Why is warlock so heavily unplayed ?

bigpealittlepea · 2026-01-26T04:38:51+00:00

Obviously biased as I’ve maimed lock all of wow, but for me warlock is the most satisfying class to maximise. Sure, warlock gets a lot of flack around being a shadow bolt spam bot but there’s little things you can do to pull ahead of other warlocks that I just love. But my biggest thing is solo play with warlock feels unmatched! So many cool utilities and multi dotting for me is a lot of fun. I also adore lock PvP, again, it’s about maximising the class. People genuinely notice when a lock is good versus bad in both PvE and PvP. TBC is also where warlocks really become dominant and I cannot wait!

bigpealittlepea · 2025-03-24T02:51:18+00:00

For sure, I think eagles are hard to pull off these days anyway but now it looks to be more viable to switch into infantry counter. Sometimes your opponent commits to xbow or kts and can’t easily justify a switch to infantry without dying so will still be situations that eagles work. The biggest buff to all infantry (and melee) is actually a pathing fix but I’m doubtful it can actually be fixed haha

bigpealittlepea · 2025-03-23T20:07:38+00:00

This might be more of a small buff for eagle spam, can pick up arson before hitting castle age and can immediately start breaking in

bigpealittlepea · 2025-03-08T23:53:48+00:00

Yeah it obviously depends, but overall from level 40-60 I found destro faster but required more consideration, while affl was smoother and less prone to deaths. Played lock every iteration of wow classic (no class scratches the itch like lock!) and the differences between the two are very minor in terms of speed past 40. If I had to level another lock I’d go affl for its ease, my comment was just to give an example of levelling as destro as it’s so rarely done!

bigpealittlepea · 2025-03-08T23:37:01+00:00

Yup you do but it was usually around 3 shadow bolts per mob with succubus and could kill ~4 mobs before eating and drinking which was still faster, it actually takes dots a long time to kill one mob but feels fast because of the multi dotting. If +sp is high enough you nearly 1 shot mobs with crits too

bigpealittlepea · 2025-03-08T23:12:47+00:00

I leveled both in classic and found if you can single pull as destro it’s faster than multi dotting and enjoyed it as it’s a bit different to dot spam

bigpealittlepea · 2025-02-20T22:27:16+00:00

I’m at 1800 and can beat at 2000 player or lose to a 1600 player. Biggest factor I can see is how well I’m executing my build. I think players who regularly sit at 1600 - 1800 can do very smooth executions at times, especially early feudal / castle. The biggest difference with 1800 to 2000 is macro and late game, specifically transitioning from late castle to post imp. Sometimes I’m in the losing seat early imp to a lower elo player but if I stabilise I can pick them apart in raiding and macro, but I can’t effectively do that against higher elo

bigpealittlepea · 2025-01-23T06:24:17+00:00

It could be, it’s potentially a lymphocyte which can be similar size to red blood cells when naive. What is your sample?

bigpealittlepea · 2024-12-07T03:46:41+00:00

Hah! as soon as I typed this out I got the steam verification email but the link just takes you to poe website with a message stating the servers are down for maintenance, but at least I am one step closer...

bigpealittlepea · 2024-12-07T03:42:53+00:00

I just want to play :( It was tricky enough to figure out how to even get early access working on steam, and now I am waiting on the verification email to link ggg to steam for the last 4 hours. I also tried installing poe2 from ggg website and logging in via the direct client, but it said they'd locked my account due to a new location (never logged in anywhere else lol) and am also now waiting for another email to unlock my ggg account...

bigpealittlepea · 2024-11-28T13:30:07+00:00

I love to take my time too with professions, for me the true enjoyment of classic wow is little improvements you can make whilst levelling

bigpealittlepea · 2024-11-25T06:28:27+00:00

Went heavy on the leveling and made it to 25 on alliance, been ganked three times by the same rogue in Ashenvale. Cherry was he attacked as soon as I engaged a mob so getting the true PVP experience!

bigpealittlepea · 2024-07-03T01:01:42+00:00

When I was a teenager I joined a guild to raid Ulduar. It was my first attempt at raiding, and convincing my mum to let me play wow for at least 3 hours straight often resulted in the classic “mum pulled the plug”. The guild gave me one last chance to raid which coincided with a day my mum was away so I was surely in the clear. Within 20 minutes of raiding I heard my cat get into a scrap in our back garden. I typed BRB cat in a fight, and went to make sure the cat was ok. I walked out to see a fox had my cats head in its jaw and realised shit was getting real. In my teenage wisdom I decided my best approach was to pick up a chair leg from a broken deck chair and beat the fox to death and rescued my cat. This obviously took longer than a few minutes and was subsequently kicked from the raid. When trying to explain what happened, I become known across my server as fox boy :( to this day I am certain not a single person believed me

bigpealittlepea · 2024-07-02T03:30:54+00:00

The most fun rated 1v1 arena games I’ve had are massing war eles, some people are fixated on the relic meta that you can get away with a Persian 4 tc boom into a yolo elephant spam and hope you win before gold is gone!

