Warlocks Constantly LifeTapping

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A warning to you insatiable warlocks in Vanilla/Classic who constantly lifetapped in dungeons and raids between pulls.
You will be left unhealed until you tap yourself to death.
I dont mind chucking you a renew every now and then for the sake of the speed of the run but when you take it too far, ya done.
I mean the ones who do it when still at 80% mana already during fights and healer isnt flush with mana either, and after dungeon pulls while healer is drinking, and drop to low hp needing a huge heal, i mean the ones who were even given mage water at the start of the run but use tap anyway as its more convenient for them but isnt any faster as healers gotta drink anyway before next pull, then waste mana to heal them when they coulda been drinking, themselves.
I dont mean the ones who use where neccessary to not run out of mana during fights or to keep dungeon pulls constant where the healer isnt having to heal much anyway.

End rant. Happened enough for me to remember. Still does on PS.
Flame me! But watch yaselves warlocks, got my eye on you. Ya basic.

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One of my old Raid’s Paladins would be rolling in his retired grave.

We always wondered how come he topped effective healing meters by at least 20% in every MC run. Then I got a better healing meter and discovered he convinced a Warlock buddy to constantly be tapping both in and out of fights, and he’d run along spam healing the guy.

At least some healers are happy with you life tapping.

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I agree <. >

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You have no idea how to run with a warlock.

Do not heal them. They heal themselves. When they die, its because they pulled aggro or the tank died. Neither of those situations is affected by lifetap.

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Drain Life does a lot for the thinking Warlock. Sure, it hasn’t got the DPS of your other spells, but it’s not going to pull aggro. Knowing your capabilities is very important in a raid. If you need to tap and drain, you can do so safely in the vast majority of Classic situations.

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Thanks for the reminder not to play with healers that refuse to heal players.

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Ya I tell this to healers all the time. AN occasional renew is great, but that’s really it.

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Yes, the occasional renew (or other hot) is all they need to compensate for lifetap. And every player should know that dps are on their own during a boss fight.

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Makes me imagine a closet sized apartment somewhere in China, with a sweaty WoW fanatic entering his 96th straight hour of gaming.

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lmao, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Warlocks regularly would tell the healer to “please, no need to heal”.

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A lot of us actually know what we’re doing with lifetap. I’ve had to tell healers to chill out and concentrate on other people in the group more than once.

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Plenty of em that dont lifedrain to heal, just expect healer to be the only one who has to drink.
Hell even if you give em free food n water theyll tap down to 0 and expect a greater heal, after a pull while youre drinking.

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Yea, most warlocks in my experience actually felt bad that you were wasting mana/time on them.

Healing them back to full between pulls is more of an OCD “there’s missing health on my UI!!!” thing than a, “this warlock is desperately in need of healing” thing.

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lol, Someone is salty from back in da day lol. I didn’t play a lock but this is funny lol

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Warlocks that tap alot play poorly. You want to lifetap as little as possible. Then when you have to move you tap. Always aim to tap as little as you can. You should have as little mana as possible at the end of the fight as you can. If you don’t, you could have done more dps.

If you do that, you’ll do more dps and save your healers mana too, good for everyone.

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Remind me to never run a dungeon with you… ever.

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If you stand in fire you will die. It’s not that I wouldn’t heal dps, but healing dps takes mana away from heals for the tank (or other assignment).

Healing dps should only require the odd offheal (unless assigned to heal such). If things go sideways for dps, they should understand they aren’t priority.

This is why players need threat meters, and to learn mechanics. So they don’t pull threat, and they don’t die. In classic, healers can’t heal dps that face tank bosses.

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And some fight have unavoidable aoe damage that dps can’t avoid no matter what they do. The baron fight at the end of UD Strat springs to mind. So yeah, never going to group with a healer that thinks dps basically should never have to be healed.

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Found your problem. You’re using the wrong spells. Be more mana efficient.

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Agreed. If you cherrypick certain fights, I will concede. Healers must, at times, heal dps. You are correct. I should have been more clear.

Edit: I should also mention, I will do my best for players that crit streak more than twice. When that happens on a boss you will pull threat, and it’s not anyone’s fault.

That said, I hope to see you can reconsider giving me a chance should it come to pass. :smiley: