Spriests and/ nightfall conflag and sm/ruin locks can melt and entire team with just tab targeting, the fact they also win 1v1’s makes them a nightmare.
Lol ok bro. You can try to backpedal into saying you were giving advice but you were unnecessarily hostile.
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Pft. Swifty did that one time in a pvp video.
Yep locks beat spriest no problem, the only thing that scares a lock is a sub rogue, or a warr with arcanite reaper.
Lol. "Make sure to use EVERY Cooldown or you won’t win the fight. "
Swifty, Pat, Hulksmash all of em were also buffed to hell and had pocket healers off screen. The only warrior who ever did anything genuinely impressive was Laintime, as you should well know.
He won many 1v1s and 1v2s he had no business winning. That man was a god.
Mage uses all cooldowns, just gets kited with dots and dies… So long as a lock can use dot’s they will always beat mages pvp and pve.
The 2v3 is probably the best when it’s him and a shaman. They kill his shaman friend twice and then he’s like ok I guess I’ll finish all three off.
In fairness he also ran with three health pots he could cycle and I don’t think that was well known at the time.
Classic WoW wasn’t really a 1v1 friendly game. When you get to 60, stay with your friends so you don’t have to worry about the class imbalance that much. Cause unless you outgear the priest by a healthy margin, you will probably lose most 1v1s against them on most classes.
Yeah it’s rough I was having to fight a level 60 shadow priest being level 43 myself because he was safespotting lowbies at Redridge and everytime I’d try to do damage not only would I have to burn through his shield Id have to ice block anytime I traded blows even if I silenced mind blast. Pretty yuck
In group PVP you just stand back as they get wrecked by decked out warriors with a personal healbot.
Fun thing about classes like SPriests and Warlocks is they have no mobility nor escape options. Once the hamstring or crippling poison lands, all they can do is wade around as melee club them to death them like a fur hunter clubs a baby seal.
Source: Played warlock in vanilla and BC.
The strat is…take engineering. Grenades, Gnomish MC Helm/Goblin Rocket Helm, Shadow Reflect trinket, Arcane Bomb, etc.
I never had a issue last night vs a 31 Spriest, he dotted me up, I ran to him popped blood fury…he shielded and my windfury procced…took him to 5% health and a earth shock finished him off all within maybe 5 seconds.
His dots dropped off me and I was at 62% health…so yeah his dots did melt me fast tho.
Did remove minor curse not work?
When I was lvl 43 spriest a lvl 50 shaman ganked me when I was farming turtles with half hp and mana and railed him
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You post made me chuckle. I’m 56 on my Spriest and even level 60’s refuse to mess with me. All those hours of wanding things to death finally paid off.
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Spriest and Warlock are mage counters, better to just sheep and run from a spriest.
If you must fight, ice block the first round of dots off and save counterspell for a heal. Put out as much damage as you can and stay out of fear range if not undead.
Sheep -> dampen magic, frost barrier, mage armor -> frostbolt -> coc -> fireblast -> arcane explosion
When you get fully dotted and they fear or silence, immediately block and cancel. When they go into heal, hardcast frostbolt -> counterspell -> instants. Obviously if it’s a flash heal just cs. Don’t miss. Their fear is a shorter radius than your ae/coc, you need to dance on the edge while they’re slowed.
You wont typically win against an equally skilled spriest.
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I had a glass cannon twink in vanilla with lots of +shadow damage gear. People usually ran after the first tick of pain hit.
I beat locks pretty consistently, but that’s probably because I know where my dispel button is and I’ve played a lock for years. Also, being dwarf and fear warding mid fight is kind of imba.