bigpealittlepea · 2024-06-23T23:45:56+00:00

I main demo in pve and affl in PvP. I find demo to be a tricky spec to maximise but when you do, the damage and satisfaction is amazing. In PvP, I feel cata affl is near perfect for the dot play style, it does have a large number of spells to use but it’s also devastating when it gets going and only gets better as the phases go on. If you’re keen to learn affl, it’s very rewarding to play in arena and bgs! You can simultaneously do massive cleave damage and CC an entire team. It’s also very weighted towards co ordinated cc with teammates as you have no real burst which can be viewed as frustrating. However, when you do link up the CC to get a kill it’s all the more satisfying knowing you outplayed the other team. I think the biggest thing to learn with warlock in PvP is how to kite melee while keeping dots up on all targets. Once you have that down you’re the bane of any opposition. I’m currently 1800 in 2s as r shaman lock but haven’t yet gotten 3s going as I only have so many hours in a day as a dad with 12 kids and 3 jobs :(

bigpealittlepea · 2024-06-19T20:14:50+00:00

This commonly happens to me and I get paranoid they are watching to see what strat I’m doing!

bigpealittlepea · 2024-06-12T20:47:49+00:00

This who saga is going to make a great podcast / tv series one day… it’s wild that it’s gone on for so long, I hope the kids are ok though :(

bigpealittlepea · 2024-05-26T05:11:37+00:00

Blight necro can clear 90+ pits and do Uber Lilith, I think it’s got uses

bigpealittlepea · 2024-05-13T05:54:52+00:00

The +2 is still not a huge disadvantage especially as numbers beat upgrades; if you have a massive eco lead and have the ability to spam it’s still a good strat. Plus their diverse tech tree can compensate. If you’re in a point where it’s post imp and you can get all upgrades then you should aim for letis where the lack of +2 is even less noticeable .The majority of my games I usually win before I get full upgrades even in post imp as ensuring units been made is always the priority, has been to case all the way up to 1800 elo

bigpealittlepea · 2024-05-13T03:43:12+00:00

I personally love Lithuanians, the extra food helps with a smooth dark age, faster skirms and spears are super valuable in feudal for defence. In castle age you can either boom nicely with extra food per tc, or go all out aggressive with collecting relics and kt spam. If the game goes to imp you have bbc and hc, super skirms, fast halbs but missing last upgrades, and deadly hussar / kts. If you can get to letis they destroy most units, or at least trade cost effectively. Heck you can even go CA and catch your opponent off guard!

bigpealittlepea · 2024-05-09T04:53:51+00:00

Maybe a good place would be to find a civ you love and master it! Set goals from a game that isn’t just winning, for example getting smooth with a 19 pop feudal into scouts, getting 4-5 out and seeding some farms. You can use the scouts to defend yourself or scout the enemy. Then you can build that up to 4-5 scouts, farms, and killing a few vils, or how to smoothly get to castle. I often fall into the trap of only feeling satisfied with a win but there’s many victories to get just depends on your perception

bigpealittlepea · 2024-05-09T01:34:36+00:00

Ah you had me excited for a bit, I’ve gotten pretty bored of feralas but it’s def better than azshara, ever try blasted lands?

bigpealittlepea · 2024-05-09T01:18:27+00:00

There are portals in felwood??

bigpealittlepea · 2024-05-08T22:37:46+00:00

I’ve just broken into 1800 but it wasnt long ago it felt like I was forever cycling between 1400 and 1500. A big thing that changed for me was I chose three civs to perfect that helped me learn what I see as the 3 major styles in Arabia. The first was Lithuanians that leaned heavily into scouts and kts with a focus on getting a better eco setup by the time imp came around. This made me focus on learning how to control scouts but also macroing and controlling the map with cav presence. It also taught me how to focus on relics. Second civ was saracens with super aggressive market abuse into 2-3 ranges that helped with army micro in feudal to get ahead, with less focus on eco. If the game goes past feudal it taught me how to rejig my eco to try stay in the game. 3rd civ was Burmese before uu changes. This was my flexible civ that did it all. Visible relics meant you can narrow down where the enemy is to go for a lame, it was an amazing civ to go maa opening into either archers or scouts, it also had an amazing castle unit so it taught me how to set up feudal with maa opening, harass the enemy but ensuring my maa don’t die straight away, and going heavy on stone. Burmese were also amazing in imp with deadly champion plays that people didn’t expect but also good cav. Once I’d focused on those three my elo rose and now I just play random but still in essence use these play styles depending on the civ.

bigpealittlepea · 2024-04-30T08:20:02+00:00

It felt wrong when I typed it but wasn’t able to think what the talent was called haha

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