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otice that rogues got nerfed a bit in mists until you get higher up in level around the 30s that s when a lot of other toons start to get new abilities or their existing abilities take a big leap in utility like say those damn wild imps back in my day when i leveled adelwulf we didn t have no stinking wild imps we warlocks took our lumps from every other class and we liked it and we walked to school barefoot too uphill both ways it s more than a bit disconcerting that in the l30s bgs you can suddenly find yourself fighting 4 5 on 1 due to those wild imps couple that with some improved ai on the succubus and the lock is no longer the butt end of the bg spectrum like it was in cata in fact if you put two demonology locks together and add one healer you can pin an entire bunch of people down at the entrance in arathi basin a rogue s ability is designed for maximum damage close in sacrificing armor for speed if the rogue fails to kill the enemy quickly then they re a sitting duck in the l30s in mists what ends up happening is that those other classes take a big leap forward in survivability whereas the rogue s corresponding damage output levels off this results in the rogue being unable to pick on even the stragglers in a bg if they re of comparable level to the rogue and you can forget about a healer a rogue simply doesn t have enough stuns to take out a healer of comparable level in the l30s from where i stand watching bgs in the mid 30s the feral druid still rules the roost the disco priest has fallen back a bit and has been replaced by the mistweaver monk and demonology warlock warriors have gotten their mojo back a bit and two warriors together can handle a group of 4 5 dps what i ve found surprising is that frost mages have made a comeback of sorts back in cata you had fire and arcane making inroads into bgs based upon their higher damage output but it seems that in mists that frost has reasserted itself as the mage pvp spec once more as a retired frost mage player it s nice to see the spec doing well as a current rogue player however they re harder to take down than before paladins seem to have made a bit of a recovery from their easy pickings of the l20s but they still trail warriors in survivability ret still has the aftereffect from cata s overhaul the lack of decent emergency healing seems to hamper ret more than anything else being a retired ret player i ve noticed that the major paladin failing in l30s mists has nothing to do with the class but with the player type pallies are more prone to charging in alone than any other class save perhaps the warrior but without the warrior s survivability i call it the sir lancelot syndrome which is an offshoot of how pallies can simply plow through mobs in most other circumstances it feeds a belief in invincibility and encourages the follow me chaaaarge sort of behavior i was guilty of sls as much as anyone else i m sure the gleaming armor and servant of the light didn t help but i knew that even the holy spec wasn t as squishy as most classes so it only made sense to wade into the thick of the fight additionally in a game like ab where one player can gum up the works and divert 4 5 people away from trying to take another base it s only natural that a class that can take a beating would be the one to storm the beachhead in my hubris i also figured that if i led by example others would follow naturally a few years of playing bgs has beaten that idea out of me but i still backslide from time to time warsong gulch is one of those bgs where your opinion of it is entirely shaped upon how well your side does in it you can top the meters day after day but if your side doesn t win you start to get bitter i recognized that in myself in the most recent losing streak i ve been in as it was an echo of my time leveling adelwulf there was this long period from l20 through l40 where my lock could count on one paw the number of victories in wsg my rogue found the bg much better winning about half of the time will do that to a person but this current losing streak can wear on a psyche when you port in and you see half of the other side is a healer of some sort you know you re in trouble the backbiting starts before even the first flag is captured and the cries of we always suck fill the air players drop like flies and people who replace them look around declare what a fail group and drop themselves it s enough to make a body back up go out into a zone and work on a gathering skill for a while or maybe visit the darkmoon faire but wsg is still lurking there like lucy and her football hoping to get the charlie brown of bg players back in for another go surely it can t be that bad you say to yourself yes it can the pessimistic side of you retorts and don t call me shirley but maybe it s different this time you said that the last time and the time before that and you know when you talk to yourself that s when you realize you re a bit off your rocker so you re coming around to my way of thinking good job maybe i ought to give wsg another try this streak has got to end sometime after all even manchester city won the premier league last year sls makes a catchy acronym you know and your xp moves forward at a snail s pace posted by redbeard at 10 10 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels battlegrounds classes wow friday june 24 2011 some friday humor i d always liked the downfall parodies on youtube and was disappointed that they got yanked well it seems that they re back and better than ever this particular one hits kind of close to home since i play several pallys as well as starting up a warlock be warned there s some strong language but nothing that you haven t heard in the heat of battle before posted by redbeard at 8 25 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels classes humor videos thursday june 9 2011 coming to terms with my outer darkness as has been well documented i play several paladins you know the goody two shoes of the wow world while the other ostensibly good class that draws power from holy light the priest has a shadow spec the paladin is free of any direct taint of darkness they are the rigidly lawful good characters who embody what roland saladin and perceval strove for not only pure of heart and mind but able to kick some serious ass and they re also cloying the constant preaching of the argent crusade and from those who hang out in the cathedral of light can be grating on people paladins have a reputation of being the sort of person that would stand side by side with you in a fight but are too self righteous to go hang with you at the world s end tavern afterward so naturally it follows that i ve started a warlock toon if you thought that paladins were on the uber good end of the class listing warlocks have to be on the opposite end