This arena season I’ve taken it more seriously then I have ever have and consequently hit my highest ratings ive ever been at. I usually use lfg so how well I do varies from day to day. I am having difficulty though getting past 1700 lol.
I either get nuked, or I am not able to cc effectively. How do I improve my cc chains and what tips do you guys have for continuing to improve? Since I play demo should I seriously consider re-spec to be more competitive?
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I am not a rated player BUT can offer you some thoughts anyway.
Do you have all your keybinds set optimally? This means that you can easily access the ones needed most fast with your muscle memory.
Do you have some addons that track important CDS and defensives? I would setup Omnibar if not and look into make some weakauras. There are some great youtube videos from some streamers who go through their UI, that might help.)
I would practice using some focus or arena 1/2 macros also though that might take some time to get used to.
Also make sure you are using your gates and portals optimally; it’s critical in SL for a lock these days.
Find some good partners perhaps more than just on a short term and work to get in sync with them.
There’s probably a lot more but those are off the top of my head. You will have to play better than a lot of the classes you will face since lock is definitely not one of the cookie cutter metas atm.
Best thing you can do is go to twitch and checkout high xp players who are streaming warlock content – chanimals / snutz come to mind. There’s a good chance they’ll also have a youtube. And of course just keep queing. It’s all you can really do and also record your game play to review later. GL!
The gameplay recording is a good thing to do also as you can actually see what you are doing wrong or what you can do to improve.
So, a couple things I would say,
As for the continuing the improve part I would recommend this, keep acquiring game knowledge, ask yourself before every game, what is the enemy teams win condition? How do I throw a wrench in their win condition? What is our teams optimal defensive rotation? What is our win condition? How do I achieve this? What is the enemy teams cooldowns? What do I need to look out for?
First lets start with the basics, have a good defensive rotation with your healer setup, and dont be afarid to ask question/communicate with your healer, hey what do you want me to do when this hunter pops his cds or hey im going to port the opener if a R/M opens on me. You generally want to avoid defensive overlap. Defensive overlaps, unless you absolutely need to is a big nono.
Have an idea of what your ‘goes’ look like. Dont just dump your offensive cds on cooldown. For example, if you’re running with a hpal, you seem them hoj? Probably a good time to start your go, stun dps and fear off that hoj then ideally your hpal could rep off your fear. Or your hpal could run fast hoj and you guys could just do a hoj/fear go every like 30 seconds.
Id say as a warlock your best healer is probably rdruid, and whenever you cant open a gap, your rdruid needs to just spam clone/root so you can just limp away. Granted im not sure how mobile demo lock is compared to afflic right now.
Lastly, try to record some games then post them here, WoW arenas can be fairly intricate, and its much easier to help if we could see your games and then critique them.
Lastly, as a caster you need to get good a juking kicks. Try to notice patterns of the other team? Do they kick quickly? Or do they wait? Do they mix up their kick pattern, if so how? Generally a good starting point for learning how to juke kicks is this pattern, quick fake, medium fake, then long last second fake. Then try to adapt.
Noted!
I find myself getting steam rolled in situations where it’s melee melee. And I have a hard time doing enough damage with a healer for some reason…I do need to set up some weak auras so I’ll start there I suppose
Something I notice with playing with inexperienced players, especially in 2s is, they think that matches can be won by just standing there trying to kill their dps while trying to land a fear on the healer if he comes out or if he’s deciding to stand there and cast.
It’s hard for me to articulate exactly, but as a healer, what I try to explain to my partners is you should basically always be trying to go the enemy healer and then just hitting their dps while you’re working towards the healer or setting that up or you now have CC on them. I think one of the most important things you can do to a healer is to make them uncomfortable. They should not be able to run in and use whatever they want to set up an unavoidable go that you can’t prevent, every time they want to. If you can make it so that the other healer is having to worry about not just 1 health bar, but both and also things like having to constantly be avoiding you and fearful of you, then they aren’t just comfortably running their script over and over until you’re out of options. You should always be trying to position to where you can control and do things to both targets and also repositioning your port and gates with your movement around the maps if necessary.
Something else that seems to be common too is people have this habit of having a beta gameplay before the gates open where its like, “we’re going to go this guy and do this and make sure you do this to that guy.” While I’m not saying you shouldn’t have general ideas, most people are playing towards a gameplan that the enemy starts to play against, and you have to adapt and take what the enemy team is giving you. Observing what the enemy team is doing, has done, and can do is huge and thats what makes it also hard to tell you what specifically to improve on because every team and every game is going to be different and what you should do then and there will always be different.
Look up Epicburn and post in the warlock forums. He’s a pretty active multi glad demo lock and helps people all the time.
Comps matter in 2s, depends on what you run. Double dps I’d say Shadow/Demo is really strong, and probably and RDruid/RSham for healer dps.
Demo is good, so no need to reroll. Night Fae is doable, but Necro is probably best with it’s Necro legendary.
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