so you can cast it if you get locked in shadow.
They also have the best transmog.
If you are going to die. At least look good doing it.
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Its a burst Meta right now, that’s why.