of the spectrum whereas the death knight s intro story pretty much sets up their redemption at the battle of light s hope chapel there isn t anything so warm and fuzzy about a class that revels in wielding true power and secret knowledge the entire concept of the warlock as a playable class kind of flies in the face of the current world of warcraft setting with guldan and the shadow council no longer in charge of the horde warlocks would be persona non grata in official horde circles yes there is still an undercurrent of approval and those were the good old days in the horde but all that time spent fighting against the burning legion in outland would have driven that sentiment deeper underground the only official place cataclysm era where the philosophy of i don t care where it came from but i m going to throw it all against you would find a home is in sylvanas camp as for the alliance there s even less of a reason why a warlock is a playable class the alliance fought not only the burning legion but the old horde and if there s any class that the alliance would despise more than the warlock i m not sure what it would be yes i know that there are always people who are tempted by power but when wow tries to set your toon up as a hero a warlock is typically not what the general populace has in mind considering all that i felt distinctly uncomfortable when genn greymane and co would call my new toon an old friend and a hero during the gilneas starting zone hello can t you see the imp following along behind me doesn t that make you just a wee bit uneasy your majesty dominating members of the burning legion like a warlock does is splitting hairs really you can t look at the warcraft universe and say well they may be demons but they re on our side to paraphrase azrael from the movie dogma but they re f ing demons warlocks are playing with the worst kind of fire wow verse speaking and i am surprised that blizz doesn t tweak things a bit so that they are more obviously shunned a bit more in spite of all that warlocks are a bit refreshing most people virtual or real tend to hide their dark secrets locks put their own darkness right out on display hell they d probably charge admission if they thought they could get away with it in their own ray bradbury esque dark circus so playing a warlock especially in an rp environment is all about power and domination of course that s not the reason why everybody plays a lock some of us are in it for the dots if you ve ever been in a bg you know what it s like to have someone out of melee range dump several dots on you then sit back and laugh or maybe cast a fear while you bleed to death if you re lucky and you re playing a class that can dispel those dots you ll end up wasting time dispelling them while there s a warrior or kitty druid beating on you having been on the receiving end of that tactic enough times i finally decided that i d had enough and i want some of that too after all how hard could it be um if you come from a melee or hunter mage background harder than you think the hardest thing i had to deal with during the worgen intro zone was the waiting your direct attacks aren t that powerful so you have to wait for the accumulation of those dots to have the desired impact i suppose i could run around kiting the enemy but that could be disastrous if i ran in the wrong direction so there you are clad in cloth armor watching some enemy wail on you it s only when you finally get a voidwalker minion that you have a viable mini tank to take the pressure off but that leads into the second hardest thing as a lock and that s the accumulation of threat from all those dots threat spikes have always been the bane of dps but you can mitigate some of the danger of threat spikes by slowing down your rotation with dots however you don t have any sort of control once you cast your spell your only option is to determine whether or not to cast that dot in the first place finding a way to control threat in this back handed manner is probably where a lot of locks fall down in instances so what s up for the little furball of evil now i m going to keep him questing through darkshore and now that he s high enough level to queue for ragefire chasm i m going to find out how warlock dynamics work in an instance setting oh and of course i ll queue up for warsong gulch i can t resist giving the old dot fear trick a whirl blood knights notwithstanding and lady liadrin the blood knight matriarch has since corrected things during her audience with a dal in shattrath city yes i know that roland is the chief paladin of charlemagne s court that perceval was a literary construct and saladin was more complex than his medieval admirers believed give a guy a break will ya even though it s not in the wow verse there ought to be a chance however small that the demon would break free from your control and turn on you i d tweak it such that the likelihood of a demon breaking free from your control goes up when you get into a fight after all your toon is under increased pressure so naturally something bound against its will would try to break free when you re distracted eta warlocks are a class not race that ll teach me to not write and edit early in the morning posted by redbeard at 9 44 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels classes warlock thursday july 1 2010 getting that cataclysmic itchy feeling i spoke briefly with souldat today while i was waiting in line to go smash ahune and he mentioned that when cataclysm is released he is definitely going with a warrior tank while i didn t really have the time to follow up on that statement i was curious about what people think about their class for cataclysm a lot of alpha stuff hit the wow blogosphere like an overripe tomato and there s plenty of goop all over the different classes the ret spec paladin seems to have weathered the storm a little bit with crusader strike becoming part of the starting rotation holy shock too although the loss of purify will hurt a bit i find i don t mind the ret pally s arsenal overall i m not going to comment about the holy spec pally because i m only recently returning to that spec and cat will drop long before tomakan reaches 80 that said what do you think did your class get nerfed my son was asking who ahune was and i described him as the wow version of jack frost who wanted to blanket the land in winter and since this is the summer festival we had to beat back ahune to preserve summer i didn t think my wife was paying attention until she started humming something why on earth am i humming the christmas song she asked out loud posted by redbeard at 11 55 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cataclysm classes older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 2 days ago podcasts massively 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